FB and SF

retiredtraveler said:
No. If you think you have 'real' friends on social media, you're delusional...........Social media is out of control, and people cannot distinguish reality from their keyboard.
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Not on my FB....I have a family page and an internet friends page on FB..
 

Ken N Tx said:
Not on my FB....I have a family page and an internet friends page on FB..
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I agree, Ken. I have developed some friendships over time by participating in forums. I have one long time forum pal, who incidentally was banned from SF for her abrasive posts, with whom I have been conversing via a couple of forums for years. We are chalk and cheese but we like each other.

I have instructed my husband, that in the event that I am dead or not able to post anymore, to log on to the various forums etc and let people know what has happened. I think I owe my friends that much.
 
I've been fortunate enough to make some great friends on forums. If you look in the right places, good people will be there. I've spent alot of years with
"internet friends". I have a list a mile long of the good things I've seen from people that I chat with. I Still have online friends I met from 15 years ago !
I can't say enough good about the people I've met on the forums . Birds of a feather ....and all that ...
 
I'm with you Ken - of course, I consider myself a people person, and I'm open to make new friends on here or face to face.
 
I have met some wonderful people on internet forums, and in a few cases we've become good friends. Some of us have visited in person, often traveling long distances. Obviously, you have to be careful, but
the people you meet on the internet are just as real as those you meet in person. Many, especially younger people, have married after meeting on the internet.
 
Sunny, I was just wondering what other forums you've been on? Any as nice as this one? I searched for awhile before I found this one, which is so great.:)
 
I don't know, Ken. I find social media to be too unstable, at least for me. People come and go, disappear, voluntarily and involuntarily, without notice. I find that very unsettling. Facebook might be different. I gather it sort of ties you down to one place.
 
Ken....I think you're doing it the right way. It sounds to me like you can pick and choose who who want to include as your friends on your closed group or family page.

I had a friend that accepted every friend request, just because he wanted to see how many friends he could accumulate. That was a bad idea for many reasons, which I won't go into here, but it almost ended up costing him everything.
 
oldman said:
Ken....I think you're doing it the right way. It sounds to me like you can pick and choose who who want to include as your friends on your closed group or family page.

I had a friend that accepted every friend request, just because he wanted to see how many friends he could accumulate. That was a bad idea for many reasons, which I won't go into here, but it almost ended up costing him everything.
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Yes, Our private page is used for posts that we do not want our family to see!!! Nothing off color, but stuff that they do not have to see..

Some of my posts here come from there..
 
Yes, I am friendLY but remain very cautious about my picture or many details. You never know. That being said, I enjoy all of yall's company!
 
I made a couple of good friends on this board and others but I don't use fb
 
Over the years, I have had many people I have referred to as "internet friends"....people I have only met online. I have had several "friends" who I have moved across forums with, and into FB. I know the difference between my internet friends, and real life friends, but I cherish these relationships anyway. I will give one SF related example. Our friend, Lon. When I joined here I saw a post from him, and his picture. I immediatly remembered "meeting" him on another forum many years back.
I equate the relationships we have here with our snail mail "pen pals" many of us had when young.
 
I only have a few family and friends on FB but I quietly purge my friend list once a year on New Year's Day. I remove the friends that sent me a request and never communicated after that initial contact. The odd thing is that I still keep a few of my friends that have died over the years, it won't be long before I have more dead than living FB friends.

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Met this guy face to face in 2013 internet friends since 2005..We had a couple of beers and talked into the wee hours of the morning!!
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True geek confession. I had have been playing MMO type of games for the past 13 years or so (games such as World of Warcraft). Laugh at me, I am use to it ! Surprisingly many of those playing are in the older age range. Anyway, around 12 years ago I started playing exclusively with two other people, Beverly and Bill. We would play together two or three nights a week. We got to know each other very well and when Skype came around we would spend those gaming sessions on Skype talking about our lives, events of the past week , etc. Last summer I was suppose to meet up with Bev in one of those games and she didn't log in. The next day I found out she had died in a car crash. I was devastated and it hit hard even though we had never met face to face. I knew more about her life than I knew about friends I see locally. She was 72 when she died and had a heart of gold. Her family streamed her funeral service so Bill and I could watch it. I stopped playing MMO's shortly after that.
 

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