I had to turn my Facebook chat off !

That's the thing with the social network sites..You might just want use them to stay in contact with your family and close friends,but you're leaving yourself open to contact from friends of friends and anybody who knew you from school onwards..it's a network,and there can't be many who like being in a net.....

I keep my Facebook off all the time. If I leave it on I get interupted by people from work! Especially when I am on FArmville! I really hate that! So I keep the Facebook chat off for that reason! I know it sounds alittle crazy but that ia the main reason I do it!

I do not bother putting my chat on, if i go on face book, as there are lots of people on my friends lists that i nolonger chat to and they are people that i use to go to school with.Since my school days i have not seen half of them, or had anything much to do with any of them.

It's not wrong. I also do that too. Whenever I log in on Facebook, there are lots of people who wants to chat with me. That's when I turn the chat feature off. It just gets annoying whenever I'm doing something and someone chatted you.

Hi Devididdi! Of course, that's not bad!!!! or wrong!!! I would keep it turned off. FB is awesome to stay connected with friends (real ones) and family. Part of the problem is that some people actually take fb as "real friends" and will keep trying to talk to you, or have their feelings hurt if you don't want to talk to them. It's like, dude in the high school parking lot....we weren't "friends" in high school, so why do you want to talk to me now?! People should get the hint, but unfortunately some people take it too seriously. I know it sounds harsh, but it's the way it is! good luck!

I felt the same way too. Previously, I let my chat turned on so my friends can chat with me. Now, I always turned off my chat because it is annoying. Especially I belong to a couple of group, the group chat keeps popping up since it has a lot of members that can't help but chat even non-sense. Another thing is I don't like the new chat box, it's kinda messy and hard to manage.

Sometimes it does get annoying like when I am just on long enough to see if there is an update about friends in the hurricane zone or to see when an event is and ehre. I like being on facebook without distractions from people talking to me, and sometimes when they do just pop up I feel obligated to chat with them for more than a few minutes, so I too sometimes turn mine off.

I know exactly what you mean! I, too, had to turn mine off. I don't think it is a bad thing. If I left mine on I wouldn't get anything done. I try to get on Facebook to do a quick check in with family and close friends and if I stopped to chat with everyone who tried to chat with me I would be on Facebook all day! If I have some spare time, I turn it on and chat a bit, but for the most part I leave it off.

I do not think that is a bad thing at all. It is not wrong because that is your choice to not want to chat. I turned my chat to offline too. I am a pretty private person and people do not need to know my every move in my life, and I feel that when the chat is on, people know what I am doing. It kind of creeps me out. I like to enjoy my visit on facebook by not being bombarded with chat messages. If they want to talk, they can call me.

Sometimes it can be preatty overwhelming, specially those people who wants an answer right away :D

I can feel you. I had this friend in facebook who was my school mate. We were never in the same class before but we were batch mates in grade school. We went to the same high school but he got kicked out in our freshmen years because of poor grades. When he added me in fb he chatted with me calling me classmate! I was being nice then and entertained him but then he kept on chatting with me because he was interested in my friend, he even told her we are best of friends! We were not even friends so how did he become my best friend? So i just didn't talk to him anymore after that.

Its not bad at all. I also turn my facebook chat off if I need to concentrate on doing something that is more important. Since I always have this incident that whenever I turn my facebook chat on, almost all of my friends will chat me and that will be the cause of delay if I'm doing something important that needs to be done right away. But if I'm not in a hurry, I just leave it on and would care to chat to some friends and relatives. Another thing I don't like is when a not so close friend begin to chat with you, I feel it awkward though, hence I will turn it off.

I always keep my FB chat off. I just don't like to have people see me online through it. Same reason as yours, I do befriend elementary seatmates (yeah I also have those) but it doesn't mean I want them to update me on everything. Really, some of them use FB chat like it's a Twitter client _

Some people tend to become TOO friendly. I don't think that's bad at all. My FB chat is ALWAYS off! If I wanted to talk to somebody I'd text them or call them or even msg them on fb. But if I'm on that fb chat people I never want to talk pops up asking me to have lunch and I don't always want to be mean and tell them off all the time so I just turn it offline all the time. & Sometimes people will think you're rude for not responding to them when they know you are online and I try to avoid that.

I think you are not doing anything wrong, I am also doing the same thing and I guess its our right to do so...hehe Ever since, I don't really like putting my chat on, I don't know but for some reason I just don't like chatting through FB and besides most of the people there are not really that close to me, except to some but those who are really close to me, we talk in other way and not through FB chat...

i think it's not bad at all. you need privacy when viewing your family and relatives. For me, I left the chat corner open but i only chat to a few maybe the most is 5 friends and they are not online at the same time. If they're not online i don't chat. The rest I only chat with them when I have something to ask. Same with them, they just greet me when they have something to ask from me.

I also turn my chat off. I don't even open it often. I use facebook to keep in touch with my friends and also find old friends, but sometimes we just don't need to talk to them like every night. I also noticed that most of them are them almost every time I drop by to check my inbox... You did nothing wrong, we all have moods and we don't really have to talk to someone were not that close...

NOT AT ALL!! I believe you did the right thing! Initially, when I joined face-book, I was really excited about meeting all my old classmates. So, eventually, I had, like 20 faces for each of the 8 stations (my father has a transferable job)we've been so far AND THEY EXPECTED ME TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING!! It only got worse as even older or short-duration classmates kept cropping up. I actually deactivated my account for some time, but ended up losing touch with some of my good friends. Finally, after being suggested by a friend of mine, I made up separate friend lists. I'm able to show myself as offline to the rest of the world while I chat online with my real friends. I even blocked a few who were pestering me! I'd suggest you do either of these. Delete the unwanted contacts; or if you don't feel up to it, just separate out your 'friends' into Family and Acquaintances or whatever you feel is a suitable header and untangle the unwanted knots! Enjoy!!