Facebook

[Saxton]

See, that's one of the reasons I've been hesitant to join FB. That, and I just don't think my life is interesting enough to put out on the web.

My thoughts exactly! I finally got onto Facebook a few months ago just to keep in touch with family from out of town. Well, I just came back from a trip and foolishly posted all my pictures on Facebook and then sent the links to a few friends (people outside FB can see your photo albums if you send the specific link) ... well, that opened up the flood gates!! Now I've got casual acquaintances wanting to be friends and all I can think is "Really?!! I'm just not that interesting!"

 

[zeitzeuge]

FB has been a wonderful thing for me. I've been in touch with people from HS and college that I thought I would never see or hear from again. I keep in touch with some bloggers I met 10 years ago when I blogged. I even now keep in touch more with family and see what's going on in their lives. I love it.

I sent you a PM to add me and my Sister persona as well.

 

[ConcKahuna]

FB has been a wonderful thing for me. I've been in touch with people from HS and college that I thought I would never see or hear from again. I keep in touch with some bloggers I met 10 years ago when I blogged. I even now keep in touch more with family and see what's going on in their lives. I love it.

I sent you a PM to add me and my Sister persona as well.

Hey, I never got a request from the Sister!

 

[Sphyrna]

FB has been a wonderful thing for me. I've been in touch with people from HS and college that I thought I would never see or hear from again. I keep in touch with some bloggers I met 10 years ago when I blogged. I even now keep in touch more with family and see what's going on in their lives. I love it.

I sent you a PM to add me and my Sister persona as well.

That's what people say. It's a great way to keep up with people from your past. If I wanted to keep up with them I would have. HS wasn't a great time for me, so not like I want to get back in contact with those people. Well, maybe one or two friends.

 

[zeitzeuge]

Hey, I never got a request from the Sister!

LOL just search NvSr Eve Angelica for me and NvSr Bertha Sinn for Steven.

That's what people say. It's a great way to keep up with people from your past. If I wanted to keep up with them I would have. HS wasn't a great time for me, so not like I want to get back in contact with those people. Well, maybe one or two friends.

I'm the same way. I found the ones I was good friends with in HS and I keep in contact. Now some of the people I didn't like and who didn't like me, all the sudden want to be friends and chat. It's so difficult. LOL Some I just ignore the friend request.

 

[TagsMissy]

FB has been a wonderful thing for me. I've been in touch with people from HS and college that I thought I would never see or hear from again. I keep in touch with some bloggers I met 10 years ago when I blogged. I even now keep in touch more with family and see what's going on in their lives. I love it.

I sent you a PM to add me and my Sister persona as well.

Same here.. I've caught up with folks I forgot how much I missed my hubby however things it's an evil evil thing and won't go near it.

 

[nyc2theworld]

Its funny, I actually got in trouble for using facebook at my job. One of my coworkers was doing something she always does which I found annoying and made my status update a sarcastic remark about that. No names were used.

Well, my boss (no my coworker) was my friend on FB and told me in an unofficial review that I need to hide my "disdain" (her word not mine!) for that coworker.

So what I ended up doing is creating another FB account for all work related people and made my personal one a lot more private.

Moral of the story. Facebook is a tool to keep in contact with people. There are some people who rarely post things but because I found them on FB I am now in contact with them, and then, because I travel, its a way for me to keep in touch with all the people I meet on my travels and at back home.

BTW, my FB username is the same one on here if you remember me from DATW2010 and want to friend me!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I have ignored requests from several people. Several people have ignored my requests. I have had 2 people "unfriend" me, but I still can't figure out who the 2nd one was so it must not be somebody I was THAT close to! You can't take it personally.

There was a girl from high school who I BARELY knew. Why she would request me as a friend like 4 times in a row, 22 years later, without ever attaching a message to the request is beyond me. I ignored the requests because I couldn't see that we had any reason to be friends NOW. There are a couple of girls I did "friend" from high school but I don't ever chat with them or comment on their posts. I have about 3 people from high school I was actually glad to find.

 

[zeitzeuge]

The biggest thing I had to get use to was all the sudden almost every member of my family including nieces and nephews and THEIR kids, are now on FB and friended me. So I have to be careful what I say and how I say it now that I have little 10 year olds reading what Great Uncle Mark has to say on a daily basis. Some days I just don't care what I say and I'm sure they get an eyefull if they decide to read that day. Oh well, it's their parents that have to watch what they read on the internet, not me.

It's funny though, recently my 13 year old great nephew set up his grandma (my sister who's 61) and one of his great uncles (my brother who's 55) on FB and is currently teaching them how to use it.

The only thing that sucks about having family on FB? Is when you find a couple of them defriend you because of your "lifestyle choice" and the things you write or comment about. Yeah, that was fun to find out about. Luckily, they were only cousins, but still.

 

[MonorailMan]

I hate to be the PuPu Platter of the conversation, but there have been a lot of "hacking" goings-on over on FB recently. I've had several friends have their account "broken into" because someone somehow got a hold of their passwords. (It's really stupid because the people doing the hacking tend to use that person's account just to post ads/spam on their wall.) I suggest using a relatively lengthy password, and change it once every couple months.

Now you know....
And knowing is half the battle!
G.I. Joooooooooooooe!!!!

 

[Sphyrna]

Two of my coworkers love to push buttons on FB. They'll make off the wall comments all the time just to get a reaction.

 

[TagsMissy]

That's okay! You don't have to update your status every 15 mintues. In fact, the friends who do that, I block. I don't really need to know every time you go to the bathroom, or that you just bought a candybar from the vending machine.

LOL there are definitely people out there like that. In the scheme of things facebook is an annoying site that wastes too much of my time but i am amused by that.

 

[jeanigor]

The biggest thing I had to get use to was all the sudden almost every member of my family including nieces and nephews and THEIR kids, are now on FB and friended me. So I have to be careful what I say and how I say it now that I have little 10 year olds reading what Great Uncle Mark has to say on a daily basis.

Recently, three of my sisters and their family have moved across the country. Facebook has given us a way to keep in touch. Even more than when they were in the next county over.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

HA! I finally figured out today who "unfriended me". But I don't know if she deleted me because I said something that offended her, or if she was just cleaning up her friends list. Hmm. Oh, well!

 

[Sphyrna]

Does it bother you that they unfriended you? If not, oh well indeed!

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Does it bother you that they unfriended you? If not, oh well indeed!

I don't think it would. I know there are some people out there who do silly, high school crap like that (I'm mad so you aren't my friend anymore) but that's on them, not the person who was "unfriended."

That's the whole "thing" that I'm not going to get into. Friend, or not friend it's not a matter of my ego, sense of self or concept of reality!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Does it bother you that they unfriended you? If not, oh well indeed!

Eh, I would say I am more puzzled than bothered. But I am not going to spend time worrying about it. It took me like 6 weeks to realize that it was her, so obviously she wasn't one of my very best friends!

 

[ConcKahuna]

Does it bother you that they unfriended you? If not, oh well indeed!

It's like that SouthPark episode...

 

[TagsMissy]

Eh, I would say I am more puzzled than bothered. But I am not going to spend time worrying about it. It took me like 6 weeks to realize that it was her, so obviously she wasn't one of my very best friends!

one of my friends keeps on disappearing from my list then I keep on getting friend requests from her every few months that I accept. I don't know if there's a weird glitch but it happens with her often... there's others that I notice are gone and I just leave it be. I have a core group of my family and close friends I care about; the others come and go in Facebook as they do in RL. I've even been known to remove some people after realizing we never kept in contact in RL or Facebook so why bother.

 

[Sphyrna]

Ok, I finally bit the bullet and created a Facebook account!! I think I just sold my soul to the devil!! Now I just need to take the time to put stuff on my profile and most importantly, set all my privacy settings. I already changed the primary privacy setting to "friends only". I found a good post about using lists to keep things organized and specify who can see what. Only problem is it looks like you have to have friends before you can set up lists.