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I joined a little over a month ago (my nieces talked me into it) Barbara

I just joined this past weekend and it's been interesting "running into" people from high school. I'm still figuring out how it all works.

Jinx

And after that last pass, I decided to have one in real time. A nice peaty scotch post DD's practice.

This could be addictive.

Oh and Jere Williams is on there too!

Cheryl

Come find Linda and I!

It does sound tempting. Lucille

.PLease do ladies!

I was telling someone at work about it and how I consider many of you to be my friends. They couldn't quite get their heads around it (she's not especially computer literate), but thought it was so cool that I could put a face to a name, even though we've never met in "real life." And you might find out an interesting thing or two about us!

Or we could start a group called "Biches in Stiches"

LOL!

Linda

Linda, just sent you a friend invite.Had to use the email address insead of name Barbara

It is very addictive Barbara

I'm on fb. I can be found under my name (last name Kammerer).

Best wishes, Ericka

It is fun!

Cheryl

I've been on facebook for a while now. Cheryl freinded me yesterday so you can find me that way.

-Margaret

Found you!

Cheryl

I just dumped mine a few weeks ago and sorry, have no intention of reviving it. I'm a party pooper, I found it was stupid, all the wall writing etc. and the feeling that one has to respond to every little prod, dig etc.

Have fun ladies.

I'm on Facebook, but I have limited my 'friends' list mostly to family. Be very careful of those extra applications like 'send flowers', etc. They can contain viruses, and are not Facebook apps, but are created by other companies. Like Sheena, I'm very cautious.

As an example, a friend of mine who has only two friends on her list (me and her sister-in-law) started getting spam which looked like Facebook messages. The two names on them were MY nieces - neither of whom are in her friend list. Somehow, my friends list got linked up to her friend list. I also started to get friend requests from people I have no idea of who they are (one turned out to be a fitness instructor who is on another friend's list - he was trolling for new customers). I have no problem refusing such invites.

It might be better to set up a Facebook group which you can join and THEN invite those from the group to be friends (and ignore those you don't want).

MargW

Glad I am not the only one. I started originally at the urging of my elder granddaughter and in the end found it intrusive. I did have fun joining our provincial premiers face book and leaving a rude remark (along with many others lol)

My baby grandson doesn't care for FB. His mother was checking around and followed a lead to one of his friends sites where there was footage of him with his car nose to another car in a field, then both were trying to see if they could shove the other backwards. Well, his car was taken off him that night after his father saw it. Sadder, sadder, much wiser ! Still, I said to my daughter, how nice they found out without anyone being hurt in the making.

The funny part was he arrived here and I took him to work but he didn't want to tell me the truth, so he said he was out of gas money. So of course I gave him gas money all the while saying I was surprised that his mother had not done so, if only to avoid the drive in to town to pick him up after work ! So now he doesn't know that I know and has to screw up the courage to come and tell me, and as my daughter said, return the money lol

So I am sure FB can be very useful to parents of teens lol

Also be aware of the features that can help you out. You can create different groups of friends with different privacy settings for each group (so not all your friends see everything you do or say). Go to Friends, then click on "Make a New List" and put your friends into different groups. Once you've done that, you can set the privacy settings for each application so that they don't broadcast everything to everyone. For instance, you could set it up so that your photos can be seen by one list of friends, but not by another.

Best wishes, Ericka

I'm on Facebook, too. We're finding this a great way for family to stay in touch.

And I'll echo the warning about facebook apps like drinks, and snowball fights, and pokes. These applications are not written by facebook and there is no way to tell what they contain.I don't do any of these and have absolutely no problems.

I friended Cheryl this morning and you find me through her.

Donna in Virginia

I just ran a virus scan on my Mac - so far so good, but I think I'll add something to say while I love the sentiment, I'm going to ignore future smiles and such. Just send me a note

Suddenly I'm being deluged with folks wanting me to join Facebook, and I'm resisting. Why? I already spend time checking r.c.t.n. each day, and emails, and two other bulletin boards. I simply don't have TIME to "connect" to the whole world on a regular basis!

Funny Facebook story. DD#1 became engaged some months back, and two days later DD#2 said to me, "Have you heard from Lexa? Is everything okay with her?" I hadn't spoken to her, and DD#2 continued, "Well, her Facebook page changed from 'engaged' to 'unattached.' I wonder what happened."

A couple of days later, when I was speaking to DD#1 about something else, I asked her if things were okay and told her what had been reported. "Oh," she said, "I just changed it because as soon as I said 'engaged' I started getting a ton of wedding spam, and I don't care about it. I just told my friends on my wall, and returned the settings to 'unattached' to avoid the spam."

(Which is what I had assumed all along. That's exactly what her father would have done, and she thinks in exactly the same way as DH! Apparently DD#2 didn't read the wall, just looked at the settings, and got worried.)

Sue