Melisa Osmond: Finding the Power in You
4 years ago
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
What is up?
I've received a few facebook invites over the past several months and have finally decided to try it because it seems like EVERYONE and their mom, and in my case, my dad are on facebook. What's the deal??? So far it feels like trying to find as many friends as you can. It's a little overwhelming. Thoughts on facebook anyone?? Also, what is facebook etiquette? How well should you know someone before invite them to be a "friend"? This is all very new to me...yikes.
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We signed up for facebook a few months ago. I accept friends based on the fact that I would want to keep in touch with that person and wouldn't mind them looking at photos of our family and knowing what we are doing. It's a GREAT way to find and keep in touch with old friends that you have lost touch with. Don't worry about rejecting people as friends though, it's not as personal as it seems. They don't get an email that says, "Lori rejected your friendship." Facebook is great, but once you find the friends, it's kind of like "now what do I do?" Basically, it's blogging in a more concise form.
Hey Lori--
I felt the same way you do when I first started! I just kept collecting friends and I didn't know what to do with them! I agree with Jenny's definition of friends. But I don't really have very many personal things on my facebook, so I have all kinds of acquaintances and things from high school on mine and it's been fun to catch up on what they are doing! When you check facebook you can read people's status updates and comment on them or look at their pictures if you want. I don't spend a lot of time doing that, but it's fun sometimes to see a long lost friend's kids or something. Have fun!!
I don't plan on putting too much personal info on Facebook and I was really hesitant about using my maiden name as well as my married last name but then I thought well... it is that way on Classmates and the purpose is so that old friends can find you. I didn't put the exact city I live in now and we are unlisted anyway. I didn't put my birth year, but it shows my email address if I let someone be my friend.
The thing I don't like is that my Mom is on there and had her maiden name listed so her old HS friends can find her... so then she links herself to me on my friends list and sets her relation as my mother.... then suddenly someone has my mother's maiden name too. I had her set her relationship to just generic family and not specify she was my mom. She has used Facebook for a month or so and is pretty quiet on there except she will tell people happy birthday or something. If she wants to talk to someone more she normally emails them or if it is someone she wants to talk with more then she can use the pm feature to give them her phone number or her blog info in a email.
Some people list their blog info on there but I am not going to. I put more personal things on my blog then I plan to put on facebook because I don't have our last name listed or the city we live in and I don't have it searchable by google or blogger or by next blog. So I have to give someone the address, or they find it from a friends page who has my blog listed or see me comment on a blog and click my profile link. So I feel more comfortable putting pictures and saying what is going on in our life on my blog then on facebook.
The status updates are kind of neat, but anyone on your friends list and anyone on their friends list can see them so I plan on keeping them more generic like maybe, "Ugggh housework" or "I want cheesecake" or "I am awake at 5am because the dog kicked me out of bed" or "I am tired" or "I just updated my blog go look". Then those who have my info can go look if they want. I don't really like that it tells every little thing that you do, like CJ posted on Lori's Wall, CJ updated her profile picture, CJ has a new job as Domestic Engineer.... etc. anytime you change some info.
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