Do you use Facebook and are in it?

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Aurora

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I joined Facebook 2 weeks ago but have no picture.
I sent our some brief hello messages to old acquaintances and got no responses.
A few of them might not even remember me from long ago. A few people I
don't wish to connect with anyway and many people I know are not in it.
Everyone says that this is the way to connect but I also remember the old saying
"let sleeping dogs lie." Many seniors I know do not have a computer nor use one.

Have you tried it? Do you use it for your current friends and relatives or to find
new friends or revive old ones?
 

Hi Aurora. I've been on Facebook for about 8 years now but in the last couple years really cut back on my usage. The original intent was just to keep in touch with distant daughters and their families but we've all lost interest about the same time so we're rarely doing much there. Personally, I never used it to look up anyone. But then I'm also not the sort who would ever go to a school reunion either.

But if you're hoping to reunite then I think you need to make sure you have a picture (and not of your dog or cat or a grandchild or....because you don't look anything like them right ;)). Good luck with your experience on Facebook.
 
I am on it and I certainly don't use it to connect with old friends. Let sleeping dogs lie. :) Most people will not answer a message if you don't have a photo of yourself on there. It's too easy for someone else to open an account in your name and pretend to be you for whatever reason.

I go back and forth on having my account open where "non-friends" can private message me. A couple years ago a girl I hadn't heard from in years sent me a message telling me how great she was doing and that it was because of me she finished high school and went on to get trained as a medical assistant and a phlebotomist etc. and so that made me feel good. BUT, on the other hand, about a week ago a gal contacted me (our oldest son broke up with her about a year and a half ago because she was a raging alcoholic and he didn't drink at all. ) with a message for him regarding a motorcycle rim she wanted returned to her. I PMed right back and told her he had passed away a few weeks after he blocked her from his phone and she had sent a message to his younger brother saying she sincerely hoped someone in our family would have a child die. That is all I said to her. I didn't even tell her I had sold the rim (worth about $250) to a local guy for $40 a few months ago. She had time to send me a PM back saying she was sorry and then I realized I needed to change my settings on FB to "friends only" for private messages. Some people you just don't want to have contact with.

I forgot to say what I use FB for. I keep track of my kids and a couple cousins and they can keep track of me. My grand kids seldom ever post on there. I also use it for a local (in my zip code area) neighborhood buy/sell and trade. Another group in my zipcode is just local mountain news. Like "Hey guys, there's a cow in the road on Sand Creek Drive". Things like that. I am also in a group that just tells jokes and posts funny things as I believe it's important to laugh every day.
 
I have a Facebook page for friends only, and by friends I really mean family. It allows me to see what my grandchildren and nieces are doing and to see photos of the little children. Within that selection I have some smaller groups - one just for the grandkids and I can send them messages and invitations when I want to talk just to them.

I also follow some interesting Facebook pages - some are political and others to do with church. I have linked up with a couple of FB pages supportive of our local Muslim community and have been involved in discussions relevant to them. It is both an education and an outreach to some young people who feel rather pushed to the margins. Since I come across few Muslims in my daily life, although they are ever present at the shopping centres, this is one way I can interact and demonstrate that there is goodwill towards them and that the hostility shown by some is not universal.

I also have a Twitter account which can be very entertaining at times.
 
Aurora, I use Facebook almost daily. My best friend asked me to join so we could stay in touch after she moved to Calif. Also thought my kids who at one time all lived in different states the me (now I am by one of them). I spent years scanning old pictures & filing by families on my desktop. When I joined f/b I uploaded pictures of different families & events into albums there. I don't have many friends as my hubby & family were enough for me. Now most are gone but Lordy did nieces & nephews come forward asking to be my friend. They would ask if I had any pictures of there family members and I would get them and make an album for the to view or download the pictures for theirselves to keep. I love these young people (well younger than me. lol) If I can help you in anyway just message me & I'll help you if I can. Took awhile for me to get the hang of it but I don't open it up to anyone but friends I choose to have. Good luck Aurora.
 
I also use FB to keep up with grandchildren, and a few friends, but you do have to learn how to set up parameters. Like Linda, I've had a couple of people that I wished never to hear from contact me. Both times by people that I'll never be able to accept into my life again.
 
I told my son...I do not want baby pictures from FaceBook. I want them to be in an envelope and sent snail mail so I can put them lovingly in a real live photo album. I ventured on briefly to try to crowd source for Callie's knees. Saw my junior high crush as a grown man...haven't gotten that flutter for almost forty years MRRRRROOOOW!!! Otherwise FB is kind of big and scary if you aren't real techy.

But no I like telephones, snail mail, sometimes email.
 
Do you know---- that if you are not connected to someone on Facebook, does your message go in
their Email inbox or where does it go?
 
I have been on face book for about 5 years. I use it as a way to find out what is happening in my family and relatives lives. I have family,relatives and friends on my facebook. I do not have people on that I do not know.
 
I use it regularly, but don't post as much as I used to. I use it to follow my favorite teams and get a kick out of reading comments from others. My son and I use FB messenger to send texts back and forth, which is helpful with him being over in England. He also uses it to send us quick videos of the grandkids. It has been fun to reconnect from time to time with folks from my past, including people who worked for me and a manager that I reported to. It's another way to stay in touch.
 
I am on Facebook like all of the time. I connect with friends and family through it, get a lot of news through it, message through it.
 
I use Facebook to keep in touch with my oldest son who lives in another town. He is on facebook EVERYday - EVERY NITE! 'till the wee hours of the morning - sometimes all nite 'till he goes to work the next morning. I know I can always contact him on FB. One time my youngest son was "missing" - sort of - I wanted my oldest son's help in locating my youngest son. My oldest son's phone was dead. It was late at nite. I got on FB to ask my oldest son for help. Sure enough - 15 minutes later my oldest son contacted me. Sometimes I wonder if he just leaves FB on his computer 24/7. He's the type that would leave his computer on 24/7, including FB.
 
I like it to geek out with other Walking Dead fans. Prior to connecting with that fan base, I primarily used it to keep up with my nephews and nieces, mostly. At first I hadn't any interest in it, but someone, I can't remember who, just kept bugging me to join, so I did, I would rarely check in, but, now I check for updates to my pages of interest.
 
I joined FB in 2007 when we went to live in Uganda for two years. Great way to keep in touch! Still on it and very active.
 
I never joined facebook, although my sister has tried to push me into it several times over the years to share photos etc. I'm like Fur, send me picture or two in the mail or via email now and then. I won't join a social network that I've heard so many negative things about regarding privacy, etc., just to see some family photos. I imagine it's a godsend for those who have a lot of family and friends across the nation that they want to connect with in one convenient spot, for me, a phone call is good enough.
 
Yes. So glad I did. Left the town I grew up in 40+ years ago and through FB have reconnected with lots of folks, also some of my relatives who I haven't seen in forever.
 
Aurora, My son wanted me to join Facebook because it was easier for me to view all his photos there than for him to email me them. So I set up a new fictitious email as my only purpose was to just have contact with him. I did not use this new email for any other purpose. The next day and each day following this email was full of junk mail. I closed the account a week later.
 
I'm there too. Useful for business but I hear from people from all over the world asking me if I'm a relative and if I know what's happened to other family members which is annoying because I'm not related to any of these people. :confused:
 

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