Disabled My Facebook Accout

[endtimer]

I like face book but I have limits. I delete "friends" who are always posting foolishness. I post very little, I message people very little. The little I use it is to keep in touch with members of the family that I hardly see at family events. I have boundary issues with the mother-in-law, God bless her, so her "friend requests" go unanswered. She no longer sends me requests, I think she got the idea.

[jediwill83]

Yeah I have boundary issues with my mother...she's sweet as she can be but she gets stalkerish...and I post alllll kinds of foolishness...alot of funny stuff and pictures.

[Sam]

I am on facebook and AFF too much. I need to cut back. Every so often I will "fast" facebook or AFF for a while. I spend too much time in these places, time which could be put to better use.

However, I do interact with people I haven't seen for quite a while, get caught up on what is going on with them, and have prayed for others and received prayer from others here and on facebook.

Also, it has been a good place to post pictures where I know lots of people will see them. And, I get to see what grandkids and others are doing by checking out their pictures and posts on facebook.

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by jediwill83

Im thinking about getting back on because there have been so many disappointed that I left....its like I seemed to have really cheered them up at times.....*sighs*

You will be defeating your own reason as to why you disabled your account then.

Seems to me that if you cheer people up on Facebook, you could cheer them up in person? Have a real relationship?

[CC1]

I resisted social networking through the myspace period but eventually, about a year or two ago, opened a FB account.

It has been wonderful reconnecting with old friends from 20 and even 30+ years ago. In that regard it is magnificent.

It is how intrusive FB has become that makes me not like it now. Not to mention how they are constantly changing things so about the time you feel comfortable with how to navigate around it they change it.

[endtimer]

Originally Posted by jediwill83

Yeah I have boundary issues with my mother...she's sweet as she can be but she gets stalkerish...and I post alllll kinds of foolishness...alot of funny stuff and pictures.

I guess it all depends on what one would call foolishness. For me, its foul language, distasteful pictures and constant updates of no real significance, for example "Im eating dinner now". I find game requests and the like slightly annoying but they don't make the delete list.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by CC1

I resisted social networking through the myspace period but eventually, about a year or two ago, opened a FB account.

It has been wonderful reconnecting with old friends from 20 and even 30+ years ago. In that regard it is magnificent.

It is how intrusive FB has become that makes me not like it now. Not to mention how they are constantly changing things so about the time you feel comfortable with how to navigate around it they change it.

What do you mean intrusive?

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by endtimer

I guess it all depends on what one would call foolishness. For me, its foul language, distasteful pictures and constant updates of no real significance, for example "Im eating dinner now". I find game requests and the like slightly annoying but they don't make the delete list.

I find that ALL of the above can make my delete list, especially the constant game requests. I am not that thinned skinned when it comes to this but there are a few I have banished with the delete button who must be playing 30+ games, and sent me requests for each and every one of them (more than once).

[MawMaw]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

My husband and I decided soon after FB came on the scene, that we did not want to be a part of a that kind of social networking. It has the ability to easily destroy relationships, or take you to the place where you have no relationship at all, but just social messaging, but no face to face contact. I have had many people over the last few years cease to correspond with me, even by email, because you can only "reach" them through facebook. I've missed out on some pictures of family events, and so on, and have been the last one to find out "news" someone first posted on FB instead of calling or emailing or dropping by to talk to talk to you.

Yet, we are very, very thankful we chose this road, because we have continued to build strong family relationships, and keep in touch with our families in the traditional way and have not had to be part and parcel to a lot of the nonsense that does happen with FB.

Just my thoughts on the matter....

My husband and I are not on Facebook either.
Your reasons sound alot like my reasons.
I think it's very sad that real time with family
and friends are being neglected because of the
time spent in the drama house of facebook.

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Lacey

My husband and I are not on Facebook either.
Your reasons sound alot like my reasons.
I think it's very sad that real time with family
and friends are being neglected because of the
time spent in the drama house of facebook.