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I've enjoyed connecting with lots of old friends on Facebook, but I think one of them must be the oldest person on Facebook. My friend just turned 94, and she has a Facebook page with her picture. She regularly posts messages. I think that's fantastic! I hope I can still keep up with technology if I make it into my 90's.:whoopie:
 
FB is definitely attracting older people now that it's open to everyone. Until the last year or so (I think--not sure of the time), you had to have a ".edu" address to access it, so it was pretty much just college kids. I don't know how thrilled the kids are that their parents (and in some cases grandparents) are on "their" social network ;)
 
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I don't know how thrilled the kids are that their parents (and in some cases grandparents) are on "their" social network ;)
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That's exactly why I joined Facebook and Myspace--to see what my kids and their friends were writing about. But, now I have so many of my own friends on it that I think I'm on it more than my kids are.
 
How do you find someone on FB or MS? Do you have to set up an Acct.?
 
DeniseM said:
How do you find someone on FB or MS? Do you have to set up an Acct.?
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Yes, you need your own page, but it's free on both sites. I like FB better.

Once you have a page (you can put as much or as little information about yourself as you wish), you then can search for people you know. There's a search box where you type in the names. If it's a common name there may be many people with the same name. If they have posted their picture, you can more easily identify them. You can send a send a message to any of them and see if they are the person you are looking for.

You can also have it search your email contact list for any on FB. Once you find someone, you click on their picture or name and send a message asking them to accept you as their friend. When they do, you can then see their page.

If you list the schools you went to or places you worked, you may also be able to find people with those same identifiers.

I have found old friends with whom I've lost contact by first finding their kids on FB. I sent the kids a message and got their parents' email address and made contact that way.
 
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Facebook is awesome!

Last week I heard from a college friend that I had lost touch of 15 years ago. I was so thrilled! Still am. Day before yesterday I heard from a friend who I worked with and had not talked with for about 5 years.
The main reason I got on was to see what my kids were doing but the reason I am addicted is to keep in touch, and get back in touch, with my friends!

Sue
 
I am working on a high school class reunion (to be held 2 weeks from today) and lots of folks on the committee were talking about their Facebook accounts, all their friends, etc. My curiosity was peaked, and now I need an intervention. I am hooked.

I do use it to connect with my kids (although some of their friends make some pretty crude comments on their pages) but it has been wonderful for class reunion reconnections. I have connected with cousins I'd lost touch with, old, lost high school friends don't seem so "removed" anymore, I've gotten better acquainted with some work colleagues who reside all over the world, I keep up on the little nephews' antics through my SIL, and my 85-year old MIL just joined!

I use it with close friends to arrange weekend plans which is pretty cool. We became "fans" of some local restaurants and get notifications when they post new coupons. It is so much more than I ever thought it was, but it is consuming more & more of my days. I'm on TUG less, just for example. :)

Searching for friends is easy. After you set up your profile with your city, state, etc., along with your networks, it does faciltate finding friends. I can't explain it - you'll just have to try it.

TUG is on FB, by the way. Try it, you'll like it.

I was very concerned about privacy, but you can tweak your settings to be pretty restrictive, for example you must be my friend to see any of my posts on my wall, my photos, profile info, etc. Most people do it this way.
 
One thing to keep in mind about FB (and probably every other "social networking" site out there). Do not put your full birthday in your profile; instead just show your month and day (if you even want that in your profile). With identity theft where it is, there's no need to give too much of your vital information out to people.

When you create your account you will be asked for a date of birth as I believe they need to know if you are under or over 13, not that an 11-year old can't lie.

Another option is to give a fake birthday, that was fine when I first was on FB as I only had about 4 friends on it, and worked with 3 of them; the following year when I was up to 40 or so it was a real pain in the butt telling people "thanks, but today's not really my birthday."
 
There was a little segment on the news yesterday. A young woman searched for her name on Facebook and found a young man with the same name and wrote to him. they corresponded for awhile, she flew to Florida and met him and they are due to get married in two weeks. They said when mail arrives, they do not know which one the mail is for.
 
Thanks MelBay and djs. I just took out my birth year and graduation year. I also changed it to Friends Only who can view my page. Before I also had Networks on it, which would maybe include people in one group I belong to but aren't on my friend list?
On my page I get posts friends put on their own page, plus their friend responses. I don't even know those people. So it must be how they set up their pages, right? They may not even know what is going where.
I am paranoid about putting too much info out there. People have asked me to be part of their birthday calendar, but when I went to the link, it looked like my info would get spread out too much. Or is it safe to say yes to that?
 
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I am working on a high school class reunion (to be held 2 weeks from today) and lots of folks on the committee were talking about their Facebook accounts, all their friends, etc. My curiosity was peaked, and now I need an intervention. I am hooked.
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I have found so many people I haven't seen since high school on FB, it is great. We are also planning our reunion- this September to celebrate 25 years since we graduated. I can't wait.

Carole Ann
 
I started a FB account to keep up on my son's activities in college (which he knew.) But have found several friends I had lost touch with.

Last Saturday we found our former youth pastor and his family were in town for one night. Using mainly FB we were able to gather together most of our former leaders, and even some of our former youth (now all grown with kids of their own.) We all laughed about we would not have pulled it off it the whole thing hadn't been set off by a posting by the his wife, and it grew into a full fledged mini reunion. Many of the people there had a FB page, those who didn't decided they were going to start one today so we could keep in touch.
 
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Patri,

I am paranoid about putting too much info out there. People have asked me to be part of their birthday calendar, but when I went to the link, it looked like my info would get spread out too much. Or is it safe to say yes to that?
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I am not 100% up to speed on all this - it's also confusing to me. I did check out "Facebook for Dummies" from the library and it was very helpful to me when I was first starting. I've already taken it back or I'd look up the answer for you. As a second option, may I suggest Googling your question? I've found lots of answers that way.
 
I joined FB mainly to put together a nursing school reunion. I could not believe that my school was not even listed!! In any event, I love FB. My kids told me I do not belong there. Later for them. It's a lot of fun.
 
Patri said:
Thanks MelBay and djs. I just took out my birth year and graduation year. I also changed it to Friends Only who can view my page. Before I also had Networks on it, which would maybe include people in one group I belong to but aren't on my friend list?
On my page I get posts friends put on their own page, plus their friend responses. I don't even know those people. So it must be how they set up their pages, right? They may not even know what is going where.
I am paranoid about putting too much info out there. People have asked me to be part of their birthday calendar, but when I went to the link, it looked like my info would get spread out too much. Or is it safe to say yes to that?
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For the birthday calendar, it's just the month and year, so no worries there.

I have to disagree about the HS year graduated, though. If people don't put their class in, it's harder to find your friends, as FB lets you search by class year within your HS. The only people who can see my birthday (and yes, I could take my birth year out, but as surmised, if you know what year I graduated HS, it's a pretty good bet what year I was born), are my friends, and I'm pretty confident that none of them are going to steal my identity. Besides, they're still missing one important piece of the puzzle, my SSN. So I'm not too worried.
 
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