What's worse...

[Cookie]

Parents on Facebook, or your parents' friends who also send you friend requests?

In all fairness, my mom is pretty cool on Facebook and is decently savvy. I don't have to worry about her keeling over in shock if I post a pic with a beer or use a cuss word. However, all her friends who send me requests wouldn't be nearly as cool with me dropping an F bomb. Maybe because I used to tutor some of their kids?

The problem came from the fact that they had both set their profiles to completely private and therefore were unable to find each other to send a friend request. This was the day I permanently turned off Facebook chat. All. Day. Long. I get pings from mom's friend asking me how she can send a friend request to my mom. I told her I honestly didn't know. Hell, I STILL don't know. All I can figure is that one of them would have to temporarily change privacy settings so they could at least find each other. From what I understood, she was bugging the living crap out of my brother at the same time.

[Darkforge]

and this is why I have two accounts, one is very boring and dull which I hardly ever update and the other is the one I actually use (under my nickname which is a fairly common one)

family and work (and a couple of select aquiantances) on one and mates on the other

[Andara Bledin]

And this, my friends, is why you have people in groups and use the separate settings for each one.

I've got one for "respectable" people. It gives them only limited access to my page. Plus, for things like iffy pics, you can also set security settings individually.

^-.-^

[telecom_goddess]

I've had my kids friends send me friend requests so they asked for it

[technical.angel]

My mom is friends with me on FB. At thisbpoint, I really don't care. I don't post anything... questionable.

[Frantic Freddie]

I'm waitin' for the day when aomeone asks me why a 54 year old man has a 14 year old Mexican girl for a friend on FB.

psssttt...she's my niece

[Andara Bledin]

If you play even a single Facebook app, nobody will think twice. I've got people in my contact list that I don't even know. Hell, some of them are listed as too young to even be on the site, much less play the games. Then again, at least one of them is a dog.

^-.-^

[telecom_goddess]

If you play even a single Facebook app, nobody will think twice. I've got people in my contact list that I don't even know. Hell, some of them are listed as too young to even be on the site, much less play the games. Then again, at least one of them is a dog.

^-.-^

I'm friends with a kitty on fb

[AccountingDrone]

I have a friend in EVE online that has a picture of me on his FB that is listed as his mother I also happen to be the same age she is.

[Fire_on_High]

I'm friends with a kitty on fb

A kitty, two rats, a dog...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, two things.

One, I am pushing fifty and just no longer give a a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut about stuff like that anymore.

Two, I just keep it reasonably clean and respectable on there more or less anyway. I don't say anything I wouldn't say with my mom or my priest in the room (note my mom is probably way more uptight than my priest). Not because I'm hiding anything, it's just that I really have nothing to hide.

I'm actually pretty boring.

I'm probably way more vulgar here (well, here and at someplace like music practice with my friends) than anywhere else. Because I come here to blow off steam, like most people Nobody (the mom and the priest included) would be shocked to discover I have a potty mouth, believe you me.

[Mytical]

Facebook...hsssss it wantssss my preciousss ..we hatesss it. Seriously not a big facebook person

[Shalom]

I don't even have a FB account. Nor Myspace or any of that ilk. I guess that makes me a dinosaur.

Heck, even fora like this one are dangerously modern for me; I grew up on Usenet. Didn't even need a web browser. Show some of these kids today an NNTP server and they wouldn't have any idea what it is, let alone how to use it.

[BeeMused]

Hey fellow dinosaur! I'm not on facebook, myspace or whatever.
I loved the good old usenet, did you have a Compu$erve Account, too?

[MoonCat]

I'm not on Facebook either. There isn't anybody I want to talk to that I can't call or email. I have a LiveJournal account but haven't used it for a long time.

I guess if you have friends and family scattered around the country FB is useful, but I don't.