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In reply to the discussion: Deleted my Facebook account a week ago -- crazy how addictive it was [View all]orleans
(34,051 posts)87 and on fb? i'm impressed.
i couldn't, for the world, get my mom to use the computer. i was hoping she'd come on du and browse around or post a little when i was at work (we lived together). she liked du a lot, i'd read her posts and replies, etc. but she wouldn't sit at the computer and learn how to use it. she passed ten years ago (she was 85) and because we lived together i guess i was enough of a social interaction for her. me, randi rhodes at air america, and keith olbermann's show, and then rachel maddow's show.
my neighbor & cousin tried to get me on fb but i had no interest until i found an old college classmate a couple of us were trying to get in touch with. so that's when i signed up. my daughter told me if i ever signed up on fb she would never be fb "friends" with me. (i didn't care--lol--we talked every day when she was at college so...). shortly after i signed up on fb my kid, for whatever reason, decided she wanted nothing to do with it and hasn't used it for years. i have around 25 "friends" --all open minded, mostly creatives, and democrats. it works for me.