Facebook?!?!?!

[XMcShiftersonX]

I have seriously been debating deleting my FB account, like I ended up doing with MySpace back in the day. This time it's not all the wierdo's the hit me up like on MySpace but the fact that I seem to waste sooooooooo much time posting crap on there! It's a great way to keep in contact with people but at the same time it the most efficient time waster i have EVER came across. I'm in professional school now and it is really annoying to me that I have this one 'weakness' that is getting the best of me most days. I even went without FB for a week and I was like a Crack Who** coming back to it, I couldn't wait! Tell me am I crazy or do I have a serious problem with Facebook?!?!?!? HELP ME!

I left facebook a couple months ago, it felt great. I did it for all the same reasons you described. But, I found myself missing out on knowing what was going on with some family members and even those I consider my closest friends. It made me upset that if you're not connected on there, people just kind of forget about you, and your attempts to keep people informed fail and seem like more work. So, I rejoined, adding just my family and a couple close friends. I wish I hadn't though, I'm right back where I was. It's really hard to control and I would rather spend my time doing other stuff, even if it were alone!

[tulip]

Oh, I'm missing out, no doubt. But missing out on what? When I was on FB, I was missing out--on my own life!

In my case, my family is not on FB. I talk to my family on the phone several times a week. I have friends who are on FB, but they know that they can email me or (gasp!) call me and we can talk face-to-face or at least on the phone if they live out of the area.

I'm much happier this way, and I'm not inclined at all to go back.

[jobob]

Eh, I personally see no problem with it.

I find fb a great way to keep up with the friends I want to keep up with, to plan get-togethers and such.

There is an effective ignore feature on fb, so if someone is expending too much bandwidth (imho) yammering about what they had for dinner or whatever, I put them on ignore. Easy-peasy.

Nowadays, I personally find fb much more useful and relevant to me than TE, which I feel (again, imho) has, over time, become full of irrelevant chatter. I'm so glad Jeff finally brought back the ignore thread option.

Again, just my opinion.