Facebook... Do or Don't ?!?!

[HisLittleHazelnut]

My husband and I both have Facebook pages, and I spam his practically every day. Thus said, I use it mostly to check on my friends, but I do have my one ex-boyfriend as a contact on there. The guy has issues and I basically have him as a contact to make sure he's still alive and give him encouragement, that's it. My husband is okay with this.

I haven't really had weird stuff happen on facebook.

 

[jelvenko]

I have a Facebook account, but my husband doesn't. He won't be getting one either (mostly due to what his job is.) However, my hubby likes to go into my account and play some of the games.
I really like FB because when we got married I moved away from all my family and friends. Most of them are on FB, so it's a great way for me to keep in touch with all of them and stay updated on family activities.

I do have my privacy settings set rather high. (Again partly due to my husband's job.) So unless if your on my friends list you really can't see much of my information.

As far as your husband asking you to close your account, it sounds like he's insecure about something. Try sitting down and talking to him about it. And the friend who brought up the past, that doesn't really sound like something a true friend would do. It sounds to me like that person is trying to stir up trouble.
I completely understand about FB being a good social outlet. I would go completely insane if I didn't have that way to stay connected with my friends and family back home. Also, there's several friends from church that I have on there as well. Talk to your husband about everything before deleting your account. If it's problems with a friend on your list, then block that person.

How high do you have your privacy settings set? If your husband has a problem with how much of your profile is available to be seen, that can be easily changed under your privacy settings.

Again, just sit down and talk about this with your husband. Explain to him why you don't want to close your account on FB. And be honest with him.

Praying that things work out for you.

 

[Just4Jesus]

I have had it for a couple years now and haven't had any problems. Hubby doesn't mind that I have it but he's not interested in it.

Me too, hubby could care lesshe thinks myspace and facebook are stupid

 

[poohgirl]

Me too, hubby could care lesshe thinks myspace and facebook are stupid

LOL......

 

[k450ofu3k-gh-5ipe]

My husband and I have them. Nothing about our pages, e-mails, comments, etc. is private though and we are extremely open about them. He doesn't really talk to anyone on his though and mostly uses it for lame apps, lol. I guess if we had something really bad that we didn't want to come up again or whatever, it would be different, but we don't. I even have an ex on there who I talk to fairly regularly.

Mostly though, I just use it to talk to people who are my friends who I don't get to see that often. A lot of friends moved away from high school and a lot of friends are inthe military.

Same with my wife and me except our accounts are only viewable by friends and not the general public. My wife actually uses it extensively for social networking with friends and family. I'm not nearly as social so it gets mostly unused. Having it available, however, for contact information on the numerous people one meets in life is convenient, so that's why I keep it around.

No, we haven't had any real problems with it. Just as a warning, however--they don't call it dramabook for no reason. A co-worker and I were actually discussing the other day how Facebook brings unnecessary drama into our wives' lives. As long as you take everything you read on Facebook with a grain of salt and never jump to conclusions, you'll be fine. Don't over think what you read on Facebook!

 

[LYP]

My husband and I are both on FaceBook...I have very few friends and he has hundreds, lol! Nothing bad as of yet, it's been great! We are both very selective of our friends, me more than him though...hence the FEW friends I have! ROFL

 

[Lena75]

Me too, hubby could care lesshe thinks myspace and facebook are stupid

Yep, mine said the same thing! Even reading on message boards, including this one, he's like.... I don't see the point in all this.

 

[Just4Jesus]

LOL......

Yep, mine said the same thing! Even reading on message boards, including this one, he's like.... I don't see the point in all this.

 

[mont974x4]

My bride and I both have accounts. We have not had any negative situations but I did have to explain who some of the women were that were sending me friend requests. "Is she an old girlfriend?" and "Did you have a crush on her?" were typical. It only took a minute to explain and we moved on.


We mainly joined as a way to know what technology is available in relation to what our kids are getting into so that we could have educated discussions about risks and responsibilities in an ever growing online world.

It has been a fun distraction, that we do limit.

 

[AndOne]

I get on it - probably more than I should. My wife has a page but rarely gets on FB. I have two rules of thumb. First - no old girlfriends. Any that request friendship get rejected. Second - no ex-wives of friends. Any that request friendship get rejected. So far its worked out pretty good....