Ah the not so age old Facebook dilemma. I am one of the baby boomers now taking over facebook

I did read the article BTW

A cycling friend of mine from another city convinced me to open an account. 2 months later she posted "you need to find more friends!" . . . She was my only one.

THEN the epiphany came - I went home for Christmas and my nephew and his wife were expecting. I wanted them to email me ASAP after the baby was born. The reply . . . "are you on Facebook?"

Suddenly I had a reason to be there. I saw pictures of the new grand-niece the day she was born- right there it made it all worth it.

I now find it very fun. I still am at under 50 "friends" and they are all people I have some reason to be friends w/.

I am friends w/ a person I have never met but we have a good friends in common and I enjoy the bantering back and forth. Also I am now facebook friends w/ a TE sister and when and if I get back to where she lives I will have someone to go riding w/

I love the regular contact w/ my family who live very far away (as on another continent) so I can never see them face to face.

I love the fact that I can see the babies growing up and changing.

Some of my friends have 300 "friends" I would find that overwhelming and annoying.

Crankin' interestingly enough the person who hooked me up to Facebook is a practicing psychiatrist. I thought she would be concerned about revealing anything about her personal life but she doesn't seem to have a problem w/ it
Again good judgement is the order of the day.

I have everything blocked so only my friends can see anything - I don't even allow friends of friends.

I have had former students contact me whom I have rejected just because I really have nothing to say to them not because I didn't like them when they were in high school. I have no desire to contact old HS classmates either who I wasn't friends w/ then. Seeing them every 10 years at a reunion is enough.

If I want to say something I don't want others to see I just email or PM the person.

I must say all the little "throw a shoe at" or "give a gift to" are VERY annoying and I ignore all of those.