s/o Does FB add value to your life?

I don't air dirty laundry on FB, I don't have crazy family feuds played out there, I don't get constant MLM posts via friends nor much in the way of political stuff either.....so what I see I choose to see, its mostly lighthearted stuff. Could I live without it? Certainly but it's enables me to have more contact with some friends than I would otherwise have and I like that

I like that it allows me to keep up with people whom I love, but whom I don't see often because the pace of life is such that you just can't do everything and see everyone. I have friends that I see maybe twice a year. It doesn't feel like so much time has passed, though, because I feel somewhat "up to date" with them. I think a lot of my friendships would really fall by the wayside.

I like that it provides an easy way to share information (articles, videos, etc.) with all of my friends or specific friends.

I like most of the conversations it generates.

I like seeing my friends' children grow and change.

One of my groups is very important to me.

So yes, I think, it adds to my quality of life!

I love Facebook my friends and family are all over the world. It lets me stay in touch and feel connected I also enjoy several games on it as well.

I don't let others Facebook pages annoy me. It's their page and they can use it how they see fit. The MLM posts can be irritating but I just move on past.

Exactly this!

I unfollow people if they annoy me.

All our family live several states away. It's easy for them to see what is going on in my little girl's life. And we can keep up with what they are doing. It adds a lot to my life.

I love Facebook. It allows me share my life with family and friends spread all over the country, and world. I lived in three different countries.


My daughter is into musical theatre and one of the greatest things has been connecting with some of my friends from high school who also have kids who love musical theatre even though none of us were into it as kids.

The other thing is my daughter started with group of theatre kids in Cayman and its fun to see them posting about their shows. They did Shrek Jr this weekend and so did we.

I think of my Facebook page as where I share what I want. I share political stuff but I do not debate on my page. I have a couple of childhood friend, one particular family who would post some of the most hateful stuff when I posted my political views. I messaged them each 2 or 3 times explaining I wasn't looking to debate, they were entitled to their opinion, and I didn't expect them to change their mind, but I did not want their posts on my page. I don't post things on their Facebook page and would appreciate if they didn't on mine.

They all ignored my request... so now when they post something I don't want on my Facebook page.. I delete it. If they don't like they can de-friend me!!

Yes. My siblings and nieces and nephews are scattered across the country. It allows me to have almost daily interaction with them when I wouldn't otherwise. I'm also friends with people from high school and even a few from my church youth group days that I know I wouldn't be in contact with otherwise. I love seeing what everyone has been up to. I've even had one gal from high school (she was a popular girl, I was a nobody) send me a private message apologizing for not taking the time in high school to try to get to know me better as she thinks I'm really fun. Who knew?

I really like the scrapbk groups I'm part of. I have very little friend count on there. Its good for invites to events.

I don't have drama friends!!

Yes, it does. I don't participate in drama or political discussion. I love that I can stay connected with my HS classmates, my BFF, and our friends that live all over the world. I also like links that people post to interesting articles, or local events. I also belong to several closed groups where I get lots of useful information. So, although sometimes I pine for the 'old days' before social media started sucking our time, I do think overall that it has enhanced my life.

Erin

I didn't realize it was against the TOU to have a second account and admit I do. I didn't want my friends and family getting a load of crafting related posts in their feed, so separated my two lives.

We moved countries & states, so have family & friends all over the place and I use FB to keep in touch with them. Fortunately it is mostly semi-regular photo updates and very little drama. I am not FB friends with any friends that live locally.

If you read the fine print in paragraph 9673444  I won't tell if you won't!  I figure until they require proof of identity for opening an account it really doesn't matter. I'm not trying to be someone I'm not... just don't want to deal with having strangers involved in my life just because I wanted to play a few social games my family doesn't play.

For me, Yes, facebook does add value to my life. We moved from Australia to the US 12 years ago, and we have zero family here. The main way I get to 'see' my nieces and nephews is via pictures their parents post on facebook. We do email for private conversations, but facebook is ket for day to day update. This is the primary reason I am even on facebook. I tend to just scroll on by any vaguebooking, political or other fluff stuff.

nope, it didn't...

I liked it when I first joined, but found out it was mostly just a time-sucker for me, not anything useful. I went through a period of months where I didn't post anything or check anything on it at all, then I finally decided to delete my account altogether. I haven't missed it a bit.