UPDATE – Today Thursday, Facebook sent me this message: ‘on Sunday, there was a spamming incident on Facebook. During this time, photos (mostly of supposedly “free” iPhones) were posted to some people’s Walls, including yours. We’ve removed the photo from your Wall and fixed the issue that allowed spammers to do this. We’re sorry [...]

Real life is all around us – and it’s snickering!
I’m NOT on Facebook to be sold stuff! What? Do they think this is the SHOPPING CHANNEL?? I had a ‘friend’ whose name was always trailed by the words – ‘author of –(and then her genre label) but NOW she’s added the words ‘& [...]

Facebook has had the most profound effect on our lives. More and more millions are on it. While I am NOT spying on my children, so many of my friends seem to be into it, big time. After you click on all your kids and their posts, their friends, indiscreet references to drunken [...]

‘KEEPING PEOPLE BUSY, QUIET AND REPORTING ONE ANOTHER FOR ‘ABUSE.’ “You have 199 Friend Requests,” my inbox said this morning, giving me the opportunity to painfully scroll through nearly 200 profile pictures. (I tend to want to friend all the cats), to decide if I want to add to that carefully-hoarded [...]

Came out of the garden after planting zinnias, glads, lilies, forgetmenots and cosmos to find 160 friend requests and 87 invites to gatherings in foreign parts I shall never see.
Again, the more friends you have, the more will be foisted upon you. If you want to collect friends fast, type in [...]

So I went and googled what it meant to ‘upgrade Facebook ’status.” Turns out it meant when you stop sitting at your computer and go get coffee (what kind, how many sugars, did you go to kitchen or out, bumped into whom, meditations on coffee, etc) or tied your shoe or patted the dog… [...]

First, hold up your hand like a pledge of allegiance and say that where you are, right here, right now, is the place in the REAL world where you should be, it is the best place on earth, the grass is NOT greener elsewhere, but what is majorly happening is happening here, now, with you.
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Gotta go back and change all my references to FACEBOOK. Without research, how would I know I meant SOCIAL NETWORKING all along? In 2006, Alex Stern proclaimed it, ‘The Year Of Social Networking,’ estimating there were some 650 sites. The following year a newsclip said the amount had doubled. If that happens every year, there [...]

Undereducated suburban boomers who believe he minute anyone goes online their birth certificates are swiped, their homes become illegally mortgaged and they become homeless and helpless. They won’t let their kids use it either. (not that they pay any attention).
The poor who can’t afford computers or who used to have one [...]

The more Facebook ‘friends’ you have, the more you’ll be offered. This morning, with 3400 friends, I have 23 requests from those waiting for me to friend them and thus draw ever closer to the magic cut-off number, 5000. Lessee, that’s only 1600 more slots to fill unless I start deleting previous ‘friends’ in earnest.
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