Hey Hunny friends! Does anyone have an opinion of Facebook? My sister wants me to set up an account so we can "keep in touch" more. But I don't know if I want info on myself out there and people asking to be "friends". Am I crazy?
posted by Kareemsa @ 8:47 AM
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I've had a good experience with it. I just signed up a month or two ago. You can set it to be as secure as you want. I have it so that anyone who wants to contact me has to go through facebook. And I have to approve them or not approve for them to be able to look at my profile or email me. I have found it to be a great thing. I've gotten in touch with a lot of high school friends that I had been wondering about . There is some junk related with it like people "sending you a flower or snowball". I just ignore those things and keep up with what my friends say they're doing. You can also post pictures of your family for only those approved people to see. Over all I've had a great experience with facebook. I've reconnected with a lot of high school friends and it's fun to talk about old memories and what's happening now. Sharon Mancuso is on there. It was fun hooking up with her again. I think you should do it. It's lots of fun.
jenn
One more thing. I've found the only people who "want to be a friend" are those who I sincerely knew in high school or college. You don't get Joe schmoe off the street sending you info wanting to connect up.
HI! I'm on Facebook, too. I started an account to keep up with John's labmates from DK. As they graduated or changed jobs they would have been impossible to find again. Jenn, I'll have to friend you.
Here's the deal. When you sign up, you can register your high school and college graduating classes, and Facebook matches you up with others from the class. Your listed on lists everyone can see.
Unless you really want to deal with these people, I'd leave both out. Link up with your sister and keep it to that. You also just register under you married name, further distancing you from people, if you chose. I know several people who have done this. Of course, once you 'friend' one person from a group, the rest will see you and figure it out. So you have to decide how transparent you want to be.
I also skip all the goofy stuff, and just keep to sending messages back and forth. I've found some really good high school friends from different classes I'd lost touch with, and a few from college.
You might want to know that Sharon and Amber are both on Facebook. :)
Heather and I are both on it. We have both had rather good experiences re-uniting with long lost friends. I'll let Heather say more for herself if she'd like, but the ability to "ignore" people that you don't care to associate is definitely possible. As Kristen said knowing how much you want to be involved really helps going into it. The more groups you're in the more people can probably see you, etc.
On the flip side, when you set your account up, you can mark ALL of your content (you may have to do it individually) as viewable only by your friends (everyone is the default).
Selfishly, I'd love to see you on FB. It's nice to get personal updates from friends that live half way around the world or down the block.
Hope to see you soon.
PS - Dave if you read this, I couldn't get to your FB account, if you think of it please add me when you get a chance. :)
Hey- I'm back. And apparently, slow.
Gee, the minute you link with you sister, everyone on HER page will see you. You can always ignore them . . .
Works great Karen. Like Kris said, there's no issues with Kurt Crack Addict trying to get your phone number. Nothing to worry about.
Matt
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I understand your reservations, I had them to. I have to say, thought, that I've had a really good experience! It's a great to way to feel a "community" is with you - especially for us Stay-at-Home-Mamas! :)
I'll be blatenly honest......I'm addicted to it. Its a really cool way to stay connected with people especially when you don't have the time for long emails or phone conversations. Status updates are a fun way to see what people are up to.
I'll say one more thing: If I get uno mas "lil green patch" request in my inbox, I'm going postal, digital-style.
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