I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Thank you Bren. Pictures and I are not getting along tonight.

O.K. glad that we're still going to be on this thread - I was on FB for three years and so help me it was brutal - high school friends (I am not kidding - I am 65 and HIGH SCHOOL) were "friending" me - I had personal information leaked and I had the privacy settings properly set - I also had oh let's say thousands of videos of people's grandchildren, children, pets, christmas trees, vacations, cute sayings etc. ad nauseum - also games - yikes games??? - I would so much rather read a book, go for a walk, do my volunteer work, cook a great meal to share, talk to my dog - honestly, I've even gotten rid of my cell phone (after DH passed away I really didn't have anyone else I wanted to talk to on the cell) - I guess what I am saying is that I love the friendships we have made on this thread and I have been trying to simplify my life over the last three years and FB isn't part of it for me.

I am glad they're keeping HL in the hospital another night that was one heck of a surgery and I want her to rest.

Sweet litty lat, Rosemary - congratulations! Nice to match a face to a name (two faces, actually).

Riley -lol!! 

What a pretty kitty, Rosemary! Congrats on your new fur baby.

Sharon 50 - Good to see you.

Sandy

See??

Stopped the thread cold!

Mary 

Hi Bren!

(Waving at you from the West coast).

I sure wish I could have attended the East coast gathering, but it was just too far. 

Mary 

Hey, that's my job!

BTW, the lady at work thought she should have gotten credit for being honest. *shaking my head*

Hillck, come back!

Nope, Blue... you're not gonna be the threadkiller tonight. I'm on Mountain time, so I'm in the running.

I'm on FB, because of my BCO chemo buddies. We all made a pact (all 20 of us at the time) to "join" FB, and we formed a double-secret private group to keep our personal, chemo-buddy stuff separate from the rest of our FB lives.

You can crank down those privacy settings so nobody but your FB friends know what you're up to.  Now, you can even post stuff (updates, pics, links, etc.) so that just certain people see them and not all your other friends.  I think FB also has a new feature that allows you to keep your friend groups separated, the way they would be in regular life (BCO friends, work friends, close family, not-so-close relatives, mere acquaintances, etc.).  I don't know how that works, so I just keep my friend list fairly small.

I've trimmed my FB friend list a couple of times -- snipped off somebody who it turned out I didn't know very well, or unfriended someone who was just a "collector" (thousands of friends).  Once I unfriended someone because he/she just flat out p*ssed me off with the nasty things he/she was saying about other people. Oh. I did that twice.

I do like FB for hearing news about cousins or HS classmates (those who attended our most recent class reunion, for instance) or a handful of dear college friends I'd lost track of over the years.  The feature I like the most, though, is that private (I think it's called "closed") group thing with my chemo buddies.  We even formed a sub-group to scheme about a group wedding gift we wanted to give one of our members, but didn't want her to know about it until the last minute.

I just ignore the annoying stuff, or make it go away.  I "ignore" friend requests from people I don't know, or people I barely know or maybe met once.  (I've ignored some requests from students I had in classes I taught eons ago.)  I "block" any updates involving games (no mercy there -- you're playing Farmville?  I don't want to hear about it.)  I try to re-check my security settings every now and then, to make sure FB hasn't come up with another sneaky way to get around what I've put up already.

There.  Last post of the night (or day, for those on the other side of the planet)?  To those of you on the East Coast -- stay safe.  And, HL, stay in that hospital another day so they can take care of you. Hugs!

otter

Ang7 ... that sucks!  When were you supposed to go?  Maybe you'll still be able to go after the hurricane goes by ... hope so.

Hi to all!  I'm guilty of not responding to everybody but it doesn't mean I don't like hearing from you all.  I sit here and nod my head a lot agreeing or laughing or commiserating but unless I have something to add or ask I don't always say anything. 

That is one big hunk of handsome cat Rosemary!! 

I'll probably be the threadkiller tonight ... unless the west coast folks are still here.

Fingers crossed for our east coast friends ... stay safe ... that hurricane looks wicked.  Hoping it will veer east out into the ocean!

Thanks for the response WhiteRabbit~

We are supposed to go Saturday morning.  We will see what happens.

People were buying water and flashlights at Target.  I bought ice cream.