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It's a love-hate relationship with facebook. Can't live with it, can't live without it. It's great for staying in touch with people and sharing what everybody is up to, especially if you don't have the time and muse to take care of all your friendships constantly.
What I don't like about it are the privacy issues. I don't want to become a citizen of glass and give all my information to people I don't know and who will use it themselves for what I don't know. But this is why you have to make up your mind about how you want to use a webpage like facebook. As long as you share as little information about yourself as possible (and I don't think that a post like "Having bad digesting problems today" will catch the interesst of a third party) you will be just fine and can enjoy the benefits of this site.

I joined facebook during its early stages of transitioning from strictly private to few colleges that were allowed to join. I enjoyed those days because back then facebook was strictly for college students, a way for them to stay connected and share info with classmates or friends. Back then you could also share you schedule with your facebook friends. Later they decided to open to the general public which just bit degrading of them. Now days you see high schoolers and middle schoolers on facebook and it feels like another myspace accept with more confusing privacy options. Overall I still enjoy being on facebook. I've found majority of my elementary and middle school friends which I lost touch with. It's a great source to get in touch with anyone. If you're looking to kill some time there's always farmville, poker, and much more...

Facebook. Facebook. Facebook.

Facebook started as a very exclusive club limited to college kids; now, the social site is open to all (though users must be at least 13 years old to join). Once a member, you can choose to join one or more "networks" -- a constellation of people at your school, your job, or in your region. When you join a network, others in that network can read your profile if you want them to. You can join "groups" that form around a common interest, like a band or a hobby. Users create profiles of themselves: interests, schools attended, political views, and more. You can choose to let only your friends (or certain friends) see your profile, allow only people in your networks to view it, or opt to have no limits at all. Users post photos to their online albums, send messages to one another, scribble notes on each other's "walls," and send "gifts" (icons that cost $1 after the first free one). There's also "The Marketplace," which allows members to post and search classifieds. An IM function is coming soon.

Facebook is a great place for keeping in touch with friends and making new ones. The interface is bright and inviting and makes it a snap to share thoughts, photos, links, videos and more in a constantly updated news feed. As with any open social networking site, kids can easily lie about their ages to join Facebook -- and then post dodgy stuff that could haunt them later. The good news is Facebook's new safeguard for minors, which at least blocks kids' posts from showing up on the Internet. On the downside, Facebook now makes more of a user's profile info publicly available. It's up to users to painstakingly tweak settings to hide this info.

I find both good and bad things on this site. I throughly enjoyed being able to ask questions and respond to other moms and for the most part they were all polite. However I did run into some concern when a group I was in had to shut down and become private due to others making shall we say unsocialable comments. This is the same reason I left Cafemom. However in this case it was not the admins but the COM's organizers that didn't do anything other then kick off the person who's only crime was to complain. So I say that it could have been handled better. I am not impressed when any site that is supposed to be for everyone favors one group.