Are most of you moms on facebook???

[Anonymous]

My family keeps bugging me to join facebook and i have no interest. They keep analyzing it by thinking I don't have enough friends or something crazy like that but I have no interest in joining it. Are most other NW DC moms on facebook? I haven't heard any moms mention it to me?

[Anonymous]

I'm on it and so are all of the moms in my playgroup. I just joined in November. It's fun!

[Anonymous]

I am it's really fun and easy way to stay in touch.

[Anonymous]

This NW DC mom is not, nor are my momneighbors.

i get bugged too, typically by friends in other states. They bug me by email, and I say, why can't you continue to just send me an email once in a while like you are currently doing?

Why do I need to join a "community" to stay in contact with you, which gets me the added benefit of now getting too many random zings (or whatever) from YOUR friends in Sacramento -- who I've never met and don't have time to friend?

[Anonymous]

Another DCUM who is not on it. No interest or time. Stay strong. I'd say about 75% of my friends are NOT on it.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

I'm in MoCo. Most of my mom friends are on it here and elsewhere. We are all 39+. Most of us just joined within the past 5 or 6 months though. Some are more into it than others. You make of it what you want, but I think it's been great for easily keeping in touch and getting back in touch with people from HS and college who I really liked but had lost touch with.

[Anonymous]

I resisted for a long time, but have to admit. I LOVE it. Everybody I know who resisted love it as well. It really is a nice way to keep in touch with people you were friendly with in college, high school, whatever, but just never good enough friends to keep in touch.

I actually think that those of you who resist would love it too, but to each their own.

I'd say about 60% of my friends are on it. My mother is even on it now.

I think the older you are, the more likely you are to resist and not be on it.

[Anonymous]

yup, but I'm still in my 20's

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

yes - for someone who lived all over the world - it is easy for me to keep in touch with it. I love it but it can be annoying for a more private person.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I was a facebook detractor until I got on it - it is great and so nice to see pictures of your friends' families without having to send around mass emails. I promise you will like it if you join.

http://www.slate.com/id/2208678/

[Anonymous]

I posted earlier that I was not on it. I am in my mid-30's by the way for those who said that us "oldies" are the ones avoiding it. I should clarify that I was transiently on it about a year ago and found it to be pretty lame. I got all sorts of random friend requests from people I did not know, including some guy who bought furtniture from me several years ago on Craig's list (that was truly our only connection; never saw him again). I did not accept any of those requests, and found the whole thing a little weird. There seemed to be this urgency among the requesters to accumulate this mass of "friends." Anyway, I closed my account. I'd rather spend my time exercising or reading or cooking or playing with my kids or having sex or surfing this ridiculous board (!), or pretty much anything else than be on that site.

The reason I initially joined was because of an invitation from a former close friend whom I'd lost touch with to join it. Well, once I was on, it wasn't like we had this amazing connection or resumed our friendship. I saw she was getting married, saw some pics of her fiance and that was that. Time and distance separates the wheat from the chaff in terms of friendship -- that's been my experience.

Obviously, others have had different experiences which would explain this site's popularity. But if you don't want to join it, you certainly should feel pressured to do so. I can promise you that you aren't missing out on much.

[Anonymous]

Yup - age 36, 2 kids, MoCo resident. I too resisted for a long time but am now on and I love it. Most of my friends are on it too. You don't have to be that active if you don't want to be. I have found it to be a great way of keeping in touch with friends and reconnecting with old ones. It is also really fascinating to me to see who I know who knows people I know (that makes sense if you are on FB) it's truly a 6 degrees of separation world out there!

[Anonymous]

NoVA mom here. I'm on it but only reluctantly. My DH signed me up for an account. He got on a few years ago while in grad school (at that point it was .edu only). It's kinda nice in that I've been able to reconnect with some old high school friends. I moved away for college and am terrible about keeping in touch, so I hadn't spoken to most of them for 10+ years. Also many of my grad/postdoc era friends still have a somewhat transient life so it's easier to keep up now that we aren't living in the same town.

I'm not one to broadcast my thoughts and feelings, so I don't really input much information. I'm a reactive facebooker.

I'm early-to-mid 30s, but I have lots of friends associated with universities (I'm an academic myself at least for a little while longer) so many of my friends have been on facebook for a while.