Facebook

[Melody]

2 hours a week?! I usually do like 4 hours a day not including fun time!

[Icefire]

2 hours a week?! I usually do like 4 hours a day not including fun time!

Yeah, that's the reaction I usually get when I say that. It used to be 30 minutes a day, but my brothers kept abusing it by spending over an hour playing with friends online. Now we have 2 hours to use as we choose.

[Melody]

wow! Well like I said I do a lot of study on line, I take CLEP tests at a university near here and I have to study for the tests.

[Bragoon]

I study using the internet too, but I study in the fun way - researching what I want, not what I have to.  I have the library for stuff I have to research.

[Melody]

I re-search my fun stuff at the library, because there's not a lot of have to research books at our library.

[Lutra]

I only use my Facebook account to stay in touch with relatives.  Otherwise I don't do anything with it....waste of my time.

[Dawnwing]

It's my main means of contact with a lot of my friends.  My classmates and I will send each other something real quick if we need to talk about a homework or assignment or test or need help for the next day, or arrange something fun together, and my friends from high school I don't get a chance to see much anymore so I talk to them on  there as well. 

I also got in touch with a friend from fifth grade - she moved to my school from Mexico, and spoke almost no English, got the desk next to me and we became fast friends despite the language barrier.  By the end of the year we spoke a mix of English and Spanish to each other, and were very close.  She had to move away, though, and didn't know the address or something like that, there was some reason we wouldn't be able to stay in touch.  We were both very sad about it.  I'd actually tried looking her up, but she has a very common first and last name, so without knowing even a city or anything, it was impossible.  Then I got a friend request from her on Facebook not long ago, she'd looked up my name - she'd just recently joined.  After not having heard from each other for almost ten years, we were able to talk again.  She's married and has a baby now!

I do get annoyed by the annoying pictures people took of themselves in the mirror, or like one person has extremely political posts and stuff that appears on my wall at least five times a day (I'd block her, but she IS my friend and we still talk... just not about politics... ironic, because we met at a government simulation camp thing), or the constant Cityville requests from the same person who's been requesting me to play for about a year, but overall I think the good outweighs the bad.

[Tiria Wildlough]

I want a Facebook account, but I'm only 11. (Why do I have a feeling I need to be 13 to have an account?)

Because that's the age you have to be according to Facebook's Terms of Service.

Yeah, I know that.

[Lily]

I don't know how people can spend that long on Facebook. I read my news feed every day, that's true, but I do it to keep up to date on what my friends are doing, and to see any pictures my friends have uploaded. I really only use it to keep in contact with my friends, and most of that is done through private messages because I don't want everyone I know seeing all of my conversations. I do think some people go too far with it though, a lot of my friends included. I don't need to see pictures of what you cooked for dinner all week, really.

One thing that really bugs me is Facebook events. I hate it when someone invites EVERYONE on their contact list to an event. I usually can't go because I live in a different country to most of my friends, and I just think it's so impersonal, like you don't matter enough to people to even get personally invited to something.

Like a lot of you have already said, Facebook depends on the user. If you're not smart with it, then it can be detrimental.