to think facebook really is just for teenagers

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been alot of threads on here about facebook.

cant understand the appeal for any over about 25.

its for kids! or for older people trying to be "cool" or with too much time on their hands.

aibu?

I totally agree i just don't understand all the hugs, zombies & things & i am 25 BUT not a kid at 25!

I think it's great the way you can trace your friends and contact them for free, actually -AND look in their friends to see if there's anyone you know!

YANBU.
My friend set an account up for me.
I have accessed it twice.
I don't want to see the five year old holiday snaps of people that I see every week anyway!
Or the smuggy smug smug comments of some bloke I vaguely remember from primary school.

It is good for one thing & thats to be nosy

I have facebook and have traced a lot of my old school friends thatI would otherwise have never spoken to again, after I moved to a different city. I also got in contact with my cousin who I ahdn't spoken to for years due to being estranged from my mother and found out about how my nana etc was doing, which was something that had been parying on my mind alot lately. So Yes, YABU.

However a lot of the applications I think are crap, and I don't accept them.

I find adults going on about it really sad. Get a life fgs.

I really like it as I have got back in touch with people I haven't seen for years. Yes if I really liked than we would have kept in touch but I'm nosey and like to see what people are up to!

Depends how you use it manchita. It can be a good tool to speak to people you have lost touch with, it doesn't have to tke over your life. I only ever go on mine when I recieve an email telling me I have a message.

agree manchita.

its very sad.

YANBU. Why would you need to trace friends who obviuosly stopped contacting you for a reason. I can't think of anything worse than people from school or my past tracking me down through facebook. Get thee out and make some new friends!

manchita did you not read my post???
I moved towns when I was young. I went into care and lost contact with my old friends, and all my real family.

If it wasn't for facebook I'd still be it bits every so often wondering if I missed my Nana's funeral.

benefits
-allows you to find old friends
-can have brief catch-up conversations with people you can't see that much
-can quickly see what everyone is up to (was v useful when my sis was travelling and could then update her profile - so we all knew she was ok - with 1 min of internet access without having to email everybody)
-play scrabble with people you don't see (wasting time yes)
-er... good if your friends live far away.
-um... can set privacy and not let people you don't actually know be your 'friends' and see your stuff

disadvantages

• my DAD has joined and now I get updates everytime he writes 'DAD is paying the bills'

Im 40 and love facebook...but then I may be the emotional age of a teenager. And then there is scrabulous of course....

I am addicted to Scrabulous.
But not Facebook!

I'm 27, DH is 35, we're both on it.
I'm able to keep in contact with people from here, work, other friends, family who live 300 odd miles away and family in Australia.
I don't have to email a great long list of people to tell them what I'm up to or share photo's of my boy's growing up.
People can see what I'm up to on my profile when they want. Likewise I can drop in on their profile to see what's going on in their life.
People keep sending me application requests, I have more than enough on my profile as it is, so delete any more that I get sent.

i just wonder what people did before facebook. would people not of bothered keeping in touch, unless it was as easy as turning on a computer.

Well, of course, that's the beauty of technology, these things are easier to do. If you want to find someone you don't haveto go on trisha anymore.

Can I ask why you changed your name for this thread??? I mean it's not exacty embarrassing or controversial.

I have heard nothing to convince me that it is something an intelligent, happy person needs in their life.
Tiny Tim, that's great. You must be v happy to be reconnected with your family but surely this reason is one in a million

I can't find the appeal, but - apart from mumsnet- I'm still stuck on old fashioned communication modes, like phone calls to my friends in Italy. I can still remember some friends' phone numbers (when we were teenagers and still live with parents) by heart.

I can't believe people posting on an internet forum can be so against another form of internet interaction, especially as most facebook acquaintances are actually people you know.
Next it'll be 'AIBU to think you don't need to post on an internet forum to get an opinion on something'

But you don't post on here to get an opinion, you post because you have an opinion

brilliant post manchita.

So? Why do people need to know your opinion???
Surely any 'intelligent, happy' people don't need to have their opinions heard by people they don't know
MN, just like FB is a form of internet interaction.

I have lots of things in my life I don't need Manchita, Mumsnet, Facebook, Email, a tumble drier, direct debit. I don't need any of those. I like them because they make my life easier or more pleasant.

tinytim

what makes you think im a namechanger
like you say, this is nothing controversial.
maybe this is my first post, and my real name.