I Don't Have a Facebook Account

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

What about another law where you run to defend the rights of women everywhere when even the slightest hint of sexism or misogyny happen?

By the way, when you run to defend women, you run... like a girl.

I blame my leg braces.

[Pinner]

Several years ago I had to sign up to Facebook to access a link someone e.mailed.

I only gave my name and e.mail, since then I sign in 2-3-4, times a year.
It's a bit creepy when I get friend requests from people I havn't seen in 20 yr's,
how does Facebook connect people and do people get offended when the request is not accepted ? I have yet to accept a request, even from family

I've seen what it does to people, I don't get it, and Twitter, like WTF ?

Do people know I've joined and I'm ignoring them ?

[Hanni]

Originally Posted by Pinner

Do people know I've joined and I'm ignoring them?

Yes and they all hate you for it.

[GreenLantern]

The only reason people don't sign up for facebook is so they can tell people they don't have facebook.

Fight the power man.

[AFireInside]

I don't have facebook. I had an account for a very short time well before it exploded in popularity. Someone I barely knew somehow found me and added me. Thats when I deleted it. lol..

I've been thinking about getting one. Once in awhile it seems I miss out on some plans, or find out about them at the very last minute. So I may get it, to keep up with some old friends and family as well I suppose.

[return to the red]

The novelty of facebook has quickly worn off for me. I think it mainly has to do with how stupid people are in what they put in their status and the comments people leave.

I don't give a flying fata that my sister is cleaning coffee off the rug and I really don't get the the whole "my kid just turned 1, happy birthday little girl" thing followed by numerous happy birthdays to the infant. Really? the kid can't even sound out a word why the F are people wishing the kid happy birthday on facebook!

and don't get me started on the games like farmville, etc.

/end rant

[DuffMan]

drunk fb'ing for old girlfriends is the new drunk dialling.

[Muta]

Anytime someone puts a status like '____ is going to work today', or '____ can't wait for their hubby to get home from the airport!' or something meaningless and trivial like that, I take them off my news feeds. I couldn't care less about the majority of other people's lives, and I don't need their constant updates about nothing important.

A good status update would be '____ has decided to take up the fine art of bashing salmons against cherry oak furniture.' Atleast then, it would pique my interest.

[metal_geek]

I used it to generate business for my company.. I was amazed at how effective it is for that... Privacy aside, it really is the worlds greatest advertising medium.

[Champion]

I knew about 4 people who never had it and said they never would. Now they have it. One thing I like about it. You can use it to see a quick snapshot of any potential employees you are hiring :-)

I only know one youngish person who doesn't have it. None of my uncles, aunts, etc have it.

[Pinner]

Originally Posted by metal_geek

I used it to generate business for my company.. I was amazed at how effective it is for that... Privacy aside, it really is the worlds greatest advertising medium.

Facebook has an Erotic services section ?

[amorak]

I think the people who don't have facebook, and then post these huge diatribes about why, don't have it because they have no friends and they don't want the world to see.

[Hanni]

People who continually make the most ridiculous spelling mistakes that any 5th grader doesn't make get removed from my friends list. I just can't handle the stupidity.

There is also a girl I went to high school with, white girl from small town Alberta, (I think there was 1 black kid in our school) who's updates are always in gangsta speak. Makes me want to jam pencils in my eyes.

[BlackEleven]

nm

[Locke]

I have determined that Facebook is populated only by either the criminally lazy or insanely desperate and that it is, in fact, a cruel and unusual method of torture.

I prove this logic as I am on Facebook because my soccer team got tired of sending out emails, because those were a real whore. Email is a bitch, I know, what a hassle.

The rest of Facebook that isnt my lazyass soccer team are entirely too desperate to ensure that you, and everyone you know, are aware and kept fully up to date of every single aspect of their lives. That wrong turn you took on your way to work, the funny smell coming out of your ass after drinking that expired malk (<- No typo) and the fact that their boyfriend/girlfriend/transexual partner is either crazy or a dick.

The kind of stuff where, I honestly dont care. I barely care about my own life, I sure as hell dont care about anyone else's.

Further still, Facebook being a cruel and unusual method of torture. I arrived at this conclusion by the simplest form of logic. I was once subjected to someone's holiday photograph slideshow. It was hell. Now the basterds can get me anywhere, I dont even have to be in the same room! Ergo, torture.

Facebook is Internet Terrorism and its funded by the extreme right wing Pastafarians and the Bilderberger Group. True Story, look it up.

[Mad Mel]

Originally Posted by amorak

I think the people who don't have facebook, and then post these huge diatribes about why, don't have it because they have no friends and they don't want the world to see.

Nah dude, that's the beauty of facebook. I am one antisocial b@stard, I generally dislike people, and keep my (real-world) circle of friends so small that there's awkward rubbing. And yet, even I have 130 friends on facebook. 130 people like me! The world is my oyster!

Hey, that reminds me of a facebook peeve. How in the fulcrum do people have 500 friends? Can people even remember 500 people's names?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Mad Mel

Nah dude, that's the beauty of facebook. I am one antisocial b@stard, I generally dislike people, and keep my (real-world) circle of friends so small that there's awkward rubbing. And yet, even I have 130 friends on facebook. 130 people like me! The world is my oyster!

Hey, that reminds me of a facebook peeve. How in the fulcrum do people have 500 friends? Can people even remember 500 people's names?

Impossible, thats much too far outside the Monkeysphere. Its a status thing, the more 'friends' you have the cooler you are in the eyes of your knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing 'peers.'

When you call these kinds of people 'peers' it would suggest that some serious 'social circle' re-evaluation is required...

[Mad Mel]

Originally Posted by Locke

Impossible, thats much too far outside the Monkeysphere. Its a status thing, the more 'friends' you have the cooler you are in the eyes of your knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing 'peers.'

When you call these kinds of people 'peers' it would suggest that some serious 'social circle' re-evaluation is required...

Yeah, no kidding. Peer infers some sort of common standing, and there's no way that there's 500 people on earth I'd consider my equal.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Mad Mel

Hey, that reminds me of a facebook peeve. How in the fulcrum do people have 500 friends? Can people even remember 500 people's names?

Wilt Chamberlain had 10,000 friends.

[Mad Mel]

Originally Posted by troutman

Wilt Chamberlain had 10,000 friends.

Yeah, but he was really big, so his brain is big, so he could remember more.