<p>Facebook is important in my life, but if I had to choose between Facebook and Twitter, I would have to pick Twitter. I am pretty addicted to it- especially for sports stuff.</p>
<p>I get way more useful info for personal use from Twitter - as you say, sports, news, national/current events. </p>
<p>I manage a couple of FB pages for work - very, very useful to have and follow other non-profits and similar subject related causes and organizations. </p>
<p>I don’t have time for facebook. I’m on CC.</p>
<p>I’m on FB with CCers. So much fun. </p>
<p>I keep FB to check on my parents and monitor what they post! :)</p>
<p>@xiggi, lol!! </p>
<p>I love Facebook. I stay in touch with old friends and high school classmates that I hadn’t heard from in many years. I also stalk my 19-year-old, who finally friended me. He has a very pretty girlfriend at the moment! I just discovered the “search” feature of the “mutual friends” list. :)</p>
<p>It’s funny that so many of us specifically state what our rules are for being friends with our grown children’s friends. There is a young man that is friends with both of our older girls…he has never friended me, yet makes a point to come and visit me, take me out to lunch from time to time and just came to our house for dinner. But doesn’t friend me on FB ! I think that he views my husband and I as parental since his own mother is somewhat strange.</p>
<p>Another good FB rule: don’t judge or whine or pester someone for making the choice NOT to friend you. Just like its YOUR FB, it’s THEIRS!!!<br>
(not directed at you lje62, you just reminded me of this thought!)</p>
<p>Love Facebook. I have reconnected with so many people, not just through FB…but reunions IRL because of it. I usually check everyday, but am only on it maybe 5 minutes or less. Used to be on it more when I joined 6 years ago…sort of lost it’s luster. But I love posting pictures and seeing everyone’s pictures, too.</p>
<p>right basket, no offense taken. I actually don’t think this young man is on FB all that much. My daughters think it is strange that he still hangs out here, without them 
I feel sort of motherly towards him too. He spent the last two hurricanes with us rather than his own family, for some reason. </p>
<p>On the other side, I have had to block some people because they drive me nuts , for various reasons. Whether it be because they are over political or just post so often that they take up my entire news feeds.</p>
<p>But the best part is having the ability to reconnect with old friends, by far</p>
<p>I have blocked a few people’s updates, too. There are some I really should unfriend. Every now and then I sort of edit my friends and if there is someone with absolutely no connection to my life in any way, I drop them.</p>
<p>I love Facebook. Great to reconnect with old friends who I would not have the time to call individually etc. </p>
<p>Great local resource, out town has a Page and it’s always got info on who’s a good plumber, or there’s a traffic accident here or what time is the Christmas parade etc. </p>
<p>Working for some nonprofits I find it extremely helpful for PR. </p>
<p>Some of you have said you prefer twitter to Facebook. Why? I am on twitter but never ever go on. I do not get it. Please explain the appeal.</p>
<p>Twitter is great for news that you want, pushed directly to you. I see Twitter and FB serving entirely different functions. Twitter is wonderful for late breaking news and information from sources you trust. FB is for swapping stories with friends.</p>
<p>^^^This. </p>
<p>FB is very “surface” for me. (which is fine!) Twitter provides me with more information - again, use Twitter for more data/info that relates to my profession. I also use Twitter to follow celebs as opposed to FB. </p>
<p>I also love Instagram for a different sort of peek into the lives of people I know or like that they want to share. Just a photo and a couple of words - you mostly just “like” and infrequently, “comment”. Easy peasy and interesting to see in just a photo the stuff that people come across in their day. </p>
<p>I am on FB, but sparingly. It started mostly as a way to keep up with the kids. I used to share a little more than I do now, but I’ve come to the conclusion, that so much of what is there is oversharing, TMI, humble or not so humblebragging, or inappropriate for an economically and politically diverse group audience. </p>
<p>I have a rule that if it’s not something I’d broadcast to every single person on my list, and in a public way, then I won’t say it at all. I will also never post pictures of other people online without their permission. </p>
<p>I have, however, reconnected with some very old and dear friends, which has made it all worthwhile. </p>
<p>I’m friends with my kids and some of their friends, who have friended me. Will scroll through the newsfeed for a few seconds at a time if I’m online. There’s no pressure at all to add people. Why would there be? I’ve hidden the worst offenders from my feed without de-friending and a couple of times I’ve ignored requests from people I’ve never heard of. They are usually a friend of a friend looking to sell something. </p>
<p>What I do not get is people who post strong political opinions, whether I agree with them or not. Why do that?!? You just KNOW that you are going to offend some people. I have blocked several friends on both sides of the political aisle because I’m sick of seeing their posts.</p>
<p>Re: Twitter. I think it takes a little while to figure it out. Some people are very clever on Twitter and are interesting to follow. Some- not so much. I am connected to sports in a way I never could be without Twitter. I interact with the coaches and player (and former players) of my favorite college team and have formed a Twitter network of fans and people who are very knowledgeable. It sounds sort of strange- but it works! Our local police department uses Twitter very effectively in an informative and interesting way. </p>
<p>Twitter is also an extremely effective way to interact with airlines and other corporations if you need some help or have an “issue”. I have received immediate assistance and compensation from Southwest, United and other companies by interacting on Twitter. </p>
<p>I follow George Takei on Twitter just to see all his silly pictures.</p>
<p>I’m on Facebook and it enhances my life a lot. I’ve reconnected with friends I’d lost touch with years ago and it has been great. I have almost 400 friends and I have met the vast majority of them. Because of my position in my sorority, a large number of them are from my sorority- all ages. I am friends with both of my kids at their request. I was on Facebook before they were. I am friends with some of my daughter’s friends who requested it. They are the kids who call me “Momma Lastname” and some of them are actually sorority sisters now! I stay in touch with relatives who I don’t see nearly often enough. Among the people I’ve never met are folks like my brother’s father-in-law. He invited me recently and frankly, he’s one of <em>those</em> political posters who posts the really offensive and blatantly false political images. I’m one or two posts away from choosing to not see him on my wall. </p>
<p>I guess I’m on there a lot. Like when I’m waiting in line at lunch time, riding the elevator, etc. I pop in and scroll through the most recent stuff on my wall. There’s a train near my house which holds up traffic 8-10 times a day for as long as 40 minutes each time. I found out one time there was actually a check in point for those train tracks. I check in every time I get stopped by that train. It’s become a huge joke on my wall because it happens so often. Then, when people come to visit me and get stuck, they post too…lol. It’s silly, but fun :)</p>