This started as an innocent little thing. My son has a page and I ask him to say hi to my friends from time to time. Well they all finally agreed that I should just get my own page.

Now I'm hooked... it's a total drug. I'm finding old friends from school (nursery to medical) and long lost family. And playing really stupid games too.

Is anyone else sucked in by this tempting little devil of a website?

Linda

Completely and totally . . . my favorite pastime after kiddo is in bed? Scrabulous - have made many new friends with that one application . . . I understand :--)

OMG I started med school 2 years ago and had never heard of it. All my classmates spent hours on it and I thought it was a huge waste of time. Got tricked into opening my own page last year. All went downhill from there, especially recently when I found out that people from my home country have it too. Finding tons of middle school friends, wasting tons of time. As if I had that time to waste. Sigh.

The one thing I haven't allowed myself to get sucked into is all the applications and games. "Walling" and chatting are time consuming enough.

Haha, when I spent too much time on there, I closed my page down for a while. Just opened it back up and the addiction is gone

I am still wondering about the loss of anonymity with Facebook. Specifically, are horrible ex-boyfriends going to be able to track me down? Or is it worth that risk just to be able to reconnect with people I do like?

sahmd, that's the part that makes me hesitant as well. I had a MySpace profile to connect with my high school and medical school classmates-briefly. Soon after I started it some ultra-creepy patient came in for a follow up visit and had searched the internet for me. He had actually found MomMD and had read through my blog...kept bringing it up. I refused to see him again and took down the Myspace immediately. There are some people on Facebook that I would like to connect with (one of my friends is a member and one former residency classmate is begging me to join), but yes, my horrible ex is on there, and I don't want to connect with him!

There are privacy settings you can use. In order to see your page and your profile, people must be your "Friend". If I get friends requests from people I don't know or don't want to be in touch with, I just ignore the request and they wouldn't know anything about me.

Oh yeah! I have over 200 friends and that number is growing every day. I have found many pre-school classmates, and I'm even friends with the mean girls from my old "all girls school", LOL!!! My favorite ex boyfriend found me there too and we both have kids already =0)he's the twin of Matthew McConaughey...oooohhhhhh!!!!!!

Got my mom and dad hooked too and my 3 siblings. Many of my relatives are there too! It's a great way to stay in touch with everyone in one private place.

I don't have time for the games, and I keep getting all kinds of flowers and gifts that I can't even reply too....

I got a new car and became a member of a group with the same car and I'm the only female there talking about cars, lol!!!

I'm also in the groups for all my schools in 3 different cities and my ex classmates can't believe how much I've changed....some I last saw 20 yrs ago and I cry when we found each other.

I was asking a few of my patients and colleagues today, and you guessed it, they're all addicted. It's tempting. I can see myself getting hooked quickly. I struggle with insomnia already! There are some people that I would really like to be in touch with, like my high school acquaintance who I have heard is struggling with cancer. But...ex-boyfriends, ex-roommate, wacked out male patients. Yikes.

Weighing whether it's worth it...

I have a facebook page. I got it at the beginning when you needed a .edu e-mail to sign up (I am faculty at a big U.) I use it to stay connected with my kids and nieces and nephews, and they constitute 90% of my "friends". A few of my former med students have found me, which is nice. The other day a person who graduated from my undergrad school the year before I arrived who I don't know, requested to be added as a friend. I really don't have time to start a new circle of friends online. I probably check facebook about once a week or so. I have not installed any of the apps, and there really isn't much on my page.

Question: I have all my privacy settings on "Only Friends", but if I join a group, can people in that group who are not my friends see my profile, wall, pictures, etc.? Please let me know if you know!

They can only see your name and picture, not your profile if it is private. Even "friends of friends" can't see your pictures if you lock them-- some of my hubby's friends want to see pics of him that I have locked and can't.

And yes, I too am an addict. It's a great way to keep in touch with my med school and prior friends. Also to share pics and funny articles.

Hello my name is doctorjoy and I am a facebook addict

Don't forget to join the MomMD group on Facebook

I've joined :--)

Ooooh... we have a Facebook page? I'm joinin'!

I did it! Less than 4 hours ago! I've got to figure out how to find the MomMD Facebook page as I'm obviously not searching correctly. Help!

Erin

Our fan page - http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/MomMD/15781998194

Thanks! I managed to find it in the middle of the night and joined immediately.

I joined!! Wish I could put a face to everyones screen name, but its nice to see everyone !! I am very visual lol!!:)