<p>I have been “friended” by two of my (just over 50 year old) friends in the past couple months who now have Facebook pages. My brother and sisters-in-law, who are in their mid-forties, have pages. I have heard that the over 40 age group is the fasted growing user group on Facebook.</p>
<p>My kids spend way too much time on Facebook, and I am not really interested in joining myself - I don’t think. I was wondering if an cc parents have joined the Facebook bandwagon and if I am alone in my resistance.</p>
<p>I’ve joined. I spend maybe 10 minutes a day on it. It’s a nice, easy way to keep so-called “friends” (many of whom are really acquanitances) up to speed on what’s new and important – or downright insignificant – in your life.</p>
<p>I just told everyone about DH and I saving Money by washing and staining our deck ourselves. That lead to an interesting exchange with a friend.</p>
<p>I started on it professionally so that my name would pop up on more searches. Now it is a way for connecting easily to family and friends. You can set privacy settings to separate the info family sees from professinal. I don’t spend that much time on it. DD even friended me Stil waiting on S1, S2, and S3 though. Not holding my breath.</p>
<p>I have a facebook page… mostly I use it to keep in touch with ‘friends’ from college… people i haven’t seen in awhile… i go on maybe 5-10 minutes a day to read updates and occasionally i’ll post something… i wouldn’t be-friend my mother if she was on there… but i did accept my little sisters friend request.</p>
<p>I joined several years ago and spend more like 10 minutes a week on it. I find it sporadically entertaining, generally harmless, and of occasional benefit. (E.g., got the only pics of DS#2 before prom through fb–his date goes to another hs and I don’t know the family well, but the mom was thoughtful enough to friend me and share the pics.) Have had several relatives (well, really of my husband’s) track me down and re-establish contact.</p>
<p>Mostly I like it cuz I can spy on my kids. So many cute pictures and telling comments from them and their friends. (DS#1 is a college freshman who at times has sounded so overwhelmed. Then I find a picture of him drenched with sweat from dancing and am reassured that he is having just a bit of fun this year as well. )</p>
<p>I have a page but I didn’t friend my kids (they like their privacy). I use it to connect with people from my past (my nursery school class photo is on there!!). I like it as a way to share photos. I don’t spend much time there though (it is not addictive like CC).</p>
<p>My kids aren’t my friends, my mother is. I’m friends with one cousin, and all my brothers and their wives and a couple of other non-relatives. Joined to play Scrabble with my sister-in-law. I don’t spend a lot of time on it, but I do love it when people post lists of books and movies.</p>
<p>FB is fun! I won’t be a friend of my son’s though (don’t want to know!!). It’s good for the kids to see that we have our own networks, etc. , I think! lol</p>
<p>I joined FB when my mom(71 years) befriended me. I keep up with relatives I wouldn’t normally see or talk to in other parts of the country. It is also nice because you don’t have to write a long email, you just write a sentence or short comment. I am on limited profile with my D1 'having your mom on your facebook is creepy" MY D2 allows all. I talk to college friends and a few HS. It is fun, but I watch what I say, because some of my things can show up on the FB of someone I am not officially friends with. I don’t spy, and I don’t ask my kids friends unless they ask me. Needless to say I don’t have the time to spy on their FB anyway. They recently changed the format which I really don’t like. I have an old computer which doesn’t love FB for some reason, so I have problems going on too much. Some people are addicted to it. I like it it keeps me in the loop.</p>
<p>We have a CC Parents group on facebook (search for prior threads on this) and it’s been a lot of fun to be “friends” with CC people on a different level. We don’t actually do that much on the group page, but do communicate via our own facebook pages. I’ve really enjoyed it.
I use facebook a lot- have reconnected with high school friends and former co-workers and athletic friends. I am also on Twitter. I love social networking and don’t think it is a waste of time at all.</p>
<p>I joined FB a year ago so I could find out about hunger and homelessness week at S’s college. FB was the only source of info about it. I didn’t do anything with FB until a year later, when I was paid to set up a FB page for a nonprofit organization. That got me hooked on FB.</p>
<p>I’ve found it a wonderful way to stay connected with friends and to find out about activities and causes that interest me. Younger S also FB friended me after he realized that he’d already friended our mutual adult friends, so he may as well FB friend me. We now have about 50 friends in common – ranging from high school students to a 70-year-old friend.</p>
<p>I literally have FB friends all over the world, and particularly have had a wonderful time keeping up with the lives of friends who have moved far away or whom I moved far from.</p>
<p>I also love the chat feature, another way to keep up with friends.</p>
<p>It’s a wonderful tool for community organizing as well as planning spontaneous get togethers for fun.</p>
<p>I just signed up last week, trying to locate someone from my college. There was a friend request awaiting me, and DD also friended me, and I got a friend request from her friend. I haven’t been on much but want to find a block of time to explore. I must admit, there is a bit too much on DD’s page for my taste. No interest in Twitter!</p>
Amen! I have to be discrete, though, because my daughter doesn’t want me “Facebook stalking” her. So, don’t comment on her pictures, post on her wall, etc. But I told my kids that it was a good idea to have an adult looking at their pages every once in a while…I’m sure they can get around it lots of ways, of course.</p>
<p>I joined last month. Thus far, I’ve ignored requests from HS acquaintances and dh’s relatives who I couldn’t pick out of a lineup. Have not asked and don’t care to be ds’s friend.</p>
<p>I joined a few years ago to check out kid’s pages…and have been inactive. I respond to invites from friends that I haven’t seen in a while (unless I don’t care to keep in touch). I have a pathetic number of “friends” (under 10) and some have commented on that when inviting me to join (lol). I also get some really weird invites from folks I have never heard of. I guess I just don’t feel comfortable posting stuff about myself and prefer to do in person contact or online communications through one on one email. </p>
<p>A family member invited me to join Twitter. I did but, honestly, I have no interest in broadcasting what I’m doing every day. It all seems so silly to me - nothing of substance.(who cares if I’m taking a nap or looking for a new lamps?) I much prefer in-person contact. I did join some groups - but I find I’m overloaded with posts (like from the NY Times) so I rarely check in and read them. </p>
<p>I’m a pretty active member of LinkedIn. I consider it part of my work to keep my network active - and many of these are people I don’t really have personal relationships with. So I actually like that forum. </p>
<p>By spying I don’t really mean spying. My kids know I have access to their account but I don’t think I’ve ever commented on anything I’ve seen. I’m sure they wouldn’t like to be reminded I check in every now and then. It really isn’t looking for bad stuff; more little peeks into their lives. (I am always tickled to see pictures of them that others have taken.) (And some of these kids are really funny!)</p>
<p>I did join twitter but have yet to actually. . . um. . . tweet? Or receive any from anyone. How dreary would that be? Not really sure why I did, although DS#1’s college athletic events are sometimes. . . betwitted? And that’s the only way to get a running update on the score.</p>
Stil waiting on S1, S2, and S3 though. Not holding my breath.</p>![http://imgur.com/1vdJ.jpg[/url]](http://imgur.com/1vdJ.jpg%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
