<p>I like Facebook. I’m still at the figuring out stage who I friend and who I don’t. I’ve actually (yikes) de-friended a couple people. My picture I think reflects me and my personality that my friends know. Somewhat different than my “business personality” but I used Linkedup for those relationships. I haven’t ventured too far with the friends and got started actually with my kids. They helped me put my page together and immediately “friended” me. Interestingly in “my group” it’s our friends and their kids who are now all away at college. We enjoy still seeing what each other’s kids are doing and saying and they are so great at remembering all of our (adult birthdays). The Halloween pictures (from all over the country) are hilarious and for me, brings back lots of memories of being young…maybe that’s why we all like to have the kids on our facebooks. Some of the kids have finished foreign study and those pictures are fun to see, too. Facebook sure keeps them in touch with those friends they make all over the world, something I wish we would have had when we were younger. Clearly the kids have enormous groups compared to “us” adults. I haven’t “friended” any on-line aquaintences, yet, but that would add a whole new dimension,suddenly those one-dimension people would be multi-diimensional. Interesting thought.</p>
<p>If y’all were Facebook friends with Momofwildchild you’d be congratulating her on becoming a grandma!</p>
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My unscientific opinion is that extroverted people are more likely to post goofy pictures.</p>
<p>I’m glad my D has a lot of facebook friends. When she accuses me of “stalking” her profile, I just say that there can’t be 900 people that she’s more comfortable knowing her information than me.</p>
<p>missypie- Lest people panic and think WildChild is a parent, I should clarify! My wonderful stepson and his wife just had a baby early this morning. I am freaking out over the whole “grandmother” thing- thought I had years to go for that… Neither of my kids seem to have an interest in having children. We’re excited about the new baby, who is destined to be a Texas Longhorn and was born in Austin.</p>
<p>Congratulations to you and your family, MOWC!</p>
<p>Congratulations. Beautiful picture.</p>
<p>Congrats MOWC!</p>
<p>My FB profile picture is me and DH. Since I originally joined FB to re-connect with friends from hs and college, I didn’t want to give anyone the wrong idea about <em>why</em> I’m re-connecting. Having my picture WITH dh confirms (at least to me) that I’m happily married and plan to stay that way.</p>
<p>DD became a “fan” of her ED school’s admissions office. When she did, I warned her that even with her privacy settings, they can see her profile picture. A profile picture that she thought was funny might be misconstrued. So she found a group photo from a volunteer event she attended. No way to really tell which one is D, but the mixed-age group all wearing matching t-shirts is certainly wholesome and either volunteer-ish or family-reunion-ish.</p>
<p>Husband set up a Facebook page yesterday. When I sent him a friend request, I also sent a bunch of people suggestions that he friend them. He’s so mad at me. “Why would I want to friend my sister?” “Why would I want to friend my niece?” (BTW, he hasn’t confirmed my own friend request!)</p>
<p>Lucky baby, MOWC, to be born in beautiful Austin, Texas! Congrats to you all.</p>
<p>I’ve received a few invites from colleagues and I’ve politely re-directed them to LinkedIn.
Over the years, I’ve made some dear friends in the workplace; no problem with them being on Facebook. But not some average guy I chatted with over the water cooler 10 years ago. I guess I’m not comfortable with all that mixing…and prefer to compartmentalize my business life. This is probably considered old-fashinoned…but hey I’m no spring chicken.
Yeah, yeah, I know I can adjust my settings but it all seems like so much work. I spend a total of 3-5 minutes on facebook per day, checking out family pics, posting a note or two about the cute kid pics.
MOWC- Congrats! I have some good friends who are going through this, and after getting over the “grannie” image problem, they’re having LOTS of fun.</p>
<p>Wow, that almost threw me for a loop! I’m facebook friends with MOWC’s daughter, who I went to grade school and college with, and I hadn’t heard about a pregnancy or anything!</p>
<p>My Facebook profile pic is a computer-generated avatar likeness of me. People who know me would recognize the cartoonish figure, but people who don’t know me wouldn’t be able to use it to pick me out of a crowd.</p>
<p>I put the kabash on political chatter on my page. If other people invite commentary on their own walls, that’s fine, but I have way too many friends and family who are way too fiercely loyal to their viewpoints. I change my status often and phrase it in a humorous way so I get a lot of traffic, and I’d end up with a lot of flamewars on my personal page (open to my priest, my stepmom, my boss, and everyone) which I’d rather avoid.</p>
<p>^^ That’s why I was quick to clarify. No babies on the horizon for my two young adult kids! Hoping there aren’t any out there that I don’t know about…</p>
<p>Someone I know didn’t know he had other siblings until at the reading of his father’s will.</p>
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<p>I love FB. It’s a good thing it’s blocked at work. :p</p>
<p>I hate my profile pics, though. I couldn’t take a good picture to save my life. So, like a woman ransacking the closet trying to find the right thing to wear, I rummage through my photos trying everything on. </p>
<p>I’m very happy to be part of the CC Parents FB group. I love seeing pictures of fellow posters. (Can’t wait to get home an see if MOWC has any baby pics yet.)</p>
<p>Mine is a picture of my hand holding a champagne cocktail. It is a kind of ‘cheers’ thing (do you say cheers here in the US?) but not really that representative of me - I do enjoy the occasional drink but not that often and rarely champagne cocktails - but it is one my sister in law made and is pretty with an umbrella and fruit. If I could find it I would like to make my profile pic the one of me abseiling off a cliff in Switzerland. Totally unrepresentative of me as I am terrified of heights, but kind of a proud moment as I did it so that 2 girls on our girl scout trip could go canyoning, and no one other adult would go. Of course it doesn’t show the combined bullying (that trip leader was mean) and coaxing (the photographer was much nicer) it took to make me actually take the first step off the cliff.</p>
<p>Mine changes daily and is never of me.</p>
<p>I am on Facebook, but most of my friends are not. I don’t use it very often but it makes it so easy to catch up with friends who are no longer living close by. I don’t take a lot of pictures, so my pix stays the same for a very long time.</p>
<p>My picture is not of me, either. I posted the facebook scam story from an earlier post on this thread, on my wall, and a couple of people liked it.I’m enjoying facebook, haven’t had any bad experiences so far,but not sure what I think about the big brotherish aspect of it, that the info is not necessarily limited to the friends you have.</p>
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<p>I can (sadly) top that. I had two younger half-siblings that I knew existed, but never met them until I was in my late twenties. They were 18 and 21 at the time … and they didn’t even know that they had an older half-sister until I called their house and basically introduced myself. (Our mutual father had died years prior, and their mother – his second wife – simply never bothered to tell her children that he had been married before, or to inform my mother / me of his death.) I’m writing a book one day, I tell ya!</p>
<p>That’s awful she never told you about your father’s death, to give you a chance to say good-bye.</p>