Do your parents have a Facebook profile?

My Dad is 79, but uses the Internet more than people his age, but he doesn't have a facebook account, because he's paranoid about privacy. He doesn't really know anybody else who uses it anyway. He sees political stuff and other entities that have a facebook page, and expresses interest from time to time about getting one, but never does because of privacy.

My mom doesn't have one either. She doesn't even know how to use email.

I think it's an easy way to organize parties/gatherings with people and keep in touch with aquaintences/cousins, but that's about it. I don't make hourly status updates about taking a poop or anything like that. It's also a handier way to message people besides email.
 
They both do. Actually a lot of my family does, but I am not friends with them because I would probably scare them with some of my status updates (well it's nothing unusual for us CAG's but to my family, yeah... :lol:).

So yeah my facebook is set to private unless we are friends so no one can see my info.
 
[quote name='Rocko']but saying that email and Facebook are the same thing, [/QUOTE]

I think Facebook has @facebook.com email addresses for all users now. So it's pretty damn close.
 
[quote name='Viva Las Vegas']If people have a Facebook page just to stay in touch with people, why don't they just use email and cut Facebook out of the picture? I don't have a fb account and some people I know act like they can't get in touch with me even though they have my freaking email address.[/QUOTE]

It's really for keeping in some semblance of "in touch" with friends and family you don't care about enough to call or e-mail regularly.

Useful for some one like me that's lived in a few different places and have friends and family scattered all over the place.

Through status updates and picture posting etc. it's a way to know what's going on in some distant friend's and families lives. While still using phone, e-mail, texts etc. as the primary communication means for close family and best friends.

So like I said it's not something for extreme introverts, as they're not going to care about communicating with distant family and acquaintances etc.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']It's really for keeping in some semblance of "in touch" with friends and family you don't care about enough to call or e-mail regularly.

Useful for some one like me that's lived in a few different places and have friends and family scattered all over the place.

Through status updates and picture posting etc. it's a way to know what's going on in some distant friend's and families lives. While still using phone, e-mail, texts etc. as the primary communication means for close family and best friends.

So like I said it's not something for extreme introverts, as they're not going to care about communicating with distant family and acquaintances etc.[/QUOTE]

Is it wrong to use it for your co-ordinating visits with your friends other than calls or email? That's what I do.
 
[quote name='2DMention']Is it wrong to use it for your co-ordinating visits with your friends other than calls or email? That's what I do.[/QUOTE]

Not at all--there's no wrong use of it beyond shit like posting inappropriate things on friend's walls, or posting sketchy pictures of friends without their permission etc..

It's useful for coordinating as well of course, and a lot of younger people do that a ton I've noticed. I mainly use e-mails, calls and texts for that with close friends as I don't check Facebook continuously like some of my friends do.
 
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[quote name='2DMention']Is it wrong to use it for your co-ordinating visits with your friends other than calls or email? That's what I do.[/QUOTE]
Not at all. Actually if you are inviting a bunch of fiends, you can easily make an event and have people comment on it. It would be much easier than sending out a ton of e-mails. My one friend did it for our RPG game and it worked out great since we could co-ordinate stuff ahead of time without the need to send tons of e-mails to everyone.
 
My mom uses it - she's 78. Most of my family is on it and it's not a problem. My wife's mom just got on it though...

I have gotten back in touch with some old friends which has been great. I don't check it real often - once every day or two usually. I put a new status update like only once a week maybe.
 
I like using facebook to capture whatever witty or clever thoughts I might have. And to see what the cousins are doing.

Facebook never turned into what I hoped though. Some sort of service to connect me to others with similar interests "Hey, you're in your 30s and like jazz, sci-fi, and rpgs and live nearby?"

Although if anyone actually did contact me talking like that I'd likely ignore them.
 
[quote name='eldergamer']I like using facebook to capture whatever witty or clever thoughts I might have. And to see what the cousins are doing.

Facebook never turned into what I hoped though. Some sort of service to connect me to others with similar interests "Hey, you're in your 30s and like jazz, sci-fi, and rpgs and live nearby?"

Although if anyone actually did contact me talking like that I'd likely ignore them.[/QUOTE]

It was kind of like that for me when Facebook was still new and only open to college students. It was really helpful as a freshman (back in 2005) to go in and be able to find people who went to my college and liked the same things. Ended up with a couple of friends and a boyfriend that way, though that didn't last long for reasons unrelated to Facebook.
 
My mom does have a facebook account, we are friends and she does post/comment on a number of my status updates.

She's also smart enough to keep private messages to the private messaging.

I'm 25, by the way...so there's not really any of the teenager/parent drama some others mentioned in here.
 
My father who is extremely tech literate refuses to get an account. My mother has an account and she creeps all day long on that thing. Me and my brother give her shit about all the time too.

I've always followed the rule of only posting stuff on Facebook that I'd be comfortable with having a potential employer seeing so I don't really worry about family seeing what I post.
 
my mother says she doesn't want to talk to old friends or family so doesn't make one, my dad has one but we both have a mutual agreement that we don't wnat to see what each other posts. my mom is actually fairly computer literate but my dad still uses aol browser and regularly call me asking things like how to copy and paste.
 
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