[VRWCer]

Why does this screed remind me of “Emily Latella”?

[DannyTN]

I have reconnected with tons of old friends. I love it.

And I occasionally accept friend requests from people I don’t know if it doesn’t look like they are spamming a website.

I can see why he things displaying your friends is kind of weird. But that’s optional. And finding one friend and then looking at their list of friends for mutual friends you have forgotten is a great way to reconnect.

[UCANSEE2]

FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, etc. , are just ways to dupe the youth in our nation into putting all their private information online, and thinking that only their ‘friends’ will see it.

[Nea Wood]

I’m always getting Facebook requests from people I don’t know from Adam. My understanding is, if you play the games on Facebook, it helps to have a lot of “friends.” I don’t play the games and I just ignore the requests from strangers.

[ThomasThomas]

I have no problems with just ignoring request from people I don’t know. I have no problem from ignoring request from people I have know. I also enjoy posts from people like Michael Yon. He is a freelance reporter currently in Afghanistan this was his last post.

Michael Yon Kidnapping

A reliable source told me more details of the Belgian journalist (working for Dutch magazine) who was kidnapped near Sarobi. I suspected at the time that her dangerous venture might have been germinated due to my dispatch, “The Road to Hell.” The source said that this was in fact the case.I would highly suggest to journalists not to blindly follow my steps. There is often a story behind the story that I never tell. I don’t just drive out to these places on a whim. My interpreter had been her interpreter when she was kidnapped. Was he involved? I don’t know. In any case, she was raped and eventually set free and came out defending her kidnapper. After she was released, I was told that our special operations forces came knocking on the kidnapper/rapist’s door and killed him.

[SuziQ]

I believe that the bizarre actions of Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, which allegedly led to Tyler's suicide, were to a major degree the product of the Facebook-Twitter mentality that they were all victims of.

The two who posted the video of Tyler were not 'victims' of anything. It wasn't Facebook or Twitter that caused them to do this; it was their own stupidity and meanness. Teenagers (and that's what they ARE) have been doing stupid things for millenia. What's different today is that with the immediacy of the 'social networks', their actions are done without much thought, other than that first burst of stupidity, and they're providing a good lesson for others. THINK, before you tweet, or post on Facebook, because you will have to face the repercussions of your decisions.

I happen to like Facebook, because I can chat with friends over long distances, even those I haven't seen in years, but 'found' on Facebook. I don't 'friend' anyone I do not know personally, and even though our college aged kids are on Facebook, I don't get their 'status updates', and I don't check their pages, because I don't need to know all of their business. If they want to post on my Facebook page, they know where to find it, or if it's something important, they just call. But I guess it's a good reminder to them to not post something on Facebook that they wouldn't want their Mama to know, because she can read it for herself on their Facebook page. ;o)

Facebook and Twitter are nothing more than the modern, electronic, 'party line', for those who remember the old days of telephone. Sadly, it can also be used to bully folks, just more immediate, and more widespread than the old days, but just as devastating.

[cubreporter]

I joined for about a week...then UNSUBSCRIBED. Was that simple.

[discostu]

I mostly only friend people I know, or at worst friends of friends. But some peopel are more wide open, and who knows you might actually get to know them, I’ve made friends here on FR. And he needs to pay attention to grouping, you can sub-categorize your friends in FB, which pretty much takes care of his 3rd objection.

[petitfour]

Control Freak Alert: Writers who don’t embrace new ways of communication should find a new line of work. I love to read what my “friends” have to say on Facebook. Just because they don’t have a column in a magazine or in an online magazine doesn’t mean they should not be able to communicate their thoughts on their own FB page.

[Raider Sam]

Why would the author have a Facebook account just to delete all the friends? If you are opposed to Facebook, why not just not join?

[Bob]

I heard a very simple distinction quite some time ago:

A good friend will help you move.

A really good friend will help you move a body.

[Vicki]

I only accept requests from people I know. I also keep my settings private. I don’t even let friends of my friends see my information or photos.