FACEBOOK FAN..Yay or Nay

If I could do without it, I would.

It is somewhat of a necessity to keep in touch with certain people in my social circles.

I also prefer to send messages through Facebook as opposed to text messaging as it is easier to write in long form on FB than in text messages. I only use texting for the simplest of messages.

It's the main way I stay in touch with friends and family, both close and more distant. It's how my brother will invite me to dinner when he's cooking, and how we gathered aunts, uncles, and first, second and third cousins to a family reunion.

And George Takei.

In all honesty, I see way more drama here on MFP than I do on Facebook.

you know you have been on Facebook too much when you like what someone said and have nothing to contribute to it and look for the "like" button to click......LOL

I like and use Facebook to keep in touch with friends, family and ex-students everywhere. I grew up in North Dakota but currently reside in Texas and Facebook has helped me get back in contact with them over the years. In the 25 years since I graduated, I've been back once, so Facebook certainly does exactly what I need it to do.

I'm not, however, fond of the people who post every little thing they do:

"I'm walking the dog"
"I'm fixing dinner"
"My toe hurts"
"Time for bed"

You know those type...annoying.

I like it. I get to keep up with family/friends near and far. It's what you make of it. You go looking for drama, you'll find it.

Someone posted something about all the booty pics on FB and it made me laugh. MFP is just as bad. Just saying.

I'm not a Facebook fan, but I do have an account. Literally the only people on there are my family and a couple of close friends from college.

I don't like it. I honestly would not be on there if not for the fact that I have some family members who I literally can't get in touch with them unless I Facebook them - like, they never check their email, yet they're on Facebook all the time, so that's the fastest way to reach them.

Also - when 95% of my family joined FB, my 81 year old mother joined up. Now, I love her and all, but let's just say she's got a little bit of "Edith Bunker" going on. Plus, she's not very tech saavy. The first thing I thought was, "Oh, man, she's gonna do something like post her bank account or home address on her wall!" So I'm on there to keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't post anything she shouldn't. She let me log onto her account, and I set all her account settings to "Private" and deleted all her friend requests for people she doesn't actually know. I did try to teach her the difference between her Wall and her Private Messaging inbox, but she still gets them mixed up.

Last reason - I drifted apart from a college friend who I owed a huge, enormous apology to, going on 22 years back. I had no way of finding him until Facebook. I finally found him, and gave him the apology that he deserved to have for over two decades.

Other than that - nope, I don't have any other use for it than that!

I don't post anything to my FB page anymore. Too many of my close family and coworkers on there now, so everything I post is boring on purpose.

I like it for keeping up to date with friends I don't get to see very often

I dislike as some of these people only have me as a friend to invite to the pointless apps/games - three strikes and I delete them from my friends list!

I like "Draw My Thing" - that is the ONLY FB game I will play - not interested in anything else

I have a love / hate relationship with facebook. I have moved around a lot and have family all over the country so I love being able to stay in touch with them and see what they're up to. I travel around and visit most of them at least every year or so as well. I also love that I have people who enjoying seeing my kids grow up, that online network of people who actually know me has really helped me in the last 18 months with moving on from my marriage. I have used forums for a long time though so a number of those groups have now moved to fb. I also love supporting all the small businesses that set up pages as well as different causes that wouldn't be heard about.

But, it also does my head in and I don't have too many family members on there as they just can't get over their **** with each other. I do walk away from it from time to time and actually have a separate account for my uni study groups so I can focus on that when I need to.