[FrankR]

Facebook is a lot like obama...assuming a lot of power it doesn't really have; if the members looked at it carefully, they'd probably ditch facebook in droves.

Now we read stories like this, in addition to the stories about potential employers demanding applicants' facebook password and using facebook as a tipping point in the hiring process.

My wife's employer wants her to make their firm a "friend", so that all of their [advertising] posts to her will pop-up on all of her friends' pages. I don't know if that is actually illegal, but it sure sounds like it.

I have had to "hide" posts from some of my friends because they dominate my board with minutia that I could care less about. Some do 20 or 30 posts per day which drives the posts I really would like to see completely off the page.

Facebook is turning into a monster, and I don't do twitter at all. But I still see everytime someone's girlfriend makes them a cake, or sweeps the backyard, or other crap that is meaningless. I have denied "friendship" to several people that I know will totally dominate the wall.

I keep it only to be able to keep up with my grandchildren who live very far away.

[Not A Snowbird]

I have had to "hide" posts from some of my friends because they dominate my board with minutia that I could care less about. Some do 20 or 30 posts per day which drives the posts I really would like to see completely off the page.

No kidding. I had to hide my sister. Every ten minutes she'd post some random comment about nothing.