Why I dont do facebook !

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

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

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

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.

[Skybird]

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.

[Weiss Pinguin]

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

[Castout]

Face what? Can't be bothered.

[Wolfehunter]

Farcebook again.. Lol soon there going to show how ugly you really are...

Bah my wife is on this nonsense.. I wouldn't sign up to it if someone even payed me. She knows not to put any info of me and our daughter... If she wants to broadcast herself that's fine by me. Free society right?

[nikimcbee]

@AVG: look me up on FB

I deleted all of my personal data on there ecxept for photos. I NEVER talk about work on there.
The best part is, FB does not have my current e-mail. They (FB) doesn't like it, because they can't spam me.

I dumped all of the "applications" IE games when I realized they want access to your account, uh, no.

My first 12 hours on FB was a nightmare, as I recived >120 email updates for everything. After that, I was changing some setting and blocking everything.

The worst one was, my aunt make some blueberry muffins. Then ensued a plethora of postings: "umm good", can I [blah,blah, blah] your muffins. I got an email update every #$%^#%^ single time somebody posted something .

Note to everybody: I don't give a flyin' &^%^&%*&%$ , *(%&$%%^ about your muffins.

BUT, payback is a bitch, and I post weird stuff too, like metallica videos and Russian poetry (in cyrrilic)

[Jimbuna]

I must be one of the dwindling number of people who have an account but don't understand the damn site

[Carotio]

There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.
Now, we all know the modern people pushed the Neanderthals to the side.

Okay, this was a bit provocative, but it is like that. If you don't keep up, you will be put to the side. If you like being at the side, then don't worry.

But if you want to be part of the modern social life, Facebook is definitely the current mean of communication with current and old friends.

Personally, I have used FB since the summer of 2007, and in the beginning, the games were part of it, but not anymore. Nowadays, the games at FB is a big POS, collecting personal info. But FB is still fine to stay up-to-date with what your family and friends do and did by looking at their photos and statuses. And you do have the choice to only show some parts to some people if you just use your brain a little bit. So FB isn't that bad if you just use it wisely.

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Carotio

But if you want to be part of the modern social life, Facebook is definitely the current mean of communication with current and old friends.

Mwah, don't quite agree with that. While I do have a Hyves (Dutch "Facebook", much more popular than the "real" facebook here) account, it's pretty dead at the moment. If I want to communicate with friends, I msn/sms/call them.

Especially so with my "current friends", I see most of them often enough to not see the need for any Hyves/Facebook communication.

Besides, you can't get out on Facebook. Not enough beer there

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Carotio

There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.

Balderdash.

It's not a question of using the latest technology. It's a question of whether or not one particular aspect of "the latest technology" provides something that one needs and wants. If it doesn't, there's no reason to use it. That doesn't make one a Neanderthal, it just makes one completely uninterested in the services it supposedly provides.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Balderdash.

It's not a question of using the latest technology. It's a question of whether or not one particular aspect of "the latest technology" provides something that one needs and wants. If it doesn't, there's no reason to use it. That doesn't make one a Neanderthal, it just makes one completely uninterested in the services it supposedly provides.

Precisely

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Carotio

There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.
Now, we all know the modern people pushed the Neanderthals to the side.

LMAO.....A friend of mine from work turned me onto the site after my divorce. It has been awesome...I never get emails from FB apps that I do not allow...guess with anything ya gotta read the directions....yea wow hooked up with tons of people I had lost contact with over the years....why you guys think I am not on here talking with you crotchty old farts lol...good rule of thumb not to get to personal on there.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Carotio

There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.
Now, we all know the modern people pushed the Neanderthals to the side.

Or people who use face book just lack the basic social skills necessary to cultivate an in-person relationship?

See I can be unreasonably insulting too.

[Flopper]

Originally Posted by Carotio

There are two kind of people, those on facebook and those who aren't.
I compare those who aren't with the Neanderthals, because they want to stay in the past and use jungle drums to interact, and the modern people who want to move forward, develop and use the latest technology.
Now, we all know the modern people pushed the Neanderthals to the side.

Okay, this was a bit provocative, but it is like that. If you don't keep up, you will be put to the side. If you like being at the side, then don't worry.

But if you want to be part of the modern social life, Facebook is definitely the current mean of communication with current and old friends.

Hilarious. I have been into computer programming since the mid-80s. Now, there have been a number of advances that have caught my eye along the way, but facebook certainly wasn't one of them, other than "why didn't I have the idea of creating that blisteringly simple site?" and I definitely don't have any plans for a facebook account. If I did open any accounts, they would probably be for the bots I would write to see how deep I could data mine but, not interested.

Where's my club? Ugh... UGH!

[krashkart]

I just didn't feel comfortable being on FB.