Re: Merged Facebook threads.
Originally Posted by
carol
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Last night I spent an hour on the phone chatting to a girl I started work with when we were both 15. We became best friends but then we had a bit of a quarrel & then I started another job & we lost touch. Thanks to face-book we are in touch again & plan to meet up for lunch when it can be arranged.
I am also on a face-book group for sufferers on Polymyalgia Rheumatica and I find the help & advice I receive on there to be invaluable.
I also belong to a group called 'Derbyshire Goldies' We meet for lunch at various venues and meet all sorts of people. I hit it off with a lady at one of the lunches last month & now she & I are planning to go to the pictures together to see 'Judy' when it comes out..
A lot of older people are prejudiced against Face-book & I don't know why. It's really improved my life.
I'd like to hear what others think.
Hi Carol, I am on Facebook. The only "Friends" I have on there are members of our very large family.
The main reason I enjoy going on there a couple of times a week is because I joined a group called "Old Faces of " in the local town here. It started off with someone contributing an old black and white photo of themselves when they were young, stating which house they lived in and asking if there were any others who lived in that particular area around that time.
It was amazing how it quickly mushroomed, other people soon joined in with their own black and white photos, their name or maiden name and stating which number house they lived at. Then others, some living far away now, joined in with memories and photos of their own area of the town when they were young, It's amazing how many people remembered me and my family and I remembered them, old school friends, childhood friends. Sadly, there were some that I often wondered about and find they are no longer with us, but on the whole, it is wonderful to be once again in touch with each of them, see photos of them when young, and what they look like now, and what has happened to them in their lives.
I thoroughly enjoy being on it, with new people joining every day. People that I often wondered what happened to , have suddenly popped up on the Group.
The one thing that I find really disturbing about Facebook though, is the highly personal information that youngsters give away to the world to see, such as the dates they are going on holiday, plus the length of time they will be away,
These are mostly younger people who don't realise they are inviting thieves into their home in their absence. Clever would be thieves out there no doubt have already learned, thanks to their loose lips, the area they come from, easy to soon find out their address when they "Friend" just one of their other "Friends" who are more interested in letting others see just how many "Friends" they have and accept just about anyone, not caring that this gives that thief instant access to every single other "Friends" information.
That really is worrying.
If I saw any of my family doing such a thing as giving out useful information on there, I'm afraid I would be on to the phone to them straight away to tell them off.