The Facebook thingy at the bottom

Sandra Parker said:
Au fait with facebook and twitter!
Now I do feel inadequate.
Sandra

I do have a facebook page, but I deliberately have no friends because it seems FB keeps wanting to tell me about everything a friend does or eats, or wears and who is their friend of a friend of a fr....
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I think that at the present time I have the sum total of 11 'friends', and these are gradually decreasing in number when 'friends' of 'friends' whom I don't know either start using language that I wouldn't use, or butt their noses into conversations that they know nothing about! I do, however, use FB for keeping in touch with things and places that I have an interest in, such as various genealogy websites, including Ancestry and FMP. Otherwise, I really can't be bothered with it! I don't like or use Twitter!
 
I do access facebook to see things, as lots of things are only kept up to date on facebook, but I am just not friendly there. My one experience of having a friend, resulted in me getting notifications every day whenever he added anything,(and that was every day) or anyone else 'friended' him! And he was only a writing acquaintance. So I told him I'd just keep in touch by email.
Sandra
 
There's a lot wrong with FB and the like, but in my case I find it invaluable. My FB rellie (and almost rellie) friends are all of the "around the 30's" age group so an awful lot of what they and their friends post is of no interest to me at all. I've learned to gloss and ignore what is uninteresting and focus on what is or might be. Without this particular medium I would not be as close to these younger ones as I am because they are widely spread and we hardly ever see each other. With family I have become the link and can pass information backwards and forwards easily. It's sad to say, but some of the older generation have never met some of the youngsters and yet we are what I consider to be closely related - aunts, uncles and cousins. The penalty of a moving society I guess, but at least I'm the lucky one who just happens to know them all. Stems from being the eldest of the grandchildren lucky enough to live near the maternal grand-parents and thankfully I've been able to keep the "friendships" going.
 
My only experience with FB was an invitation to keep in contact with a long-lost first cousin several years ago who re-discovered me through my tree on Genes Reunited with the message "If Esme Roystone was your mother then you must be my first cousin".

So I happily accepted her invitation to be her friend on FB. That's when I discovered just how many friends and friends of friends and friends of friends' friends she had, who all wanted me to be their friend too.

Trouble was -- my cousin married a Venezuelan she met at University in Cardiff and promptly emigrated with him to Venezuela and taught English in Caracus University -- all her friends and children and grandchildren communicated in Spanish and I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying. So I abandoned FB and now communicate with my cousin who has retired to Florida by e-mail.

I don't tweet either so I suppose I'm missing out :D

All the best.
 
the 'like' button on here only likes this particular post, if you look on the main page there is another one there which has been liked by 497 people :D
 
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