Do you have people on your "friends" list just to boost your numbers??? Do you converse with everyone on a regular basis???

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I deny people all the time. I don't want lots of friends I only want people I know, am related to, or have some connection with. I don't converse with everyone on a regular basis. it seems there is a core group of us that post and interact quite frequently while the rest either don't post at all or do so infrequently.

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I know all of my FB friends, they are either family, friends or my kid's friends. If someone asks to be friends that I do not personally know, even if family or kids' friend, I don't accept.

I have about 200 fb friends. I have them broken down into groups: Family, relatives, friends, childhood friends, kids friends, Pandora, and work. When I am on facebook I go to each group to see what is going on and communicate where applicable. I do not converse per say, but we do interact with comments, likes, etc. I never use the fb chat so I always show as unavailable. I do not like chat. If people want to touch base they can either call, come over, fb message, write on my wall, or email.

I do not have anyone I do not know. Some I have never met in person (a spin off group from YFB - we have been online together for 10+ years, a few relatives I have never met, some of them collect and trade Pandora jewelry). I used to play Mafia Wars and I had 2000+ friends. Once I quit playing the game I got rid of them. It was a pain juggling my privacy settings.

I keep my privacy setting set very high. There are far too many whack-o's out there.

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I only have 58 and I was just thinking today it might be time to thin the herd. I drop people when they are annoying or post too many games. I hide just about every app because I dont want it all over my wall.

I sound terrible dont I? Oh well. I got to FB to talk to the people that I really want to stay in contact with, not say 100 people from my graduating class 20 years ago that I didnt even talk to in high school.

As the days go by I hate facebook more and more each day! Now I've got the in-laws to contend with UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything was just all hunkydorry until then...

I only have close family members up until I got added to the in-laws' friends lists. I agree with your sparkysgirl, I have no desire to have highschool people add me to their friends' list, didn't even talk to them in school so why now, 30 years later. Just because they lived in the same town as me? NO thank you!

I keep in touch with a broad spectrum of people on FB. I grew up in a small town and graduated as one in a class of approximately 20 students. I think about fourteen of us had been together since elementary school, and most since kindergarten, even. Even though I'm not close to any of them in real life anymore, we share a common history that we all seem to remember fondly. Over half of them are my fb friends today.

I have a number of college friends there, some of whom were close friends and others who were in my larger circle of people.

I've also got many of my 'current' people, as well as relatives and some friends of my children (and parents of those friends, since we keep in touch about ballgames, etc. on FB).

I have just over 400 on my friends list, so no... I do not keep in touch with them all! lol

I graduated in a class of 26! And quite a few of us are on FB.

The rest are family (and friends/family often overlap!) When your mom had 13 siblings, the family tree is pretty far reaching.

I have at least one of the kids I babysat a thousand years ago on FB.

I interact w/ most of, if not all on a regular basis.

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Marilyn, we have family that is similar in size to what you describe, so a boatload of my friends are relatives, too.

Someone started one of those "You know you're from...." threads for my hometown on FB, and it was so funny that everyone - whether they were 80 years old or 18 years old - has the same memories of the same places and events. I guess when you are from a small town, your history is something that really is shared and held dear among those who know it as well as you do.

I mainly joined to get free movie tickets. I don't have very many people on mine and that's the way I like it. I would hate to miss out on free movie tickets because a bunch of people were discussing issues that don't involve me. I never post. I seldom reply to others posts. But I do have to say that I have a cousin in California that never communicates, but she is on FB. So I can keep up with what's going on in her life and her kids lives. Actually two cousins in CA fit that description. I've never played the games. Don't know how. I don't think I have any security either. Don't know how. And not sure I want to know how.

ill tell you no and no. I went "on" fb to see pics of my nieces. I had a thread here once upon a time musing about almost the same thing, and how it seemed people were on it all day and all night (and then complaining how tired they were, or how they never got anything done they were sooooo busy).

I have 30something friends and they are all people I know. I ignore the heart, corn, etc, etc, etc, etc requests and am amazed at how many of them play the games constantly from what appears on my "wall".

The bigif is everything is relevant and for those who think fb is a necessity, then more power to them getting caught up in it.

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I don't think it's a necessity by any stretch of the imagination. Never played any of the games, never do any of the... well, I don't even know what they are called, but whatever there is to do besides interact with friends and post photos here and there, I don't do it.

I work from home, so when I need a diversion, FB (and MC) tend to be the two places I 'go' on coffee break to get some human interaction, if only in my mind. lol

I dearly love facebook, I am a very people person, and facebook as put me in touch with many old childhood friends, classmates, and a lot of family and friends. I will admit when I first joined I had like 425 people. Of course not knowing a whole lot about all 425, some were mutual friends of friends, some were friends of my children. I decided some time ago to delete many so now it is about 150. I do not speak to all 150 all the time. I probably have to say around 40 or so I keep in touch with. Of course my children I love to write on their walls we have so much fun. Facebook also affords me the opportunity to view and posts pictures. I love share mine and few the ones of the people who are close to my heart. Facebook also affords me to put up issues that are important to me and comment on them, like child abuse, animal abuse, the war, being a proud liberal democrat. I also love to post favorite songs and all my interests. However I never ever post anything private, or personal, yet so many people do, I never curse and I never ever pay any of those games..I find them very boring...Again I truly love it peace and blessings. Catherine

I don't have many friends on facebook, just a few friends and relatives. I use it mainly to check up on my boyfriend's neices since no one else in their family feels the need to check on them. For instance, last week his 11 year old neice wrote "Am I the only one that is DTF this weekend?" and had replies from males ages 16-19 asking where she was going to be over the weekend. I pointed it out to my boyfriend who in turn called his brother. His neice is now mad at us because her father made her take down her page and she is now grounded. She called and told us we had no right to tell her father because a lot of her friends have had sex, she is just one of three who hasn't yet and she is a "city" girl not some country girl like my daughter or neices.
I also like looking at pictures of my cousins' kids and my neices who live in Delaware that I don't get to see often.

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I consider myself pretty savvy w/ facebook and text lingo--but I had to look up what "DTF" was....Horrified that an 11 y/o would even know what it meant, much less use it!

(I intend to ask my 13 and 11 y/o if they know what it means---and have a very serious discussion with them if they do!!!!!)

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Yikes! I had to look it up too. I'm scared for our future!

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DTF??? Never heard that one. My DD has never had that one on her page. I am guessing it is akin to having sex?

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Can you PM that to me.....I'd like it to see if a few family members fit in that category.

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I just sent you a PM

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Now I can strangle it

Yep....and Thankfully neither one of my tweeners knew what it was

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If the kids watch Jersey Shore they know what DTF means. In fact, I think that is where I learned the term.

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Thankfully no one in my house hold watches that trash. Jersey already has such a "lovely" reputation, so glad they have this show to emphasize what a fantastic place it is

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I grew up in Jersey (exit 8) and spent a lot of time at the Jersey Shore. I guess that is why I find the show so humorous! I think it should be billed as a comedy. I know it is nothing like the reality of the Jersey Shore. If Jersey Shore and Real Housewives or New Jersey truly were reality we would have to renounce the state!!!

It is sad how strongly shows like Jersey Shore influence today's youth. So many kids think posting things like "DTF" on facebook is acceptable. I have to wonder how involved parents are in raising their kids. I monitor both of my teens facebook, tumblr, formspring, twitter, email. I have passwords and check!

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I, too, grew up in Jersey. Not sure of the exit..... and sadly, it is a LOT like the snippets and promos of Jersey Shore, that I have seen, IMO. I don't find shows like that entertaining. I think they are part of the downgrade of our society....anything goes, the trashier the better.

Clearly, I am not a fan of the state of NJ. I call it "The armpit of the nation"....although, I think the "butt crack" of our society would be more appropriate.

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I usually delete people that I haven't spoken to in a while..

I use FB for a bunch of different things. I have 361 "friends" I personally know all but about 10 of them, the others are friends from another message board. I live in a small town and I am the Director of our Food Bank, so I use is to send out messages about the Food Bank. I am also the Youth Director of my church, so I use it to send out personal/individual messages to members about events and upcoming meetings. I also sell Avon, so I send personal messages to my customers and my customers also send me their orders through FB messaging and chat. Then I just use it to keep in touch with other friends/relatives that live away and even people that live a few blocks away that I might not have talked too because our lives have been so busy, it's a nice way to keep in touch and know what's going on in their lives/kids lives. I also check my daughters FB page daily and some of her friends pages too, to see what's going on in their friends lives.

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I have close to 300 friends and family and know most of them. Some are parents who have kids that go to my sons school or relatives or close friends. I use FB to see pictures of my grandbaby (a girl) and what my kids are up to in their part of the world as well as with other friends. I know when I first joined facebook, there seemed to be people who just wanted to add friends to show they had the most and I still get people who ask to be my friend that I do not know. I reject them because I do not want to read whatever nonsense they put up as status every day!

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