Well, Max Barry basically posted to his blog, "Hey, I'm on Facebook!" and his legion (ha) of followers followed him there. ;) It's a pretty low-key way to go about it initially. Facebook pops up notifications on your home page when your friends do something noteworthy like add a friend or join a group, and a lot of stuff gets propagated that way, assuming of course you and your friends and their friends all like the same stuff. ;)
As for friends, Facebook should have a wizard that, if you don't mind letting them look through your e-mail address book, will search for the e-mail addresses of anyone you know and notify you whether or not they're on Facebook. If not, it will give you the option to invite them to Facebook and add you as a friend. They've also started looking through the friends of your friends and suggesting people that pop up on a lot of your friends' lists that you have not yet added, so you can find people that way. (Although my friend noted that this feature tends to pop up people you don't like, as friends who've you've had a falling out with tend to be the "missing links" in your social circle.) Alternately, if you're a privacy freak like my husband, you can search manually by name, interest, what have you. (Friends --> Friend Finder should take you to a page where you can do all these things.)
Personally I loathe and despise MySpace, even though Facebook can be kind of sketchy I'll take that over the eye-searing profiles of MySpace any day. But the process is pretty similar. If you click on the friends link below your user icon in your profile it'll take you to a page where you can search for names, e-mail addresses, people from your hometown or high school, all that stuff. They have some new features that are supposed to make it easier to keep track of your friends, but as they've basically just been, in my opinion, copying Facebook, I haven't bothered to learn how to set it up. ;)
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Date: 2008-04-19 03:06 am (UTC)As for friends, Facebook should have a wizard that, if you don't mind letting them look through your e-mail address book, will search for the e-mail addresses of anyone you know and notify you whether or not they're on Facebook. If not, it will give you the option to invite them to Facebook and add you as a friend. They've also started looking through the friends of your friends and suggesting people that pop up on a lot of your friends' lists that you have not yet added, so you can find people that way. (Although my friend noted that this feature tends to pop up people you don't like, as friends who've you've had a falling out with tend to be the "missing links" in your social circle.) Alternately, if you're a privacy freak like my husband, you can search manually by name, interest, what have you. (Friends --> Friend Finder should take you to a page where you can do all these things.)
Personally I loathe and despise MySpace, even though Facebook can be kind of sketchy I'll take that over the eye-searing profiles of MySpace any day. But the process is pretty similar. If you click on the friends link below your user icon in your profile it'll take you to a page where you can search for names, e-mail addresses, people from your hometown or high school, all that stuff. They have some new features that are supposed to make it easier to keep track of your friends, but as they've basically just been, in my opinion, copying Facebook, I haven't bothered to learn how to set it up. ;)