Facebook, Hate it or Love it?

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I guess I'm getting a little confused about how most people on here seem to dislike Facebook. I find it to be a quick, and easy place to stay in touch with my on-line friends, and family. I will admit that when I first joined I found it way overwhelming, and I deleted my acct twice before staying. I figured out that after the first week or so people stop sending as many suggestions, and friend invites.

Since, I want to enjoy my time on there I only have people that I enjoy being around on my page. I don't have any old high school peers, because I know they're just going to ignore me like they did back then, so what's the point of them being on my page? I do have a lot of autistic friends that I like to chat with on my page. It's my page, so it's as autism friendly as I want it to be. I don't friend collect. I see no purpose in that.

So, how do you feel about FB, and why?

I hate Facebook, because it's just another meat market, for the general population. I'm also no good at chat, and I'd much rather be on WrongPlanet, with my own kind.

It would depend on my location. In a different city, I might want to participate and open a FaceBook account.
I already know people where I currently live and have no interest making myself a target to them by posting on FaceBook. It depends on more than one factor. FaceBook can be a plus or minus, either one.

People that I know from real life finding me on FB is an issue sometimes. I can't really deny their friend request, because that would be rude, and awkward, but at the same time I feel constricted in what I can say around some people. Like, I don't feel that my AS is everyone's business, so I feel like I can't talk about it as openly as I'd like without people that I'd rather not know seeing my comments.

I love it! It's the best form of interaction I've ever known, since I have total control of when to pay attention to it. My written skills are far superior to my spoken skills, so I have an easier, more rewarding experience on Facebook than in an other medium of communication with friends. I hate phones as strongly as the flu, and I also hate invasions (oops, I mean visits) at home; by friend or foe.

Charles

Sorry, can't stand it. I hate, loathe, abominate and despise Facebook. It litters my inbox with unwanted stuff -- I have a sister who joins everything and spams everyone with suggestions and "likes" and has done for years, now, even when I ask her not to -- and when I do try to go on it to a specific area, like my inbox, it insists on sending me somewhere else to fill out some kind of selections of things I don't want or need to be part of and then doesn't return me to my requested page, so I have to search around and find what I wanted in the first place. I hate the way it's organized and I just don't understand all the different tools and walls and other stuff they keep throwing in. If I could just delete my account, I would, but my grad school advisor insisted that we all be on FB and join this group for the graduate students, so I'm stuck.

To make things worse, there's a Facebook prowler, living in my area.

I have never been able to get into facebook. It seems so pointless almost. I suppose old friends may be able to find each other on it, but usually I don't want old friends to find me. I much prefer youtube. It is entertaining and allows good debate to take place on world issues.

I have a facebook page. At one point I was collecting friends, but then I decided to only have friends that I felt good about. I currently have 20 friends, and one of those is so superficial I may delete her.

I try to practice Facebook ettiquet but sometimes I fail miserably. I can think of three people where I messed up so badly they told me not to contact them in real life.

What's this?

I like it b/c it allows me to stay in touch with my college friends over breaks.

It's annoying, but a un-ignorable potential medium for such a person as myself.

What's this? First, it's misspelled. It should be etiquette. Facebook etiquette is the generally assumed unwritten rules of what is polite on Facebook. For example IT IS IMPOLITE TO TYPE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS AS IT SEEMS YOU ARE YELLING. The one woman who told me never to contact her in real life felt I was "stalking" her....replying to or "liking" all of her post. Plus she didn't like it that I sent her mail on Valentine's Day....she felt I was hitting on her. Also, if you have a problem with someone, it is extremely rude to discuss it on your Facebook wall and make it public knowledge. I lost a friendship over this. It is better to resolve conflict in private.

Yeah, basic netiquette.



That's weird. I thought getting responses was the whole point of posting something.



Okay, also odd. Just because someone sends an email on 14 Feb. doesn't automatically make it a romantic gesture. She's a bit off, if you ask me.



Well, of course not. That's basic stuff, too. I thought maybe there was something more going on, like having to respond to messages within a certain amount of time or something.

Hate it? Love it? I just ignore it along with Twitter. As I'm a bit paranoid the last thing I want to do is reveal every detail and every thought to total strangers.

Vanilla_Slice