[KeptByTheWord]

My husband and I decided when myspace first came out, and then later facebook, that face-to-face relationships are best, and with all the personal privacy invasions that these kind of places abuse, we have stayed away from them.

Sadly, like Sasha just mentioned, people don't send pictures any more, either by mail or email. If you're not on FB, then you really don't know much if anything about them at all. I find this sad. I reach out to family members and send emails, or mail, but when asking them for a picture or an update, I find out it was on facebook. A cousin of mine had a much anticipated baby, and I never knew until months later that the baby was born, because it was on "facebook"...

So, I do see how facebook totally hinders relationships, both if you are on FB or not. It is just all sad to me. We have no regrets about not being on FB, except for the fact that many family and friends forget that we are not on FB, and we don't get to hear about important news, and never see pictures, unless we ask. That is an unfortunate side effect for us for not using FB. But, in spite of that, we still do not want to get involved with FB. Our life is very peaceful without it.

I also think that we can only handle so much information about relationships with others. Too much information about 200 people (or more) can put us on information overload, and cause more stress than we can handle in our lives. I also think that FB has caused more stress in relationships than it has helped.