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I'm on Facebook, and it seems to be a very large part of my life. I am on there almost as often as every 5 minutes.

I used to have over 180 Facebook 'friends' (I searched for and added virtually everyone I've ever met), but something went awry and the vast majority disappeared from my friends list. I've decided not to hunt them all again, so I'm friendship testing. (As in 'Anyone who actually gives a crap can add me back'). So far, 4 people of 167 have returned, and they include my flatmate and my mum.

I'm welcoming any new additions, as it's fun to read what people get up to, and interject when I feel like it. My 'personalised' link is http://profile.to/luckybunny and anyone from here who wants to add me is welcome to, as long as WP is quoted in the request. That way it won't mean me scratching my head for weeks trying to figure out where I know you from.

I'm not into groups, as they rarely do it for me. I join, I might post, I get no direct reply, I get disenchanted, I drift away. Same goes for the ones I create.

I like a lot of the apps on Facebook, but again it is usually not long before I move on. Normally down to me not liking how it looks on my PDA, or I found a more exciting app.

I got in touch with a girl I hung out with for a few mos in my 20's. Like every other "almost frienship" it didn't last long and we lost track of each other.

Well, we met on Facebook. She has a husband and three children. She has a normal life.

I had to explain to her that I'm 40, on SSDI have AS, and nothing much about my life really changed. I'm worried she won't even write back.

What's so great about a husband and three kids and her 'normal' life. One thing I am trying to do more of lately is to not give a sh!t that my life is far from what it 'should' be. I don't just mean the surface things, having kids and a husband certainly doesn't mean someone lives a 'normal' life - there are some people that are interesting that went the usual route! but I mean all the other things that alot here might feel uncomfortable about when comparing lives. You feel these things make you different and that you can't be so proud of life but fu-k it, they probably make you much more interesting.

I know it feels awkward to me to think of peers I once knew doing all these normal and expected things in comparison to how I am but I just have to learn to embrace it and not care.

I can't bare the thought of getting back in touch with old acquaintances...not interested at all!

So, anyway, so what if she doesn't write back!

As for facebook, aside from getting a bit into collecting my 'hatchings' I do nothing on there really. You can't really get creative with it all, one facebook page is the same as every other, no ability to make it individual, no place to put any writing / blogs - I don't like the layout or how to navigate around it, I never did get used to it and I really don't like 99% of applications.

I've been on for a while and have about 35 friends - most are from work or I went to school with them. My sister, who is the "social" one in the family, joined a couple of weeks ago and she has 80 friends already. And what's up with "super poke" and "25 random things about me"? I usually don't respond to them which seems to piss people off.

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I only ever add people that I've met personally (except for a couple of people I've known on IM for some time). I have about 80 contacts, but only 8 people are allowed to see my full details, address, phone number etc. I'm big on privacy issues. I find it annoying that anyone can see what I'm a "fan" of in google search- that's valuable marketing info! I'm considering leaving all the sites I've become a fan of because of that.

269 people I've met in my travels through life: church friends, friends-of-friends, college acquaintances (from classes and clubs), professors, family members, people who have bought stuff from me, and ex boyfriends I have managed to remain on good terms with.

I think the pokes are kind of fun, but I don't like to be a part of too many groups. I don't list every band I listen to or every book I've ever read; I just post a link to my Pandora page and the book/s I'm enjoying at the moment. I'm a little freaked out when people bring up my status updates in real life - I tend to forget that people actually READ those things!

This is face book related: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/2 ... ens-brains

I don't go on it that much anymore. It's really good for joining groups and finding people with shared interests to chat too, but really annoying because people from you're past come and find you when you'd really rather not speak to them.

Also the guy who made it, I forget his name, is terrible. He was really pleased with himself for finding away of making money of basic human interaction.