• silver_phoenix said on Oct 28, 2008....

  futuregoddess- thats great facebook is mostly bringing you good stuff. i think it sucks!

• cntlvmenuf said on Oct 28, 2008....

  Ha! I too reconnected with a friend from elementary school...who proceeded to lecture me that I shouldn't fancy myself young and should marry an old rich man and start a family because guys our age have a lot of issues. This and she is planning on divorcing her old guy husband because he is getting on her nerves!
   
  Facebook can be addicting. When I am down though it sucks to see all these people having the time of their lives and here I am stuck in a rut. Lately it seems that all my friends are either getting married or having babies. What can I say? Trying to deal with my jealousy issues right now.
   
  Hope you are doing well. Glad to hear your joy of facebook.

• mobil said on Oct 28, 2008....

  I don't even know what facebook is about, but I'd say your experience there is just about like the rest of life FG....some good..........some bad.

• moonriver said on Oct 29, 2008....

  i'm on facebook. it is helping me trace my family's italian-portuguese roots.
  
  

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• Twylarants said on Oct 29, 2008....

  I'm with you, Mobil, I think we're too old. I think it's for young people whose faces still look like smooth sheets of paper, hence the name..."facebook".
  My face looks like the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  
  

• mobil said on Oct 29, 2008....

  You're too funny Twillie, I'd bet you look much better than you describe, though my face looks like it stopped an express bus. haha

• uniquely-ironic said on Oct 29, 2008....

  I'm on it, but haven't really looked up anyone and don't spend a lot of time there.  Mostly I got one because of my kids and sister.

• Gardeninggal said on Oct 29, 2008....

  If I didn't keep in touch with someone from the past it was probably for a good reason.  Not everyone is like that, though.  :)

• winterslight said on Oct 29, 2008....

  i have face book but it is not my fave place. it makes no cents to me lol.
  but myspace has done the same for me. the best thing it has done i have found my sisters kids (who i am not fond of) that she ran out on leaveing them with there dad. after looking for 10 years on the net. myspace of all places i found them. :0 but ya i have had a few add me that i went humm i thought we didnt like eachother but ok.

• jasminY said on Oct 29, 2008....

  I'm not on facebook but,I've thought about joining.Though I wouldn't really want to keep in touch with most of my peers from school,it would be nice to find a few people.

• skald said on Oct 29, 2008....

  That is great. I am glad for you. I know that many of my countrymen are on facebook but I don't really know how to get there. My son is there though. 

• bluegum said on Oct 29, 2008....

  facebook made the front page of our daily paper today,was about three women who were friends and were saying things on facebook and one took offence at a comment ,there was a iron bar and a length of black polly pipe as enforcers of each others view now one is in hospital with blood on the brain.no way am i saying this is the norm as i belive you can have enjoyable connections on facebook but a bit of caution all round is necessary .imo blue.

• FutureGoddess said on Nov 04, 2008....

  Sorry it's been a few days since I have written or even looked at this post.  Thank you for all of your comments.

  Personally, I have not become addicted to it - adding all the apps, playing the games, etc.  I just find it fascinating.  As for the difference between facebook and my space, I just find that facebook is for the people in my generation (30s and 40s) where MySpace seems much younger. 

  In terms of social networking, I am very involved in LinkedIn.com which is for the business world. 

  And Bubblegum, I hadn't heard about that incident, but what I have heard is that Facebook, Myspace and Twitter now have a really hideous virus which is being downloaded into people's computers and sucks up their banking information, so lately I have not been at any of these places.   But if you remember, there was an incident in Florida about a year ago where a cheerleader wrote nasty things on her MySpace account and all her "friends" called her to the house of another where they beat the crap out of her (and filmed it for YouTube). 

  Personally, I am very careful about what I put out on the net (including here which is why I like being annonymous).  Have you every done a search on yourself?  Seen what is out there or what others have said about you?  This is forever - you will never get a chance to remove this stuff from the internet. People should keep this in mind. 

• silver_phoenix said on Nov 04, 2008....

  its ok futuregoddess. i did not know of the virus, thanks for letting us know!

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