Facebook makes it too easy to keep up with family and friends without having to talk to them all the time (I'm a bit anti-social when it comes to phones). I'll probably never deactivate mine just for conveinence sake.
i told myself the day my mom adds me as a friend is the day i leave facebook. she added me this morning
With family, you cant really post typical pictures or make dirty comments or have friends post anything bad on your page. Pretty much just makes the whole thing less fun.
My relatives wrote on my walls about family stuff and commented on photos which I took of my friends in a party. Just because I didn't exclude family from viewing photos that I posted. Expectedly, none of my friends continued to discuss or comment on the photos.
Yup my mom and aunt sent me a friend request a month or two ago. Things haven't been the same. I only update my status to tell what movie I am watching and of course it's not p*rn.
you all realize that you can block them right? or set your privacy settings so high that they can't see anything. practically nothing at all, if you want to do that.
Speaking of moms on facebook, this is hilarious: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yu4zMvE6FH4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yu4zMvE6FH4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
Facebook has indeed become a giant pain in the ass for me since my family started getting on it. Coworkers too.
I think there's a big difference between a person who "facebooks" (verb) and a person who happens to have a facebook profile. The person who facebooks (verb) is the person who updates their status 5 times a day from their iPhone and has 400 friends, 390 of which they really don't know all that well outside of facebook. The person who happens to have a facebook profile is the person who gets on it once or twice a week to see what's up, has less than 100 friends, and mainly just uses it to find long lost friends from high school or college. This person doesn't post anything that he wouldn't be comfortable with the whole world seeing. I'd like to think I fall into the 2nd catagory.
ima...that's a bit too simplified. I do not use facebook regularly (I play Mob Wars regularly but never update my status or check the main page for people's updates) and I have almost 400 friends...all of which I know and have been friends with at some point in my life. Yeah, probably 50 or 60 of them are merely acquaintances who are the types who friend every person they have ever talked to in an attempt to pad their "friend count", but most are actual friends...at some point in my life.
The NY Times had a recent article about this http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=facebook&st=cse
I could give two ****'s what people think. I have parents, cousin's, siblings, co-workers, multiple ex-girlfriends, etc. on there. I'm still the same ass on there that I am on here.
For sure. I'm just making the point that not everyone who uses Facebook is totally obsessed with it. I have about 90 friends, but every time I check my homepage (the one with everyone's activity on it), it's always the same 5 people who are updating their status every hour, taking every single silly quiz, and playing all the games. The other 85 people are people just like me. The ones who just use it to re-connect with some old friends who they never would've found otherwise.
I only have about 100 facebook friends and a lot of them are people I kind of socialized with in college that I don't speak to anymore. I've gotten requests from people I only met once or twice 5 years ago and I just flat out deny them.
