Facebook? I Love It? I Hate It?
This week’s Momversation highlights Facebook. See Rebecca Woolf, Asha Dornfest and I hash out our thoughts on the topic.
If Facebook was around when Paige was a toddler I think that I might have just died and gone to heaven. I have to admit that it was (and is) lonely being a single parent and a young mother sometimes. Especially so in those early years when all of your friends are getting drunk and doing illicit things late at night while you are stuck at home cleaning up barf and finding random pieces of Goldfish crackers stuck to your ass. I think it would have been nice to have a better social utility than an AOL chat room (*cringe*) or the trusty Yahoo! forum.
Suffice to say, my ears still perk up like a Pavolivian dog when I hear the words, “YOU’VE GOT MAIL!” But nowadays, I am reducing my dependence on computers and trying to live a real life first.
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It’s not Facebook that I love so much–it’s mommy message boards. So helpful when I had a newborn and was up at 3 am and other times when it’s not polite to call your friends. I agree, though. It can’t take the place of living real life with real friends.
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Love your video! Yes, I’m addicted to Facebook. Fortunately I don’t have kids yet, but I do feel bad sometimes about being on it when my Hubby’s home. I feel like, why am sitting here online when there’s a real human being at home for me to talk to??
I think I have a pretty active social life, especially for a single parent, but my house is on the other side of town from where most of my friends live…and not easily accessible by public transportation. So I spend a good deal of my post-8pm (my son’s bedtime) hours alone. Sadly I’m online for too much of it. On Facebook playing Scrabble/Lexulous, emailing friends who have moved out of state, and goofing off on flickr. I’m beginning to regret some of it though. Too many folks from my childhood are crawling out of the woodwork and finding me – mostly via Facebook.
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For me, Facebook is weird. It’s like the crossroads of all my life – blog people, my high school, my PTA…and some of those people don’t “get” each other. But I also appreciate the transparency, where the connections are pretty neat sometimes. The whole application side of Facebook, where you throw food at people and stuff, is beyond my realm of understanding, though.
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I have really enjoyed Facebook the past few months, especially since we started using it for one of my freelance jobs. It makes it MUCH easier to spread news. I’ve enjoyed getting back in touch with friends from as far back as fifth grade, too!
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A CERTAIN person got me into the facebook craze … and I have to admit I love it. I’ve gotten in touch with long “lost” relatives and connected with an adult community of friends that I wouldn’t have otherwise. Before, it was just me and the kiddos and occasionally a local friend WHEN we had time (which was hardly ever). With fb time and location are no hinderence. And in many cases, folks will be more open in writing than in person. And folks who were more of a “I know you by name only” acquaintances are now more personable because we now know more about one another via interactions and pictures in fb. It’s great.