taosola:

Hello fellow Nairalanders, this issue just ensued between me and my cousin. He maintained that a responsible house wife should not use facebook and if, in case, she does, she MUST NOT put her real pictures on her profile not alone in any facebook photo albums.

His justification is that facebook provides an avenue for infidelity and different types of indecencies. To him therefore, a responsible married woman should abstain from using her pictures on facebook. Instead of her real pictures, he maintained, she should rather put that of her children.

I argued that facebook is not meant for all the indecencies and atrocities he claimed it to be but rather, it is just a mere social network where old friends can easily hook one another and where you can have new friends as well and share opinions on many burning issues. And if someone does not use her real pics, then it MIGHT be difficult for some of her friends to distinguish her from possible multiple results of same names and same data of users.

I equally argued that many people might not be facebook users and yet be more guilty of infidelities and other social vices. To me, I believe that it depends on the state of mind.

Please kindly tell us your opinion on this issue. Should a married woman join facebook OR not? And if she does, is anything wrong with putting her real pictures on her profile OR not? Your opinion counts!

Thanks!

Shy-One:

I deleted my facebook account after about 6 months of joining - I noticed that men were coming on to me and though I made it clear that I had a man - they didn't care and even got abusive.

If I rejoin Facebook it will be after I marry and I can put photos of both of us on my account - The advances of the different men - white and black was sending the wrong message to my family, clients and friends.

I even had a few guys that were angry once my status changed from single to in a relationship. And they actually posted some very, very angry, derogatory comments about my guy's African heritage. Male friends that I thought were just friends until I announced my relationship. (AA males)

So I dropped my facebook account. I think you have to be careful - facebook opens your world up to friends and friends of friends that you don't even know. I didn't want drama so I dropped it.

Mrs.Chima:

Osama,

Not everybody use Facebook to attract a sexual partner. However, I do agree that Facebook does not protects men or women from being exposed to sexual predators or rude people.

I find that regardless what status you use, how many pictures you post up, who you accept as friend, and what type of status you put on your page. People who are rude and disrespect are going to be rude and disrespectful.

I have several friends who have over 1,000 friends and only know five of them personally minus the family members. Guess what, she posted a very revealing picture of herself and she wondered why she was an instant FACEBOOK CELEBRITY.

My husband and I share a facebook account and we are very selective who we add on the page and we always consult with each other prior to accepting people as friends. MOST OF THE PEOPLE are our family members and family friends. So far we haven't had any issues. We mainly use it to contact family and friends from afar.

ogugua88:

Allow? Smh,

googles:

Long as the pictures are decent no harm in doing that.


but then again, some pple just jack the pictures you innocently posted and do all sort of nasty things with them. . . one really has to be careful these days mahn !