keeping in touch or stalking?

Ha! I have tried stalking if that is what you call it. I mean old friends that I want to know what is going on. But you know you can block your profile so that they had to add you as a friend before they can view you.

Mostly keeping in touch, at least in my case. Half the people I have friended on there are acquaintances from a forum we all post to, so everyone knows everyone to start with; there's not a lot to stalk. The other half are generally friends, family, and old coworkers. They either know each other, or have little in common. Either way, I make my profile publically available to anyone to start with. I'm probably too boring for anyone to bother stalking ;)

I think it's more like keeping in touch for the average user. Though, I can see how someone would be able to "stalk" someone there. I mean, if your ex-boyfriend is there and can see who you are friends with, that could be a problem. But, the thing is that you have control over a lot of your own content. You can make your profile private or delete that boyfriend from our connections. I'm not sure, but I also think that you can block people from viewing things you post there. But, I'm still pretty new there myself, so I'm not so sure about that.

I really don't see it as a tool for stalking because we can choose what information we want to include. Also, you can choose what information to share with certain networks and stuff. So for the most part I think it is up to the indiidual to choose what to share. I know I have always kept my groups private and I am able to hide any activity that I do if I don't want it to show up. So I think the key is to not just be a facebook user, but a smart facebook user. I mostly have mine to see what my college friends are up to now, and since I came to mylot I have hardly even gotten on facebook! So yea, to me it could go either way, but if you are responsible it's just a nice way to keep in touch and maybe make friends.

It is just like any tool of humanity: it can be used for evil. I think for the majority of people it is used as a tool for staying in touch, but can be used by stalkers. Like dynamite was designed for good and turned to evil. Dun dun dun...

im quite the facebook stalker myself--so long as u dont hurt them, who cares