Why I dont do facebook !
 

Or you could've just said that it's a tad gay. :O:

I use facebook. I'm not a avid nut like some. However, FB needs to be used wisely. Do not post compromising pictures. It is not a place to vent your anger at someone (many do and it is now a tool for bully tactics). Certainly do not post anything about your company/coworkers/boss...you will find yourself looking for a job.

luckily in the Netherlands we've got Hyves.nl, pretty similar to facebook, but with the possibility of fully customizing your page and with much better privacy (you can make any part you want visible for nobody, your friends, your friends friends or anybody).
As of december 2009, hyves had 9.5 million members, which is more than half of our entire population.

That's why I don't do facebook:)

I never put up anything I don't want people to see. Simple as that.

And Facebook found my kids and grandkids, so I can't knock them.

Exactly. I use it, but I never put anything out there that I wouldn't want shared with the whole world. If FB wants to share a picture of my cat that I uploaded, I'm okay with that. If they want to say that I'm from Houston....heck, just look to the left of this post and you can see that information.

I understand that FB is crap for privacy, and that they're a real scumbag company, but I really don't have anything to be afraid of. I find it useful for catching up with people I haven't talked to in years. So there's value in it for me.

Yeah, I found some old college friends. I found friends I grew up with. It is not all bad.

I refuse to use any program that forces me to be connected to the internet all the time, that collects private information, that...



....wait a minute, where I have heard that before?...:hmmm:

Heh.. the real reason is because I'm a crochity old fart that doesent necessarly want to be found :|\\

I also do not have or will have a facebook acount (unless someone pays me millions of euros)!

Almost everyone of my friends and my girlfriend uses facebook and play farmville and etc, but if someone wants to talk to me, they have my cell-fone/msn/mail or house fone to do it!

Intercourse facebook (thank you Graham Chapman)!

In a neatly relivant news story...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/...ebook_firing_1

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/auslan...694582,00.html

So far not in the international English section.

Honey trap 2.0 : Hezbollah should have set up a FB profile of a beautiful woman to make 200 Israeli elite soldiers confessing military secrets.

Beyond that, I am highly critical of these "social networks". They cnage the perosnality understanding and rules of social interaction especially betwen oyung, and not necessarily for theb etter, and according companies, as well as famous Goodle of ocurse, time and again have to defend themselves against - I claim: their intended - erosion of privacy protection rules and laws. I see this growing erosion of protection of the privacy and private data as a serious threat, which increasingly gets supported by young generation who are used to it in the meaning of that they never got known anything different and thus find it absolutely okay and cannot think out any reasons why they maybe should be more critical of this erosion of private data protection and privacy.

We are turning into an acrylic glass society more and more. Which to me is a nightmare. It necessarily must destroy freedoms and making society and people more vulnerabel to remote control.

The Israeli soldiers in the above story sure as hell were true idiots, of course. They prove true the saying that God gave men both a brain and a little Willy, but not enough blood to operate both at the same time.

Ditto, except for the old part. Crotchety and middle-aged, I'll cop to that. :D

My take on it is, if I still wanted to be in touch with people I lost touch with 10-20 years ago, I woudn't have lost touch with them in the first place. And, to be honest, I put quite a lot of work into losing touch with a few of them. I would hate to see all that effort wasted. :O:

And a wonderful essay by Miriam Meckel, professor for communication sciences at the university St. Gallen and fellow at the university of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

http://www.faz.net/s/RubCEB3712D41B6...~Scontent.html

It is about how internet tendencies of monopolising social categories and interaction limits the needed evolutional mechanism of social randomness, and how this makes people loosing their freedom to be whom they are, and spending more and more ressources to meet criteria of virtual peer groups - "profile" replaces personality. Not just in online interaction, but in the job world too, btw.

If you can handle the language, recommended. I think I once saw that lady on TV longer time ago, she is both very bright and very charming. She was Germany'S youngest professor ever (so they say), government speaker, and undersecretary. She is especially known for a book about burnout Syndrome.

Eh, I don't consider myself addicted to it, but for a good portion of the week it's pretty much one of my few links to friends and everyone else. The only thing I really post are random comments. And maybe a few pictures.

Also the games give me something to do while I'm out and waiting for something ;)