[edn88]

I am a Facebook user for the last few years, and recently a Twitter follower as well.

I think that Facebook or Twitter or posting on internet message boards is what you make of it. I mean some folks come here and just lurk looking for information, others feel the need to get stuff of their chest to the CP community. I quite often use CP as a news aggregator (which is kind of what I use Facebook and Twitter for).

Facebook for me is a better way of keeping up with distant friends and family - which we used to do via MyFamily, but Facebook let's you do more. And really as part of the older generation I don't like the idea of getting out of touch with what the younger generation is doing. Plus once you use technologies like Twitter and Facebook, you can actually see for yourself what the value and pitfalls of each are.

There are definitely good and bad about all of the internet social media, and by no means does everyone need to participate. I would never tell anyone they absolutely need to be on social media, but I would suggest like all things in life, you give it a try and decide based on the experience versus the perception of others.