When you put it that way, rage about others using facebook seems comparatively reasonable.
I like Facebook! I have friends flung hither and yon, and Facebook lets me keep up with them. Also, the privacy settings work just fine for me. I have a unique name, and yet, if you Google that name plus Facebook, you will not find me.
I have now accumulated over the last 24 months $14,262 in sales of new computers that tie back to FB conversations.
Another intensely private person-so how does one sign on to FB with an alias?
So it should be given zero value as an argument then.
If all your arguments are based on spinning ridiculous fantasies about my life and making insinuations about my character, then you’ve got nothing.
“I’m sorry, but I won’t open and read your letters because I don’t like being in touch that often and prefer a more tactile, tangible, and personal connection.”
We live in a society of people and as technologies are adopted, the expectations for their uses change. There are certain behaviors that can mark a person as being eccentric or obnoxious or anti-social or bizarre—for example, refusing to bathe or wearing soiled and tattered clothes.
Refusing to engage with your own peer group on social networks is becoming one of those markers.
Your powers of deduction are truly unimpressive.
Again, you made this up. I encourage you to craft arguments based on things you actually know, as opposed to imagining defects in my personal character and relationships.
Well, first you have to break the registration agreement…
They aren’t missing your incredibly insightful comments, much. Trust me on this one.
For me, the major issue is that I already spend too much time looking at a glowing screen. I understand I may be missing out, but I’m okay with that.
I don’t get it, why can’t you use a fake name again?
I hate facebook
I hate wallmart…
Where did everybody go??? 
Say’s hi to peeps on hatebook and shops at hatemart. :mad:
Personally, I’m thinking of joining to reclaim my name (from someone else who has it; I have a pretty unusual one, and it’s the only hit on the front page of Google results that isn’t me). I don’t think the other guy is doing anything bad with it, but why not? Besides, it’d let me see more pictures of my nephews and friends (whose friending, especially of family, would give me away anyway…).
Try Google+.
For people so concerned about privacy: don’t put anything on the internet you don’t want people to know about. I love it when people complain that someone linked to a picture that they posted on another site. Hey dumbass – shouldn’t have put it up there to begin with.
A lot of people have made good suggestions in this thread and I thank them for it. I did state in the Op, though, that I know about the “security” and “privacy” features of Facebook. I have no plans to post pictures or anything personal on the page. I’m not into spreading every aspect of my personal business to everyone I know and they know and all of those people’s friends, too. I get pissed off enough when my mother does it over the phone. I’ve locked it down in every way possible that still lets me use it the way I need to.
Now we get to the one of the problem aspects of Facebook and part of why I hate is so much. I don’t want to need it. I don’t want it hanging off me like a bloated leech. I don’t want to be obligated to have it. I’m disgusted by the number of responses that amount to, “You have to have Facebook and you have to like it. You’re a bad person if you don’t. Only assholes and stupid people don’t worship Facebook.” Why is there no passive way to interact with it? Why do you have to sign up to read what’s written on a groups public page? They have a very different idea of public than I do and their idea of private is ridiculous. The Dope is public and I lurked for years before joining. I joined because I wanted to, not because I was made to feel that I had to.
I don’t care if other people spend all day dry humping Facebook. Use it in your sleep too, knock yourself out. Whatever you do with it is your business…and the business of all the people who see your page. If you take a picture with me in it and put it on your page then there is a picture of me posted on Facebook. I didn’t put it there but there it is. Anything you say about me or my personal life, about where we go, what we did, is on Facebook. I didn’t say anything but now it’s out there. I don’t like the way it gives other people control over pieces of my life. Do what you want with Facebook, just leave me out of it.
Well all I have to go on is the fact that you are annoyed by people not conforming to your wishes. I am having to assume a lot here.
I do note that you’ve very carefully avoided stating whether your friends are wiling to communicate by most methods but just not facebook, I am assuming that they would be happy to do it by other electronic means but you just want to use facebook. You won’t clarify that. Fine. I’ll continue guessing until you set me straight.
These are things of little consequence and of minor or no interest to many people.
but you assuming that everyone finds them interesting and must be open to receiving them. That just isn’t the case and many people found their physical precursors, the christmas round-robin letters, just as annoying.
No, he obviously doesn’t care very much about such updates. He is probably happy enough not get those. if it were important, sure, drop him an email.
It is comparable to having a mobile rather than a landline or being on a different mobile network. It might mean life is slightly more awkward (or expensive) for you but the other person is perfectly happy. I really don’t see the problem other than a degree of self-centredness on the part of the facebook user
I have a facebook account for a pigeon that I photographed in a parking garage. I promise nothing in the information about the pigeon is accurate.
You don’t have to use your real name.
Facebook is the platform that reality now runs on. Get used to it.
IMO, most of the people who insist on hating on Facebook are NOT the target demographic for Facebook. (IMO urban/suburbanites under 40).
I don’t care that you don’t use FB for yourself, your own page or fake ID page can be the minimum bare bones to the highest security setting of “not make my name searchable by google” and “only friends of friends can find me”.
But your club, of which you are an officer, will probably benefit from such a page. They do have a webpage, right? Then why not a FB page that can be relatively more easily updated with news and information relevant to the club?
If you do not want to deal with that aspect of your mentorship, delegate it to someone else, stat. Explain that you don’t care for it yourself, but that it may be useful for others and the club, and may persist long after you’re gone as a mentor.
OP: this is all about the Timeline thing, isn’t it? I hated it at first, but have since grown to accept it.