To be cross that people insist on making and breaking plans through Facebook instead of using the flipping phone!

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My inlaws were supposed to visit today - I get on very well with them and I was looking forward to it is it automatically gives me something to do with DS for the day - I don't drive and am skint so having a ready make activity is always a bit of a godsend!

DH has just called to tell me his Dad has contacted him via Facebook to say they are not now coming. What can't they just pick up the phone?? It's me they're coming to see, not DH and there's no guarantee DH would have checked Facebook! I can't see how that's any easier than sending a text which is guaranteed to get to its recipient unless something goes wrong.

I don't routinely check Facebook as I have important MNetting better things to do. And I'm a bit fed up of people telling me I've missed get togethers because they've used Facebook instead of just telling people, especially at short notice, when they're people I see and speak to regularly anyway.

Ok after reading that back maybe I am being a bit unreasonable. But I'm hormonal, I'm allowed to be grumpy. So there.

No YANBU - I hate that people send invitations via facebook. As you said, what the heck is wrong with the phone.

A colleague of mine was actually invited to a wedding via facebook..... WTF?!? The world has oficially gone mad!

YANBU. I've missed quite a few social gatherings because the details were posted on FB without much notice. I don't have time to be checking Facebook every day!

well, obviously I do because I manage to spend lots of time MNing every day.......but that's besides the point!

I do a lot of inviting by fb, including my wedding. Who has time to be ringing round everyone (assuming you even have their phone number) explaining everything and then waiting for them to decide if they are coming, then they have to ring you and catch you when you are not busy, and you have to keep track...meh.

We have an open house every week, basically open to everyone we know. We invite loads, but only a few ever come, and it is lovely asnd relaxed. That couldn't happen without fb or an awful lot of messing about.

People use facebook in different ways, I guess.

YANBU

I'm not on Facebook for this exact reason. People can contact me by email or phone, I don't want to have to check FB as well just in case there is a message there.

People use facebook more for these things as our way of living has changed than it was 10 years (even 5 years) ago. Technology has changed. Also unfortunatly those that do use facebook a lot assumes everyone else does too, which is wrong IMO.

Once upon a time, you could make arrangements for a saturday a couple of days earlier and would stick to them. There was none of this facebook invites, no texting etc. you made a time and place and stuck to it. No calling to check it was still going ahead, no worries about anything being cancelled/changed etc. I think the development of technology has given people more of an excuse to mess other people about.

Its soooo much easier to cancel something in a way that doesnt actually involve you speaking to someone. That way you dont have to deal with letting somebody down and having to face whatever consequences there may be (Im not saying you would have been angry at them or anything, just that technology now gives people more easier ways to potentially upset others without having the aggro themselves).

Hope Ive made sense