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Eileen Gianiodis @
Friday, January 30, 2009 12:42 AM
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C'mon, Marybeth!!! Just do it, join Facebook for goodness sakes. It's like lunch only you can have it in your sweats at midnight. If no one else will friend you, I will!
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Mandy Walker @
Friday, January 30, 2009 1:31 AM
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I am on Facebook - a couple of my friends invited me. It seems like a good way to stay in contact with people although I haven't progressed beyond the novice user. I did send an invite to my nephew but he hasn't bothered to reply. My children are not on Facebook or MySpace but I'd be with you MaryBeth ... they wouldn't be friends with me, of that I'm sure.
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Katie Brennan Dickinson @
Friday, January 30, 2009 4:02 PM
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Hi Marybeth,
No pressure -- but it is fun to catch up with friends and family on facebook. It has been a great tool for me -- since a lot of my good friends and family live out-of-state. And since I moved to NC last August, it has been a wonderful way to stay in contact with others. But I totally get what you are saying about having the old fashioned face to face. Facebook has helped me contact people I know that live in NC too. I can write them a note -- ask if they want to meet for lunch. For me -- facebook has been a Godsend!!
In conclusion, the COMBO of using social media and the good old-fashioned "let's do lunch" is the choice I would go with.
Take care,
Your cousin Katie
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Nancy @
Friday, January 30, 2009 11:40 PM
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Marybeth....my 17 yo son doesn't know yet that I've started an account. I've already got his password (the price for letting him have an account and the way we've kept track of his "lovelife." So yes, there are kindred spirits for the group "moms whose kids would die if they knew mom did facebook"
It is weird to do as an adult. I'm very leery of it, but a friend said he's come in contact with people he hasn't heard from in years. He only started doing it as a way of keeping in touch with his students (he teaches nursing). I like face-to-face better, too.
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Barb Szyszkiewicz, sfo @
Monday, February 02, 2009 11:28 AM
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I joined facebook when I found out that my teenage son was on it. And I told him point blank that he had to "make me his friend" or he'd lose his internet privileges. Same policy for my daughter. I don't use facebook to nag my kids--usually I leave them alone on it unless they approach me on it--but I do check up on what they're posting. And they know I do this. A wonderful side effect of joining facebook has been getting back in touch with some of my high-school and college friends that I'd lost contact with. So it's not "all bad"--it's how you use it.
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Philippa Kennealy @
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:27 AM
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I've become a big fan of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as a very efficient way to create interesting business-related connections. And along the way, I've reconnected with old classmates and buddies (a nice side effect!)
However I plan to stay away from Facebook as a personal social tool as I don't want my personal stuff splashed all over the web for clients to see.
I'm just going to have to talk the old-fashioned way to my daughter when she gets to web-savvy age (not far off, I suspect). Or wait till the next new cool-tool pops up -- and hope that she opts for that one instead!
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Stacy @
Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:36 PM
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I have a Facebook account, all stemming from my teen wanting one. He still doens't have one because it seems to be a supreme time waster and, I have noticed, kids post things they would never say in person. I am "friends" with some of my child's friends (their request) and I wonder what they are thinking at some of the things they write. I, however, have reconnected with many old friends...that's how I know it can be a time waster!
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Ellen @
Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:16 AM
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I don't "do" Facebook, nor have I allowed my children to yet (freshmen in high school), though they send plenty of email and have recently starting using instant messaging.
I am a computer programmer and a real techno-twit in some respects. However, the deeper the pile grows of electronic options for entertainment and "socializing", the harder I find myself pushing back against it all.
This Christmas, our family stayed home for the holidays and one of my daughters taught me to knit. We decided to knit Christmas gifts for family, which we did in the living room around the wood stove, knitting while my husband read aloud to us from "The Lord of the Rings". It was the most pleasant evening in recent memory. The tv was off. The computer was off. We just all enjoyed the warmth of the fire and each others' company.
We all enjoyed it so much it became our daily ritual over Christmas break.
I would much rather my children grew up to be experts at face-to-face interaction than electronic communication, and to enjoy simple pleasures than to live their lives in electronic overload. I trust some day they will understand. In the meantime, I will trust the Bible: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
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Margaret O'Brien @
Friday, February 20, 2009 6:30 PM
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MB:
I never thought I would be the type to join facebook. I did, knowing that my two teens were joining. Meghan, Kelly, their father and I are all friends on facebook. I clicked both daughters to be friends, and the accepted immediately. Later I asked both of them, why did you allow dad and I to be your friends when all of your friends would not even think of having their parents as friends? They both replied, "Because we don't have anything to hide from you and you can keep more in touch with our lives and our friends." I guess their friends to not have the strong communication with their parents as we do. I am greatful to God for that. This keeps us parents from urging to spy or falling out of the communication wagon with our blessed children.
Margaret
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Matt N @
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:53 PM
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I like Barb's view. I will just briefly point out my perspective on this. I know some people who feel that they have to keep up with *everything* that is said on facebook or twitter.
If you instead think of it as myriads of random discussions going on at a party that you're hosting and you catch little bits here and there and join in some of the conversations occassionally then the social networking thing is a lot more fun and less stressful.
It's not like a baby or pet... it's OK if you neglect it for a while.
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