Why did i ever join! just means that i have to acknowledge every dreary hug or send you a CAKE!! request from my long lost relatives to show I care, (Colin is 'doing bugger all apart from reading this twaddle.) Do you agree?

Hmmm you may have something there.

In my local newspaper today there was something about facebook.   They called it crack-book... for the addiction of it all.   Me?   I'm clueless about it all.   I like to send handwritten notes to my friends..if I send a picture, it is on real photo paper.  Guess I'm a dinosauer.   When folks like Deb.C (here) send me a thank-you card that means more to me than anything.

Thus far I've resisted all the invitations. Having the reputation as a computer dinasour makes it a little easier. I can barely keep up with CH and my Cox e-mail!!!

Joe

Don't forget the fine print. All of these social networking places take possession of all postings to your page. For example, you post a picture of yourself. Someone from Backwater Toilet Bowl Cleaner Incorporated likes your picture. They give cash to facebook and take your picture with no compensation required to you. Now you are forever known as the Toilet Bowl Guy. And you never got a dime. That scares me just a little.

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Be picky about what you let other people see for sure. Remember Michael Phelps.

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I can barely keep up with CH and my Cox e-mail!!!

or cal OUCH    >:(  Just cause BBzz is busy studying, don't mean you can't add your 2cents once and a while)   ;)   ummmyou could add to your post count.   jest saying  ;D

Just need a nudge to convince me that FB is brilliant scheme designed by the NSA. The site has all your associates, and their associated behavior. It also has your mugshot everywhere as you're 'tagged' in different pictures. It has your thoughts, as you post status messages, write notes, respond to other written stuff.

And we do it all gladly and voluntarily!

notseinfeld wrote on Mar 12^th, 2009 at 2:00am:

And we do it all gladly and voluntarily!

Not me!  

I ain't a member, nor do I plan to be.

I don't see the sense of it, nor do I like the possibilities of misuse.

Call me old, cranky, and out of date, but I am happy in my senility! It IS my senile world!

Grumpy old Chuck

Facebook changed their "own all your content" policy recently.  You still own it all, until they decide otherwise.  This is not actually unusual for sites that host content like this.  Just unusual that so many made an uproar and got them to change.  Most sites say "don't like it?  Don't post."

I can keep current on my 17 year old's contacts and friends and activities on Facebook.  I think that's important.  

And those of us who frequent CH.com AND Facebook have found each other and talk about you all behind your backs . . . .  ;)
just checking to see if you are really reading this or just skimming.

(oh - and regarding friend or cause requests, there IS an ignore button.  I use it all the time.  I didn't like someone in High School, why would I want to chat with them 30 years later?)

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I am looking for someone, the hits from Google lead me to Facebook. I had to join to see their page. I joined using a spam email account and searched for them. I got 20 hits most without a picture and I found I cannot see any of their information without becoming their friend. Seems pretty useless. If they gave their age I would know which one was correct, but no age, not even a city, and just a thumbnail for a pic.

Paul

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Well, I'm just too busy looking at porn err for other forms of "stimulation" on line.

Actually, I'm too boring.  8-)

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Is that the downsized Charlie? ;D

I'm with MW.  I can keep up with my kids goings on and talk about you all behind your backs  :P  

See MW, I do read the posts  ;D

We all share family pics and plans and chatter about what's going on.  With numbers like mine I need every piece of technology to help me keep my head around where they are and what's going on.

Yesterday I found out that one of my Son's was almost in an accident.  He described it as the kind that "makes your balls tingle". ;D

Not too long ago I had a teenager accept an invite to an all-night kegger.  You bet I'm glad I found out about that one.

The odds of anyone but the folks that sell "Grecian Formula" or "Just For Men" wanting my pic for anything but a before loser shot are slim to none  ::)

Post anything anywhere on the WWW and you've instantly lost control of it.  If that makes you uncomfortable, don't post it.

-Dennis-

DennisM1045 wrote on Mar 12^th, 2009 at 12:46pm:

I'm with MW.  I can keep up with my kids goings on and talk about you all behind your backs  :P   See MW, I do read the posts  ;D

LOL - thank you Dennis - I knew I could count on you. :)