I know. Piss-poor riff off of your bad gramma… 
There’s a SDMB group on FB? I’d love to join it. Off to see if I can find it…
I got a FB account when one of my real life friends emailed about something that one of my grandchildren did that I knew nothing about. All my “friends” are either family or friends IRL.
Yup… I was unaware of the giraffe group though. If you need a link, PM me.
As far as I can recall, I only created the business page, and that is my only contact with Facebook.
I’ve heard that before, but Facebook’s entire business model is based on aggregating data about people. If I knew just what data they could aggregate, I could easily compete with them (assuming I had the faintest desire to do so.) As neither of those things are true, I choose to error on the side of caution and endeavor to give Facebook as little information as possible.
I really would prefer to have no contact with them in any way, but business realities compels me to have some minimal presence on the hated thing.
It is possible to create a “Business” account with Facebook.
But I have no idea what this even means. The only piece of information Facebook requires is an email address. And you gave them that when you signed up for the Business account. “Data” only exists on Facebook in a really nebulous way. It tracks your current city and your Likes, but those are optional and they can be faked if you truly feel like messing with the system.
There is no pride in not wanting something. It’s just odd you think those who don’t use it feel superior to you. I don’t have any “lost” friends therefore there is no need for me to look anybody up or the reverse. Many of my friendships go all the way back to the 2nd grade. It’s not hard to keep track of the people I like.
I have no pressing need to see pictures of other people’s family members on a regular basis. And by that I mean I DON’T want to see pictures of your vacation, grand kids, dog, or favorite TV show.
Any picture or correspondence someone wants me to truly see arrives by email. I don’t have to lock it down or babysit it in any way. So while it might have some utility to it for me it’s not worth the bother to use it.
The existence of this thread would prove otherwise.
So your life consists only of things you find a pressing need for? How sad.
saying it doesn’t make it so. Facebook is not a cure for cancer and even if it was, would only affect those who are actively fighting the disease.
I will say it started out as a coolaid drinking public service announcement.
No.
Never had any real interest in what people I have not talked to in 30 years are up to now. (Which is the reason people kept telling me to sign up. )
Since I specified what it was I didn’t have a pressing need for and it was a small list how did you come to the conclusion that my life consists of nothing but pressing needs?
Because you said those things were not a pressing need.
You can’t differentiate a few items I listed from what you said which was a qualifier of ONLY things that are a pressing need?
The only qualifier was things that were a pressing need were worth doing. If that is not what you meant, perhaps you should rephrase it.
Me, either. I was sure we already had morally superior month.
Where did all the morally superior My Space people go?
Excuse me, but which one of us is comparing Facebook to cancer research and saying that the people who use it (which, at last count, was 20% of the entire world) are “coolaid drinkers”?
I never said they were the same thing.
The opening statement of the thread is a shot at people who don’t use Facebook as if it’s crazy not too.