So DH finally gets on Facebook, and what happens?

Give in to the madness. Sigh...

If there is a business reason, I'd have him he t two accounts. One personal and one tied to the business. Have him practice on his Personal page and learn there

I'm no help. I'm 51 and have been on facebook for about a year. I still can't figure out a lot of it either!

Mary K

Good luck. My dad made a FB account about a year ago "to keep up with the family", meaning the younger cousins and such. Then he complains that they either post drinking photos or 1,000 pics of the baby. And that most post nothing. I've explained that FB has mostly become a site for people my age I think he just likes to complain.

He'll get it. My 70+ yr old MIL is on it 24/7, constantly liking and tagging and sharing and posting and commenting and gaming. Took her a little bit, but she's the master now.

I like that it gives her social interaction, but I hate having to hear all about everyone's posts and ailments and arguments and every other thing she shares with us. It's totally annoying. "Did you see that cat video?" Uhh, WHAT CAT VIDEO? One thing she's never quite mastered is the idea that I don't see exactly what she sees on her timeline and I'm not friends with all of her family and don't want to be.

I resisted Facebook for a long time and then I accidentally signed up! I was trying to look at someones page, and since I wasn't familiar with it I thought if I sign up for Facebook I would be able to see more information from their page. I signed up with my name and nothing else, I didn't have any pictures, any identifying information, and I didn't even put any post on my wall. I kind of forgot about it until the next morning when I checked my email and I had multiple friend requests! I have no idea how the first person found me but apparently from there it showed that she was my friend so other mutual friends started friending me! I was too embarrassed to just delete everything and say it was an accident, so I went ahead and added a picture and started using Facebook! I still don't post very much, but it is interesting to see the posts from other people and what other people are up to.

DH will never get it, but asks me for info. My grandma has it, she is 83. Hilarious listening to her. She will call and say she saw my picture on The Facebook on The Nook. Between her and my mom we are all loved. If you love your daughter, if love your grandchildren, like if you miss someone that is gone. Yep, I feel the love everyday!!!

I am going to be teaching some older ladies about FB at our next retreat, maybe you have a community education in your city that he can take a course.

I really don't do Facebook either. I signed up to vote for my niece in a Patriots photo contest and only have one friend, my sister. So the posts i get are of what she posts, plus of the Patriots, which i don't care about but am too disinterested to figure out how to unlike those posts. I recently joined my preschool's private group so i get the occasional post there too, but I'm sure I'm doing half of it wrong. I tend to join stuff just as it's going to die, so I'm predicting Facebook will be old news next year and everyone will be onto something else if it follows the pattern of friendster and MySpace :-)

I wish I could be supportive and tell you that yes, he'll figure it out, but unfortunately I can't! My husband is 61, has been on FB for about 6 years, and still can't figure it all out. He's constantly asking me about things on his wall versus his timeline, how to post a comment when he gets birthday notifications, etc. I jokingly tell him that I'm going to deactivate his account one of these days because he drives me crazy with the same questions over, and over, and over! Good luck!!

I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I like being able to see what's going on in the lives of my high school friends, my best friend--we chat a lot (I can use the Facebook chat program which goes to her cell--much easier to communicate than phone calls since she has small children and her dh works from home), family members (my mom is NOT on, thankfully), and my friends I've met on the internet. 

What I hate is the crazy posts--rabid political posts, vaguebookers, whiny Debbie Downers who are always screaming about the sky falling and stir up drama but never take anyone's advice or do anything differently, and couples that insist on posting every.single.detail.of.their.relationship. My dh is on Facebook, too, and we sometimes comment on each other's posts, but we're private about our relationship and especially about anything going on in our marriage. 

My MIL and FIL discovered Facebook several years ago and are addicted. They know a ton of people--MIL is the kind that considers every person she's ever met a "really good friend". She's a stickler for etiquette--at least what she considers it to be, but all bets are off when she's not holding court at home. She would be FURIOUS if someone brought their phone to her table at home, but when we go out to eat when we visit or they visit us, she won't put down the phone. I haven't felt like doing a lot of cooking in the last few years, and hosting them is very stressful although I do it for dh. Dh and I never use our phones when we eat together, but we haven't been able to get them to stop. They would pout for months if dh came straight out and said "it's rude, knock it off". We've dropped humongous hints. 

What's the most annoying is that MIL will talk about my niece and nephews and then go into her spiel about how she doesn't love me any less because we don't have kids, but then she'll make me look at hundreds of her Facebook friends' baby photos.   She's not vindictive or mean, she's just extremely self centered and unaware. 


I get more positive communication from Facebook than negative. If that changes, I'll stop. I have blocked a few people who just weren't posting anything positive or are actively posting negative or aggressive crap--one person was completely anti law enforcement and rabid about it--I have a lot of family in law enforcement, and they're the good guys. I also blocked a former teacher I really liked because she was so negative--always whining about being sick or being rabid politically. Totally a different person than the one I knew in school. (she wasn't seriously ill but constantly posted in great detail to gain sympathy while my friends that do have serious illnesses were so positive and concerned for other people) 

You blocked someone for posting about their illnesses in great detail?

Ok...