I know its a little late in the day to be asking this...but bear with me, please!?

I had to leave facebook, I am all in for socializing but the thing here is, there is such a thing as privacy. I will be lying to you if i said i didnt go thru all the craze when i was a teenager but the thing is, its ok when you are a teenager. As i am growing older i find its best that I have a bit of privacy. Here is something that I have issue`s with facebook

1) There is some comments from your friends that you wish your other friends wouldnt know about

2) Imagine being on facebook and seeing a 30 year old man commenting on how your 16 year old daugther looks sexy, this is why sometimes adding families on facebook can be a little embarrasing. Privacy has to be there to keep everything healthy even though you feel that you dont need to. Lemme put on a few shoes here just to provy a bit

The 30 year old man - ``Heck did I comment that a month ago ? dammit how do i know she is 16 ? she looked older, sigh I wonder how many of my friends has seen my comments on her pics ? jeez now they all gonna think im some kinda pervy guy. Why am i such an idiot, next time look for the age stupid !``

The Parents - What the heck is this guy thinking ? she is 16 and what is she doing parading in that mini for ? is this what the kids up to these days ?

The Girl - What are they up to ? cant I live a little ? whats the big deal anyway, every girls is wearing it, Is it my fault that the guy choose to comment on my picture ? what did i do ? If im not suppose to be sexy then why are they having all those things out there ? dammit something is wrong with this world. Know what? screw the world, im doing my thing my way and thats how its gonna be.

3) Facebook takes away the level of openess you want to be with certain people and closeness to certain people

4) Privacy setting is a little complicated and it takes time to set it

5) Sometimes you can`s simply say no to someone from the past who wants to add you, you cannot be the same person to them anymore and it feels kinda fake when you reply to them and stuff, get what I mean ? sometimes you simply gotta let go of people, cant hold them in facebook or anywhere but the memories of the time and most of the time they shine the brightest right there too. You are not a bad person if you dont want to add them, just want you to know that.

Basically there is gonna be this kinda websites out there, but i suppose its about time we plug out from the `` whats cool`` or ``whats in`` and plug into whats ``me`` , know what I mean ?

I like to choose friends, and im really choosy cause I give my essence towards any relationships, I dont want to be burnt up cause I need to give my best to the people who I thinks is deserving.

I have like 17 people in my facebook and I have to delete like 4 of them because its time to let them go, I dont want to be reading into their lives, I want to feel honest about what I comment and not feel like ``is he or she gonna read this ? `` and waste another 10 minutes or so settting the privacy so they wont read it.

The other issue I have is those girls, lemme be honest with you, I am 33 and I like sexy women and whats not to like about them ? but those girls on facebook are revealing too much, I means its ok if they are like 21 or so but there are girls who are like 14 who is trying to be 24 and I know how its like`` hey its ok, they are 14 and they are suppose to do this``. But I beleive not, because in some ways, we whether as a parent or not have some responsibilty to the next generation and the cycle is getting too young for my liking. What cycle ?

The cycle where we experiance our teenage years, grow old and advise the teenagers back, is getting younger. The younger generation are doing it way way younger and the older generation is starting to advice earlier, am I not suppose to be doing this when im like 45 or something ?

Even if you are a grown women,still you gotta be in the safer side, even if you dont meet people from there, a slightest misunderstanding between what is written in facebook and the intrepretation of the person reading it could result in break ups or a bad impression over you.

wow, I have rambled on quite a bit there. ok ok. let me shout it out

MY POINT IS ! SELF SENSORSHIP IS IN. FORGET THE WORLD. SENSOR EVERYTHING YOURSELF.

I read somewhere that when you apply for a job many employers will "look you up" to see what kind of stuff you've been posting on there and get a feel of what type of person you are. I was talking to my Mom about it the other day and she was saying how she remembers not long ago when it was a bad thing for strangers to know your real name and where you lived and all that stuff. She said at one time it was simply unthinkable for a person to share pictures of the inside of their house or of themselves in pajamas with complete strangers! LOL! I guess now since everybody is doing it there isn't anything wrong with it. If something bad does happen to you all of the prime suspects will be right there in your friend requests, LOL!

Facebook is a social network. You get friend requests and also can have web applications like web games that you can play with your friends online like uno, farmsville where you run a farm and friends can help you out with your farm. They like to make games more multi-player type games where you can play with others and it's not limited to just your friends you can meet strangers on those apps too.

Facebook also uses the information you give it for reselling it to marketing people or business people. this is one hot topic for facebook since about 10,000 users deleted their account after knowing that facebook was keeping personal information about their users and reselling that data to marketing people and business people and at times not known selling it to hackers or private investigators. They at times give the data to law enforcement agencies. The IRS uses facebook to find users that brag about how they made so much money or didn't pay full taxes and then they get the data from facebook and press charges the same goes in any criminal activity on facebook.

I found articles about it facebook started out by getting seed money from the CIA of the U.S

here is a youtube video about the privacy issues background:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpLNlSKugHw&feature...

Good evening, Madam

Please avoid this 'social networking' site.

I answered one of those invitations, and allowed a page to be made for me.

I find it noxious and invasive, even though I only visit once per season;

imagine what it does to the lives of addicts?

The trendy thing to do these days in Canada is to proclaim (in person)

that one has terminated his FaceBook account.

Some social anthropologist must investigate,

and discover why so many people are making this boast.

Well like when you first join all these people come out of the woodwork, and then curiosity and the fading of bad memories makes you go - ping - I know them - and then you add them. And then, contrary to thousands of years of human evolution, you can never really escape them again. you can't subtly shake them off, they will always kind of be there.

Also, it's like this competition, for some unfathomable reason, some people, quite a few actually have like 500 friends. i don't understand that.

And facebook kept messing with the privacy settings, so you can't really be discreet about your presence any more.

It is meant to be your real name, so acquaintances who previously would have no real reason to memorise your surname now know this, and quite probably your date of birth too.

Strangers can go through photos your friends post.

A person can have a peep into your life without you knowing them that well.

I found out I was pregnant a few days ago and I had the brown discharge and a bleed which I never had before.. I think you are experiencing implantation bleeding. Good luck.. Take a test and put your mind at rest. I also had a watery discharge down there! Loads of baby dust your way!

Facebook is simply a good way to keep in touch with friends and share pictures and videos and such.

It also has lots of games you can play that appeal to all ages.

Even Yahoo Answers integrates into Facebook (every question you answer appears on your Facebook profile for your friends to see) so surely that must mean something?

well first if you've never used the site before start by adding ppl you do know. i only add ppl i don't know for the gaming applications as you have to invite friends to be "neighbors" the more "neighbors" the more levels and gifts.

but then you get strange ppl commenting on your pics tagging you in random pics with other application friends and commenting on your status. it's kinda weird. but if your logging on to meet new ppl it's just like any other site. you tell ppl what you feel comfortable telling them. if you feel awkward talking to the new person tell them, say your new to it and most ppl are friendly and just what to chat others are just looking for a hook up. That's about all there is to it as far as interacting.

Chatting, gaming, liking, commenting, and my favorite Liking pages man there are some funny ones.

P'quaint, I wasn't going to add to this because you have a pretty good idea. but, just allow me to add something on a more positive note.

My daughter uses this site for her business marketing, customers, etc. and does very well. :D

Also, nearly my whole family is there, even from where I was born and raised. This is a whole lot of family to keep in touch with. :D

Peace and Blessings

My son invited me to join...this didn't last long, as i soon found it filled with people dying to tell all about themselves in a very shallow, self-important, ego-validating way. Too, a few family members of mine prefer this easy, impersonal way of "communicating" to a more direct, one-on-one communication, which i prefer, finding it more personal, intimate, and pertinent. Of course, to each her/his own. This simply was not for me.

i am Sirius