How do you manage facebook?

I don't. Facebook is the opposite of everything I'm interested in. I don't want everybody I've ever met to be able to catch up with me and send me messages. My dad and other relatives sent me emails in the past asking me to join, but I never responded. I made an account a few years ago just to talk to my girlfriend and closed it after a month. There was nothing interesting there, just a bunch of people posting pictures and talking about their day. I wish I hadn't joined in the first place, and if they required my cell phone number then, I never would have.

If I want to keep in touch with someone I just use texting or email. Otherwise, I limit my online communication to message boards where there are people I don't mind talking to and subjects that I'm interested in.

On this subject, I think this link is amusing:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/69526 ... ocial-life

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Anywho I had FB for about 9 months and just recently deleted my account, after watching some youtube videos about zuckerburg aka overlord, and the CIA. It was for the better I was cynical to my FB friends and was an a-hole anyway. Probably some undiagnosed disorder. I miss perusing the updates, but its for the better.[/quote]

Yeah, I miss following some of the FB "friends" I had with my fictitious name account. Although I didn't actually know any of them, they accepted my friend request and I started to learn things about them and I started to empathize with some. Of course, there was no burden on me as I was just reading and not posting anything and no one expected to hear from me or that I would do anything.

I originally played games obsessively on there and had like thousands of friends who I didn't know. Now I don't play the games anymore and I get really depressed every time I go on there, because when I post stuff it seems like no one ever responds, or likes my posts and I never have any messages. It's weird cuz I'll see other people who have like 20 comments on the stupidest post I've ever seen in my life. It makes me feel sad like I've totally messed up my life and don't know how to get it back. So I usually just avoid going on there because it reminds that I have no friends.

if you manage to make friends irl, you'll realize FB does't really matter.

I used to not open Facebook, I was embarassed mainly because I have few friend. but one day, I decided to open my FB and add several people including my ex-crush, to my surprise, most of them accepted mine. The reason I added them was to challenge my belief and to at least make some social contact even it was just in a form of 'add friend' button. Then, I made several friends in college and that was due to my conscious efforts. Even some normal people I know think Facebook is pointless. You don't feel safe having FB because you aren't safe irl, if you feel safe and secure irl you'll think FB doesn't matter anymore. It was just a place for some people to get in touch, for some people to create an existence, for some people to play games, etc. Though I'm still avoidant and socially anxious in college but if you make an effort and it works it does give you some confidence boost to stay true to yourself in some aspects. I have FB though I don't bother to check.

Facebook is just a tool, you can use it in different ways. Most actively I use my lj account, even though it's supposed to be passe' or something. I went on FB because my best friend posts her pictures there now (same reason I got on LJ, heh). FB is even more pointless than LJ, but it's not some evil thing.

I use fake name, just like I do everywhere (for internet privacy). I don't post photos of myself there or anywhere else, I hate that. I use it to keep in touch with few people who live in different countries, I chat there with my BFF and couple of others sometimes. Sometimes I put some photos up.

Overall internet was very beneficial to me in terms of friends and contact with people.

I have a facebook page, but every time I start to leave a comment I second guess what I thought I had to say and end up deleting everything I wrote and starting all over, delete, start over, delete, etc, etc. Eventually I give up in despair and think to myself that no one would ever read my comment anyway, so why bother.

90% of my friends on my facebook are people I knew 10 years ago and even then in most cases, they were people I really didn't "know", really more acquaintances.

In the end I guess I really don't manage facebook at all, its more like I botch it.

90% of my friends on my facebook are people I knew 10 years ago and even then in most cases, they were people I really didn't "know", really more acquaintances.

It's the case with most everyone. If you go to some big event and meet people, it is very often that a whole bunch of them will add you, even though you've never even talked to them and never will.