The good and the bad of facebook

Darcy Baldwin

Darcy Baldwin

Just a Scrapper
So, for the last week or so I've been making an effort of staying sort of active on Facebook when I'm around.

HOWEVER..it does have it's downside LOL Bringing people back into my life I have no desire, whatsoever, to be in contact with again. Thankfully I can ignore, but still....*sigh*

HOWEVER 2 - I just hooked up with a couple of old paper scrapping friends I haven't talked to in forever whom I adore, and it's great getting to catch up! We'd lost track after I left my paper scrapping site, and I'm happy happy happy!
 
I was actually pondering the enigma that is facebook the other day and sometimes I think it's kind of messing up the natural order of things! lol! Like you know, you go through life and people come and go and some you want to stick around and some you don't and with normal life the ones that go, stay gone usually..but now here's facebook and I find myself having awkward online conversations with people I knew for like 5 minutes 15 years ago....weird. :)

I will say though that it has helped me and my siblings chat more often that we would usually. We're not big phone people in my family, but for some reason we chatter back and forth on fb constantly lol :)
 
Yes, definitely some good and bad with Facebook. I'm starting to love the privacy settings and friends list so you can basically limit what certain people can see.
 
nikkiARNGwife said:
I will say though that it has helped me and my siblings chat more often that we would usually. We're not big phone people in my family, but for some reason we chatter back and forth on fb constantly lol :)
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Ditto! I now live closer to my siblings (my sister lives 1 minute away LOL) but I don't usually call her to chat with her, I use Facebook instead. I'm not a big phone person. I feel closer to her now because I've been talking with her so much.
 
I love Facebook. I have made contact again with friends from school I lost contact with. I love the fact that I don't have to accept everyone or anyone I don't want to as a friend.

I very particular about who can see what, and I love that. And I can go offline if I want to log into Facebook but not want to chat.
 
I totally agree! I hate getting Friends Requests from people I don't want on my Facebook knowing about my life, lol! I always feel so guilty and just a little bit like a snob - especially when they keep sending requests!!!
 
I have a bunch of people on my facebook that can only see the bare minimum. My kids' friends, a bunch of teenage girls that think I have some connection to a Branson show. I went through and deleted a bunch, but a couple of them figured it out and resent friend requests, so I just set up a list with everything restricted. I actually like having my kids' friends as my friends because then I can keep tabs on them, but I don't want their friends to see everything I do, either. :)
 
imo the goods outweigh the bads... if it weren't for fb I wouldn't have gotten back in touch with someone super special to me <3....... the weirdos well, whatever. they're not bothering me- they didn't cease to exist when they left my life.. it's no different to me. I will say though, I do not ever have the chat on --lol. I did one day and was like woah.... way too many weird conversations I didn't want to have.
 
nikkiARNGwife said:
I was actually pondering the enigma that is facebook the other day and sometimes I think it's kind of messing up the natural order of things! lol! Like you know, you go through life and people come and go and some you want to stick around and some you don't and with normal life the ones that go, stay gone usually..but now here's facebook and I find myself having awkward online conversations with people I knew for like 5 minutes 15 years ago....weird. :)

I will say though that it has helped me and my siblings chat more often that we would usually. We're not big phone people in my family, but for some reason we chatter back and forth on fb constantly lol :)
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I couldn't have said this better Nikki! It's totally the same with my sisters! It's a little strange to hear some people's unfortunate stuff. I never know what to say really.
 
I don't have my old name on there. I don't want people finding me. lol. If I want to be in contact with you, I probably already am. ;)
 
I don't, either, Angie, which is why I found it funny this particular guy found me as I'm assuming he hasn't a clue about my married name, and I don't have my home town listed, etc. And I'm quite a few pounds heavier than when he knew me, so I wouldn't think looking through the list would make me easily recognizable. It just wasn't a fun feeling.
 
I LOVE having the friends lists and the games are awesome! It's such a hole though..

one bad thing I have found is that I can tell how much I don't fit into certain parts of my family now....you know..the people that never respond to you...it's kinda disturbing. :(
 
chances are good that you had a mutual friend and you came up as someone he may know through clicking on a friend's name and saw you on their friendlist

Darcy Baldwin said:
I don't, either, Angie, which is why I found it funny this particular guy found me as I'm assuming he hasn't a clue about my married name, and I don't have my home town listed, etc. And I'm quite a few pounds heavier than when he knew me, so I wouldn't think looking through the list would make me easily recognizable. It just wasn't a fun feeling.
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Sari said:
Yes, definitely some good and bad with Facebook. I'm starting to love the privacy settings and friends list so you can basically limit what certain people can see.
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I like this part too. Rarely do I ever turn on the chat part.
 
Yeah, it really is good and bad all at the same time. I accepted a friend request from a former student of mine that also goes to my church. He was in like 2nd grade when I taught him, is in high school now. I've accepted a few other friend requests from youth at our church. But today he had on his status update that he was talking to a really hot girl or something. I was like, uh, I can't do that anymore ---> hide. :)
 
My FB friends are my real life friends. I don't have my maiden name on for that reason. I don't want to be found. That's why I left my hometown! I'm not even friends with my SIL b/c I don't trust her... It's been great for reconnecting with my cousins though...I live so far away from everyone!
 
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