Are most of you moms on facebook???

[Anonymous]

I joined about a month ago after much encouragement from friends and family. We moved last year, and it really is a good way to stay connected. One of my friends had a baby two weeks ago, and I love that I can see the latest pictures/updates without feeling like I'm bothering her with too many requests for info.
I have to admit, though, it is a little weird to suddenly get friend requests from people I haven't seen in 20 years and/or barely know.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I'm on and have been on for a year or so. It's a bit more addictive now that I have my iphone and it's so easy to check ( i.e. when in the waiting room at my OB's office).

I love being able to stay in touch with family/friends who live so far away. I just had a long lost friend "friend" me yesterday - we had lost touch a few years ago and it turns out she's now living only two hours away!

Oh, BTW, I'm a 34 year old mom.

[Anonymous]

I'm in my 40's and on it. It's been fun to reconnect with people and I've noticed the number of people I know on it accelerating in the last few months. I have ignored people I dont know or don't want to friend.

[Anonymous]

Nope. No facebook for me. Not sure what I'm missing out on. Life is quite good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not on it, don't want everyone I ever knew or dated to contact me. This is happening to friends of mine and they find it annoying.

Yes, it is REALLY annoying to have to click "ignore" when you get a friend request. I mean, it takes half a second to do, but it is SUCH a pain.

[Anonymous]

NW DC mom. not on it. I hardly have the time to keep up with the friends I have now, let alone, reconnect with ones from the past. The last thing I need right now is another time-wasting activity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Not on it, don't want everyone I ever knew or dated to contact me. This is happening to friends of mine and they find it annoying.

Yes, it is REALLY annoying to have to click "ignore" when you get a friend request. I mean, it takes half a second to do, but it is SUCH a pain.

I do find it annoying because I feel guilty/bad about it and I hate being put in the position of feeling guilty (even if it's just for a second or two). When it comes down to it, I don't want to connect with everyone in my past but it's not something I relish "telling" people (generally old high school friends) by ignoring them on facebook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I do find it annoying because I feel guilty/bad about it and I hate being put in the position of feeling guilty (even if it's just for a second or two). When it comes down to it, I don't want to connect with everyone in my past but it's not something I relish "telling" people (generally old high school friends) by ignoring them on facebook.

Are you my mother? I don't mean this to be sarcastic b/c she said the exact same thing to me when I explained facebook. She is very introverted and she would much rather be left alone than put in a position where she feels like she is hurting somebody's feelings by "ignoring" them on facebook.

I guess all that I can say is that if you feel really strongly about hurting the feelings of somebody you haven't kept in touch with in 20 years, then I guess you have a point. But you may be pleasantly surprised by how much you enjoy getting back into touch with your old high school friends. And most of the people you ignore, you are ignoring for a reason and they are likely to understand.

[Anonymous]

I'm on it - 32 yo mom here.

Great way to keep in touch with some people. And, see pictures of their kids!

Plus, I love to play Lexulous.

[Anonymous]

I got on it so I could keep up to date with other people who had it, but now it's getting on my nerves a bit. I didn't really know what it was when I signed up. After I signed up, people I know started "friending" me, I guess they found me by doing one of those contacts searches. I didn't realize people use it to communicate and leave messages for each others. I thought I would just occasionally look at peoples pages to see photos of their kids and stuff. I don't want all my communications to be seen by all my friends, I'd rather communicate by individual e-mails. Now one my friends keeps posting stuff to my wall about when we're getting together and stuff. So everyone I know can see what she writes. Maybe I don't want everyone to know all about it.

Also, via facebook I found out one of my old friends apparently HATES children and likes to rant on her wall about her hatred of them. Interesting. She always told me she didn't want kids, but I didn't know she actually had such hatred of them. So maybe I should be grateful to facebook that I now have this info about her. There is no need for us to ever get together again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got on it so I could keep up to date with other people who had it, but now it's getting on my nerves a bit. I didn't really know what it was when I signed up. After I signed up, people I know started "friending" me, I guess they found me by doing one of those contacts searches. I didn't realize people use it to communicate and leave messages for each others. I thought I would just occasionally look at peoples pages to see photos of their kids and stuff. I don't want all my communications to be seen by all my friends, I'd rather communicate by individual e-mails. Now one my friends keeps posting stuff to my wall about when we're getting together and stuff. So everyone I know can see what she writes. Maybe I don't want everyone to know all about it.

Also, via facebook I found out one of my old friends apparently HATES children and likes to rant on her wall about her hatred of them. Interesting. She always told me she didn't want kids, but I didn't know she actually had such hatred of them. So maybe I should be grateful to facebook that I now have this info about her. There is no need for us to ever get together again.

you can change your privacy settings so that nothing gets published in your minifeed and then no one would see your updates. but then, that kind of defeats the purpose of being there, unless you just like to see other peoples' updates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm on it - 32 yo mom here.

Great way to keep in touch with some people. And, see pictures of their kids!

Plus, I love to play Lexulous.

Haven't tried that game yet. I'm stuck on Word Twist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


I do find it annoying because I feel guilty/bad about it and I hate being put in the position of feeling guilty (even if it's just for a second or two). When it comes down to it, I don't want to connect with everyone in my past but it's not something I relish "telling" people (generally old high school friends) by ignoring them on facebook.

Are you my mother? I don't mean this to be sarcastic b/c she said the exact same thing to me when I explained facebook. She is very introverted and she would much rather be left alone than put in a position where she feels like she is hurting somebody's feelings by "ignoring" them on facebook.

I guess all that I can say is that if you feel really strongly about hurting the feelings of somebody you haven't kept in touch with in 20 years, then I guess you have a point. But you may be pleasantly surprised by how much you enjoy getting back into touch with your old high school friends. And most of the people you ignore, you are ignoring for a reason and they are likely to understand.

Actually I'm pretty extroverted and in real life I keep up with quite a large circle of friends. I wouldn't mind facebook friending people I've been out of touch with since highschool but I'm not entirely comfortable with them reading the nitty gritty of my life via my status updates. So even though there is no bad blood between us and never was I'm hesitant to accept them as facebook friends. But I also don't want them to think I'm a jerk when I ignore them. I actually had one highschool classmate message me (when I ignored his request) with "have you changed so much that now you're too good for me?" Um, no----I have nothing against you or all 100+ of my other long lost classmates. I just don't want you or them knowing everything about my current life and I appreciate the ability to use facebook to communicate more exact details about how I'm doing with close friends. But I hate that random high school dude is now convinced I'm a snob.

[Anonymous]

I was a major facebook detractor, but am now on it and love it. 38 in NOVA with 1 child.

[Anonymous]

Nope. No facebook for me. Not sure what I'm missing out on. Life is quite good.

I promise that my life was already quite good before I discovered Facebook, but I still like it! I'm 31 and I really enjoy it. I'm crazy nosy, though. It's easy to limit your privacy settings so that only your friends (and not friends of friends, or strangers) see your info, and I don't accept all friend requests. (But I'm not shy in real life, either.)