Is Facebook Fun or Have Friends Turned Fake?

Facebook is a online site that is a community based meeting place for friends and family to gather and catch up. You can chat with private emails or you can chat instant message style or leave post on friends home pages. I first joined Facebook years ago to keep a closer eye on my teen who had joined. I now have found that just about everyone I know is also a member of Facebook.

Facebook was fun and interesting in the beginning because I loaded all of my family pictures on my profile page and then created a profile and a about me section. I wanted to make sure that if someone was searching for me out there they would be able to land on my page easily. But is this wise? I have found with my experience that it's not always wise to advertise all of your personal information out there in cyber land.

I like many that has joined Facebook was quite confused at what I could do and see on Facebook. After month's of experimenting with it I became quite a pro. Even having some family members teasing me and saying things like " Well if we want to get a message to you, will send it on Facebook".

I have located allot of my high school friends as well as some enemies. Most of my family is on line and on my friends list. I wonder why Facebook has never made a enemies list? Anyways, I have added people I really didn't speak to in high school but knew of. That's the mature thing to do. After all, if someone ask to be your friend on line they want to speak to you right? Not necessarily.

I was not the most popular girl in high school but I did have friends. And I have found that out of nothing but pure curiosity I run across former classmates and wonder what they look like now? Have they changed their way's? Become a better person? Have children? So I do what everyone has done and click that button. The button that says it all, add me as a friend and then we wait.

As I sit idle and on stand by, I come to realize something. These people were never my friends in high school they didn't care enough to wave at me on the side of the road or say hello in the halls so why would I think that they would give me five minutes of their time and click accept? Well I'll have you to know that if you log on to Facebook you'll soon discover a few things about yourself as I have.

One thing you'll discover, when joining Facebook is who exactly your true friends are. Those friends that check in on you daily and ask how you are, how you've been doing and how your kid's are and your job etc.

You will see that those cheerleaders have not changed much. Some are still friendly and some are still stuck up snobs. The nerds are still nerds just grown up versions and still funny as hell. Those high school crushes you may have had, well they as well are on line and some have lost their hair, became fat and most of all quite boring.

With my experiences with Facebook, it's been hard to read between some of the lines that are being drawn and not drawn. We have people who enjoy on line friendships to chat and catch up with and play on line games with and then you have those that accept your friendship and never speak to you after wards. These often get deleted by me after a few months.

I must admit I have thoroughly enjoyed viewing pictures of my old friends and seeing pictures of crushes and how much they've changed and often wondered where all the courage comes from for some of these people who have never changed to do the things they do or say on line.

How can some people, after many years have passed and children brought into the world and our country is at war, these same people who were the "in crowd" in high school ignore people on Facebook? We are adults and our children learn by example, and with that said I myself accept every friends request of people I know or may have gone to school with.

With Facebook you'll discover some people are still fakes, moaners and attention seekers who are constantly reaching out over the net begging look at me look at me! Those are the ones I pity the most. Those friends you'll soon discover and realize most of them have the biggest fan base. The biggest group of friends, look for those and run like hell.

I myself have found long lost friends on Facebook that I have enjoyed catching up with. I've enjoyed viewing their photos and I've enjoyed looking at theirs as well. I have also enjoyed playing games on line with them from Farmville, Cafe World and Farm Town to name a few.

Sadly enough, you may get located by some that you wish never found you. It may be an ex spouse or family member you don't get along with or that class bully that use to torment you in school. No matter what the circumstance is, there is pleasure in knowing you can always elect to click that ignore button at anytime.

I love the fact that even though you may have had different categories of people in high school such as the nerds, the bullies, the pot heads, the cheerleaders, band geeks, football players, the goody two shoes kid's some of these kid's have grown up into fine individuals and up standing citizens and have come together on Facebook and became friends.

I advised anyone who is interested in joining Facebook to beware about a few things. One thing is you will never know who just might find you, that may be a good thing or a bad thing. Don't get swept up into those who choose to ignore you, once you've ask them to be your friends. It is their loss. Have fun and as always remember, enter at your own risk!

I love Facebook and the new friends I've made and the old ones I've been able to keep. I enjoy playing the games as well as watching some of the adults play games with one another. This is like viewing a soap opera from your own home. I love it and don't ever want to change the channel!