Facebook Defriending Murder: Jenelle Potter, Daughter Of Accused Killer, Had History Of Cyber Fights

 

Surfing through the various articles under ‘Crime’ on the Huffington Post I found this one to be interesting enough to read.  I read the statistics about just how many ‘accounts’ Facebook claims to its’ fame, it does seem that everyone has their own page.

Regardless, I ran across this particular post by user ‘Beachgirl61’ and found it to be interesting enough to comment on.  It read simply:  [quote] Good grief. People friend and "defriend" all the time on facebook and for a wide variety of reasons. People need to quit taking FB so seriously, especially with folks they don't even in real life. I thought the point of FB was to connect with real friends that you already know, not make pseudo-fri­endships with perfect strangers. [end quote]

I just want to say that there are a lot of folks who still use it for that reason.  Due to home, work and school requirements I have periods of time where I’m only on my Facebook page maybe once a week.  I’ve personally become more than a little disillusioned with it since I first signed up for it a couple of years ago.  I used to enjoy the personal interaction between everyone, now it’s a lot of ‘share’ stuff, images that contain poems or other sarcastic remarks.  I see a lot of political agendas being pushed by some folks that gets annoying as well in my opinion, I leave all of that sort thing to the various discussion boards online.  I try to have fun with my Facebook page since I’m related to 75% of those I’m ‘friends’ with on there, the rest are folks I went to school with, worked with or was in the Army with them.   I seem to use the ‘Message’ feature more than anything else anymore.

While I’m not really sure what the intent was behind user ‘spidermom’ making the following comment [quote] “if I want to tell someone something I just email them. No one sees it but who I sent it to.” [end quote]

I can only say that if I wanted to tell someone something I could just pick up the phone as well, but then again I’m not really concerned with everyone on my Facebook page seeing anything I’ve posted.  Everyone uses Facebook for different reasons and just like everything else in life it is the responsibility of the user to become familiar with how to properly use it.  Everything can be used for good or bad.  Facebook has been a tremendous help to me in discovering information that fills in gaps for me in my genealogy research.  It has been a great connection tool for me and a number of my colleagues at school when we have to work on a joint project through group discussions.  By taking the time to learn how to properly use the privacy settings and the list options, it’s very easy to maintain control over how you view the posts on your Facebook page.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost