Facebook users who document their wonderful lives.

I love FB. I have many friends scattered all over the world and this has made the world much smaller for me. Instead of the annual Christmas card I still have weekly/monthly contact with them.
My privacy settings are closely controlled, however, I cannot receive friendship requests from strangers nor can anyone read what I write.
In fact I find it far more private than GN where anyone can log in and read and copy pictures posted. I am always surprised at how much information people, especially those who decry FB, give away on GN.

We are on FB but usually only post something that is significant eg a special birthday or trip. Hubby and I regularly are amused by things that are posted by people our age who still write cryptic comments to elicit "you ok Hun" type responses. There are also the humble braggers. Met up with some old friends the other day. We have some Facebook friends (old colleagues) in common and I commented on the wonderful, popular posts they publish. One of the ladies who worked closely with some of them laughed and said that in fact X hated Y and that they all talked behind the back of Z ??. So the "look at me" posts are rarely what they seem and probably betray a lack of self esteem.

I am on Facebook simply to be on Messenger to keep in touch with friends and relatives and receive photos of the great grandchildren. I sometimes look at Facebook and delete a lot.

I dont do food pictures, but places of interest lve been too.Its great for keeping in touch annd facetime is brill.Also if you are on your local village or towns website events and things going on pop up.lts good for that.

Quizzer. I wouldn't bother were it myself. However the only way in getting an answer to your question is if you happen to know one or more of the four ? hundred .
Rather you than me.

I always enjoyed FB for keeping up with our large families lives...however my DIL who by the way says I’m emotionally needy (?) accused me of not respecting or liking her because I didn’t always “like” or comment on her posts!
I obviously didn’t realise Facebook was all about who likes your posts the most!!
I left Facebook and not missed it once!

Facebook has its uses but I have recently unfollowed almost everyone except things like art classes and neighbourhood sites. Its timewasting and often unsettling.

DanniRae

I joined Facebook and straight away I got 'friends requests' from men I didn't even know I then removed myself from it! ^Definitely not for me!^

I’ve had those too and seen them on others women’s posts. Just ignore them and they go away.
PS. They always seem to be from officers in the US military ??

I use FB to keep in touch with friends all over the U.K. and beyond. I also like following certain photographers who inspire me to improve my own shots. I do have some people (some relatives) in my friends list who irritate me with constant pictures of meals etc or political views I disagree with but I don’t want to disconnect from them entirely. So I just unfollow them but keep them as friends and they never know. Obviously if they post major news it can be a bit tricky when you say you’ve not seen it - I usually blame it on the algorithms! People use it for different things and that’s fine.

Ha ha ...think it sad that people have to post everything on FB...pics of their dinner, their grandchildren, pets, craft projects etc ! then I think well maybe they are lonely and in reality have no friends and this is how they cope ....find it funny and sometimes sad ! but I do love to read all the nasty comments people make to each other .........that is also sad .....but then, if you post on there I suppose you must expect it ! Myself, I just love to trawl the hundreds of photos of cats (ha ha I guess some think that's sad too !).

I quite like to see what friends are up to and keep up with village news. I find it extraordinary when the odd person posts activist vitriol on f/b. Can they really not imagine what normal, decent people will think of them?

There are very few people I post to on my Facebook. Only family and close friends. I can't stand the rubbish that is posted on most sites. I don't have room in my life for most of the nonsense there.

I think Facebook is good for information such as traffic jams, lost pets, fundraising, etc., but I do not wish to see what people are having for dinner or a pair of new shoes they have just purchased.

On our village page, the constant advertising of cake makers, gyms, etc. also drive me mad.

My family , who are spread out over many miles sent me photos on FB. This was fine

Zoejory suggests ', It is harmless after all'

A son came to stay with his 14 y. o. daughter.

She expressed her delight at having more than 800 friends on line. The sad bit was that her father said later that he did not think she had any friends in real life apart from one person with whom she occasionally went out

I just do not know if FB is a good thing or a bad one in confirming her delusions on line

I belong to several useful groups on Facebook, but seldom post anything. I love to hear other peoples opinions on said groups.

I enjoy Facebook,to keep contact with my friends in the UK, but I have somebody, not my friend but Husband friends wife, and consequently I see her daily "report" firstly its a weather report,then details of her morning from getting up, what she eats for breakfast,then who she is going to meet during the day,then there are the photos taken of ever meal she eats during the day, who on earth is interested, it is just an ordinary day for most of us, I wish she would "get a life" which would be interesting! She is also married to the worlds best husband!

My daughters close friend posts daily “happy family” photos, with so called “inspirational quotes” .... however, we know of all the battles she has to fight with not only her own self esteem, plus she is married to an addict. So we know her life is far from perfect (who’s is ?) so it must be doing her no good at all, continuously having to portray an ideal existence.

You can easily unfriend her and she probably won't even notice!

Unfortunately that’s life nowadays ppl are always looking for a like a pat on the head sort of thing. You only have to like if you like something. Personal I stopped using Facebook few years ago after having some guy hack my account telling everyone he was my husband etc never even met him and it was quite scary had to get police involved in the end and I closed my account down and never went back.

You can snooze people, unfollow them without them knowing, so not to hurt their feelings. I find it very amusing and informative. It’s yours to shape how you want. We make private judgements, we encourage or not. And posts from years ago are often touching and enlightening. It certainly keeps track of dogs and grandchildren ?

I recently bought a card I couldnt resist, on it was a couple in a restaurant and the waiter standing by asking" is there anything wrong with the meal you havent taken a photograph" that says it all.

It depends what you use Facebook for - if, like me, it's a means of keeping in touch with family and friends all around the world, I can't see the harm in it - although I did have one ex colleague moan that I gave a weather report every day, when I have had to put up with his cricket/football posts!
Some people seem to think they are "influencers" and really should be on instagram or whichever social media site is the one that week !
One thing that really makes me cringe is those that regularly change their profile pics as if they are on a dating app, complete with the duck pout and flash of cleavage!

DanniRae, you obviously don't have your privacy set to friends only!

I like Facebook and post regularly, I use it as a tool to advertise events that I organise, I also run 3 pages on it which inform people of important things going on that they would be interested in.
I don't photograph my cooking as its not that great! If it were I probably would picture it!
If someone gets pleasure out of using social media why criticise? Just don't look at it if you find it annoying seems to me Quizzer is a kill joy!

You have a choice as to who sees what and what you see, that is what the individual settings are all about. You can change it every time you post if you wish. If you take the time to get to know how it works best for you it is good in my view.

I've always seen Facebook as a bit of a scrapbook of memories and pictures..

I was just about to make a similar comment when I saw this. Yes, my FB is my 'logbook' if you like, my garden journal, and so on. If other people are uninterested that's fine, they don't have to look.