Facebook Explosion - YIKES!!!

You can make your FB private so only your friends can see it.  And it would be only people that you approve, not their friends.  My son learned this too late, as that is how he lost his last job.  He had a picture he took up in his office on FB and the bosses saw it.  So, he lost his job.  But God has blessed him with the job he has now.

Private isn't really all as private as you think.  My youngest DD broke into her BF's to show him how unsecure he was.  She has hers pretty locked up.  For the heck of it I had her find some people for me.  I know I post lost of stuff about me here and if some one wanted to they could find me.  They would have to work a little though.  Unlike on facebook.

Jan, I do some things on Facebook but I do know that when I post on it I just keep it general. I post that Kayden is doing well, that we took him to church last Sunday and stuff like that. I don't post anything on there that I wouldn't want the world to know since I am leery of it too. I am now addicted to Farkle and that is what I do most of the time on there. I mostly ignore all the stuff that I get too since I am not into the farming anymore. It seems that everyone is taking care of my farm but me and they can do it too. I do on occasion send some of my friends a hug and I do e mail a couple of my relatives to see how they are doing. I know that some of my friends I have no idea who they are. I know that they automatically send me things with people who have had wls. How they know this I have no idea so Facebook must be smarter than I am!

I make my freshmen comp I students sign on if they don't already have an account and give them computer and message board assignments on it.  That's about all I use it for.  Getting freshmen to use facebook adds another place of support for them. Plus, once they sign on, they get their friends and family to sign on and they are able to talk to them on  a daily basis without calling them, something freshmen think is being babish.  So, it works for them to get support and it gives them a chance to see what is happeninig around the cyber world.  Plus, I make them blog; a great source for writing.  But, I don't add people other than my freshmen. LOL  At the end of the semester, I delete them and get new freshmen friends. 

I had a facebook account and cancelled it.  It is just too invasive.  Everyone can see what you're posting unless you do something with privacy and I dont know how or if that works.  Anyone
searching for you on Facebook will see everything.

My sister in law's addressbook was accessed and people from there contacted and it looked like she wanted to add them as friends, which was untrue.  She cancelled also.

I cancelled.

And then I went to the site one day - no logging in - and they immediately re-installed me as a member!  Had to cancel again.

Good luck,

Kathy

I'm with you. it is all so comfusing. I have had 3 invites but shoot Idon't have the time to keep up with My OH board let alone other things. My pastor uses it to keep up with what the teens of our church are up to and Ihave read employers are starting to check facebook before theyhire some people.. Can you say Big Brother!!

Aloha Jan....So good to see you. I am so glad you brought this subject up. I, too, am overwhelmed by Facebook. I get dozens of requests for this and that, and have no idea what to do with them. I have NO patience and so just end up signing off frustrated.

My son is a web page designer and he logged onto FB to locate some high school friends and he said that he thought the page was a total mess, and really needed a lot of work to simplify it. I rarely go there except when I'm bored and look at my kids' wall to see what they have been up to.

Life is too short (IMHO) to spend hours trying to figure out how to use stuff like that.

Aloha nui loa,

Maui Karen

P.S. Now my ex husband is wanting me to get onto Skype so we can communicate that way. Now I'm enmeshed in that new mess....LOL

yeah first it was my space , then face book then skype then twitter. ...i have gone to all of them and they are just big messes if you ask me and i dont go on them...they are too confusing. they are too open , i got email from them after makeing an account from all sorts of people....especially twitter. got lots of nasty stuff ...tried to block them and they came back twice as many....anyway i deleted all of my accounts and emailed all my grandkids and families that i have an email address that they can send me pictures on and messages and that i for one dont want to be bombarded by all this trash.....my poor virus protector was working over time one day with all the trash that was coming in....found out it was comming from facebook and twitter. and deleted all accounts there quickly....i think it is just kids get tired of things easily so they have to make something different. ....im a creature of habit. like things calm and cool ....sort of like this bord. ....Jan

I've been using Skype for several years to connect with friends and save on my phone bill! I keep it turned off until one of us wants to talk. I find any of the communication site very invasive. Besides, I just don't have time to spend even more time on the cpomputer every day! I'm trying to limit my OH time to once a day but haven't been successful with that one!

I started a Facebook page because it helped me reconnect with people I had lost touch with, the format for that is the nice feature of it.  I ignore a lot of the invites to do this or that, as I really don't have a lot of time to devote to it, but I believe there is a way to set it so that you won't be bothered with any of them if you so chose, or you can just blanketly ignore them once a week or how ever often you go on.  The privacy settings are really easy and no one can access your account unless you've given them permission once you've set up your privacy function.  I've managed to reconnect with friends and old bosses, co-workers and even some family members that I don't see very often, but now we can glimpse into one another's lives via Facebook.  It's all a matter of preference and time.  Nothing is all bad or good, so take what you need and leave the rest. . .

Take care, Laureen