So Really, How Do Seniors Feel About FaceBook?

Laurie said:
Still haven't worked out how to use it.

It's totally beyond me, like Twitter!
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Haha. Last week my brother posted a happy Birthday to his best friend of 65 years and just posted it to FB in general,not to his buddie`s actual page. So my niece posts "Daddy,you need to post that to Lennie`s page". Then she asked me to please,please,please call him and walk him through it because she had had a really long day and was too tired to do it. Well,I had JUST gone through the whole thing with my hubs,who wasn`t getting it either,and wasn`t looking forward to going throughthe entire process again with my 79 year old brother lol. So my youngest daughter chimes in "I will call him and walk him through it!" Yay!! She called him and he has been happily posting away ever since lol.

I do love FB to see what everybody is up to and seeing pics of the grands and great grand every day-something I would never see otherwise. Sure,I would see the pics eventually but not every day. I am bummed though that there is now a very small window of time that you know what the older kids are up to. When they are old enough to have a FB,they post lots of stuff,but then they go over to Snapchat or whatever so we adults don`t see it all. Have to wait til they are grown up to see their posts again lol.
 

I guess I'm the grumpy old guy down the lane. I don't use Face Book. I just don't like putting all that stuff about yourself on line. I probably got that from my mom, who said, "My business is MY business". Plus I'm finding lots of errors in computer data. For example, according to my record, I'm supposed to have high blood pressure and I'm on meds for it. Well, I don't have high blood pressure and so, I don't take meds for it. I get it taken off, and it pops right back on.
Bah, Humbug.
 
I can't understand why people say they don't like putting a lot of personal stuff on Facebook and yet are quite happy to post it on an open forum such as this one where the world and his wife can read it.
 

I don't like FB at all. I don't give a **** for what other people I barely know are up to. I don't use twitter and I don't text. My view is, the easier it is to stay in touch, the nicer it is to be incommunicado.
 
I have a FB account. I am not as active on it as I used to be. I got tired of all the crap that a lot of people post tons of every day. I do check and see what my family is doing, though.
 
I scan through it quickly during the day, but most of the stuff I don't care about. One interesting feature that I've enjoyed has been the "groups" that form around all kinds of topics. So, there's a group for Aurora HDR and one for MacPhun Software. I use both programs for my photos and get lots of helpful advice from others this way. Another neat find was a group devoted to my old home town where I lived as a boy. It was fun to share stories and pictures with other members of the group who have lived there. The town has changed so much since I lived there. One time I found my old 8th grade yearbook and posted some shots of teachers. Folks went nuts commenting on favorite teachers from years ago. I think FB has changed so much. You choose what (if anything) you want to share and who you want to share it with. It's a good source for news that's trending on social media. In general I like it, but I don't use it much for telling folks my personal business.
 
Myquest55 said:
Facebook always seemed too public to me and I don't have time or means to post pictures and deal with comments. I also don't have a fancy cell phone and if I don't know what anyone is saying about me, I cannot care! I was on LinkedIn but gave that up too - too public and free with their information. I also don't text and I guess that leaves me out of many loops but e-mail works just fine for me and I must admit that I really miss hand-written letters. I used to send photos and letters home almost every week when the children were little. My mother used to write to her mother every Sunday afternoon. Something to be said for a little quiet time.

I AM a member of my alumni site as well as Ravelry (knitters & weavers, etc) and Pinterest and here.
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I 'm not on facebook either. I agree with you that it just seems way too public. I don't care to share my life with the whole world.
 
Bee said:
I can't understand why people say they don't like putting a lot of personal stuff on Facebook and yet are quite happy to post it on an open forum such as this one where the world and his wife can read it.
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To me, this forum is a whole lot different than what I've seen on facebook. We're as anonymous as we want to be and we're not posting, as a general rule, pictures and minutiae of our everyday lives. And I think a lot fewer people read this forum than facebook. I guess that if someone REALLY wanted to figure out who we are, they probably could, but why bother?
 
Unless you get hacked, FB is as private as you want it to be. You can have only your family and dearest friends on FB. No one else will see what you post. My sister refuses to get on FB so I have to email her, but I refuse to make a special effort to email her photos that she could see if she joined FB. Her kids have given up and send them to her in texts to her phone.
 
Bobw235 said:
I scan through it quickly during the day, but most of the stuff I don't care about. One interesting feature that I've enjoyed has been the "groups" that form around all kinds of topics. So, there's a group for Aurora HDR and one for MacPhun Software. I use both programs for my photos and get lots of helpful advice from others this way. Another neat find was a group devoted to my old home town where I lived as a boy. It was fun to share stories and pictures with other members of the group who have lived there. The town has changed so much since I lived there. One time I found my old 8th grade yearbook and posted some shots of teachers. Folks went nuts commenting on favorite teachers from years ago. I think FB has changed so much. You choose what (if anything) you want to share and who you want to share it with. It's a good source for news that's trending on social media. In general I like it, but I don't use it much for telling folks my personal business.
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Ameriscot said:
Unless you get hacked, FB is as private as you want it to be. You can have only your family and dearest friends on FB. No one else will see what you post. My sister refuses to get on FB so I have to email her, but I refuse to make a special effort to email her photos that she could see if she joined FB. Her kids have given up and send them to her in texts to her phone.
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Exactly, for most people, most of what people see when they click on my page is a blank page, not even some of the people whom I've let friend me can see everything I post which isn't much to begin with, but still, if one doesn't want to share things with any but one person, the features are there to allow them to do so. I much rather share particular parts of my real life there with my family and friends then on an open forum and then there are things I talk about on here about I don't post to FB. Works well for me.:) Well so far.
 
Ameriscot said:
I don't post a lot of food pics unless it's something special - colourful curries in Thailand, a cocktail or bottle of beer pic which includes a beachside view or my foot hanging over the side of a boat. Or food shots I consider artistic.
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The last time I posted a picture of my food was when I was served a salad with a good-sized octopus on top of it.....a real one. Something like that just has to be shared, doncha think?
 
Bee said:
I can't understand why people say they don't like putting a lot of personal stuff on Facebook and yet are quite happy to post it on an open forum such as this one where the world and his wife can read it.
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I guess it's because on Facebook, everyone knows who you are. On this forum, everybody knows who you want them to THINK you are. For instance, instead of the 78-year-old widow I claim to be, I could just as easily be a 50-year-old man living in his mother's basement spamming everyone.

On SF, I could say "HEY, I LOST 50 POUNDS!" and you'd all congratulate me, but on Facebook, I'd get 10 people who would say, "Since when? You were still fat yesterday at lunch!"

For the record, I really AM a 68-year-old widow and, sorry to say, I'm still fat.
 
I think FB is what you make it. You can share as much or as little as you want through the privacy settings. As an example, there are photos of my grandchildren that I'll only share with other family members. I recently came across an "extension" for Google Chrome called "F.B. Purity" and it has done a great job and letting me control just what I see on the screen. It's eliminated much of the fluff from advertisers. Again, it's all customizable. For me, FB gives me a way of staying in touch with far flung relatives, old friends and former colleagues from across the country. It's enabled me to reconnect with some folks I'd lost touch with and I'm glad we've resumed contact, even if it's infrequent. It's given me access to other photographers who share a common love of photography and who share comments and tips regarding software. During football season, there's been times when an old friend from FL and I will use the FB instant message feature to comment back and forth during a Patriots game. It makes the game more fun, even though we're far apart. I enjoy FB, but it doesn't rule my life.
 
No hablo Facebook. I hate going through the learning process with anything electronic.
 
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I'm not on FB and don't have any desire to be......but then I also don't Text, Tweet, Skype, own a answering machine or carry my old style flip open AT&T cell phone 95% of the time.

Sometimes it gets lonely in my cave.
 
I do not belong to Facebook. I'm a private person and do not care to air all my business. I moved many times during my childhood so I do not have friends from the past to reconnect with. I think it's good for people who enjoy it, yet I also hear about instances of bullying, which makes me think some might take it a little too far.
 
FB isn't just about 'friends'. In my 'feed' I get various newspapers and lots of other sites I 'liked' and follow, funny, informative, liberal politics, Buddhist sites, Scottish sites, Boomer sites, travel, photography, etc etc.
 
nitelite said:
I do not belong to Facebook. I'm a private person and do not care to air all my business. I moved many times during my childhood so I do not have friends from the past to reconnect with. I think it's good for people who enjoy it, yet I also hear about instances of bullying, which makes me think some might take it a little too far.
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The thing is... When you open a FB page.. no one forces you to air all your business.. It's a choice.
 
jujube said:
I guess it's because on Facebook, everyone knows who you are. On this forum, everybody knows who you want them to THINK you are. For instance, instead of the 78-year-old widow I claim to be, I could just as easily be a 50-year-old man living in his mother's basement spamming everyone.

On SF, I could say "HEY, I LOST 50 POUNDS!" and you'd all congratulate me, but on Facebook, I'd get 10 people who would say, "Since when? You were still fat yesterday at lunch!"

For the record, I really AM a 68-year-old widow and, sorry to say, I'm still fat.
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I agree, I think giving out too much real info about ones self is not the best thing to do on the internet and you never know if the person is actually who or what they say they are.

For me I always try to be somewhat guarded of what I post about myself but because we are all friends here I'll open up just a little.

Appearance wise I resemble a young Fabio and at age 66 I still have the sexual prowess of a twenty year old man.....I own multi million dollar villas in five countries and have a extremely attractive 20-ish year old mistresses waiting for me in each one.....I have two smallish 250' yachts that outwardly resemble scaled down versions of the Queen Mary.....I own a fleet of private jets that are always ready to fly at a moments notice.....my net worth puts me in the same league as Warren Buffett but admittedly I'm not up there with my close friend Bill Gates yet.

I realize some here on the forum are much better off than me and live a much more opulent life style.......I just try to get by as best I can with what little I have.
 
jujube said:
I guess it's because on Facebook, everyone knows who you are. On this forum, everybody knows who you want them to THINK you are. For instance, instead of the 78-year-old widow I claim to be, I could just as easily be a 50-year-old man living in his mother's basement spamming everyone.

On SF, I could say "HEY, I LOST 50 POUNDS!" and you'd all congratulate me, but on Facebook, I'd get 10 people who would say, "Since when? You were still fat yesterday at lunch!"

For the record, I really AM a 68-year-old widow and, sorry to say, I'm still fat.
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Actually off hand I know of two cases where the member on an open forum was traced to where they lived because of photos and information they gave out on the forum.
 

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