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OK I'm putting it here cause it effects everyone. (family friend etc)

I only started FB cause one of you folks from here invited me. I post random things and play games. Well my brothers are friends now and them I can deal with. But now my mom & dad are too. (my dad just did it to get the free stuff form companies that you needed a fb account) my mom reads EVERYTHING (Even my blog) and I don't REALLY care except she can misconstrue things.

Anyway its not my family that I care about.
I have 2 folks now that I was friends with in HS. One was like my BEST friend for YEARS and the other was a really good friend for years. I accepted friend requests because I found it rude not to. But in reality I don't want them knowing everything about me. I haven't moved since I got married (they all have my address since they send me xmas cards) they all know where I work. and yet never ONCE made an effort to care about what was going on in my life. (I was one of the first to have a kid (well one of them had her baby the same day Lyssie was born)) I wasn't (am still not) a partier so I got excluded from ALOT of stuff cause my FAMILY or JOB came first.

Now after almost 15 years these people care or are they just nosey? We don't converse about anything. Not a HEY its great to have found you what are you up to - nothing. SO honestly I set them up in a separate group (just like I have all my bbu friends) so I can block them from things like pictures and such.

anyway I was just wondering what you all do with random folks from HS?
post #2 of 6

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I add them ... or I don't, depending on how well we knew eachother. I don't have a single fb friend that I don't actually know though ... aside from my BabyU gals that I've "known" for so long online.
I don't post very many personal things on fb or any social networking site because of the amount of family I have on there ... I never cared to have my family (read as - my mother) knowing everything about my life. I share pictures, play games, and use the "event" tool for parties we are planning ... oh and I do my own share of nosing ... it's fun once and awhile to see what other people are up to. As far as blogging though, I just don't do it. I never understood wanting to keep such a public journal.
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I only blog cause I felt like I was always posting pics here and such and so I figured it would be easier to just slap it on a blog.

Honestly I'd like to disappear off of FB & my blog and go into hiding again .
post #4 of 6

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Just don't hide from us Karen! No seriously... people from HS and JHS have been requesting that I add them, and depending on how well I knew them I do add them. Only people I really considered a friend though, not just any old person from HS. I actually had someone message me after denying their friend request. THey asked why, I asked them who I was and how they knew me and their response, well we went to the same HS. Okay yeah.... I don't have random friends so I said no.
I use FB for photos and such so that my family can see the kids. I would rather have them on their than on here. I tried the blog thing... but I never go on their and update it so it's a waste for me.
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I think all of us have had "friend and family" problems of one kind or another on FB. I have tons of people on my list, but only those I really know are in my "friends" groups or "family" group. Most are just people who play the same games I do. I don't converse with them or anything. If you don't want to have contact with them, then don't. That's one of the good things about FB - you can simply deny the request and/or block that person. For me, FB is an easy way for me to keep up with my family since we are spread all over the country. I learned the hard way, tho, I can't even post about feeling depressed or unhappy without someone calling my parents and asking what is wrong with me! Then I posted to please contact me if you wanted to know something about me. Got flak for that too. Now I just ignore it. I am not responsible for other people and their actions.
post #6 of 6

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I do it for "being Nosey" I admit it.

But I have my best friend on there now. We went to HS together and never were close but are now. If I really dont want contact with someone then I will block them. Who cares about what they think.
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