I have found two things particularly useful in dealing with 'things I don't want to know about'.

The first is the ability to categorize your friends by list. Personally, I cycle through addictions to games, so what I do is set up lists by game name. If I add a person as a friend solely  because of a game, when I drop the game, I can delete a whole bunch of non-friends. Now, there arise occasions when I actually make friends with someone that I begin playing a game with. I have a delightful musician friend in Ireland whom I met playing some long-abandoned castle game (apparently 12th century feudalism and St. George like Dragons appeal to me). But once he developed into a different kind of friend, he 'moved lists'.

The second is the ability to edit whose posts appear on your page for you (and others) to see. The first time I notice a post by a non-friend game friend that is inappropriate, in a foreign language that I have no desire to learn, etc., I simply edit them from my news feed; then, I never need know what they're up to. I also use that tool selectively, and intermittently, when dealing with progeny, youthful relatives, young friends, etc. Sometimes I simply don't want to know the details or results of hormonally-laced experiments with alcohol and other mind-altering substances, including pheromonic.

My brother posts things on his wife's wall that seem to me would be more appropriate as a message to her.  I don't get why he does that.  He's computer savy, so I'm pretty sure that he must do it on purpose.

But if you "hide" posts from these crazy friends (who you need for FarmTown), you can't click on their posts when they have work up for offer to work in their facilities as you can't see their posts.

I found the posts on Facebook by and large to be meaningless fluff that I didn't care two shakes about. And when I posted something I thought interesting and worth thought I got little or no response, over and over again. I wondered how many people had edited me out of their news feeds. I also found myself feeling like I was eaves dropping on the private conversations of others here and there. It all felt rather unnatural and potentially risky, so I deleted my account and went back to normal life.

People have no idea how wide reaching and to what audience their posts on facebook go. For some reason they thionk that they have either anonymity, or limits.

I had to contact the parents of a young (15yr) lady who sent an innocent picture to my daughter from her facebook. MY daughter asked me if I could remove some artifacts from the photo and crop it for her, and she mentioned there might be a couple others as well she wanted.

Well being as I am a FBfriend of my daughter, I was able to see the picture in question, asn since when you send a picture to someone on FB, you grant permission to that person's, and person's friends, entire album, I was able to get that photo, and look for the others.

Of course, being normally paranoid, I made sure I had my wife looking over my shoulder. Teenagers often have marginally inappropriate pictures in their album, and it's a good idea not to go there alone, just in case. I wasn't, however, expecting to see what I ended up seeing.

Some of the photographs in that album were of an extremely adult nature, quite disturbing, and that's from a Witch's POV.

I sent a link to her parents, and to the ministry, and got out very quickly, but It's going to be some time before I can look that young lady in the eye again. Her parents took quick action to have her account shut down, but because of the way FB works, the damage had already been don. Those pictures are, without a doubt, circulating through the internet unhampered.

This is one of the reasons I don't use facebook very much at all, and I have taught my children to be very careful indeed.

We have also provided our kids with safe places to keep things they need or wish to keep private, even from us. I would rather be ignorant of something they don't want seen, than be the last of millions of strangers to know about it.

People are crazy about facebook. I just saw a car commercial tonight about a car that allows you to access facebook while driving (voive command). It has a guy and girl out on a date. They quickly kiss goodnight and part. He's driving, nervous, and tells the car to access his facebook news feed where the girl has written "best first date ever" and he's relieved. I ended up just laughing.  Who could have imagened that even a few years ago. The world is crazy. For the record I do use facebook and play the games a lot, but I can't imagine getting to the point where I need it in my car.

My friends post church and theological stuff, song videos, positive news about their families and friends, and requests for prayer and encouragement. I enjoy reading what they write.

Holy! Witch! You took good action. Thank heavens you caught that! It's a can of worms, Facebook. I had a nice trunk when I was a teen, with a nice padlock on it for my private things. I still have the trunk! I keep my treasures in it. Treasure trunk.

That is crazy Jon. What a weird world. How insecure people must be. Facebook seems to feed that. It sure made me feel more insecure than usual!