Facebook friends

I think the use of 'friend' in this context degrades the meaning of the word. People who don't know each other at all become 'friends' by being friends of friends....of friends. I often get a message on FB asking me if I want to befriend so and so who might be a friend of a friend .... I don't know about you, but friendship means so much more to me.

It does me too...

I've got about 35 friends on facebook. The majority are people I know, old friends and ex work colleagues mainly, but I do have several interesting people in other countries whom I only know through facebook. My daughter isn't on facebook and my son and I decided we didn't want to be friends, although I have his fiancee as a friend. I see it as a way of keeping in touch with people I might not hear from otherwise.

Not many. When I joined I had to unfriend lots of people as FB just raided my Hotmail contact list and sent out invitations. It really irritates me.

You cannot delete interests or school attended on FB.

Somehow I have at last managed to stop getting lists of "people I might know" from a school I left in 1966. Can't remember how I did it now.

Nellie I think you can change those things on your profile.

I don't have a problem with calling them friends, I see it as just a word. I know all of mine and on the whole we all just post interesting or light hearted things. There are a couple of old moaners but if it helps them in their loneliness that is fine by me. I don't feel the need to 'like' or 'comment' on them all and just ignore anything which is not of interest.

I have 70 friends, about 30 of whom share a mutual interest, but I have met all of them at least once. I never accept a request from someone whose name I don't recognise. I am friends with my daughter, daughter in law and two older grandchildren; my son is not on Facebook. My main activity on Facebook is playing Scrabble - although recently they have "improved" the game, which means they have ruined what was a perfectly good format.

I totally agree about the improved scrabble! What was wrong with the original version! You can tweak it grandimars buts its not the same...

All my FB 'friends' are family, friends or old colleagues , a couple of people I've met through other social sites but thats it.. I don't find it intrusive and it gives me a sort of 'feel' for whats going on in people's lives. If something draws my attention I can comment or not as I choose or just ring the person to find out more or ask if all is well.

I have different types of 'friends' on FB. Those I don't want to 'listen in to' I make 'acquaintances' and then they can have a private life as can I. My close family are in this category, well I don't want them knowing all about the silly games I play

The old Scrabble couldn't be played on my ipad but now it can so I am thrilled with the change.

I dint know that LizG... Well, that's a benefit hat might force me to overlook the changes in style! I'm off to check hat out...

That, not hat!

Well it din't work for me, still says my iPad doesn't accept the platform that scrabble uses...