So Really, How Do Seniors Feel About FaceBook?

I had only one experience with Facebook. Joined because of an old friend. She had a cousin who I met once, and whose main goal in life seemed to be to set the record for number of "friends" she had on Facebook. I got caught up in a network that grew exponentially. I just closed the account, rather than "unfriend" her (the cousin). There might have been a way to block her posts without unfriending her, IDK. But the stuff they posted was not at all interesting to me. Almost all about their families who were complete strangers to me.
 

senile1 said:
I just learned of the birth of my 6th grandchild via facebook, a baby girl named Taylor. Face book is pretty much a means for me to keep in touch with my kids.
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Congrats! FB is how I keep up with my family who are all in the US, friends and inlaws in UK, inlaws in Australia, and friends in Uganda where we lived.
 
I like FB in general, and use it a lot to keep up with my grandkids particularly, nearly all of whom live at points far distant from me. What used to drive me crazy was that I naively checked the
"follow" box for a few people, some of whom I barely know. I was getting notices around the clock about everything they did! One lady was a baseball fanatic and kept posting details about the
games she was either attending or watching. I finally learned how to "unfollow" people, and the problem ended.
 
Sunny said:
.... What used to drive me crazy was that I naively checked the "follow" box for a few people, some of whom I barely know. I was getting notices around the clock about everything they did! One lady was a baseball fanatic and kept posting details about the
games she was either attending or watching. I finally learned how to "unfollow" people, and the problem ended.
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That's what I should have done, I guess---"unfollow." I think the default setting must be to follow everyone who is a "friend" of anyone who is a "friend." It was overwhelming. I was too new to Facebook at the time to figure all that stuff out.
 
Yes, I used to think that unfollow is the same thing as unfriend. It isn't. You can still be "friends" with someone and unfollow them.
 
Sunny said:
Yes, I used to think that unfollow is the same thing as unfriend. It isn't. You can still be "friends" with someone and unfollow them.
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Yup. And you can also see fewer posts from friends. One of mine is known for displaying things that she sews. They're beautiful, but now that I've seen them about 50 times, I don't need to see everything she makes. Just checked of the option for seeing less of this kind of post.
 

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