Probably not

[kaz]

Anyone here use facebook?

[Scotty24]

Hi Kaz
Yes I use Facebook. I have friends and relatives in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA so find Facebook a great way to keep in touch, share photos etc.
As I haven't contributed to this forum for a long, long time (illness) I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy and healthy new year xxx

[kaz]

Wow Sue... how lovely to hear from you after all this time. Sorry you have not been well... are you fully recovered now? What are your plans for 2010?

[Ponddipperdave]

Hi Alison,
And everybody. Happy new year for 2010.
Yes, I'm a facebook user. Its a way of keeping in touch with my estranged family.
Why do you ask Kaz ?

David

[alison]

Hi Sue and Dave. It is really lovely to see your names crop up every so often. Happy new year to you both.
I don't use facebook but hear about loads of things from my family and friends that do use facebook.
I also hope you have recovered Sue from your illness and hope your little dogs are well.
Dave I hope your family are just estranged through distance and not through fall outs I have a brother who is quite estranged from the family and it was very hard when Mum died due to those circumstances.

[Tricia]

Yes - Happy New Year to everyone from me too - but no, I don't use Facebook Kaz. I prefer to keep in touch by phone, as I have free international calls with my phone and broadband provider. Apart from calls to my friends from all over, it's lovely chatting to my sister in Canada whenever I feel the need (which is often ).

[kaz]

The reason I ask about facebook is that my friends and younger family seem to have 'hundreds' of 'friends'. Do people just add anyone and everyone? My father comes across as a bit of a nutter on there (which he really isn't... just his humour... actually, I think he made quite a few crazy comments on my cruise blog which was a bit embarrassing at the time).

Sorry to hear about the relationship between you and your brother Alison.

[alison]

I have always stayed in touch with my brother and so it was left to me to tell him the news about my mum. He didn't come to her funeral but I know that he was thinking about her. It is such a shame when things in the past get such a hold on someone that it causes a separation between those that love each other. I know my mum loved him very much and he does love her also.
As to the facebook I think that you just send a message to people from your facebook account asking if they want to be your 'friend' Usually it is people that you know in the beginning but then I think others can ask to be on your friends list and you can choose to say yes or no to them. I hope that is right.

[dampflippers]

I have recently joined, but don't use it often. I have joined not to met my friends, but too look at various organisation's facebook sites.
I have found that if I have a "friend", then anyone who is friends with them automatically is shown as a suggestion form me to make friends with me. I suspect some people just accept them all, but I don't. I decide whether or not to accept people who want to be my friend, and onmly accept the suggested ones if I actually know them.
I do think it a bit intrusive that I now here that my friend has made friends with other people, and don't really like that.
So...I am proceeding with caution. It's also quite difficult because I don't actually know the proper names of alot of my online friends, or I only know their maiden names, and I certainly don't know what most of the look like.