<p>I’ve been on FB for 2 or 3 years, after my 75-year-old mother insisted that I create an account to see photos of previous neighbors’ grandkids! I am not friends with my 24-yr-old D, and we have joked about it in the past. I think if I sent her a friend request, she would accept it, but I will not blink first. LOL. She is friends with many other parents, including my mom, so she is not hiding anything. I am friends with my 21-yr-old son. I do not request to be friends with other youngsters, but always accept when they ask me, and I have had kids of all ages ask me. It is great for keeping up with old friends (we recently planned our class reunion on FB), but I don’t post much. My only problem is all the people who ask to be my friend that I am sure I DO NOT KNOW at all; however, we have many “mutual” friends, so I’m beginning to think my memory is completely shot.</p>
<p>I personally think FB is a huge waste of time. I have a page, am friends with one S and the other refuses. I don’t believe I have ever posted anything, and have never been inspired to. I only have it so I can have a page for the association I work for. I can see a use for it if you’re a celebrity or in some kind of leadership position, but I prefer one on one communication rather than broadcasting my least thoughts to everyone I know. That’s what my relatives whom I have friended do. Inspirational quotes, new diets or heartrending blurbs about animals that need to be adopted before they are euthanized isn’t my idea of fun.</p>
<p>I am 54 and have a facebook page. it is great for locating long lost friends</p>
<p>My 81 year old aunt is on FB, along with about 40 cousins and their kids, flung across 8000 miles and two continents. We share many old childhood photos among us on FB, everyone scanning, posting, making jokes, asking questions. It has been so much fun and SO informative for all of us. So many conversations! Our aunt has been a huge go-to source for insights, and she really loves the participation. We have had endless laughs too (my family is very funny and very sweet, though we love to gently tease one another). Sometimes I think FB as a company is evil, but I must admit we really would not have had this wonderful family experience the past two years without it.</p>
<p>I love facebook! My privacy is set for only Friends. No one else sees my posts. Its been a great way to stay connected to family who are far away. Even relatives I have never met. Ive reconnected with my HS classmates, suprisingly they are the most fun to be connected to. Its a great way to send private messages to a friend. Love sharing pictures and participating in a some of the collective FB activities.</p>
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Both my parents are on FB and my mother absolutely loves it. She can see what her grandchildren are posting and their pictures without being intrusive. She very rarely posts anything, but she doesn’t have to to enjoy what others write. She also has family very far away and this is the perfect way to keep in touch.</p>
<p>She commented not long ago that she is sad that her mother didn’t live long enough to enjoy today’s technology for keeping up with the family. She said her mother would have loved FB.</p>
<p>I have facebook and are friends with both of my kids. And some of their friends. But like others have said, I would never send a friend request to my kids’ friends, they have to request me.</p>
<p>I have a cousin who found me on facebook, I hadn’t seen her since I was 10. I keep in touch with old friends and relatives. And I get so see pictures that my nieces and nephews post of their kids, whom I would otherwise only see maybe once or twice a year.</p>
<p>Rhumbob, there is nothing to maintain. Once you set up your profile, you don’t have to do anything else. It’s not like myspace where you could personalize your page, add music, etc. This is much easier.</p>
<p>I’ve had a Facebook account since you needed to have a .edu address to have one–and yes, my kids friended me back then, on the agreement that I never post on their pages. I suspended it for a few years after my kids graduated, then realized that a whole group of people that I knew were using it to make social engagements (as in “let’s meet at the park for a walk tomorrow morning”) and I was missing them because they didn’t email or call. </p>
<p>I limit my postings, as I do here, to saying things I would not mind seeing on the front page of the local newspaper (or on the local TV news or in a mass email, or whatever the modern equivalent is).</p>
<p>On the old friends thing… I am now 56, and a few years back a woman that I disliked in high school (she was quite mean to me) friended me. I thought about it for weeks, then accepted it. It had been about 35 years since our last contact and I was still rather shaken by the idea of “talking” with her–the interactions were still taking up emotional space. After about a year of seeing her boring and mundane posts my dislike of her completely faded. It is a relief to have let that anger go.</p>
<p>razorsharp how is google+ better? i just discovered it today. already i like the circle groups theory. so does every have to know to look for you there? are there any privacy negative issues you have found?</p>
<p>I’ve been on FB for about 1 1/2 years now an both of my kids are friends with me. I check it every day, but I don’t post a lot. Finally put a picture up about 2 weeks ago.</p>
<p>Nope Not planning on joining. My Ds say they refuse to friend me. No interest in adding another method of interaction- I feel I have plenty, forums with special interests such as this one. Different strokes for different folks.</p>
<p>I’m sixteen and friends with my mom on Facebook. She never gets on to check it, though. Not that I post anything bad on there anyways- that’s just stupid. She thinks it’s weird when my friends friend request her.</p>
<p>i googled a name and up came their google+ page and a whole group of their friends and their comments and photo- hmmm… seems less private than facebook. i don’t belong to either yet.</p>