I've seen some strong opinions about Facebook, and have heard stories of people who've sworn off it entirely. I'm not sure exactly why. Maybe some of their so-called "friends" didn't have as much in common with them as they thought. I can see that being a problem.
I've been pretty selective about who I've created "friend" relationships with. Not that I've been inundated with requests. I have 68 "friends", most of whom aren't actually active on Facebook much at all. For example, my mother-in-law never seems to log in. (I was kind of counting on that when I accepted her friend request.) At most there are a dozen or two people whom I regularly see in my feed, and only around 10 people I have marked as "close friends" (meaning I receive all of their updates).
Over the past year, I've become more active on Facebook, mainly interacting with the friends I see every weekend. It has become a venue for our teasing and in-jokes, so that I feel like I get a little bit of weekend happiness every time I log in. I've started logging in first thing every morning, and as often as not I'm rewarded with my first smile of the day, when a friend has posted something silly like this:
(Credit for this gem goes to DarcKnyt.)
So, for all the fuss about how technology is making us lonelier, I am a Facebook fan. I suppose it's because I use it to nurture real relationships that were strong in the first place. Too bad it's not like that for everyone.
9 comments:
I'm so glad to have been your first smile of the day! It makes me smile to know that, if you want to know. :)
Have a great weekend, Spark, and many blessings!
I mainly log in to Facebook live vicariously through others.... it's how I roll. ;-) Glad I'm one of the few.
I try to keep my "friend" list "clean" and will clean it out occasionally. The most recent unfriending casualty was the ex. It was a smart move. :-)
It is a toss up for me. I share a love/hate relationship with Facebook but guess the love is stronger because after a 40 day Facebook Fast during Lent, I was glad to be back (kind of)...
I really have no desire to be on Facebook, the truth is I don't want contact with my extended family and friends on-line. I find their posts a bit boring, and my life is too, so I really don't want to get to the stage where I'm telling everyone I'm going to bed now or that I'm about to buy some milk. :D
I found FB to be a safer alternative to the chat rooms. As you know, I'm on FB although unlike others, not hardcore. At the most I'll hop on for a total of about twenty minutes per day, although slightly longer on the weekends.
I'm so glad I found you again (I once went under the name, Scarlet)...while browsing through my reading list on Blogger.
I happen to have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I mostly use it for the humor, inspiration, pics, quotes, artwork and all that good stuff. When I sense trouble or drama, I either defriend/block or ignore. So far so good.
I like facebook, but I never post anything about myself. And I like most postings, but not the people who go on vacation and post photos every five minutes. I always want to say, "Why don't you relax and not not share for a bit?" :)
FB is still hard for me to "get." So much of it seems confusing. I try to get posts on a reader, and that helps. I don't check in as much as I guess I should though, and I almost never post, because, well, I'm boring.
Having friends to connect with as well as something to say, makes all the difference. :)
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