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• [1] Kris from New Jersey July 24, 2008 - 10:09AM

  My daughter would rather stick pins in her eyes then let me anywhere near her Facebook(she is 15) . I currently attend the New School which has a facebook network and as much as I try she will not friend her own mother. ; (

  
  
• [2] Avivah from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:10AM

  From this morning's headlins on Yahoo-uk:

  Businessman in Facebook libel win

  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080724/tuk-businessman-in-facebook-libel-win-dba1618.html

  
  
• [3] Avivah from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:11AM

  Froom this morning's headlines on Yahoo-UK:

  Businessman in Facebook libel win

  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080724/tuk-businessman-in-facebook-libel-win-dba1618.html

  
  
• [4] David from Montclair, NJ July 24, 2008 - 11:22AM

  I will be very interested to hear your guests on this topic. I am a 62-year-old divorced man, my only child off at college, with a ladyfriend, but what I need most now is friends, of either sex but espcially men. It seems that the world is not set up to allow single men of my age to meet others like them as friends. When you are married you lose all the networks that would allow you to meet such people; and when you get divorced you lose the network of married people. I have found that places like churches are dominated by couples and families, and singles of my age are very isolated.

  
  
• [5] O from Forest Hills July 24, 2008 - 11:35AM

  Connecting on Facebook is not the same as having real time friendships with people and spending time together. No matter what technology, the face to face intimacy of close friendships and being in person will not be replaced.

  
  
• [6] Avivah from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:35AM

  From this morning's headlines on Yahoo-UK

  Businessman in Facebook libel win:

  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080724/tuk-businessman-in-facebook-libel-win-dba1618.html

  
  
• [7] Avivah from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:39AM

  Facebook is useful if you are part of a community with a purpose. I use my Facebook account ONLY for fellow alumni from my university.

  We have organised regional gatherings of alumni of all ages; and recently were able to gather enough people for a choir for the funeral of the mother of one of my classmates.

  
  
• [8] karen from Village July 24, 2008 - 11:48AM

  Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

  A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.

  The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the al-Arabiya website reported.

  The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the “strife” the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.

  Saudi preacher Ali al-Maliki has emerged as the leading critic of Facebook, claiming the network is corrupting the youth of the nation.

  
  
• [9] Sally Forth from Soho July 24, 2008 - 11:49AM

  I don't understand all this Facebook hype. MySpace has FAR MORE members in this age range and it is the same damn thing.

  
  
• [10] Adele from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:50AM

  I belong to Facebook and MySpace's target audience -- 22 and female. But I find it utterly distracting and have sworn it off for the past 3 or 4 years. I was recently horrified that a "new website re-design" for both Facebook and MySpace made local news here in NYC (I believe it was on Fox 5). Google isn't making us stupid; facebook is.

  
  
• [11] Che from Jackson Heights July 24, 2008 - 11:51AM

  I am 25 and my mother is on facebook and i think it has enhanced our 'friendship'

  
  
• [12] Tamara Busch from Central NJ July 24, 2008 - 11:51AM

  Got onto Facebook as a "dare" from a friend that was on Linked In. He said that I'd like it more - I was heavily into business contacts on LinkedIn and had over 300 connections.

  Now that I've been on Facebook - I have found Highschool friends from my American military high school in Germany, family members know when I'm travelling and my 15 nephew allowed me to link to him, but didn't allow his mother to see his "wall". Facebook is personal with a business tinge.

  So, I'm on LinkedIn, Plaxo and Facebook and I'm on Facebook at least three times a day

  
  
• [13] karen from Village July 24, 2008 - 11:52AM

  Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features

  mashable.com/2007/06/10/facebook-hammers-myspace-on-almost-all-key-features/

  
  
• [14] Prima Facie from Long Island July 24, 2008 - 11:53AM

  Okay, someone launch a 50+ equivalent to Facebook. Please.

  
  
• [15] Heather Cortes from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:54AM

  I am a teacher and a bunch of students and former students have friend requested me. I think Facebook is the same as any community. You have to be conscious of who you are and what you represent all the time.

  
  
• [16] felipe from brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:55AM

  I have a friend who's 35 that is surprisingly happy her mom is her facebook friend. They now know what's going on with each other (good or bad) more so then previous years. Guess in a way it's made them oddly closer.

  I think the last caller is sad, someone cheer her up!

  
  
• [17] Rebecca from London July 24, 2008 - 11:57AM

  I am 30 and a US citizen living in London and I am really glad to be able to stay in touch with my parents, brother, and extended family by facebook. I can have other kinds of relationships with them besides telephone / e-mail. I can see the pictures they're posting and play games with them.

  
  
• [18] Aaron from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 11:58AM

  I am 24 y/o and single and mostly use FB to connect/reconnect with friends/acquaintances. It is a great tool to stay in touch. PS...i am friends with my mom. Because of this, I try to monitor my wall and make sure nobody sends me anything off-color... I have been known to delete wall posts and picture tags that i do NOT want my mom to see :)

  LOVE YOUR SHOW BRIAN!!!

  
  
• [19] thatgirlinnewyork from manhattan July 24, 2008 - 11:58AM

  kris,

  oh please--you're upset because you can't join your teen daughter's network of friends? why not meet michele slatalla for coffee and whine with her? online social networking isn't unlike face-to-face social networking--those who connect usually have something in common. being your child's mother is not one of them

  
  
• [20] Catfish J. Rivers from Elizardbreff, NJ July 24, 2008 - 11:59AM

  Facebook was created by people with ties to the dept of defense. Anyone who uses Facebook is allowing themselves to willingly contribute to a government database that keeps tabs on its "users" to such a high degree as we've never known before. I had to write 3x to have my account deleted.

  
  
• [21] Jose from Queens July 24, 2008 - 11:59AM

  I work in IT, and I am a big advocate of technology and democracy, etc.

  I get invited to join Facebook at least every month, and the few times I've tried to join I get turned off by all the amounts of information they ask. I also see so many people spending HOURS a day looking at profiles or updating theirs. I n a place as busy as NY I just don't understand how anybody would want to waste so much time on what ammounts to no more that self-promotion and narcissism.

  
  
• [22] Matthieu from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 12:00PM

  One of the tricky things on facebook comes when posting items that not only affect your own privacy but that of friends. Is it okay for me to post a picture of me and a non-facebook friend? Or a facebook friend? What say do they get? And what of non photos? Accounts of events? Discussion of others?

  
  
• [23] Emily from Brooklyn, NY July 24, 2008 - 12:00PM

  For people who are saying they are meeting a lot of friends on facebook, I'm curious whether they are meeting friends that they will actually hang out with (in person, outside of the facebook community), or facebook "friends" who are strictly online contacts.

  I joined facebook in April of 2004, my freshman year of college, soon after it started becoming popular. At that time, its applications were limited to describing yourself, posting pictures, and sending messages and wall posts. It's interesting to me that facebook's newest users (older people) are using facebook for a much broader range of activities than its original users!

  
  
• [24] anthony clune from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 12:00PM

  Yeah the mom test is an important consideration..

  I find a majority of the venomous/crass comments about Senator Obama, on all of these sites, come from youngsters hiding behind the shroud of anonymity.

  
  
• [25] D July 24, 2008 - 12:01PM

  I agree with the listener who said it's a very sad state of affairs when we can really only communicate with each other through computer screens and sites in lieu of actual conversations in person.

  People are gleefully trading in their human-ness for technological counterparts...it's very sad.

  
  
• [26] Aaron Angel from Brooklyn July 24, 2008 - 12:04PM

  emily, im all about keeping it simple application-wise... my sister who is 33 y/o is using every single application known to man. in my opinion this gets to be too much. ps, find me on facebook.

  
  
• [27] thatgirlinnewyork from manhattan July 24, 2008 - 12:05PM

  david--most of us have been there and concur with you. divorce can destroy one's "network". there are myriad social networks for all sorts of people, of all sorts of ages and interests--look around them before you join.

  however, there is no substitute for the face-to-face element, and bedroom communities often don't provide much solace for divorcees (i've watched many friends endure this). if you're mobile, join city-based activities, where you'll find myriad people of like mind...or at least seek nj-based communities that are not as family-oriented as yours. good luck!

  
  
• [28] Jon P. from Hewitt, NJ July 24, 2008 - 12:06PM

  #17

  So you pay for everything in cash or you don’t own anything in your name or you don’t have internet access or you dont pay taxes or you dont have cable TV or an E-z pass in your or car or you don’t even own a car? If you own or use any of these things guess what, the government and the corporate world has even better tabs on you then they ever could on facebook.

  
  
• [29] Leon Freilich from Park Slope July 24, 2008 - 01:47PM

  FAR FROM TENS

  They agree on one thing,

  Today's tweens and teens:

  Their bewildered parents

  Are clueless hasbeens.

  
  
• [30] Frank in Oyster Bay from Oyster Bay, Long Island July 24, 2008 - 03:04PM

  Facebook's use of the word "friend" as a verb and as a noun is overreaching, but I guess "acquaintance" was too hard to spell.