To think FB can be bloody brilliant!

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Fed up with all the smug, snidey posts about people who use Fb as though it makes you superior if you don't use it.

This morning just had a great conversation from some friends and family from Australia, Asia and Far flung Part of UK all on the one thread and over a few minutes. Makes you feel we were all very close by and not thousands of miles away. Means I can keep in touch so easy and still be a small part of their lives and see what their kids are up to with pics etc. I can share interesting articles with them and share jokes.

So AIBU in thinking that FB can be bloody great as long as you or your friends aren't knobs? Maybe I am a knob (before someone jumps in), but in my mind I'm rather lovely and possibly deluded of course!

YANBU at all.

It is a tool.

Some people use it to be annoying.

Others use it for good stuff.

If most of what you see on Facebook is annoying or whiny or passive-aggressive or boasty - that's not Mark Zuckerberg's fault...

I think some things about facebook are brilliant...yesterday my vet's shared a picture of an unmicrochipped dog that had been handed in, within a couple of hours her owner had seen it being shared round facebook, gone to the vets to pick her up and had her microchipped in case she goes missing again.

Thats why I use it..to share pics and news of DD with far flung family and friends

It really does bring you closer together.

Yanbu. My dad lives in tasmania and its great for keeping him in touch with what we are all up to.

I've always loved it.

I know there are FB snobs out there. There will always be a snob of something.

I am a bbq snob. Hate gas ones (no flavour). Charcoal all the way for me!

I agree. Get more pleasure from facebook than frustration/irritation. But then I am friends with only a small number of lovely people and the ones who annoy me slightly but I don't want to defriend? ... I just hide em.

Can't see the problem!

You are right of course. FB is a tool to use or abuse just like any technology.

YANBU - I love facebook as it allows me to connect easily with far flung friends and family. I just defriend the people who want to use it nastily including my own family

I love it as I have found 3 great people who make crafts and sell them on their Facebook pages. Its brilliant that I can get a handmade bag done as a present, in fabric I've picked etc. So its good for businesses and for catching up.

YANBU - I love FB and think it is brilliant IF people use it properly.

You gotta love candy crush too :)

YANBU. The FB snob threads always make me laugh!

I never see any awful stuff on FB - must have lots of lovely friends .

Betty, I had to delete candy crush cos got soooo addicted!

"FB can be bloody great as long as you or your friends aren't knobs?"

^^ This! I'm friends with people that I like and enjoy hearing from, ergo, FB is great for me.

Cripes! A totally unanimous verdict regarding FB - that must be a first for Mn! Just give it time...

Unanimously positive on FB AND on AIBU. It is a first!

I don't use it, and never have, but I have to say that the sheer amount of FB-related threads on here (people bullying via FB, irritation at people's boasting re school reports, stealing FB photographs of children without permission, ostentatiously excluding people from social events via FB, posting ignorant, racist drivel etc etc) makes me think it is more trouble than it's worth. But presumably this is like MIL threads, which are disproportionately negative, because those who are happy with their rel with their MIL don't need to post about it.

Thanks Whitesnake for restoring my faith in MN. Thought I had wandered onto some parrallel Mn universe this morning.

Yanbu.

It's also useful if you need local info. Nurseries / tradesmen / activities etc.

And I'm a saddo who likes nosing through other peoples holiday snaps.

You're right White - yes I do have a couple of acquaintances who are guilty of stealth boasts now and again but I just laugh it off and don't worry about it.

Equally, I post hundreds of photos of my kids because I mainly use it as a way of sharing pics with family and friends quickly and easily - I'm sure some of my friends get sick of the sight of my kids but they can easily hide me and I'd be none the wiser .

Some people have too much spare time on their hands to worry about things that don't matter!

Oh and I think it can be an age thing too - I'd bloody hate to be a teenager with an FB account but I'm 41 and way past all that angst .

With the help of Facebook, Google maps and an address from an old envelope, I found the Italian penfriend of my teenage years who I had lost touch with. We chat every so often, share photos and I know more about her now that I did when I was a teen. So YNBU.

Ah, I just this minute found out my cousin's baby has arrived! I love FB. I haven't seen him for years but it's lovely to keep in touch and be up to date on his fab news!

I think it's great, I have so many more friends BECAUSE of it. If I meet someone in real life that I hit it off with, I befriend them on Facebook and keep in touch with them, invite them to stuff and lo and behold a friendship is born. Otherwise I'd never see them again. I think if you use it well it's a great tool. I have made tons of friends over the past few years this way.