<p>So are you on Facebook? Are you friends with your kids and/or kids friends?</p>
<p>How far does it go? Do you feel pressured to have lot of friends? Do you accept friends you do not know or have minimal contact with? How often are you on facebookF?</p>
<p>Nope, not on Facebook, never will be. From the get-go it sounded too annoying. The joke is that I’ll be the third to last person on Facebook; the second to last will be my older brother and the last one will be my younger brother who has yet to master email. BTW I have yet to feel like I’m missing anything.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m on.</p>
<p>I made it a personal rule that I would never be friends with any of my kids’ friends unless they solicited the invitation. It’s just a boundary I set many years ago, and have held to it. I also have everything on the most private of settings, so no one can see anything unless they are my friend. </p>
<p>I’ve actually been thinking about scaling back some of my Friends (I have just over 170). There are a few people I can’t remember how I ever became friends with them - perhaps they were friends of friends and I (or they) saw a comment on a mutual friend’s wall. </p>
<p>I was home for a funeral a couple of weeks ago, and a few of us relatives who are on Facebook were trying to get some of the others on, so we could have a private group, and be able to keep in better touch with everyone. My mom’s side of the family is quite large, and scattered.</p>
<p>Nope, not on Facebook, never say never but don’t plan do get an account for the time being.</p>
<p>The only time I have a need so far for FB is when models give their FB account as the mean for contact. </p>
<p>Yes…although the original reason (keeping tabs on teens) has long since expired. FB is for us older folks…the young ones have found other platforms to explore (Instagram, Snapchat, etc). I love seeing pictures of friends and their families, so for now I am “all in”.</p>
<p>Absolutely. Joined when my kids asked me to as a way to keep me in the loop. I had the same rule of not friending the friends of my kids unless they asked me and it has worked well. Most have. Now I use it mainly to keep track of distant relatives because the kids have switched to snap chat which I also had to join to get to see the pictures of the grand kids.</p>
<p>My parents are also on Facebook and my mother has said that her mother would have loved it. My parents can see what the kids are up to without being intrusive. They don’t have to actually post anything or communicate in any way but still get snapshots of the great grand kids and see what other relatives are up do. I don’t understand the strong dislike some people have for it. You don’t have to get obsessive about it, but it’s nice to be included.</p>
<p>I’m on FB. I don’t have friends I’m not friends with, but my main use for it is I have a couple of private groups where we can all chat with each other without it being seen on the main fb page. I’m not friends with my kids on FB. One kid is still on it, the other maybe updates a photo every few months.</p>
<p>Yes. It’s a great way to keep in touch with people, including people I’ve only ever “met” on the internet, some of whom have been friends for almost 20 years now. (We were all members of a usenet discussion group back in the day. Anyone remember usenet? 
) </p>
<p>I also play Scrabble with friends on FB, and a few other games.</p>
<p>I am friends with only a couple of S’s friends, kids whom I have known since age 5 or so. At their invitation. Recently, his GF–whom I just met–friended me. I am NOT friends with my H. S and I became friends only in the last few years. He is not a big user.</p>
<p>I got on when my then 13 y.o. S joined 5 years ago. I am friends with both kids as well as some of D’s very close friends who I have know for many years. Am not friends with any of S’s friends, but both kids are mutual friends with many adults I am friends with.
I have the usual annoyances with FB, but overall enjoy being able to connect with friends/family members especially those who live far away. </p>
<p>Sure, I’m on. I joined in 2008, I think. Am friends with my kids, though I would not friend their friends unless they requested, which I don’t envision happening. My parents are both on it. My friend list is a mix of all different walks of my life - hs, college, friends from my former job, clients who have requested it, amd people I’ve met on forums such as CC. I check it in the morning and evening. I’m also a member of 3 private groups, but they have low activity. It’s fun. I would say I post a new status maybe once every 2 weeks, typically with a picture. The last one I posted was at the start line of a 5K I ran on Thanksgiving. </p>
<p>I too don’t get the strong dislike people have for it. </p>
<p>I am, and honestly I love it! I use it to stay in touch with many, many distant relatives, acquaintances, and old friends. I enjoy seeing the photos of their families and hearing what they are up to!</p>
<p>Yep. I don’t keep tabs on the kids, they have moved on, but do keep up with my grown up friends and share pics with family.</p>
<p>Yes, I am on Facebook. I am also friends with my son ( and not to keep track of him.) i am not friends with any of hus friends. I have had the same 50 or so frriends for years - and only occasionally adding someone new - like an old high school friend for example. My 85 year old mother is also on FB. It is a wonderful way for her to keep in contact with extended family. My main reason for being on FB is to play Scrabble. I rarely post anything but do “like” other’s post. I am also a member of one private group. It is my tennis friends from around the world. We used to have a message board site - which cost money - so we switched to a private group on FB. </p>
<p>I also upload my photos to FB. It’s a good place to keep them in case my computer bites the dust. It is also good for not forgetting friends & relatives birthday’s and makes it easy to wish them a happy one. </p>
<p>Yes! Not friends with my kids (the kids seem to have moved on to Instagram anyway), but a few of their friends friended me and I accepted. Wonderful way to keep in touch with extended family and old friends. I have an artsy hobby and there are many private groups where we exchange tips and share our work. Also, my neighborhood has groups for selling items and general news. Those are great too!</p>
<p>I’m also on FB. I’m friends with D and some of her long time friends. When the kids first joined, the parents had them friend all the parents and a couple of teachers as a check on behavior. That need has long ago disappeared - with the kids. They have all moved on to other social media or private groups. But we parents enjoy keeping in touch with each other. Occasionally one of the kids will post news to the public - college decisions being one - that’s nice to see. </p>
<p>I will unfollow people once they hit a certain age (tends to be around 20) and they do unwise things and post them to FB. At that age, I don’t need to see or know. A couple of years later, I’ll peek and find out they’ve grown wiser about either their behavior or posting pictures and find a calmer wall; then I’ll follow again. I usually find these kids have grown into interesting, responsible adults. The birth of children always changes the tone of these younger folks’ walls from cynical youth to doting sentimental parent. </p>
<p>Yes , I have been on since my sister talked me into it. I am friends with all of my kids and some of their friends. Also followed the no friending their friends rule like other posters. I am friends with a lot of their friends though, although I do not comment on anything the younger ones post.</p>
<p>I have a lot of friends from school days and my hometown. That has probably been the most fun for me, and allowed me to get in touch with people that I otherwise wouldn’t have known what became of them. I have had some really great reunions with long lost friends because of FB. </p>
<p>Literally everyone in my immediate and extended family ( parents, in-laws, siblings, nieces and nephews ) is on FB.
My best friend is not on because she feels that it compromises her professionally , but when we get together, she always wants to see mine so that she can see what she is missing out on ;)</p>
<p>I use it to keep in touch with friends all over and, sometimes, to make plans.</p>
<p>My daughter has an account but doesn’t use it at all (she prefers Instagram/Snapchat) but my son occasionally does. I am friends with a few of their friends that I have known since they were little.</p>
<p>I am on FB, I joined when my D wanted to join as a teen. I required her log in info. I told her when she was 18 that she could change it and not tell me the new password. She didn’t change it immediately but has sometime along the way. She is now 21 and is still my friend on FB, though none of her friends have friended me.</p>
<p>My sister had a rule that she would not friend or accept friend requests from her nieces and nephews until they were college adults. She broke that rule with my D when D did a semester abroad as a sophomore and my sister wanted to see the pictures bad enough to break that rule. :)</p>
<p>I think Facebook is a real gift- at least in MY life. I love reconnecting with people from all areas of my past life- and current life. It can get annoying with all the recipe posts and re-posts, and I avoid anything political, but I am a fast reader and can “take what I want and leave the rest.” I have enjoyed a number of people who I have never met in person, but are part of my sport or other interest groups. </p>
<p>I find it extremely inconvenient and annoying when someone is NOT on facebook, since social media (facebook and twitter) is my main platform for communicating with many people.</p>
<p>I’m on it, too. I use it every day and change my status every couple of days. I am friends with my kids (their request and with lots of their friends and their boyfriends). They are all in their mid twenties now. I have reconnected with lots of old friends, stay connected with relatives far and wide and have made new friends on it. I love it and don’t understand the disdain that some have for it. It is usually my friends or family members who still have a flip phone and are generally tech phobic.<br>
One thing that annoys me is some people who don’t have a facebook account but snoop on thier spouses account to look at peoples stuff. My sister does that. She’s disdainful about people on it but then goes on to snoop.</p>