Re: Please tell me I'm not alone in this... (Facebook rant)
I do like Facebook BUT I don't like all the games and timewasting stuff there and I don't participate in any of it and ignore invitations to join in.
I use it to keep in touch with people, share photos and information, and read the status updates. So I use it as an extension of Twitter really. I don't have time for the mafia and farm stuff or pokes or whatever else. Even if it's one of my kids sending it to me. I just ignore it. You can choose to do that Marian.
I used to think Facebook was only for the younguns and it was only after the Pastor form my church in 2008 mentioned he was on it and happy to connect with anyone. I did have an account but rarely used it, but I connected with him and other friends from church.
Then late 2008 one of our daughters died. She and I had connected only weeks before and I feel it was meant to be. Because it turned out that FB was her address book - there was nothing else (except a few numbers on her cellphone) that led us to all her friends. I was able to post the funeral notice on her wall and keep her friends and our family updated with information. People wrote memorial notices and even now they write birthday messages and other things. We haven't taken her wall down (yet).
I dread to think what would have happened if I wasn't connected to her and if I knew nothing about Facebook. How would we have coped? And there were a lot of photos of her there that we didn't have copies of - we do now.
On the business side of things google Mari Smith. She's the who's who of Facebook in business and there is much I've learnt from her. Craig Cannings of VAClassroom runs courses too.
If you can get past the games thing and ignore the things you're not interested in, I think you might feel differently about it. For me, I'm just grateful it kept us in touch with a part of our daughter's life.
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