I'm seriously of two minds about Facebook. I love it for so many things. Some of the things I use Facebook for are: Keeping in touch with friends that I live far away from, Geting to know my cousins more (mostly the younger ones), and Seeing up to date photos of my friends children, and my nieces and nephews. I have stronger relationships with my distant family now because of Facebook - mostly with cousins that I didn't know that well - but would see at family occasions, and now I know what's they're doing - what movies they are seeing, what books they are reading, etc. It has lead to more similarities between my family and me than I ever knew before.
However, at the same time - I get annoyed at the ads, I worry about how much information my younger (less privacy aware cousins) feel comfortable putting out there. And sometimes it feels just too public. I had an argument once with my fiance about changing our status to "married" while we were in Vegas. (He thought it would be funny - i disagreed). Once I explained the web of connections to him (my sister-in law would see it - she would phone my dad - who would phone my mom, etc....) and he quickly realized that something that was meant to be a funny joke could be taken seriously - and could definitely upset people...
Really for me - Facebook is a bit of a time-waster - but at this point I enjoy enough of it that I'm not willing to stop!
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