I joined Facebook this past spring. I didn't use it much at first but, as more of my friends have joined, I find myself visiting it more and more of late. It has even joined my daily rotation of sites and services to visit such as my personal email inboxes and MyYahoo. I've been conflicted on some things such as whether to accept friend requests from what are really acquaintances or people I've met once or twice through work. At first, I didn't accept them on the theory that I'd use LinkedIn for professional relationships and FB for personal ones. But after reading reports that Facebook plans on allowing finer-grained privacy settings and Michael Parekh's post on the topic, I decided to start adding 'casual acquaintances' and have started to, for the most part, only let them view my Limited Profile. [If this happens to be you, it's not personal and is what I'm comfortable with now as I'm sure you'd understand]. I've also edited and removed some things about myself and have recently found myself
deleting them from my feed so that not all of my "friends" see this, or removing other fields about myself. I'm clearly still comprehending the nuances of Facebook but can see myself using it more and more over time -- especially when they give more control over privacy settings.
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