Community Chat

[walkingal]

You can make FB whatever you want to make it.  I thoroughly enjoy it.  I've been on FB practically since the beginning.  Back then around 2003, I was in a military support group, and we all joined FB and it was great.  About 50% of my FB "friends" are still from that group! 

I am very political and I enjoy current events.  FB is great for that.  I would say most of my FB "friends" and I have the same political views.  There are those who don't and who are not into politics, but we're still FB friends.  We respect other views. 

I belong to ancestral groups and FB is great for that.  The chapters I belong to all have FB pages and it's a fast way to stay in touch and keep up to date.   

There are many neighborhood community groups on FB and they are a wealth of information for what's going on in my area I wouldn't otherwise know about.

My favorite authors all have FB pages I follow.

So many of you are really fans of the Q.  Most of the hosts and vendors have FB pages.  You would enjoy that.  My favorite page is VPH.  She posts the best recipes!  

The FB blocking feature is the best.  I block all trolls I run into on some of the pages, mostly on the historical pages (1861-1865) I follow.

I don't do the family/friends/pets photo thing.  Many of my "friends" do and that is okay with me.  That's their thing.  (But if I've seen one photo of a deer in your yard, I've seen them all. sigh)  

FB is what you want to make it.  As many others have mentioned here, there are all kinds of filters and privacy settings you can turn off and on.  

[bargainsgirl]

 I did that very thing a few years ago and feel so much better.  I was wasting so much time and reading so many negative things and getting tired of seeing how WONDERFUL some peoples' lives are...I still check a few times a week but I limit myself to time and it works just fine.