<p>So are you on Facebook?..yes
Are you friends with your kids and/or kids friends?..just my own sons and two their friends who are the daughters of my deceased bestie. I am friends with other young people with whom I work or have worked.</p>
<p>How far does it go? Do you feel pressured to have lot of friends?..not really
Do you accept friends you do not know or have minimal contact with?..never.
How often are you on facebookF?..several times a day. People post lots of good links.</p>
<p>I belong to a group “I grew up in _______________,NC” so I see and speak with old friends/acquaintances from home there mostly.</p>
<p>How on earth can someone not use email this day and age? He must be off the grid. Even the most reluctant of employees at work and older workers had to give in to it.</p>
<p>I too am on FB. But my H and I are not friends because it does seem ridiculous given we live under the same roof and even work at the same place.</p>
<p>I am basically only friends with my kids friends if they ask me.</p>
<p>Of course I’m on Facebook - I think it’s great! My family is spread throughout the country, and FB is a great way to share pictures and stories and to reconnect. I just found out that the son of my best friend from high school just got engaged, and I just found out that another old friend is going to be a grandmother. What great news, and Facebook is a great way to stay connected.</p>
<p>Of course some people are annoying on Facebook, and some people are too political and/or too preachy, but so what? In real life, people are annoying and preachy and political, but that doesn’t mean I avoid all human interaction and become a hermit. At least on Facebook, I can hide news from the annoying people if I want.</p>
<p>And yes, D is a friend of mine on Facebook, as are some of her old friends (<- including girls from my old Girl Scout troop. I love staying connected with them, too).</p>
<p>I am on Facebook. I am not “friends” with our two sons. I’ve never asked them. They would prob. “friend me” if I asked but I don’t want them to feel I’m checking up on them all the time. I’ve noticed a couple of their friends’ Moms are their friends on FB. Honestly I don’t think either of my sons (they’re 25 and almost 28) spend a lot of time on FB anymore.</p>
<p>I enjoy reconnecting with relatives/ old high school friends/ people at my old workplace / people at our former church,etc. Also love Words With Friends!</p>
<p>Yes to Facebook, it was required for a class I took about 8 yrs ago. ( it was used as an easy place to share photos)
No, not friends with kids or their friends.( although I am with the parents of their sig others)
Do have nieces and nephews.
Am friends with friends from high school and different community & interest groups.
Have met some people IRL after friending them on Facebook.
I enjoy it, if I didn’t I wouldn’t use it.
I have privacy settings as high as they can go.
Never play games, and block game requests.</p>
<p>My son friended me when he moved across county. He calls very regularly and doesn’t use FB much, but i do enjoy seeing the occasional photos he shares.</p>
<p>If you don’t take FB too seriously you can learn to “speed read” through much of your newsfeed. You can fly by all the random “shares”, quotes, etc that you don’t want to spend time on and just tune in the stuff you like. </p>
<p>I will say that if I am friends with someone on FB, I would prefer that they are an “active” poster - which might only be once a month - but at least you’re “there” and it feels less like you’re just being a creeper. It’s anyones prerogative for sure, but I’d rather invite people in my house then just have them peeking in my window.</p>
<p>abasket, yes!!! I have some friends who I have forgotten that I am even FB friends with the because they never post! Then I see them IRL and they make a comment about something I wrote on my status. It seems so weird. Like they are all take and no give!</p>
<p>Couple of FB questions for those of you who are more savvy than I am. How do you block game requests? I have one friend who I receive them from constantly.</p>
<p>Also, I have very high privacy settings but I noticed that when I look someone up I can see posts on their wall even if they have really high privacy settings. So I checked my own page to see what the “public” sees and realized that profile pics and banner photo (or whatever that’s called at the top of your page) is public (this I knew) but any comments that are made about those pics are public too! I tried to go into my settings to change that but it looks like it’s impossible. Has anyone else noticed this or found a way around it? I don’t mind if those two pics are pubic but I don’t like that the whole thread of comments is out there as well.</p>
<p>I actually got on originally to keep up with my great nephews growing up. They live 600 miles from me and I can count on one hand how many times in their little lives I have seen them in person.</p>
<p>@EPTR, I don’t have a game request on my feed right now (probably because I have blocked them all!) but look for a little faint arrow to the right top of the game request - in the white area - click on it and a few choices will come up - choose the one that is closest to “block”. </p>
<p>When l look and see “what the public sees” on my profile all that shows up is my profile picture (the little one to the left) and the banner and then in my feed all that shows up is anytime I’ve changed my profile picture - no other pictures, friends, etc. are available for review. </p>
<p>I am on FB–friends with both kids but they rarely post, preferring Tumblir. I am FB friends with a few of their friends but will only do so if requested by the other person. We also have quite a few mutual friends. I have gotten in touch with old HS and camp friends thru FB! I do community theater and FB is the main communication method (closed group) during rehearsals. Due to the number of cast members I have friended over the years, I have a ridiculous number of FB friends (over 450) which makes keeping up with the people I care about tricky. I only post when I have something interesting to say (although a few months ago I did 30 straight days of gratitude).</p>
<p>I originally joined to be able to see pictures D1 posted while abroad for a semester. Then D2 went abroad, Now, my 3 children are rarely on Facebook. It seems to be mostly middle aged folk like me. Although I am very near, or at, the end of middle age. Haha</p>
<p>I am on Facebook. I originally joined because I got an email that my cousin was on, and I should join. So I did. And I never heard from her again (on Facebook, that is). I eased into it, and now I have about 150 friends, and I know practically all of them personally. My daughter is a popular local musician, and some of her fans try to friend me. I only accept them if my daughter tells me they aren’t creepy. I friended her a couple of years ago, because she was going on tour in the UK, and I was dying to see the pictures. I used to never friend request my daughter’s friends, but they requested me. As she’s grown older, I’ve met a lot of her friends at shows, and I feel comfortable requesting one or two. It’s a sensitive issue. I’m friends with my 20 year old son, but never post on his page. He posts on mine, sometimes, to give my friends a laugh.</p>
<p>I think Facebook has totally enhanced my life. Ha! I’ve reconnected with friends who live locally, met new friends, and socialized in real life. A post that I made about the death of my next door neighbor was shared by my grade school friend, and my neighbor’s children really appreciated it, and thanked me at his funeral.</p>
<p>I agree that the old folks have taken over Facebook, and the young ones have moved on. Except for my daughter, who is kind of a Facebook queen, and my son, who doesn’t do the social networking thing at all. Except for SnapChat. Which I hope he’s smart enough not to send, well, you know…</p>