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Doesn't open for me. Do you need a Facebook account to view the page? If so, then unfortunately I will be avoiding it.

Since my older son got himself a new iPhone a while back and has gone on facebook the relationship between him and his parents (us) has deteriorated immensely. He is completely obsessed. He has lost touch with reality & lives in a cyber world of "friends" he doesn't even know, to the point of taking their advice and quitting a perfectly good job. Now he just sits around all day using his thumbs and sponging of us.

Sorry, but this makes me even more determined to avoid Facebook for as long as I can.

Facebook definitely has it's pitfalls, but like anything else involving the internet, a lot of it comes down to the person who uses it. There are security issues that occasionally need attention (those running it can't seem leave anything alone), and there are always dangers of talking to strangers on the web.

My account almost always deals with my hobbies and great fun (past and present), and have hooked up with several of my old friends that I hadn't talked to in a long while...highly enjoying their adventures. The ability to post 'Albums' of photos is a lot more fun than the 'old days' of sending attachments on Yahoo mail. It also occasionally provides another vent when I get the urge to write about something without (hopefully) wearing out my welcome here.

Most companies (Sig and such) and clubs have Facebook pages, and there's some really good stuff there to go with my morning coffee.



I limit my relationship postings and such drama, and don't tolerate any vulgarity or inane babbling. Of course, I'm ALSO a cranky flip-phone/dial-up using 62 year-old who'll dump blood-relatives when they act like idiots, so I have an advantage there.

It's all just an individual's call, and the day may come when I regret messing with it, but it's been mostly fun so far.

Yeah, my FB is hobby only. I have a few friends/family, but I hide most of their daily chatter and only post once every month or two. The Philly Fliers have a great FB site.

Face Book...? Twitter...? what's that? I'm doing well to use e-mail stuff.

Pretty interesting stuff on there I just spent 30 mins on it Thanks Mark , and I am not a big facebooker myself . getback

I met Roger Harris through Facebook's "Control Line Enthusiasts" page.. and introduced him to CEF. It's networking that will help keep this hobby alive and well.

Facebook, is a place where you can get lost for sure. Last year I'd posted that this was my semi - annual check on my Facebook page, my uncle posted back to me that it was good to hear from me and that he wouldn't expect a response until sometime in April. My nephew who's in the Army, welcomed me to Facebook with " Welcome to Facebook , .....i can't write what he said directly, but what he meant was only place to waste more time than standing inline in the Army, was Facebook. ( the biggest waste of human resources)


It's the end of 2015, Christmas is over, everyone who received a new "techie" toy, iPhone, laptop, andriod or whatever is now going online and telling all their "friends" what they had for lunch with pictures......what a waste of time and bandwidth.  In the meanwhile my internet service is getting glitchy, I can't access my e-mail at the old "hotmail" address, MSN in it's overpowering control has switched it over to a "outlook" account, and won't let me open my mailbox.....it shows a icon of a opening door.....with a tag line "still working on it"

I visited Kim's Facebook page, when I went back to my Facebook home page, much to my surprise, all the sidebar advertising, banner ads were GONE! Don't know how long that will last, but it was nice to be able to read a full page without all that garbage and pop-up crap in the margins.........maybe it is my lousy internet connection, maybe it's my 2005 computer wobbling on its last gasp of digital air.
I do have to agree with Kim, it has been mostly fun so far........

Marleysky wrote:Facebook, is a place where you can get lost for sure. Last year I'd posted that this was my semi - annual check on my Facebook page, my uncle posted back to me that it was good to hear from me and that he wouldn't expect a response until sometime in April. My nephew who's in the Army, welcomed me to Facebook with " Welcome to Facebook , .....i can't write what he said directly, but what he meant was only place to waste more time than standing inline in the Army, was Facebook. ( the biggest waste of human resources)


It's the end of 2015, Christmas is over, everyone who received a new "techie" toy, iPhone, laptop, andriod or whatever is now going online and telling all their "friends" what they had for lunch with pictures......what a waste of time and bandwidth.  In the meanwhile my internet service is getting glitchy, I can't access my e-mail at the old "hotmail" address, MSN in it's overpowering control has switched it over to a "outlook" account, and won't let me open my mailbox.....it shows a icon of a opening door.....with a tag line "still working on it"

I visited Kim's Facebook page, when I went back to my Facebook home page, much to my surprise, all the sidebar advertising, banner ads were GONE! Don't know how long that will last, but it was nice to be able to read a full page without all that garbage and pop-up crap in the margins.........maybe it is my lousy internet connection, maybe it's my 2005 computer wobbling on its last gasp of digital air.
I do have to agree with Kim, it has been mostly fun so far........

MY HOTMAIL ACCOUNT DOES THE SAME!