General Chat

I have 105 family and friends on FB and all my posts are for them only unless I choose to tag a friend then their friends can see it.

With family all over the world it is the easiest way to share news.

I have a number of GR friends on FB too ~~~~~~~ to them

I am on it with a little persuasion from my friends and glad that I did :-D :-D <3

I am actually on facebook David under my real name, although even that is relatively common.
Chris Wessex, I would love to have a long chat with my friends on the phone but hearing aids don't make for easy phone calls so for me and people like me Facebook is great.

~~~~~~~~~~~ to friends on here on there. :-D

Like anninglos my deafness makes phoning useless - my limited family use of Facebook does help with casual chat - and the use of a tablet (like e.g. In bed) for news and email is invaluable. What a difference this would have made to my stone deaf father who didn't even have subtitles for television!

I talk to our sister in Canada every Sunday afternoon on messenger.

we used to Skype but an update knocked it out for both of us
we sometimes do facetime too

When my grandson stays with me in the school holidays he facetimes my daughter and his dad
he champs at the bit for 6.30pm so he can tell daughter all his news and to tell her he misses her

i get the same every other evening in phone calls of miss you nanny and how Mr Tibbs the cat !

years ago it was going to the phone box and feeding in the coins

I love Facebook :-D :-D :-D

I find myself taking "leaves of absence" frequently from FB .......I have one friend from Friends Reunited days who I do like except for her politics.

She was English but has lived in the US for a number of years, and a lot of what she was posting last year while the US election was on, and is still doing now, just makes me so mad. She has said and re-posted things other have said about Obama that are just plain downright racist, and has nothing but good to say about the trump-oid.

I try not to read her posts on those topics, but even the first 2 words are usually disgusting.

When it gets to me ............... I leave FB under that name alone for days or weeks at a time.

...my sister has that problem.
She then feels guilty about 'liking' things that are of her true political persuasion.

I'm very careful about my 'friends' - but have been very lucky :-D :-D

Maybe I have an astute political radar :-D :-D :-D :-D

David, I am also on FB with my real name which I also use on this site

maggie ...........

I have actually met this woman when OH and I visited the city where she lives. She's a great person, and I would never previously have put her down as having the beliefs about Obama and trumpoid that she now expresses.

It's been an eye opener, not only to myself but to others who were friendly with her on Friends Reunited.