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What did you get a chicken dinner?

It's ok, up until recently, firstdown thought this is what facebook meant:
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Well, I bit the bullet. My wife signed up for Facebook on New Year's day. She gave into the urging of dozens of her friends. So of course, once she signed up, I got a bunch of crap for not being on there. Basically "my husband is like a ghost because he's not a facebook" type stuff. She was half-kidding, but I went ahead and signed up anyway.

I was actually pleasantly surprised. Within hours of signing up, I had reconnected with lots of my friends from my college days down in Florida who I haven't spoken to or seen in several years. Plus I put lots of wedding/honeymoon pics up for family and friends to see.

I'm not spending much time on there, but it's been pretty cool to look at pictures of old friends who have since started families. I certainly don't see myself turning into one of these people who is habitually updating their status, checking for friend requests, etc etc.

I see my primary usage as sharing photos with friends/family.

You're just a regular ol' softie now

So I fought and fought and finally gave in ans joined Facebook last night. I think I have about 50 friends now. I can see how this can be fun.

I think I have about 50 friends now.


How many of them would help you move over a weekend? :D

How many of them would help you move over a weekend? :D

Probably about 5 like I had the last time I moved. Ungrateful shits ! LOL, I definitely meant to put friends in quotation marks. I kinda find it funny that all of these people are called my friends when I wouldn't have seen about 79% of them had I not been on the computer. It's cool because I found a guy I went to High School with and havent seen since graduation, but it takes the suprise out of it.

I ran into a guy I went to school with at BJ's in Bowie and I was siced to see him, it'll be different now cause I'm like click your my friend now.

But like I said, probably about 5 of the effers would help !

You guys are going to think I am ridiculous but I have almost 800 friends on Facebook. And I haven't gone all Twitter with it either, and added celebrities, etc. All my "friends" are people I have met and at the least had a conversation with. Many are people I have spent significant time with.

I think if you realize these people are not really "best" friends and sometimes more just a network, it isn't a big deal.

Yeah I know folks that allow their lives to be dictated by facebook or the other way around. I know folks that will defriend someone after an argument and then friend them again once they are over it. That's freaking dumb to me, or even get upset because someone is on a different level on their page,...or was that myspace ?

I don't know. It'll help out with some stuff but,...meh...I hardly return calls on my cell so I know this will go to shit

Well, I bit the bullet. My wife signed up for Facebook on New Year's day. She gave into the urging of dozens of her friends. So of course, once she signed up, I got a bunch of crap for not being on there. Basically "my husband is like a ghost because he's not a facebook" type stuff. She was half-kidding, but I went ahead and signed up anyway.

I was actually pleasantly surprised. Within hours of signing up, I had reconnected with lots of my friends from my college days down in Florida who I haven't spoken to or seen in several years. Plus I put lots of wedding/honeymoon pics up for family and friends to see.

I'm not spending much time on there, but it's been pretty cool to look at pictures of old friends who have since started families. I certainly don't see myself turning into one of these people who is habitually updating their status, checking for friend requests, etc etc.

I see my primary usage as sharing photos with friends/family.

I've gotta say, I've stuck to my guns very well. After 2 months, I have about 115 friends on Facebook. They are all people I'm definitely friends with, or relatives (aunts/uncles/cousins/my dad). I've turned down several odd friend requests (weirdest was a request from an ex-girlfriend from YEARS ago - very bad break-up).

I have all the privacy settings on the strictest possible, and turned off ALL alerts, so I don't get emails or texts about ANY facebook activity whatsoever.

I find myself spending about 10 minutes a day on the site.

I talked a good game when I signed up, but I'm not gonna lie, I was pretty concerned it would turn very addictive very quickly. Not so much.