On our news last night from Indiana. A lady posted that she and hubby going out to eat and shopping. When they returned home their home had been broken into and lots of things stolen. The police is investigating and said they have had lots of break ins that people are a member of facebook. Be careful what you post.

That lady is now deleting people on facebook that she does not know.

Craftybear

I don't have people as my 'friends' that I don't know. Except for one. We connected because we have the same last name. No relation as far as we know. But he lives in another state. I screen my people and don't post that I am leaving the house.

i am about to delete my facebook account, I find it boring anyway.

I've had some people add me as their friend that I barely know. I ignore them. Plus I don't write every little thing on my wall. If I were to talk about going somewhere it would be after I came home. I'm a pretty trusting person but not that much. However, I just joined Facebook so thanks for the warning.

I just joined and thought I was the only one that found it boring or thought that I might be doing something wrong. Are you cleaning your house today, fixing fish for supper? I just really don't care and don't want to waste my time reading about it. It seems that's the kind of junk people put on there. (I wasn't talking about YOU personally just people in general)

I agree :) i originally joined to find out about sewing things, but I can find them on blogs or on forums like this.

I just have a few relatives on there and I get sick of their comments also. I have better things to do, like quilt, lol.

I agree. I think that Facebook is a complete waste of time. I'd much rather pick up the phone.

The reason I joined facebook originally was my relatives post pictures of their grandchildren there & I don't get to watch them growing up otherwise......but :oops: I keep forgetting to check up on them. Our work just decided to open a facebook & twitter page.....so another invitation....but I just don't click on them.

Yup. I only have FB for people I know. And, don't post "leaving my house to be gone a long, long time, with the doors unlocked..."

I like to keep upwith my adult kids' Facebook pages just to keep track of what they are doing, but I personally lead such a boring life that I rarely have anything to put on my page.

I don't have a Facebook account because my life is so ordinary everyone would "unfriend" me LOL

I am glad to see that I am not the only one who does not quite get why everyone is so into Facebook! I have not 'done it' very long but I find it is dull, as well. Personally, I got very tired of all the postings from my sis-in-law about her Farmville game. So, I deleted her! LOL

My relatives play the farmville game also. Personally I like myspace better for finding music as I like Brule.

I don't use facebook and I'm glad now I don't.

My family likes to swear all the time on there. It's disguesting as far as I'm concerned.

You can just hide apps that don't interest you. I couldn't care less about Farmville and such myself.

Seems like just common sense to not announce that you're going out. I also do not accept friend requests from people I can't place unless we have mutual friends to help me figure out where that person has heard of me.

I'm trying to figure out how to politely tell a friend I really hate her current profile pic (she's giving the camera a "one-finger salute" ).

I'm with you it is a pain.

Hehe....yeah, I know what you mean! :D

I did erase alot of my info but couldn't figure out a way to eliminate the whole thing. I couldnt' find a "close account" button. Is there one?

I had a couple of people on mine that I'd known for a long time. Had to take them off, I didn't realize that they were so vulgar. They'd never talked like that face to face. I guess that people feel that it's okay to put vulgarities on the internet since you can't really "see" them---sort of like those people that pick their noses in their car thinking no one can see through the glass.

I have facebook, and we share pictures of the grandkids, with my 2 kids that live out of state. i also have relatives in england. it is a nice way to share with them too.
i post maybe once a week. No one can see me, unless i "friend" them. i also have connected with long lost high school friends. i just "hide" anyone that i don't want to see. if they want to say something to me, they have to post on my "wall".
i block all flowers/smileys/farmvilles ect...

yes,facebook is really boring..

but it beats sending out a bunch of emails,with pics of the kids..and forgetting one of the relatives.

Many reasons why I joined:

1) I've found high school friends (one of which lives 2 miles away!) and some cousins that I don't see often. We comment often and I feel the miles are shorter between us.

2) I joined to keep up with my kids. My 2 year old gs has a page- so he can play farmville but I send him messages, it's fun.

I think twitter is worse- people talking about what they are doing that minute.

3) I even have people here from the board- they post pics of their quilts- that is my favorite part! So much inspiration.

4) I use it for work. I rely on Realtors for work- they are a tight knit group and I've been able to get to know several and work with them more.

People who know me know I have dogs and don't have valuables. I'd feel violated if someone broke in but I think they wouldn't find anything worth stealing. No jewelry, no money, no big tvs, nothing. And by the week end- no food according to my son. Now- if they absconded with my stash- I would be really mad!

As for people that have break ins being on facebook, probably 90 percent of the online public is on facebook...not a glaring coincidence to me....that's like saying that most people who have their cars stolen have bank loans on the cars.

I've been able to connect with some old school friends and learn about others thru FB.

I've played the games...still play a couple of them, but am mostly bored with the games. I'm not much of a game player to begin with. I don't like that they're set up so that you HAVE to be playing at a certain time...I'd rather play a game when *I* want to, not when I'm told to. That's why I don't do much with Farmville or the others like it anymore...

The best thing that's happened to me on FB is about a week and a half ago. I do genealogy. A few months ago, I sent an email to a person on Ancestry asking about a person on their private tree. The person I was asking about was my grandmother's half brother, that none of us were aware existed until we found him in the census. I got no answer on my query until last week, when a lady sent me a message on FB asking if I was the person that had asked about her grandfather.
I immediately responded to her...laughing as I did it. She lives here in town, and was a long time customer of ours where I work! We already knew and liked each other! They're coming to dinner on Sunday...a family get together! It was funny, because I don't think she ever knew my last name, and she didn't connect my photo to me, because she hasn't seen me since I lost weight. I was able to play with her head a bit by asking if I could call her, and was her phone number still xxx-xxx-xxxx? :lol:

That being said. I do think that sometimes folks share too much information via the internet.

I do genealogy too. I was searching for information about my half sister's father. I had been e-ing back and forth with a woman from the area he grew up in and she had the same last name as him. Since I was new to genealogy she told me to be careful and to expect to find skeletons in old closets. I told her that we might share one as I was looking for my sister's father and his last name was the same as hers. When she asked and I sent his full name I never heard back from her. I later found out that he had passed away in 1949 from TB. I always though they might have been related and I'd stuck a virtual foot in my e-mouth.

You can go to My Account, settings, then deactivate your account if you wish to close it after removing everything. Hope this helps.

I agree with you facebook is the only way I can know what my son is doing in California. I don't post anything on my page either.

That's why I deleted mine. It bored me to tears to hear that someone 'just got home from work' or was eating macaroni and cheese for dinner. YAWN.

I never thought about the safety issue, posting when you're leaving your house, but that is scary.

I like FB because I've been able to find so many old classmates even from elementary school. I've become closer to some of them now than we were in school. I don't spend a lot of time on it though - mostly here and quilting OH and working. lol

I am totally in the majority here and that is ok.

I think of Facebook and Twitter as the devils work where people can say and do as they please about one another. To me it is like soap operas - worthless.

People are opening up their lives to god knows who and think nothing of it.

For heavens sake, why would you post you are leaving your house?

That can be avoided if you pay attention to how you set up your page and make sure that only friends can see your pages.

I have a Facebook account, but mostly to see photos of friends vacations and get-togethers in far away places.
I am like the rest....I have WAY too many other interesting things to do to bother with who ate what or went to Walmart.
I seldom post anything besides pictures of a finished artwork or craft project. And to post where one is going is inviting trouble. Most of my life would probably be considered boring, and the rest would be nobody's business.
Only my cat knows if I use Charmin.......and since she is not above shredding a roll now and then........I can't see how anyone else would be interested in that, either.

I don't put that kind of information on my facebook pages either. I use it once in awhile to talk to children and grandkids. I have some sewing friends on there and that is about it. If I want to talk about personal things I call them.

I use FB bc all of my family are out of state. It's fun just to get one sentence from them. I have reconnected with some of my class mates, also out of state. Like anything internet connected you have to be careful about the info you give out.

There is also a Facebook "game" that asks your Mother's middle name, etc. Excuse me, not in this lifetime. It boggles the mind why people give out scores of personal info.

You are right about FB and Twitter, who do you think owns FB anyway...........and once you sign up did you know they monitor your email account? If you think I am wrong the ask yourself this, why did your contact list get sent out to befriend them when it was not prompted by you?!?

Billy

I'm glad that I'm not the only that thinks this way ! I think my nieces [ all in mid 30's ] list juvenile things . Farmville , yoville and on and on . I thought it would be a neat way of connecting since we all live so far apart . We are all scattered ! I am seriously considering cancelling my acct !
My nieces even have their emails and home addresses listed for everybody to see . Some even their phone numbers [ can you spell S-T-U-P-I-D ? I joined to find quilting and sewing groups and am sadly disappointed . Annie

I have a facebook account also..and only allow people I know as friends. I think most of the time people post some of the most useless information. One friend spent 2 months talking about when her dog went out to do its business...gezzzz..get a life. She needs a hobby..lol