Anyone use facebook?

[Betticus]

Not for bdsm but personal... I've been using it and am uploading lots of photos now. Just wondering how many of you are using it.

 

[FloggingMolly]

Yup, I'm a complete addict!

 

[DVS]

I'm on it, but I don't know if I really like all of the friends stuff. I joined, because an old girlfriend asked me to. My sisters had accounts and had already suggested it to me. I joined up just to see how my old girlfriend looks after 15 years. She looks very nice...in case you're asking.

Once I set up my account, she and my sisters became friends and all of their friends were connected, and on and on. I also have relatives on there who found my name and wanted to be friends. Reluctantly, I am now friends with them, and connected with all of their friends and on and on. I think you get the point I'm trying to make.

I like to stay private, when it comes to things involving the Internet, so all of this lovey-dovey schmoozing, picture sharing kind of thing makes me nervous. While those I am friends with don't seem to have an issue showing many pictures of themselves, their kids, their pets and just short of baring their souls to the masses, I don't share that desire. But, that's just me.

I don't see a problem with this, as long as you don't give out too much information to someone who might use it against you in some way. And the way that site works, it seems to urge you to do that, with all of its suggestions to seek friends, share information and just be one big happy family. Once you become friends with someone, the site sends you a list of their friends for you to look through, just in case you might know them, too.

There are even games on there. And guess what? Those games urge you to get more and more friends, so you can get more and more help with whatever you need in your game. My sisters are addicted to Mafia Wars. That was the reason they wanted me to join up. Even if I didn't care for the site, they would then have another member to join their clan or whatever. I don't think it's a destructive addiction, unless you have something else in your life you want to do. They are both retired and stay up to the wee hours of the morning, playing that thing.

OK, you might be wondering...what have I got to hide? It's just a little innocent fun, right? Yes, it's just a little innocent fun, unless you are like me, and prefer to be more private, when it comes to things involving the Internet.

 

[catalina_francisco]

I'm on it, but keep my activity to a minimum. Main reason was to keep in touch with my daughter and grand daughter at their suggestion, and to also get in contact with a couple of other family mambers and also friends from the past...think my contact list is only around 14 or so, and I mark it as private (not available for others to view). Most of my other information is also not for public view, just enough for anyone from long ago past who might want to find me and say hello. Don't do the games etc., either despite a couple of people trying their hardest to get me involved....wouldn't even know where to start and haven't got the time. I think it is a good idea if kept in perspective, and I guess for the lonely and bored or restless it has added benefits they can make use of.

Catalina

 

[graceanne]

I love facebook. It helps me stay in contact with my cousins (I have a lot) and their families.

I'm also pretty careful about my privacy, but I don't add people I don't know or don't want knowing my personal business and I have my privacy set to 'friends only', so my stuff doesn't even show up on other people's walls unless I want it to.

 

[Bandit58]

I'm on Facebook, and I just joined Twitter

Some of my nieces from NZ are on Facebook, my son is too. He's also on Twitter, and so is his cat (yes the cat has a Twitter page!) My brother is on Twitter but not Facebook (gee this is getting complicated!)

My Facebook privacy and status updates are set to friends only. I've also got quite a few friends from another site I go to and we post to each other regularly even though I've never met any of them face to face

Sir has Facebook to keep up with speedway and some old school friends.

 

[NomadLady]

I am Facebook too....keep in touch with family and a lot of motorcycle friends all over the US and foreign countries.

 

[Miss Diva]

I am on Facebook, great for updates. Via Facebook, a week ago we got news a friend passed away. Suddenly FB seemed both so important and so disruptive. However i guess sans FB so many people who knew and loved him would not be able to give their condolences...

 

[ownedsubgal]

nope, i wouldn't dare belong to any of those social networking sites. they're a little big brotherish to me, and kind of intrusive (who says i want to be contacted by someone who knew me when i was 9?). maybe i'm just too old school.

 

[brioche]

I'm on Facebook. But I don't use my real last name because I am a teacher. And my point on this has been proved by kids this year repeatedly asking me if I am on Facebook and if they can friend me. Hell no. One of my fellow teachers has a rule that she will once they're in high school, and that would be a maybe. I'm pretty private.
I'm in contact with a bunch of old high school friends this way. I would probably never actually keep regular contact with them but this is a nice way to know what they are up to. And I only searched up the ones I liked.
I have become friends with some other people through this, but most of them are pretty cool and fairly quiet as well.
There's a few crazies, but on the whole it's entertaining, so it's all good.

 

[Etoile]

I'm a social networking queen. You name it, I'm on it, as long as it's in English. (Though I'm also on one entirely in Japanese!)

 

[rosco rathbone]

Anybody NOT use facebook?

I wouldn't go near that place with a ten foot virtual pole.

 

[teknight]

What?
I'm a sadist and a masochist on there too.

It's great, 'cause I've found people I'd lost touch with what with moving out of the country and all...It's weird seeing people I knew in HS have gotten married.

 

[KoPilot]

It's kind of necessary for me to have, otherwise I'd be completely in the dark about everything my friends and family were doing on the other side of the country. It's also a very useful tool when you're in a LDR; indispensable, really. Especially if the boyfriend wants to show you off to his family when you're not actually there.

As for the privacy issues, I've had to change my facebook name, and use an email address that no one knows about to make it difficult for people to find me. I also had an internet stalker for a while, so that's why the name change... also I have everything set to private so all you see if you're not my friend is the profile picture. It has its pros and its cons, but for someone my age, it's necessary more than anything.

 

[where]

I have an account both for me and the website, but i don't much use it.

 

[Essene]

I'm on it, but not consistently. I don't tweet.

 

[DVS]

I don't really like to talk about it, but after eating spicy food, I will sometimes tweet. Sorry, I just had the urge to share.

 

[Chiara_searches]

I use it but mostly for keeping up with extended family and not so much for friends. I'm shocked, just shocked, that someone smart would tweet (kidding of course - I'm jealous really that DVS is that "hip" with technology).

 

[Essene]

I don't really like to talk about it, but after eating spicy food, I will sometimes tweet. Sorry, I just had the urge to share.

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[rida]

I used to be on Neopet ... does that count?

 

[Etoile]

I used to be on Neopet ... does that count?

No way!! Me too, and InnerDarkness as well, who used to be active on here. I only sold off my entire account about 6 months ago. I wasn't active well before that though. But I used to be TOTALLY addicted to Neopets.

 

[Betticus]

I should add that mine doesn't have my real name or location and is set to friends only I think... unless they changed that when they did one of their many "upgrades" that also ended up sharing all of your info and all of your friends info.

 

[lissa808]

Love faceboook. Get to see my friends and family from the mainland every day. See my teens' drama going on, follow old friends, plus my current bff's and I have a constant running conversation going all day.

 

[kiwi_submissive]

No I do not have facebook, never even been on the site. It's something that I don't really have any interest in and find it quite annoying when everyone has to stop and pose for facebook photos.

 

[SimonBrooke]

To my embarrassment I find myself using Facebook rather a lot. I'l also on Diaspora, which I ought to be supporting more... but in practice I don't use it much since none of my friends use it.