Facebook!

I have been getting a lot of grief over something I have been saying for about a year now.
I said, “I will never use Facebook, Twitter, or any of the social networking sites! They are nothing but a problem waiting to happen!” To a certain degree, I still believe that statement, but like I said in my January 28th post, if you are careful with what you are doing and not just clicking on links people send you, you should be okay.
Like a lot of things, there are good and bad to it.
It is good from the stand point of keeping in touch with friends & family, especially if they are overseas in the Military. You can find and catch up with old friends, and it even has discussion boards on just about any topic you can think of and some you probably would never have thought of.
The bad of course is the potential for infection, phishing scams*, it can become addicting, is very dangerous for younger children to be on unsupervised because of online predators, and it even has discussion boards on just about any topic you can think of and some you probably would never have thought of. Satan is always on the prowl.
I have heard stories of people reconnecting with High School friends, exchanging e-mails for a couple of days and then when the one party has said what they needed, they just stop e-mailing. Only to get an e-mail a few days later from the second party, “Are you mad at me? Did I say something wrong? You haven’t written to me in a few days.”
Ahhhh, because I have other priorities and sitting in front of a computer for hours on Facebook isn‘t one of them.
Of course the reason for this blog is I GOT CAUGHT and now have to apologize. I am on Facebook. The reason I got on Facebook was as a means to keep in touch with people from work and to keep up on all the rumors. So to all of those people that read this blog and I told Facebook was bad, I’m Sorry.
But like I mentioned previously, I still believe Facebook and the other social network sites have a dark side, just be careful.
　
* Phish is an Internet scam designed to trick the recipient into revealing credit card, passwords, social security numbers and other personal information to individuals who intend to use them for fraudulent purposes. Definition provided by www.answers.com