Just deactivated my facebook

I'm sure I'm a decade older than you as well. I would say that in my case it isn't indifference so much as exercising discretion in what I do as well as what I broadcast. The pictures I untag are ones where the camera caught me at a bad angle and I think I look less than cute.

 

I exercise discretion in what I do and I still don't want my private life shared with anyone who wants it. I don't want my boss knowing what I do in my private life unless I choose to tell him. I don't want ta client looking through pictures of my weekend.

But then, I don't want anyone really to be that close to my private life.

 

Most of my time on there is spent making sarcastic status updates and making jack-ass comments to other people's remarks.

And if anyone tags an unflattering picture of me, I immediately detag it. \

Ah, the beauties of Blackberry.

 

I never married her. I just knocked her up

 

OK, somebody explain facebook to me.

I know there are the trogladites like myself who don't 'get' all this new fangled intrawebs hokey pokie.

And there are the hipsters who thought it was great once -- but now it's so popular nobody likes it anymore.

But....really.....

aren't there a whole lot of 'levels' to set -- so your family gets one set of info, your 'acquaintances' and work people get another, and your closer friends get something else? If I was so inclined, couldn't I set it up to have a pretty basic page of the work folks, family pics and stuff for the fam, and the stupid stuff for the ones I choose?

Or does everyone with access get to see the same 'wall' with inane comments from my friends?

 

I think its a neat way to stay in touch with family. I have a cousin who has been in Australia for the past few years, so it is nice to chat with him every once in a while or just get an update on what he's up to.

Thankfully my Mother has no interest in learning how to use the internet.

 

I think Facebook became a lot more enjoyable to me when I deactivated the news feeds from all the acquaintances that I'm not too interested in and only get feeds from like the dozen or so friends and family that I actually care about. I also only log on once or twice a week.

 

They won't be able to unless you accept them as 'friends'.

I don't get all this paranoia about potential employers/bosses/clients seeing every detail of your life. Unless you accept them as your friend, all they can see is your profile pic and status.

If you're like me, you never put anything on your status, so all any potential employer would see of me is a tiny picture of me and my wife on the beach.

OMG, this perv actually takes his wife to the beach!!! I'm not going to hire him now.

 

Ive found several childhood friends on this thing. It's great to see their kids and what they are up to now.

 

I deactivated mine about a month ago as well. It is refreshing to not log on, i just think the whole facebook thing ran its course.

Ill just stick to CF

 

I've been able to get back in touch with a lot of old friends through FB. One of them was in the middle of moving to Houston and we hadn't been in touch since we were kids in Boston.

You can choose not to get everyone's feed. I don't but I get so many I generally ignore them.

If you are young enough to have been in HS or college when FB started then it seems that FB is used more for keeping up with people. If you are older than that it is generally used to get back in touch with people you haven't heard from for years. At this point in my life everyone is posting wedding and new baby pics or updating us on what interesting country their company is flying them to this week.

 

I don't understand why you have to deactivate it. You aren't forced to keep logging in every hour just because you have one. I only log in about once a month. Maybe you change your mind in the future and want to start using it again.

 

i don't have that many relatives, just cousins at my age...my mom will never sign up for facebook so i don't have to worry about it...

however, i do have some people from my job, especially, my boss. one of my sorority sister tagged me when we all went to the beach and i totally forgot to un-tag them...they have been up for a month. reading this thread made me to realize that i had them up for EVERYBODY including my boss to see them! ARUGGGGGHH!! you better believe that i un-tagged them!

i don't really use FB that often...i check in everyday but will post my status once a couple of weeks.

ugh.

 

I don't understand it either, unless you legitimately have no use for it at all.

I have my security settings jacked up to the max. My profile is barren. My pictures are hidden from view. And even my wall is hidden from certain people. I basically use facebook as a type email address book. Much easier to just message people on that than keep track of a bunch of email address that can change over time.

Also, if you deactivate your facebook, and then reactivate it, it actually brings back all your settings and friends you had before deactivation. It will be like you never left. I know this because I deactivated mine for a while, but I later realized how useful it can be for me if used in a specific way.

 

LOL @ people who have hundreds of friends of which 90% they have never met

Me too. The ones I've found post "I'm no longer selling chiclets! Yipee!" as their status.

 

ah nuts where is the fun in that?




hmm Swoly does your FB feeds have emoticons all up in them too?


whats funny is that my cousin, his wife and their 14 year old are on it and the son posts often enough and I am kiddo you do not want to put your business out there for your parents to see like that.

He'll learn soon enough


I've made it a point to only friend people i actually knew fairly well in high school ,currently and of course a few CF'ers here. I just started to use this thing last week it is a good way to catch up I am already getting dinner/lunches with two college and high school friends I havent seen in 5-6 years.