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[MrsC]

The bit you quote asks anyone who wants to be a friend to PM, not just click the 'add a friend' box! My impression (as one who likes to make friends AFTER conversing on a message forum) is that there is a bit of 'cross purposes' going on here.

Hilary, the PM bit mean't on GYO to get the facebook profile name

[Two_Sheds]

Facebook just isn't my sort of thing (at least, not unless I have totally misunderstood what it is like). .

perhaps you have
It really is just email with pictures. You pick and choose who you chat to ... as I've said, all my friends are my real-life, far-flung friends and family.

I don't chat with complete strangers, and don't know anyone else who does, and complete strangers can't find out all about you ... that's a bit of a myth peddled by people who don't use FB and don't understand it.

[MrsC]

perhaps you have
It really is just email with pictures. You pick and choose who you chat to ... as I've said, all my friends are my real-life, far-flung friends and family.

I don't chat with complete strangers, and don't know anyone else who does, and complete strangers can't find out all about you ... that's a bit of a myth peddled by people who don't use FB and don't understand it.

Good explanation of Facebook TS, it really is like that. Agree with the complete strangers finding out about you thing also. Get your privacy settings right and your fine.

[Hilary B]

perhaps you have
It really is just email with pictures. You pick and choose who you chat to ... as I've said, all my friends are my real-life, far-flung friends and family.

I don't chat with complete strangers, and don't know anyone else who does, and complete strangers can't find out all about you ... that's a bit of a myth peddled by people who don't use FB and don't understand it.

I can do that sort of thing with e-mail or 'live messenger'; why would I want anything more?
There was an article in Time magazine lately about Twitter, and one comment I remember was to the effect that instead of asking how someone is, you find out because they post it. That seems to me to miss the point. You ask how your friends are as a way of telling them that you CARE how they are!

[squashysu]

I can do that sort of thing with e-mail or 'live messenger'; why would I want anything more?
There was an article in Time magazine lately about Twitter, and one comment I remember was to the effect that instead of asking how someone is, you find out because they post it. That seems to me to miss the point. You ask how your friends are as a way of telling them that you CARE how they are!

arr but hilary, sorry Twitter is completely different to FB!! and you know what I DO TALK TO STRANGERS lol! i talk to them in the street and on FB and also on here, as i am talking to you right this minute lol! and really you are a stranger lol!

i think some people love FB (ie: me) it kept me company as my marriage fell apart, as he didnt speak to me! I have met some new friends, male and female, I have found old friends I didnt think I would speak to ever again, I keep in contact with family across the miles, especially my sis in NZ as her broadband is so rubbish over there i can post pics of the kids and she can see them, instead of not receiving them on email! I have 290 friends on FB and no its not a race or an achievement, apart from a handful I have met and know them all!

Sorry folks, but I for one love FB and somehow without it, I may be extremely unhappy and lonely! some people may find that sad, but I dont care, I dont accept everyone who clicks on my name, but you know what its a lovely way of communicating and keeping in contact and even though its no way as good as being in the same company as someone face to face, it comes a close second when you cant be there.

Happy Bookfacing everyone, its not for all, but it could be all for one! x

[Two_Sheds]

FB is great ... I just went to a great party, and was able to send photos of the party straight to my faceache account, so all my friends can see how daft I look, before I am sober enough to know better

[Two_Sheds]

I can do that sort of thing with e-mail or 'live messenger'; why would I want anything more?

no you can't ... you don't have the option to post photos of what you're doing, as you're doing it, to all your friends at once. A picture tells a thousand tales ...

[squashysu]

hey TS are you my friend on Fb i do hope so :-) come and find me Su Clark x

[Hilary B]

no you can't ... you don't have the option to post photos of what you're doing, as you're doing it, to all your friends at once. A picture tells a thousand tales ...

Ah, but THAT is something I wouldn't WANT to do!I can 'chat' to friends with WLM, I can e-mail several friends at once (with photos if I want) and that is enough!
I love 'meeting' folk on a forum like this, and a friendship can develop from doing so, but from there it is e-mail, or chat on WLM that suits me. Others may see it differently, and that is all to the good, but I just don't see anything in these things (and there are plenty, which appear to be 'variations on the theme') that I want and can't get elsewhere!

[HeyWayne]

Facebook is simple.

If you don't get it, don't use it. If you do, do.

I don't think anyone should be thought less of because they do use it. Equally I don't think anyone should be thought less of because they don't use it.

[Polly Fouracre]

Polly I will come round and show you if you want me to anytime suits me.

Jackie, that would be lovely! I will be in touch.

[Alison]

A couple I know recently went away on holiday with their (older teenage) kids to a remote area of the country. They had no mobile phone coverage / internet etc. When they came back they made the comment that they had talked to each other and got to know their kids more in that week than in the previous year. Whilst they'd probably taken it to extreme, they had got into the habit of all sitting on laptops / PCs on online forums / social sites and despite the fact that they were in the same room didn't really talk to each other. Had they not had a break, my friend firmly believes that it could have split up their marriage. OK, so popping on now and then isn't a problem but, as with many things, it can get out of hand. They now have a computer curfew in their house and seem much happier.

[HeyWayne]

A couple I know recently went away on holiday with their (older teenage) kids to a remote area of the country. They had no mobile phone coverage / internet etc. When they came back they made the comment that they had talked to each other and got to know their kids more in that week than in the previous year. Whilst they'd probably taken it to extreme, they had got into the habit of all sitting on laptops / PCs on online forums / social sites and despite the fact that they were in the same room didn't really talk to each other. Had they not had a break, my friend firmly believes that it could have split up their marriage. OK, so popping on now and then isn't a problem but, as with many things, it can get out of hand. They now have a computer curfew in their house and seem much happier.

The computer is the new television.

[Pumpkin Becki]

The computer is the new television.

Ahh, you're a techo-freak Wayney!! and while we're on the subject, what's this Twitter thing people keep goin' on about?

**holds hand up to being a 35 year old techno-scaredy cat whose only just found out about that Messenger thingy - I wondered what that button on the keyboard was for, I thought it summoned a despatch rider in full leathers - shame**

[di]

Ahh, you're a techo-freak Wayney!! and while we're on the subject, what's this Twitter thing people keep goin' on about?

**holds hand up to being a 35 year old techno-scaredy cat whose only just found out about that Messenger thingy - I wondered what that button on the keyboard was for, I thought it summoned a despatch rider in full leathers - shame**

Which button???...although if it doesn't summon a leathered up hunk,don't know that I need to know!