Getting to know your extended family better via Facebook has its downside.

[LuckyTheDog]

I am starting to long for the time when I only talked to those people at weddings and funerals.

If a second cousin wants to engage you in a discussion about how no real airplanes were used in the 9/11 attacks (because they were holographic projections), just run away. Run fast and run far. Same goes for when he wants to "teach" you that cholesterol isn't really bad for you -- and that we would all know that if not for a huge conspiracy by the pharmaceutical companies, the government and the research community.

I feel stupider after every encounter.

[Tobin S.]

1. I am not on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or anything like that.

DU is the closest I get to social media and I'm anonymous here for the most part.

[Xyzse]

2. Same here...

I am also relatively young, which is crazy for some.

[Coventina]

7. No Facebook for me, either.

I get all kinds of crap for that from my family and friends.
And then, listen to them complain about Facebook fights and such.

[rurallib]

3. holographic projections? new one on me

You may want to ask what kind of drugs he sells. Sounds like they must really alter reality.

[Callmecrazy]

4. ...and can I get any?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. Looks like I picked the wrong day...

[avebury]

6. I am on Facebook but more for animal related causes than

anything else. My niece was shocked when she found out that I was on FB. She told me that I would know more about what is going on in the family if I friended family members.

Do I really want to know that much?

I still have not friended any family members.

[Coventina]

8. Wise choice!!

Otherwise, you'll suddenly get lectures about how the Bible tells us the earth is 6000 years old, and GO TO CHURCH!!

[LuckyTheDog]

9. You don't.

You also don't want to hear how you might be going to hell for voting for Obama because, you know, we really can't rule out the possibility that he's the Antichrist.

[Iggo]

10. That's what I hear.

I don't do facebook, and I know there's family things I miss out on.

But even more importantly, there's things I definitely do not miss about my gunfucking biblethumping flag-worshipping cousins.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. I Have An Account

Used it for 2 things:
Couldn't find my sister's email address, so i signed up on Facebook to let her know our doggie died.

Then, used it to accept an invitation to my wife's school reunion.

People started sending me all kinds of stuff. I had to unfriend about 4 of them and learn to ignore the emails that someone had something else new to say that was of zero interest to me.

So, there's a page out there, but i probably haven't been on it for 4 or 5 years.

[LuckyLib]

12. Question that should be asked often where Facebook is concerned:

"Do I need these people in my life? My consciousness?" Generally the answer is no. So much of FB is drivel, I hear. Folks sending out photos of themselves living. We need to spend the winding down moments of our lives (since we never know when they will end) in real interaction with folks who matter. IMHO.

[FrodosPet]

15. My sympathies

Hopefully you will soon find some people you need in your life and your consciousness.

[LuckyLib]

16. I have many -- thanks for your concern.

[FrodosPet]

17. No problem!

Be well this holiday season, and at all times of the year!

[3catwoman3]

18. Drivel is a good word for most of what is on FB.

Banal is another.

I fully expect someone to one day say, "Just took a leak."

[DawgHouse]

13. I'm on FB for the cat pictures. That's it.

[FrodosPet]

14. I am on Facebook, and I am not ashamed of it

Fortunately, I am blessed with cool, funny, artistic family and friends.

So I get to see pictures and videos of their little ones and discover new music and read inspirational sayings and just in general get to interact with people who I care about but cannot afford to visit in person.

YMMV

[treestar]

19. Agree

Makes it easier to stay in touch with people.