i think those that reject facebook and twitter are deluding themselves that it makes them cool to "not do it".
yes some people post they are eating a cookie, but fact is, social media along with mobile technology is the way of the future. you can try and fight it, but you will be better off by embracing it.
i think those that reject facebook and twitter are deluding themselves that it makes them cool to "not do it".
yes some people post they are eating a cookie, but fact is, social media along with mobile technology is the way of the future. you can try and fight it, but you will be better off by embracing it.
I don't have it and i don't think im cooler because of that. I don't have it because theres no point. I don't care if Jenny and Garth are going to have a kid, are breaking up or if little Johnny just graduated from highschool. It seems like a waste of time and from what i've seen it also seems almost addictive The only reason I would ever need something like that is if for some reason my job required me to have it in the future.
I think you are missing his point. The only information they can share is information you put up there. If you don't post anything, there is nothing to give. For example, the only personal information I have on Facebook is my name. No phone numbers, no address, no birthday. Nothing. So what is the risk? Maybe they can sell my bejewelled high score?
All I'm saying is, if you don't post much of anything, you are not utilizing Facebook hardly at all, so why do it? Facebook is a really cool system in how it finds and connects people, I admire the backend stuff, it's quite brilliant.
But do you really want to trust your life to this guy? He has demonstrated over and over again that Facebook is willing to be reckless with your information, although he likes to call it a "new social norm" to give up all kinds of personal details just because his site asks you to.
But do you really want to trust your life to this guy? He has demonstrated over and over again that Facebook is willing to be reckless with your information, although he likes to call it a "new social norm" to give up all kinds of personal details just because his site asks you to.
How am I trusting my life to that guy?
I know more about him than he knows about me. "He" doesn't even know my real name. "He" has the email address I give to potential spammers.
I understand the concern about "security", but if you aren't a moron, what can "he" do to you?
My real name, address and phone number are printed in a big book and delivered to every Telus customer in town every year. I also pay my bills, buy things with my credit card and exchange plenty of other personal information (including damning photos, private conversations) over my my regular internet connection every day.
I'm guessing you do the same, to some extent. Are you trusting your life to them?
If you're comfortable with using Facebook, it's fine with me. As for "and exchange plenty of other personal information (including damning photos, private conversations) over my my regular internet connection every day." you can't seriously compare that to posting the same info on Facebook.
family is mostly in town and for those i don't regularly see i just send out emails
i still keep in contact with my close friends from high school and i'm not overly interested in being 'friends' with other people from high school that i haven't talked to in 20 years.... crap... 20 years.... uggghh!
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For me its been very useful, but I have family all over and friends all over. Its just one centralized place I can keep in touch and see what people are up to.
Its not about having to communicate with everyone on your friends list all the time, its more about being able to check up on people to see what they are up to when you feel like it and hearing about whats going on with friends, old friends and for me my family and relatives.
When you learn how to clean up your wall from games, horoscopes and the like it becomes a clean and useful thing you can enjoy, but facebook without tweaks is a cluttered annoying wall spamming monster.
I don't have a face book account and I have no plans of getting one. I simply don't need it. There isn't anyone I want to keep in touch with using Face book.
I am what you might call the loner-type. My fiancee too, though she wasn't always that way (I hope I haven't ruined her!) I always kind of figured that I don't associate with anyone outside my small circle more than I have to in real life, so why wold I on facebook?
But I set up an account about a year ago after my fiancee did. It baffles me that some people I know have 300+ friends. I don't even know 300 people. At first I felt kind of awkward, especially when people I barely knew started to send me friend requests. Like people from work, or people from school who I don't think I've ever said two words to.
Over time I connected with lots of my family I don't see that often (as in weddings and funerals) and m glad to have gotten in touch with them. And some friends from the past and present. Overall, I like facebook: I usually check it a few times a day now.
Not on facebook either, and no plans to be. People I know say "you should join Facebook", and brother, nothing gets my back up more than people telling me what I should be doing. That, and I'm not a social butterfly so the idea of having acquaintences become "friends" would be annoying. So I resist.
I also look around work and see people using it a lot on the company's dime. I administrate our email server (over a thousand accounts) and see facebook status updates come through constantly, and I just know people receive these updates on their iPhones and then stop working for 10 minutes as they check out Facebook. It irks me.
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It seems even the last holdouts I've known are starting to join the party...
Fortunately I'm finding the opposite. I've got a few friends that have recently deleted their accounts altogether and the majority of the rest are far less interested in their profile(s) than a few years ago.
I've resisted creating an account because, like you said, I don't need people to know private details. The whole thing seems sort of pointless to me. If I was interested in this sort of stuff, I'd have gone to any one of my high school reunions.
i think those that reject facebook and twitter are deluding themselves that it makes them cool to "not do it".
So anyone that does not have a facebook account or subscribe to twitter twits has done so because they think that it is cool to "not do it"? Really? I can't describe how many problems there are with this brand of logic.
Please tell me that you just forgot to add green text.
Fortunately I'm finding the opposite. I've got a few friends that have recently deleted their accounts altogether and the majority of the rest are far less interested in their profile(s) than a few years ago.
I'm in that camp. I've had an account for years, and found it useful for keeping up with far away family and friends. Perhaps because there's so much more minutiae posted, it seems like it's more work to filter the crap from anything interesting than is worthwhile. So I rarely bother with facebook anymore.
