[Crazy Hitch]

I just did one of those "oh happy days" status updates.

Freaks my mother out when I don't post for a few days. She lives in a different continent.

And no one on FB knows that I lost my job in September.

My parents still think I'm teaching!

I feel kind of bad for lying but they're worry warts who live far away.

It can just be kind of draining sometimes with the false pretences and happy go lucky posts so none of them know what's going on.

I post a happy post but all I'm really thinking is FML.

If you're happy and you know it say thank you!
*rolling my eyes cos this doesn't even make sense ... I know I've lost the plot!

[lacerta]

Thanks God my mom's not on FB. I post rarely, nothing to say daily.

[wing]

I keep telling myself to quit FB due to some of the stupid posts I make, but keep choosing to want information about people I hardly know. Which can be depressing.

[gloamingone]

I gave up Facebook months ago. It was too hard on my bad days. People would either criticize or ignore me. Then there was the friend on the east coast who called 911 on me! Lol I find I'm much happier without it. It took a while to get used to not having it, but I've found other apps which keep me entertained (like Pinterest).

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[lacerta]

pinterest is a trigger for me

[tallulahxoxo]

I go back & forth between going on Facebook every day & deactivating it. It's sort of a collection of people from the past.. For me anyway. Sometimes that's comforting and sometimes that's depressing. Also, I post really stupid embarrassing things sometimes.
The other day I posted "f/ck double f/ck triple f/ck life".. Immature much? I deleted it later. Now I'm embarrassed but it wassss how I was feeling!

[notALICE]

I've reduced my friends list dramatically to people I mostly trust. I try not to post too much, which is nearly possibly to control when manic. Kind of like talking too much. What I might think is funny and makes great sense may come off crazy. In fact a Pintrest pic made me laugh this morning. Something like "You can tell by her FaceBook posts she's off her meds".

I even worry about sharing TMI here and it's a pretty understanding place.

[tallulahxoxo]

At least here it's pretty anonymous! (:

[Turtlesoup]

Don't do the facebook thing-I feel I am more understood & supported here. For me I think facebook would exacerbate my symptoms. Also photography was my very first career & I'm still really into that & if you post your pics there they belong to facebook-as I do still sell the occasional one I want the rights to them to belong to me. I do belong to bookreads-for any other bookworms out there it's a great place to hang out with other bookworms & revel in nerdy stuff.

[jesusplay]

I deleted all my social media a long time ago.

[HALLIEBETH87]

I have over 700 friends (and I know every single one! I don't add strangers!!!!) and many are Christians so I post no drama whatsoever.

[Crazy Hitch]

Originally Posted by wing

I keep telling myself to quit FB due to some of the stupid posts I make, but keep choosing to want information about people I hardly know. Which can be depressing.

Unfortunately for me I have parents and a sister who live in America, a brother who lives in Scotland, family who still live in South Africa and then there's us living in Australia. It's my only means of updated glimpses into their lives. Sigh.

[Crazy Hitch]

Originally Posted by gloamingone

I gave up Facebook months ago. It was too hard on my bad days. People would either criticize or ignore me. Then there was the friend on the east coast who called 911 on me! Lol I find I'm much happier without it. It took a while to get used to not having it, but I've found other apps which keep me entertained (like Pinterest).

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For me no one would have anything on me in terms of mental health. I keep everything "merry". I have 350 "friends/family" - I would get too many questions if I deactivated my account ....

[Crazy Hitch]

Originally Posted by lacerta

pinterest is a trigger for me

I've tried Pininterest. Didn't fit with me either.

[Crazy Hitch]

Originally Posted by SqrqhJean

I go back & forth between going on Facebook every day & deactivating it. It's sort of a collection of people from the past.. For me anyway. Sometimes that's comforting and sometimes that's depressing. Also, I post really stupid embarrassing things sometimes.
The other day I posted "f/ck double f/ck triple f/ck life".. Immature much? I deleted it later. Now I'm embarrassed but it wassss how I was feeling!

I still "like" my old schools facebook page that I worked at until September.

It is so triggering for me when I see their updated status and photos.

I have no idea why on earth I can't just unlike the page. I just can't. Even though it makes me mourn every time I see it. I'm weird.

[Crazy Hitch]

Originally Posted by notALICE

I've reduced my friends list dramatically to people I mostly trust. I try not to post too much, which is nearly possibly to control when manic. Kind of like talking too much. What I might think is funny and makes great sense may come off crazy. In fact a Pintrest pic made me laugh this morning. Something like "You can tell by her FaceBook posts she's off her meds".

I even worry about sharing TMI here and it's a pretty understanding place.

Yeah I did a whole bunch of culling off friends and blocking them last month ....

[Crazy Hitch]

Originally Posted by SqrqhJean

At least here it's pretty anonymous! (:

I think that's why I've become addicted to this forum.

Nobody "knows" me.

So I can really post how I feel and I know that members will get it.

[BipolaRNurse]

I tend to post random crap on FB when I'm manic, especially political stuff. The rest of the time I don't touch that with a ten-foot pole, because I have friends from different persuasions and normally I don't want to start fights.

[notALICE]

Hooligan I'm with you on not deleting FB due to family. It's sometimes my best source of keeping tabs on my older kids & other relatives. And I just realized I typed "possibly" in previous post rather than "impossible". Evil iPhone autocorrect or my BiPolar mind?

[touched by fire]

Yes. Every post seems like non-sense putting up the *I'm perfectly ok and life is just rainbows and unicorns* facade.

It's so hard to exercise self control sometimes and not go off the deep end with whats *really going on*.

[Crazy Hitch]

Originally Posted by notALICE

Hooligan I'm with you on not deleting FB due to family. It's sometimes my best source of keeping tabs on my older kids & other relatives. And I just realized I typed "possibly" in previous post rather than "impossible". Evil iPhone autocorrect or my BiPolar mind?

Hee hee I love auto correct on my iPad .... Makes me say things I never said!

[notALICE]

LOL I say,"darn that autocorrect again!" for my mistakes. (Some are autocorrect). I lent my son my iPad I had used daily for over a year. He thinks it's his now. My iPhone is such a pain going back to. Tiny screen, smaller keyboard, tiny micro sized letters displayed. To use the expression "it drives me mad" is redundant when I'm already there. Bad pun, I know.

[Disorder7]

I've learned not to post when I've been drinking. I would wake up and wonder if I posted something stupid. Now alcohol= no facebook.

[Justugh]

nope i do not post anything on FB or myspace or any other places on the net like that

the simple fact that they can used against u ...........do u know how many time i seen news reports about ppl going after jobs because they demanded their password for social media so they could look in the accounts .......or ppl getting fired or no hired because they looked on face book and sawl something they did not like about the person in their off hours .........one lady i know about was caught because of face book she caused a wreck on the bridage ....she said she was not there someplace esle but the pics she posted showed she was not

hooligan sorry nice lady but tell your mom the truth the longer u lie about stuff the more it builds up and the time to come clean it turns into a huge thing for letting it go so long

as for the face book stuff i would stop but i am paranoid like that ..........u can always skype with your mom if she has a computer and internet /camera /mic/speakers

or even set up a microsoft one note .........u can give access to ppl allowing them to work on your books so they can write talk in there........in there no one knows anything u can delete it all and leave no trace ( lady in the military likes me we use that to talk to each other so no one gets introuble ) i know she is high ranking and does stuff that i should not know about so we use that to talk to each other

i am sorry if u ppl really thought about what u are posting on those sites u would be little freaked out ..........anyone with some skill and the want they can stalk u using that the photos of friends and places u go ....your routine ...your likes/dislikes...........it is one huge file for a conman/women to use to run scams on u from the personal info u shared out with out thinking (and just so u know FB never deletes anything all those old posting and pics u though u took down is saved in the servers and can be accessed at anytime)

[~Christina]

I post random things and I post things that are very important to me , causes and injustice type stuff.

If someone is bothered by my posting they are more than welcome to delete me.

I have had a few a bit heated discussions about a post or 2 I have made, but in general I post what I want and let everyone have there opinion and move on to my next random post.

Facebook is not a trigger at all for me .. If it was I would walk away and never click on it again.