Thing 8-Facebook

I already had a Facebook account. I first got one so I could "spy on" my son in college (according to my daughter, who said that was creepy and I should just quit). After "spying on" him a couple of times, I decided I didn't really want to know, and cancelled my facebook account. He wasn't doing anything bad, I just figured my daughter was actually right and it was none of my beeswax. Recently my friends talked me into getting a facebook account again, so I did. Now I have a decent number of friends on facebook, including several of my children's friends. Only one out of 3 personal children, though, and it's not my son or the daughter who thought I was being creepy. I don't pay a whole lot of attention to my facebook account; I look at it about twice a week. I have taken a few "quizzes" such as "what kind of dog would you be? answer: standard poodle (!)" and written on a few walls and chuckled at the antics of some of my friends. It's really a fairly innocuous way to see what's going on in people's lives, but it has the danger of becoming all-consuming. I am old, I still like my actual life better than my virtual life.