Facebook - A step too far?

My friends and family are scattered all over the world and I keep up with them on FB. I don't get involved in drama and if someine starts with me, the block feature works wonders. I've only needed it a couple times and except once, only with online-only friends.

Recently, an old classmate and his wife died in a drunk driving accident (the other guy) and left three children behind. FB allowed us to come together as a community from across the globe and trade news and support. It was wonderful.

FB is what you make it. If you are surrounded by drama, don't blame a Website.

Just another reason why I'm perfectly happy without a FB.

So I recently trashed my facebook account, the main reason is we live in a teeny town here in the UK and they recently brought out a page called "Spotted". Basically people could give shout outs to random people in my town... It started nice and then became a place for people to slate local companies etc.

I thought this was going down a bad path until they brought out "Rate your shag - (in your local town)".... People send this page a message and they post it anonymously. They justify it's ok because we don't post surnames! But poor AJ from my town is the only AJ here, so of course everyone knew instantly who it was about... An example post was "AJ, sh** shag, learn about women and sort your morning breath out. PS you have a small di** 1/10"

Personally for me this is too far, I reported it and duly trashed my account. We live in a small town so everyone knows everyone's business anyway, do we really need a run down of sexual encounters? I was wondering what everyone else's opinion is on this? Do you think this ok? If so, where would you draw the line?

Are you in a town near Bath? The Chronicle's twitter feed mentioned it.

FB is what you make it. If you are surrounded by drama, don't blame a Website.

I have a hard time believing the idea that someone has "gotten rid of the Facebook drama" if they are talking about "getting rid of the Facebook drama" on another social network like MFP.

:-)

I usually just play games on Facebook anymore. No posting unless I see a funny picture. I noticed when I posted things that someone in particular (MIL) was reading my posts but not responding. She ended up calling my Husband and talking about one of my posts. Ex.... When I have a baby if its a boy I want to name him Shawn Robert Morris but my Husband is not sure if he likes it...wonder how I can get him to like it.....whisper it in his ear while he sleeps LOL! Well my MIL ended up calling my Husband and asking why he would not allow this name and took it to a serious note! First of all this was a year ago, second I was not pregnant nor am I pregnant now. This was just a comment when someone was talking about baby names. I was just talking about it. This name is just something I liked we never discussed baby names before nor are we because we don't have a baby in the making nor are we trying. Basically I hate the fact she started to bug my Husband about it when it was not meant to aggravate him. Besides he is on my facebook too and could read it. There was no reason for her to call him and confront him. So now I just really play games and message if I need something or whatever. I hear ya!

I deleted my FB account when it started to damage some real life relationships. I have a "friend" who can be quite judgmental in her Christian beliefs and attitudes. It was hard for me to read her comments about Jews, our president, Democrats, homosexuals, gun laws, etc, without wanting to rip her a new one via FB. (I'm stubborn that way). She was a bit of a hypocrite, too. I hate hypocrisy.

I occasionally look at my husband's FB, and I realized awhile ago why I cannot stand it now: too many stupid, inane status updates and smarmy pictures of overly cliched statements.

I got rid of my FB account after a misunderstanding with family over an auto-post by (none other than) MFP!

The accounts were linked and MFP posted, "Pinkledoodledoo has responded to 'HELP! I hate my husband!' on MyFitnessPal" or some such thing...

Well of course I had my husband's family as "friends" on Facebook and many of them are older folks who know how to use computers but are not necessarily internet savvy... so this auto-post made them think that I posted that I hated MY husband instead of realizing that I was responding to an MFP forum post with that title.

Needless to say I still have people on that side of his family giving me dirty looks... primarily because none of them EVER asked me about it. I heard about it through the grapevine and therefore couldn't even properly defend/explain myself.

And since leaving FB I have discovered who my real friends are - you know, the ones that actually keep in touch outside of FB?

Hhaha! How unfortunate. This is how ppl are in the world, its a shame that ppl that are considered "family" would much rather point and stare and heckle in the back ground but aren't bold enough to say something.

I deleted my FB account when it started to damage some real life relationships. I have a "friend" who can be quite judgmental in her Christian beliefs and attitudes. It was hard for me to read her comments about Jews, our president, Democrats, homosexuals, gun laws, etc, without wanting to rip her a new one via FB. (I'm stubborn that way). She was a bit of a hypocrite, too. I hate hypocrisy.

You got rid of FB to save a friendship with this horrible person?

That says more about you than it does about FB.

FB is too big

Poor AJ isn't.

Sadly, I laughed.

I agree with the OP about that app taking it too far.

I haven't had a facebook in a few years now.

The main reason I'm posting is because I wanted to let people know that when you "Delete" your facebook, it's all still there if you sign back in at any time... You have to actually contact facebook and ask them to permanently remove all of your info in order to truly delete it. Just me or is that a little creepy?

The only reason I stay on FB is because for some reason my mother uses that as her main way to communicate with me. I call and email but it's still " You didn't see my post on FB?" I am very picky about my friends on there and I usually only post my pics of trips in Europe and Cat photos.


I hate seeing posts like "omg got up to brush my teeth and the toothpaste was empty" "getting lunch out of the fridge!"or some crap like that. Who cares?

FB is too big

Poor AJ isn't.

my sentiments exactly

We got one of these for my town about a month ago, it started posting loads of crap on there about who had gained weight since school, who was on drugs, who cheated on their boyfriend/girlfriend, all sent in my anonymous tips.
And mostly by people in their twenties... who should really have better things to do by now.

It's pathetic.

Yeah, that sounds real ugly.

I deleted my FB account about 3 months ago--can't say I've missed it at all.