Dumb old guy question about facebook

[NorthShoreCoug]

Ok I think I figured it all out. What a strange animal FB is. I join and immediately have 50+ suggested friends and within 10 minutes have 5 friend requests. So far they have all been family or people I'm fine being "friends" with, but how do I avoid having to be friends with every member of my ward or person I graduated HS with?

Ugh my daughter already has 20+ friends and over half of them are boys and clicking on their profiles they all seem to be "interested in women"

If you don't want to reject their friend request (it might just hurt their little ol' feelings), accept them as a friend, then wait a couple of days or so, and remove them from your friends list. Facebook doesn't notify people when they are removed, so they likely won't even notice it.

Or you can come up with a standard disclaimer ("I'm only using facebook to keep tabs on my daughter") to include as a note every time you reject someone.

For long lost "friends" who find you on facebook, I claim I am in the early stages of dementia and don't remember who they are, sorry! (OK, I don't really do this, but have been tempted...)

[beelzebabette]

If you don't want to reject their friend request (it might just hurt their little ol' feelings), accept them as a friend, then wait a couple of days or so, and remove them from your friends list. Facebook doesn't notify people when they are removed, so they likely won't even notice it.

Or you can come up with a standard disclaimer ("I'm only using facebook to keep tabs on my daughter") to include as a note every time you reject someone.

Or, just don't accept the request. That way you don't receive a new request from the forgetful every other week, and you can always claim the request got buried in your inbox.

[Pheidippides]

I'm still not figuring out why people are so addicted to this thing. I log onto my email this morning and it is full of emails from Facebook. I go to FB and have 17 new friend requests, most of which are my ward. I guess it is cool they want to be "friends" with their bishop, but I just don't get why I need to know.


**** is attending ANATOMY OF ARCHITECTURE.

****Surprise! The Mariners won tonight.

**** Joss Whedon to direct The Avengers movie. totally awesome!

**** i know! The laundry, dishes, vacuuming, shopping...etc! We totally should wear a cape and tights so everyone knows how AWESOME we are : )

and especially don't care to hear: oh wait...the tights and cape might give us another job cause our hubbys will like that WAY TOO MUCH! LOL

Your daughter is going to kill me for recommending this site to you, but I get a kick out of www.failbooking.com. It's not exactly sacrament meeting approved, though.

[1337coug]

I'm still not figuring out why people are so addicted to this thing. I log onto my email this morning and it is full of emails from Facebook. I go to FB and have 17 new friend requests, most of which are my ward. I guess it is cool they want to be "friends" with their bishop, but I just don't get why I need to know.


**** is attending ANATOMY OF ARCHITECTURE.

****Surprise! The Mariners won tonight.

**** Joss Whedon to direct The Avengers movie. totally awesome!

**** i know! The laundry, dishes, vacuuming, shopping...etc! We totally should wear a cape and tights so everyone knows how AWESOME we are : )

and especially don't care to hear: oh wait...the tights and cape might give us another job cause our hubbys will like that WAY TOO MUCH! LOL

The secret to making facebook tolerable is to block everything. There are a few people that recommend several groups or applications to me a day, and I block them from sending me invitations to anything. It takes a few days to figure out who's worth blocking, but once you get it down your notifications are actually useful.

[grapevine]

I have over 100 farm town egg hatchling requests on my facebook account. Have yet to accept a single one. No interest in that part of facebook. Usually accept most other requests.

[Uncle Ted]

I think you'll find Facebook very useful in maintaining ties to the youth in your ward. I would even ask the youth to send you a friend request. One tends to think carefully about posting things that one's bishop can read.

Yes, I agree. Being involved with the YMs program I am FB friends with all the YM. Actually it is about the only way (besides calling and texting) to get information to them because they don't read email.

As for being carefully about the bishop reading your postings one can always create groups (excluding the bishop) or another FB account altogether. So if don't assume that you can keep tabs on your child's FB usage by simply being their FB friend.

[Soccermom]

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Unfortunately, the admins deleted the post before I could pop my popcorn.


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[falafel]

I wonder if Alexia Anita Torrez contacted Ms. Ladybug Baum for the info anyway.