General Chat

I do avoid joining a lot of the stuff on FB I'm sure the info the programme makers get is the cause of lots of junk mail, and scam mail. Anything that says allow them to share your details and that of friends I'd come out of. I started to fill in a questionare one day and realised where it was leeding. I didn't clear the boxes but just closed computer down shutting off with the scuares. Next week I got a call about changing gas supplier. I asked where they got my number from, and they said I might have filled in a questionaire on FB!

I think it's a great way of keeping in touch with family and old friends and I love it. Use it carefully and it's a bonus :-D

That's a shame Chris but the problems would still be there even without Facebook - unfortunately.

Sue

I personaly think the person that invented it should be locked up and the key thrown away.
II has caused that much trouble in our family, that i would never go on it.

chris

I was very reluctant at first as I didn't trust the security of the site. However, my experience so far has been very positive (although I still have issues over how complicated the site makes it to keep things private).

I'm now in touch with long lost family and friends, some overseas. Some I wouldn't have found again if it wasn't for Facebook.

I can also keep in touch with people I see less regularly too. :)

As I am in Australia I can keep in touch with my UK family and friends. I get to see their photos and hear their daily news. When my son was in the army and was deployed overseas it was a way for us to keep in touch. He couldn't often phone but he could put up a daily message - that meant the world to us. If used properly it is safe.

Sue

I love facebook as I keep in touch with my family on there as I live quite a way from them....I have also found some old school friend s on there and we now keep in touch....

Jules x

Hi All,

My Personal experience of facebook is I have fond 20 or more new family members, some only up the road from where I live. New photos of old family members I never had and a general all round happiness that we have all made contact. It can be a useful tool as long as you apply the proper safegaurds to only allow certain info to be displayed on your Public Profile

But yes it can be also the opposite especially as I have 3 kids, 2 of which are old enough to use it.

Br

DL

I'm on Facebook :-D

I'm not obsessed with it

I haven't seen any falling out

or scantily clad people

and I haven't received any weird emails

Am I doing something wrong?

Please forward instructions for above items. ;-) :-D

Annina. go to Google Translate, that is what I do when my daughter is talking to her friends in Africans, simple.

Carol ;-)

I must admit that I don't understand the point of Facebook,but will be forever gratefull to it,as I found my brother after 40yrs looking for him.

I do my best to follow his page,but as he is Belgian he converses with his friends in French,which I don't speak.

Luckily he can speak English so we can converse privately.

I too love facebook. My sister who is in her 70's and in very poor health lives in South Africa so I can be in contact with her on a daily basis when she is poorly, also my neices live out there too, and their children and grandchildren.I have weekly photos of them all and feel as though they are near me which I wouldnt have without facebook as I could not afford to phone them.I also have family in Germany who keep in touch this way as well as other family members around the country.
I'm a silver surfer so feel quite chuffed I am able to do this ;-)

I adore F'bk ... have family, friends, friends I've met here, made lots of new friends. :-)

Luv the games, am norti ... spend too long playing when I should be doing other things.

We laugh, we cry, we support each other ... last week I lost one of my sisters, was overwhelmed by the amount of hugs, kind caring words and more left for me there.

I can chat with friends, family abroad ... just love it. :-)

fb has put me back in touch with so many id lost touch with, it lets me keep in touch with family id also lost touch with,

like has been said, it as private as you make it, altho it does shock me some of the things people put on there,

I agree with Mildred. It's a useful tool and I love to see photos of my cousins' children, for example, when normally, 300 miles apart, I wouldn't know them at all.

I agree you have to vet who you allow on your page. This comes with practice.

But what a fantastic way of catching up with old schoolfriends, people who have moved abroad, and of course seeing what the kids and their friends are up to!

And all for free.

Thank's all for you replies,
interesting reading your experiences most have been more positive than mine, I must admit I did find it quite difficult to understand and after the weird emails I gave up. I just find it irritating when all you hear these days is "well she said this on Face book" or he said that, or I saw this on Face Book :-)
Gill

Agree love Facebook. My daughter lives in SA so instead of the £200+ phone bills we can talk for free. Only half an hour ago youngest daughter put up picture of my grandchildren at a ball pit, instant viewing. As long as you only accept people you can trust, if not as Mildred said just bin lol

Carol

Love facebook,
l can keep up with family and friends and have a laugh at the same time also its great looking at photos of my nieces who live in the USA.

I was going to say that Elaine I seen more foul play on here more than FB :-D

even the GR staff man a page on facebook
and your more likely to get a quick reply on their facebook wall
than emailing the team on GR itself
funny how we have got to know some of their faces
behind their names to
i have had a few fun replys and a bit of banter with some of them
over the site been broke and asking them to keep it broke a bit longer
so i could paint wallpaper or DIY