hangs head for getting your reference
Ditto. I created a bogus one just to allow me to use Spotify.
My daughter has a “clean” FB page that is out there for potential employers as well as a “real” FB page that uses her nickname. It’s a shame kids have to be aware of shit like that.
I have a Facebook account but no face. I have never posted a picture or a link to a YouTube video. I’ve never liked anything. But plenty of people send me their stuff so it does serve a purpose.
Of all the reasons for not being on Facebook, this strikes me as the silliest. You don’t have to “provide any content” at all to be on Facebook; you can just lurk and see what other people post. And, do you avoid having real life friendships because you’d have to “provide content for free” every time you have a conversation?
I voted other. Ms. DrumBum has an account that I used look at from time to time but we have a few friends that became unhinged when Pres. Obama was elected and started posting all kinds of ignorant crap. I tried to chat with them about the rationale they used to form their opinions but the conversations would quickly degenerate into them calling me names. So now I will look over her should when it is something worth looking at.
I do, for the family and friends reasons. I don’t like it, but it serves a purpose. If not for FB, I would not have known that an old and best friend had died recently. Also, I would have zero idea as to what my kids are up to (although two of them have pretty much abandoned the site).
I voted other. I have a Facebook account and use it, but I didn’t open it. 6 years ago some students at the High School I work at opened one in my name. Nothing malicious, just being funny. One of them gave me the password after the joke got stale so I changed the password and associated email account. I deleted all the phony activity, but I’m still friends with the now former students.
To be clear, I’m not a teacher, I’m a technology assistant. The students were in the technology class that meets in our tech office, and I sometimes act as an unofficial para.
When did Obama start posting ‘all kinds of ignorant crap’ after his election to President?
I missed that scandal. :mad:
Poor wording on my part. :smack:
I meant “…became unhinged when Pres. Obama was elected and **these FB “friends” ** started posting all kinds …”
I have one for my concert video business, but refuse to have a personal one. The business one exists only because there is some percentage of folks who seem to think that if it isn’t on Facebook, it doesn’t exist.
It’s utterly infuriating, as the business account cannot post anything anywhere, not even on the pages of subscribers. So I post sample concert videos there, and have nothing else to do with it.
I suspect that Facebook is trying to manipulate me into creating a personal account, which I refuse to do, as I trust that creepy little shit Mark Zuckerberg far less than I trust the NSA.
No, it’s really not. Your “Page” and your “Newsfeed” are two separate things.
And once again, I love the Facebook misconceptions that people throw out as the reason they don’t have one.
No, I am not on Facebook. In addition, speaking for myself, I have found it far harder to get over old boyfriends with Facebook, and the internet in general. I have looked up old boyfriends in a weak moment and regretted it, as now I know to some extent what they are doing, what city they now live in, etc., and I don’t like knowing. I plan to cut back in general on my internet use, as I have a problem with overspending on non-necessary items, (especially when it says free shipping).
Don’t ever expect to have one.
Computers are awesome! How could you spend too much time in front of one? 
:eek: 
I have friends and family all over the country, many of whom are too ignorant, technophobic, or just plain old to use email. But they are all on Facebook, so I get to keep in touch with all of them.
That’s because a business is not an actual thinking entity, so Facebook does not treat a business page as a person that can go around answering questions alone. After all, it isn’t “McDonald’s” itself who gives you food, it’s its employees who do.
You do indeed use a personal account to act as the administrator of the business page. They can act in the business’s name and such, just like the employee at McDonald’s. Their name can be completely hidden, as well (just like an employee without a nametag).
Not sure what secrets you think Facebook can wrest out of you - I mean, it can only take so much as you give it. If you give it your hotmail password, well yes, it’s going to gain access to your hotmail. If you don’t, then it can’t take it. So don’t give it what you don’t want it to have - simple. Of course, you do realize plenty of government/state records about you are public that anyone can look up, right?
For me it is a way to keep posted on what is going on in the specific international community of one of my main avocations. I used to do that through yahoo groups but they have withered in the Facebook wind. Everyone who used to post there now uses FB so I had to do the same or lose touch completely.
I created one specifically to look at some pictures a friend posted. Then found out I didn’t really need to do that at all so I have never used one. Not only don’t I recall my password, I don’t recall my username.
I am always shocked when people say that they are not interested in Facebook when they know little to nothing about how it works. I know that some of you may hate all of this, and that’s cool, but the ones who are so proud of not being a part of this are fooling themselves, IMO. You don’t have to like it, but you’re not better than those who use FaceBook.
I’m 55 with 4 adult children and 3 grands, and I’m able to see and speak with my children daily and I get to see their friends (who I knew as kids) and their families and have discussions about everything, share music and books we read and movies we see.
I’ve become much closer to my friends from the Giraffe Boards and the SDMB since we all started posting on Facebook and sharing a bit more. We have a GB group on FB and there’s a SDMB group too.
I went to a reunion of my 8th grade class from 1971 a couple of years ago and it was amazing to see these folks after all these years. Without Facebook, I doubt this would have happened.
I’ve found and rekindled friendships that I thought were lost forever. I cried on the phone with a friend who I’ve been missing since we were about 14. Her family moved away and I was able to find her on Facebook.
I talk to my favorite relatives on a regular basis on FB. I get to see photos of my cousins’ grand-kids which use to be a once every few year thing.
The privacy settings are up to you. You can share with everyone or with a hand picked group of people. You can block posts from people who annoy you.
I have learned so much from friends and friends of friends – I follow and talk to many of my favorite authors.
It’s not for everyone, I suppose, but I get emails from a FaceBook hater friend. He sends me photos and jokes I saw weeks ago on FB.
Okay - I’ll get off your grass.