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?

dh thinks the internets only for downloading porn or for shopping! (not that he does either)

im not sure where mn fits in!

Yes, I agree it is funny....but this is the only thing I go on and facebook sounds ghastly, like friends reuinted.

Honestly manchita, it is nothing like friends reunited. That IS ghastly.
I find the whole zombie thing dull but being in contact with family and friends when you live on the other side of the world is great.

Or watching reality TV. That same kind of nosiness

What is this zombie thing of which you speak ghosty?

dont do it manchita!

resist all temptation. be strong.

No unreasonable. Just wrong.

Facebook is what you make of it.

I find it brilliant for so many things. Hooking up with old friends, getting work, finding out news about what everyone's doing, but in a low key way which requires little or no response. I've collaborated with others to do great workshops, kept in touch with events and parties (not that I make it to many but it's nice to feel I could if I wanted) and so much more.

Some of the games are purile and time consuming and yes much of it would appeal to young people with no responsibilities and plenty of time to, say, zombie zap.

I think it's just another part of the way things are going and you either glide with it or disappear into Luddland.

I met my dh agan through Friends Reunited. We were both divorced and in our thirties, had a class reunion, eventually got married and had ds. If that makes me sad, I'm quite happy with sad

ps.

coldtits. i pmsl at one of your posts.

facebooknever,sorry,moment of madness. I actually am not interested, just trying to be polite

Bebo and Myspace are for teenagers, Facebook more for 30-somethings. If you don't like it, you are free to ignore it - no-one makes you take an interest.

It's a bit daft to post on a website that you disapprove of internet communication, though - what on earth do you think you are doing here?!

It's quite amazing that there are people on here saying it's so sad and get out and make new friends, whilst they sit glued to a PC screen chatting to strangers on the net themselves

Snap Edam!!!

Manchita, FWIW, I kept getting requests to join FB and was always 'erm, no' (I had a myspace and a bebo but had stopped using either) eventually I gave in, I got one.

I searched my address book and most of my MSN contacts were on it. I added a friend from my old town, who I was still in contact with, through her I was added by some friends from town and one from school, then the school friend had other friends that she had kept in contact with etc, and it just got bigger.

Once I realised how many people were on it I searched my cousins etc and am very glad I have one.
It doesn't have to be something you sit on all day every day.

yes, but edam and dr northerner, your on here and on facebook. twice as sad.

I'm not saying either are sad. Facebook or MN, it's a similar kind of thing, just in a different format really.

You can't mock one and not the other.

Do you think yuo are sad for using MN?

facebook is a useful tool..it's not a best friend or a worst enemy

it is a conveneient place to put photos, keep an adress book which is interactive and it's free if you could buy an interactive address book you would..unless you were as spidermama says a total luddite

what's not to like

By manchita on Sun 16-Dec-07 11:43:34
But you don't post on here to get an opinion, you post because you have an opinion

and i don't post on mn most of the time because i have an opinion i post to chat and express my masive ego..it's about me babe..xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Lol Zippi.
'it's about me'

I have an account set up but rarely use it. I am bit unsure about poking and super-poking people I don't really know.

The throwing sheep bit is quite cool though.

lou is snoring next to me..ok its about me and her babe xxx

I am 36, and find Facebook great to keep in touch with friends on four continents and family in five different countries. My father is 70, and he recently sent me a 'friend request' on Facebook - he didn't hear it from me.

Needless to say, YABU. Just like phone & e-mail, Facebook is a tool that facilitates day to day communication. "Not necessary" can be said for a lot of things in modern life, yet personally, I would not wish to live in medieval times. Don't use communication tools it if you don't feel like it, but it is quite unreasonably judgemental of you to be questioning the mental age, happiness, etc of those who do.

Those of us who think that using Facebook to talk to people you actually know is 'sad' - What do you think about using MN to talk to people you don't even know?

A lot depends on what you do with it. I've made it clear that i don't respond to "Zombie" invitations and the like. Generally the demographic is much more mature than myspace/bebo and the like.

OH, and another point. I'm crap at the phone contact, I do things all day and most of my friends are at work or busy themselves so the only time we could have a proper phone convo is in the evening, but once I have done dinner, tidied up, bathed two kids, read to them, put them to bed etc all I want to do is chill out.
If I'm messaging them on fb I can do as I am now, sit on the computer with my 2yr old son poorly and asleep on my lap, if he wakes up or I have something esle that needs doing immediately, I can leave my message open, go and do it and comeback. Can't do that with the phone.