My wife and I share a facebook account. That's right, we don't have individual accounts. I really have difficulty with facebook. Many of our facebook "friends" post things on their wall that nobody really cares about (I hope). Do we really need to know that they're going shopping? Don't get me wrong, facebook has many good uses, but sometimes I think that people spend too much time posting and less time thinking about what they want to post.
On the flip side, next summer is my 20th high school reunion, and I was contacted via facebook. I now have made contact with many of my high school friends that I haven't spoken to in years. It is fun using social media to connect and plan this event. What I don't like is that once I "friended" one of the guys that I graduated with is that I now have invites from strippers to be their friends. Being a happily married man, I'm not sure how much that I want to get to know "Cocoa Bunny". I suppose using social media requires caution with how you share information and who you share it with.
Yes, that can be embarrassing for sure. I have a few friends that I have to "hide" and some contacts that I just eliminate.
ReplyDeleteIt is possible to have pretty fine grained control over the things that people see on your account but it takes a little filtering and tweaking of account settings.
We'll look at that later on in the course.
Hi Grant,
ReplyDeletePartners in face book is an interesting idea perhaps my wife could get into that. I must try.
Face book in the Kenton area is big lots of local stuff you can keep up to date with what is happening. Does the same thing happen in yiur local town?
Thanks Eric lowe
I have to agree that I have some issues with being on Facebook. I really don't object to Facebook, but I also get asked to be friend former students, members of the community, etc. As a teacher, that makes me uncomfortable. I guess it is just a case of deciding what I should use Facebook for. To that end, I have a very boring Facebook page as I have posted little.
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