Oddly enough, despite my distaste and disliking for Twitter, I actually really like Facebook. Well, really like might be a bit of a stretch, even a long stretch, but I do quite like Facebook.
I created a Facebook account about 5 years ago, and I've been using it ever since. I tend to be one of those annoying people who signs in and then wanders off to do something else for a few hours. So I'm often listed as being there, but have really gotten distracted by something and actually forgotten all about Facebook.
I'm a bit protective of my privacy, so I've set my privacy settings pretty damn high. People can find me if they want to (at the moment my profile is me dressed like a bear), I haven't hidden myself away on Facebook. But I have made my settings so anybody who isn't a friend of mine can't see basically anything, and then I have different settings for Friends of friends, and then the people I am friends with on Facebook.
Facebook does suggest 'Do you know this person?' or whatever it is, which is just annoying. If I spoke to that person regularly and was friends with them in the real world, then 9 times out of 10 I'll have already made friends with them on Facebook. So I tend to ignore the suggestion by Facebook that I should make friends with somebody because 12 of my friends are friends with them as well.
But Facebook does make it easier to keep in touch with people which I love because I'm pretty bad at that. Plus I can keep updated on how friends are doing which is lovely as well.
On the whole I like Facebook, but that's mostly because it's a way for me to be able to interact with my friends.
- library earthling
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