How I use Facebook.

I joined Facebook quite a while ago now, and as soon as I joined I felt that I had to check it frequently. I had Facebook about the same time I was thinking of deleting my Bebo profile. As it happens, I did end up deleting my Bebo profile along with the majority of my Bebo friends, who now also have Facebook. Facebook, I suppose, has become a rather large part in my life. That might be because I have a facebook application on my blackberry, so I feel obliged to go on it.

However, it could be the fact that all the other Facebookers send me posts rather a lot.
Apart from receiving messages and keeping in contact with friends, I also use Facebook to publish photos to share with my friends, to let people know what I have been up to and to see what other people have been up to also.

One thing I cannot stand on facebook is when people use all the applications under the sun and flood my homepage with them. There was a time and a place for Farmville, and its passed I’m afraid. Yes, I did use it once, but I changed the application settings so that it wouldn’t appear on everybody’s news feed.

I also make sure I don’t update my status too regularly just so that I don’t clog every one else’s news feed up. I cannot stand when people pour their hearts into their status’ every five minutes. I mean, “Rachel is upset,” is one thing, but “Rachel is upset because her pet has died and her boyfriend has dumped her” is a whole different matter! (I’ve never had a pet, and my boyfriend has not dumped me.) Then about five minutes later, another heartfelt message. I mean, imagine you have just met someone you really like, and they read your recent status’ and they are emotional, they are going to think that you are all over the place. I’m not over reacting though am I? Is it too much to ask for people to hold themselves until they are in the comfort of their own rooms with no witnesses and their diary?

Maybe this post should have been appropriately named, ‘My Pet Hates about Facebook & Facebookers’ but there is something about ‘How I use Facebook,’ so I will just have to use the pet hates ideas in another post. In the mean time, I want to know, “What are your biggest pet hates whilst using Facebook?”

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