Has Facebook helped you with anything?

[Mrs Gardner]

From a personal point of view, facebook has been both beneficial to my life and also a hassle in some ways.

I had never met my biological father. I tried everything (and I mean everything) to try and trace him. I had no luck! By chance, my mother bumped into someone who knew the name of his younger daughter. Through facebook, I found her, met my father and now have a blossoming relationship with him, his partner, and my 2 brothers and 1 sister I never knew I had! :-)

But....I have also had trouble with random weirdos sending me messages and trying to add me, it has stirred trouble in various circumstances between friends and family due to the status updates being an easy way for people to indirectly insult or bad mouth others. And for some reason, there are sooo many people who choose to argue with their partners publicly over their facebook wall. Nothing is sacred to some people on there! As long as you use it to reconnect with people and are responsible, I think its a fantastic invention. I have found people on there who I haven't seen or heard of for 15 years or more which was really surreal and quite addictive to begin with.