Facebook... - Olathe,KS

Good for you. I will probably never delete mine though as I have a few rules that I stick to.
1) I will never "friend" kids under the age of 13 as I don't think kids under that age should be on it in the first place.
2) I never "friend" people I work with. What is the point if you see them everyday!!
3) I can't stand drama and over the top, personal details. I have deleted so many people because of this.
4) I will delete people with over-zealous religious or political comments if it becomes more than just there opinions and starts to become rude and ignorant.
5) I can't stand the way people collect friends like its a competition but then hardly speak when you pass them in the street. DELETE!! lol

Anyway I do love it as I have a lot of family who live overseas and friends who live all over the place. Its great to keep in touch. It has been a life saver for some of my family members who were house-bound. There is a lot of bad stuff about facebook but there is good stuff too if its used correctly. :-)

My friends and family are spread across the country -- and the world -- and I love Facebook because it keeps us all connected. Deleting it would be like cutting off a limb for me. Never ever would I do it. (If I get tired of people's drama, I block them so I can't see their posts unless I go looking for them. I wouldn't punish myself for their idiocy by getting rid of it altogether.)

I applaud you if you feel that was good for you. I however just got a facebook account like five months ago so I am new to it and enjoy seeing family pics and updates from people I love who live far away.

nope, love my fb :)

it is what you make of it. good for you for deleting it if that is the way you needed to go.

Deleting a FB account is quite an ordeal!!! I use it mostly to show out of state family and friends pictures of the kids. It is so much easier that trying to remember to contact each one.

No, never. FB is the way I stay in touch with my family and my close group of friends, plus get most of my news. It is a valuable tool for me.

I don't have one, and from what I hear of drama about it from my family and friends, have zero desire to get one.

In fact, the reason I was offline from Mamapedia for so long was I couldn't log in and talk here without one, and after several emails to the fine folks in charge about it, they made it possible for those without FB and those that do to talk here--and boy am I glad, because I missed you Mamas!

I have a laptop, which was a gift from a family friend, to keep me connected with LD family that has wi-fi internet connection, which a family member has graciously paid for every month so I can stay in touch.

I do the email chat, when I'm not overseeing school preparations, breakfast, lunch, dinner, homework, spend quality time with my son, bedtime, and housework(I get on Mamapedia between loads of dishes or laundry), so maybe an hour a day, because I devote 30 minutes to me time, just me time, where I either pamper myself or my artistic endeavours.

I have a landline so everyone can call me, and my Father got me a prepaid cell for emergencies(I rarely use $10 a month on it) so I can always be contacted. It's gotten old, so for the first time in a great many years I am going to get it replaced(and have also zero interest in a smart phone, this one will also be a text and talk flip phone, and I think I can no longer avoid the camera)

If they can't write to me, call me, or email me, it's not worth my time worrying over. I just don't have any timeslots in my schedule that I am willing to give up to use FB.

Just my 2cp.

P.S.--Bravo to you! Now, enjoy all that time you freed up on spoiling yourself and the family!

Thats funny - I consider it more often than not. I'm curious, did it take you a while to decide to do it? I don't know what it is, but there are times I sign off feeling worse than when I signed on, yet I am having the hardest time deleting it, just because of those few family members and friends that I don't have time to catch up with in any other way. I don't go on it daily. But if I miss too many days, it's an overwhelming task to go thru everything. Sometimes it's way too much information. Especially those folks you really don't keep in touch with anymore. I don't need to see pics of their dinner they ate last night, or where they partied at the night before.

I did just open an insta-gram acct on my iPhone so that is a fun way to keep up with pics. I must say, I admire you for doing it. I might just have to finally do the same. You are an inspiration! Let us know if you find you miss it!

nope i like it and never once has it caused drama because i dont
-create drama on a social page
-and i dont take it seriously enough

also i dont use it when my daughter is around much at all...ussually i put my phone away when i have her...i mostly use it at work=)

facebook is the devil

No way. I got it first when my brother was in Iraq fighting, and he would post things to let us know he was okay...no detail on anything, just a posting about anything let us know he was alive.

I'm a military brat and from my time in Bermuda I make amazing connections. I LOVE being back in contact with those people (4th-6th grades). I also went to three different high schools and I am in contact with my best friends from those places as well. I keep up with my sister who lives in SC and we are in MD. I share mostly family things. My husband's side of the family is all over the country and we keep in contact with them through FB as well.

I don't post what I have for breakfast, my daily workouts, or my personal rants, but I do post about my accomplishments and things that make me happy...my friends and family normally want to hear those things. To each their own with FB, but mine is staying put :).

Good for you!
I really should get rid of it.
I never use it except to lurk a few times a year.
I've been getting email from it periodically from people I have in my friends list that are obviously virus generated.

No way. I love facebook. It's the best way ever to keep in touch with my family and friends all over the country. I don't have hundreds of friends, I think I have 90+, and they are all people that I am invested in, and are invested in my family. If people start to cause drama, I just ignore it, hide their feed for a while, or unfriend them if it gets too bad. No big deal.

No, I can't see ever getting rid of it. While I've been hurt a few times by something I've come across, it has been a blessing for the most part. I had very little connection to my Dad's side of the family at all until Facebook. It has been wonderful hearing from those relatives and seeing their photos. I've reconnected with old friends from elementary school and high school, gatherings have been scheduled, and I would just be totally out of the loop if I wasn't on there.

I smiled when I read this because it reminded me of my friend who was trying to figure out if she could block people without them knowing it. She made the mistake of accepting everyone and their brother who sent a friend request when she first opened her FB, and it ended up being high school friends from 20 years past whom she didn't know anymore. Some of them had incredibly lengthy religious postings that were not of any interest to her, filling up her wall. She didn't know how to customize her FB to keep her from seeing all that stuff. Then there was some gal that kept sending her hearts and stuff - it was very sophomoric. Another was a guy who kept putting dirty jokes on all of his posts. I actually came on here for her to ask if she could block without FB notifying them, because I didn't know either.

She finally, like you, gave up on FB and got someone to help her delete her account, rather than just block all those people. She seemed rather relieved!! LOL!

Dawn

There's not much drama on mine, and I wouldn't get rid of it if there was. My family lives out of state and I have nephews in the military. If I got rid of it being in contact with those people would be a heck of a lot harder.

No, I never have done that. It's how I stay in touch with family and friends spread all over the world. It's not a time suck for me, though. I spend a few minutes a day checking and then I'm done with it. I've never encountered "drama," but if I did...I'd be blocking people or deleting.

you are better than I

I only got on Facebook when I took this temporary out of the country job. I connect with other ex pats on it. None of my friends and family in the US communicate with me on it. As SOOOOOOOOOON as I return home--its deleted! Way too much information for my tastes.

I did. You can probably expect more face to face communication now. :)

A friend is cancelling her FB account immediately because her family recently received a very threatening, anonymous letter based on their religion. She figures the sender knew their faith was because of their FB pages, even though she posts next to nothing on hers and nothing about her kids (she only got on FB to keep track of college-age relatives). But someone located her husband's work address probably via his professional and personal FB pages (where one could figure out his religion though it's not a very personal page). He can't delete those (she wishes he could) because they are vital to his business, but she's doing everything to get her family as much off the Internet as possible. She knows that's not doable in every way, but she figures FB is just basically inviting total strangers to see things about your children, your home, your life, and she's glad she never really put anything personal on her own account.

We are not on FB, never have been, never will be. It's bad enough that tons of information about everyone is out there for anyone to mine on the rest of the Internet, but to me FB in particular encourages people to put a ton of personal information up, including pictures of their kids, information about kids' activities (makes it easy to find your children in person, no?), about yourself, and so on. I know they have so-called privacy settings but let's face it, there are people out there right now every day working to defeat those settings, and FB itself retains every single thing you post, so one good hack and it's available to the world.

I'm not paranoid, but I am private, and have never liked the idea of putting my business out there for the world to see. My friends know my e-mail and my phone number and know how to use them.

And did anyone see the news items today about the woman who visited Washington, DC, and posted a photo of herself giving the finger at the tomb of the unknown soldiers -- next to a sign saying "Silence and Respect"? She is now likely to lose her job, as is the coworker who took the picture. She is 30 years old and you'd think she'd know that anything posted on FB will be there for the world to find. She's now all over the news as a complete idiot and probably an unemployed idiot very soon. I guess you can't blame the existence of FB for her personal stupidity, but FB sure gave her an instant outlet so she didn't even have to stop and think.

FB just makes too many folks lose their minds. I know most moms who post here use it responsibly, but even the nicest folks can end up victimized, like our friends.

I had 6 Facebook pages. Until last month they where hard to keep up with and remember who was on each page.. The reason for having 6 was my friends list's where full.. I Started deleting people and am now down to 4 pages and 4 or 5 Groups not sure. It was hard for me to do! I could never delete all my pages and Groups... Has it been easy for you? or do you keep wanting to go on your old page? Good luck Keeping Clean' Facebook is a addiction ...

Nah, don't think I could ever delete facebook... it's part of our lives forever now, one of the new ways to communicate... I doubt it will ever go away. There might be more sites that do a copycat of FB tho.... and I imagine we are already paying for it in our communication device taxes..... so may as well use it.
Moderation is key to anything we do in life. Teaching yourself moderation is your best gift. Having to do away with it completely due to lack of self discipline shouldnt have to happen.