Facebook or nah???

klkarlen

rashadlc1980 wrote: »

I deleted mine for a while, and felt peace. But only recently got on it to keep in touch with family. The down side, is that everyone is posting political crap and complain about everything. I like to feed my mind with positivity and with FB, it surely doesn't help. So I'll prob be deactivating it again. I don't use any other Social media platform besides MFP.

I got on to be able to monitor my high school aged kids, stayed on because I have reconnected with long lost friends, or friends that are living far away.

You can control to an extent what you see - if I have friend that are over-sharers, or go on too many political rants, I stop following them, so their stuff no longer shows in my feed. I also block many pages, use the FB feature to never see anything from certain pages. I do need to do a walkthrough of my friend list and remove some that I don't really know, and don't recall why I added them in the first place. The news feed algorithm is weird as to what it shows anyway.

beagletracks

If it's important to your fiancé, it seems like it's not a big deal to set up an account. You don't have to use it, but the fiancé can list the two of you as engaged and tag you in photos, etc. I would suggest setting up an account and just not checking in much.

dbanks80

klkarlen wrote: »

rashadlc1980 wrote: »

I deleted mine for a while, and felt peace. But only recently got on it to keep in touch with family. The down side, is that everyone is posting political crap and complain about everything. I like to feed my mind with positivity and with FB, it surely doesn't help. So I'll prob be deactivating it again. I don't use any other Social media platform besides MFP.

I got on to be able to monitor my high school aged kids, stayed on because I have reconnected with long lost friends, or friends that are living far away.

You can control to an extent what you see - if I have friend that are over-sharers, or go on too many political rants, I stop following them, so their stuff no longer shows in my feed. I also block many pages, use the FB feature to never see anything from certain pages. I do need to do a walkthrough of my friend list and remove some that I don't really know, and don't recall why I added them in the first place. The news feed algorithm is weird as to what it shows anyway.

I agree. I have people that FR me and I look at our mutual friends and most likely they are from HS. But then I think why am I friends with this person. I dont remember you in HS 30 yrs ago and I dont remember you now! LOL!

DeficitDuchess

I am about as, interesting as; watching grass grow & paint dry at, the same; time! So there really isn't a reason for, me to've 1 since; any friends that I've are here!

I did've 1, though but hardly made use, of it; until January but then, deleted it because I had an invisible friend that, I was unable to; get rid of!

I tried to, begin another; 1 but there was a problem with, my cellular # being associated with my previous deleted account so; I deleted again!

I plan to, change my # anyway; though because my Mother keeps giving it, to people instead of; her own #!

cwolfman13

I dislike a lot of crap and articles and whatnot that show up in my feed...but I do have friends and family flung all over the U.S. and abroad so it's an easy way to keep up on things and communicate...share pictures of our kiddos with each other, etc without sending a 70 person group text or something.