I'm bang into it It's been great for making contact with old friends, someone got in touch today who I haven't seen for 18 years, but when we started going over old times it was like we were right back there again. Also great for keeping in touch with one of my best friends in the US and have also made some good new mates through others aswell and there's a few reunions and meet ups planned for next year.

I also do enjoy a good poking I have to say!

Lol Karma, but can you not keep in touch by other methods  does it allways have to be by FB?

Facebook is easy cos everything is there, photos, messages, you can have multi convos, all at a glance, whereby e-mail is not so 'involved' if you get what I mean. And if it weren't for FB I wouldn't have been able to be back in touch with half the people I have cos over the years I've moved around a lot.

i must admit, i like the games on there

Instant messaging though . MSN, Yahoo and the like? there are other methods of contact.....you don't need to go with the 'biggees'

But the people I'm back in touch with would have never have found me (or me them) to talk to on MSN if it weren't for FB!

Don't you need to be in contact with people first to chat with them on MSN?   So that's kinda pointless if you want to just find people.

I notice when you add an "application" there is invariably some words in very small type which says the provider can make use of your detailsin whatsoever way they wish.
That is why I rarely use an application, and my security settings are so tight that hardly anybody can reach me.
Defeats the object really.
Another reason for not liking FB is the strange and frightening hopes  of its founder Mark Zuckerberg that he might have enough influence to change the world.

I love facebook as you can have conversations like this:


A: i'm eating ben and jerrys ice cream
B: mmm
A: lol

don't do it

Mindjolt games rock!!

I LOVE FB

Yes do it

I only ever use it for Bejewelled Blitz - I've had a messge in my Inbox for two weeks that I haven't got round to answering yet

Pammuloooollllaaaaaaa, please join facebook.  Like Karma says, once you start using it, it is a great way to stay in touch.  I rarely check e-mail these days, I do it all through facebook.  Join, join, join and you'll get to see my snowman, Horace the second.
At first it can seem a bit weird with all the application requests but you quickly know which ones you like and will use and which one you can ignore.

FB is ace because you can communicate with people n a general relaxed way and keep up to date with everyone in a more informal way at your own pace. MSN etc you have to hold an actual convo and sometimes you don't have the time or feel like it. FB gives you the choice of instant chatting, or you can choose to answer/message as and when you like.

Am I making sense?

Total sense, pepsi
Since I started fostering I rarely have the time and focus to have a convo on msn.  But as you say, facebook you can come and go without having to say "brb" every few mins.

fb is amazing ive had a right laugh on there over xmas, with all my friends real life and from on here. Loved xmas day and last night playing pictionary with forumer till late its brill x

I really really enjoyed last night Gyps! Was great fun
Another FB has done for me is let me get to know people better ... their real selfs not the forummer. AND I've made friends with loads of former so called "forum enemies" lol

yeah last night was brilliant
thats another good point, people become real on facebook not just a forum name. I really would be lost without it.

I keep in touch with rl friends who are now scattered all over the world. They send me their latest pics(in case I've forgotten what they look like).
I play Mindjolt Games on there andchat to people from here as well.
I much prefer FB to E Mail etc, even though at times it can drive you mad

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I especially liked my comet

It was lush!

im an artistic genius what can i say

Barney employs me to work on her farms

I used to hate & despise it... not its function... but the actual software and structure of it.... oh, and its desire to connect you with every tom, dick & harry (nooooo!)

...then I got into the games... which are fab.   Alot are beta versions, hence why you get to play such high quality games for free (fb users are in effect trialing them for the developer)...  and its very clever in that it pitches your scores against your friends... that was how my fb addiction started...

"have. to. beat. Ducky. at. Bejewelled. Blitz. *tongue sticking out of side of mouth*"

Playing the games got me used to the structure and so then I understood it enough to be able to sort my settings out to allow just enough peeps in.

For me its real life peeps I don't want contacting me....  mil's etc.   (I blocked her... oh the block function on FB is an absolute dream.... it does it sooo well, so comprehensively).  

So I have gone from a hater to an addict!

I'm rubbish at getting back to pm's. One mate sent me one a year and a half ago and I started to reply but then got a visitor so wrote 'oh bugger door's just knocked, will get back to you in 5'...and she's still waiting

Just resend it with 'years' after the 5

Wouldn't ever touch it with a barge pole........no matter how long.

I really like it, it took some getting into at first but now I feel at home there. I love the games and meeting people all around the world through them as well as staying in touch with a lot of great fms who won't touch this place.
It's like anything I guess, you get out of it what you want.

Love it, I get to keep up to date with all my cousins without having to have a full convo with them. so they know whats going on in my life and I know whats going on in there's.

its great for me as i live abroad and can keep in touch with loads of friends and family and see pics of parties and stuff that i wouldn't usually i've also got back in touch with some lovely school mates and talking about old memories is good

not in to farmville/fishville/.cafe ville rubbish and don't accept hearts and flowers LOL

It took a bit of getting used to but I love it now - in touch with all sorts of peeps I wouldn't be - i think it is great used sensibly

I spend at least 5 hours a week on it and have made many new friends and reconnected with several old ones.  Plus, I play games on there too sometimes.   So I disagree that it's shyte!

I like FB for a lot of the reasons stated above.

When you live alone and you are in your early sixties, it is like a breath of fresh air!!

Sorry Shizzlex - but I love Farmville, Farmtown and YoVille!!!  I am delighted to have "met" people from here - on there!!

pm me annoca and we can add each other on fb

Oh Dear God!!  Aimee - I would love to PM you - but I haven't a clue how to do it.

I am Angi Carroll on FB - the real me - so if you can sort it from your end, I would LOVE to meet up with you.