Let's try something new.

[crevette]

I'm going to see if I can crosspost my Facebook posts to my LJ to see if that will inspire me write a little more than I will on Facebook.

At the gym I discovered that the spanking brand new Arc machine has a fan on it. YAY! I also discovered the fan automatically disconnects when you go below 80 steps a minute. BASTARDS. Some call it motivation

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[veronica_rich]

I don't have Facebook for that very reason. I like my selective anonymity.

Poor mommy!

[gobsmacked]

I have fb, but it's strictly for work purposes, so selective anonymouse-ity for me too.

However, I have learned some important things about using fb, and the most important of these is "Custom" postings.
If you wanna get your freak on, make a list of the people that you want to see that post and *exclude everyone else*. Your family and friends are just as easy to exclude as total strangers.

For example, there are certain posts I made which are innocuous by most standards (e.g. nude Greek statues in museums), but certain raving nutbar religious freakoids have reported people to facebook for any kind of nudity, so when I have to post about something to do with nekkidness, they have been collected into a group which is specifically blocked from seeing those posts. This is in addition to directing post specifically to a sub-group we shall call "Nekkid OK".
Does that make sense?

[saaxton]

Yeah, I have the same problem over there. I don't have anyone from work friended over there, but you can't NOT friend family. I find I have to sensor myself a bunch. It's not so much Facebook, as Face-you-want-people-to-see-book.

[zyyva]

However, whatever brings you back here must be embraced as a Good Thing by your avid readers - you have been missed!

[dejla]

Well, it's good to see you back -- I've missed you!

It must be so hard to see your child become an adult -- My parents saw me back on their doorstep at least 3 times after we all thought I'd taken flight. But congratulations on having raised a wonderful daughter!!

The only reason I'm on Facebook is to check up on my nieces and nephews.

[silmaril]

And that's exactly why I couldn't deal with Facebook.

Google+, with the simple expedient of letting you share things separately with separate circles as you choose, helps lots.

Liv graduating from high school still makes my eyes pop a little, I can't imagine how you're feeling. But she's awesome and she's going to go on to make more awesome, so there's always that.

That stop fan below 80-steps-a-minute thing is a very good example of a lawful evil genius type design decision.

[gobsmacked]

Facebook now lets you share things separately with separate circles too.