I had a MySpace account when I had a band that needed to be promoted. That account quickly went dormant. I was coerced into a FB account by a friend. I connected with many people from H.S. both close and distant. Friends and family were all added.
That guy from H.S. fixed his motorcycle? Great.
My half niece has bad acne? Too bad.
New pics of GF of a friend of a friend’s baby?
New pics of GF of a friend of a friend’s baby
New pics of GF of a friend of a friend’s baby
New pics of GF of a friend of a friend’s baby
New pics of GF of a friend of a friend’s baby
New pics of GF of a friend of a friend’s baby
Guilt ridden chain message. (repeat twice a month)
Friend’s status clearly taken from somewhere else (x30)
FB is uber popular. I get it. Saying you don’t have a FB account these days is like saying you don’t have a social security number. That’s a huge problem for me.
Any company that has a product that everyone on Earth is expected to have by default, is a scary company indeed, no matter what they provide.
When I first dumped the account a few people were shocked. When they asked me why I did it, my response was the fact that they were shocked at me not having one was the reason itself.
If you really want to talk to someone, you will. You can fake it on FB though.
The problem is with people too lazy to uncheck the setting “Show in News Feed” (or just Unfriend altogether) for the people who post inane things.
Don’t want to see inane ramblings?
Take them out of your Newsfeed or Unfriend them!
No, it’s easier to spend the time bitching about the inane people from their Facebook friends list on a message board. It really says much more about the bitchee than the bitched-about, or Facebook (that is, lazy, has inane friends, and likes to whine about things they have 100% control over).
I think I’ll start a thread bitching about how my radio is WAY too loud, plays really terrible music and has the most annoying and irritating DJ banter. It drives me insane. If only there were a way I could control that! It’s the radio’s fault!
The baby pictures are unavoidable, unfortunately. I hate babies and don’t want to see their ugly pictures. My idea of a great invention would be some application that blocks all baby pictures.
the problem is that if you value your privacy or sanity, you have to go through hoops and search every nook and cranny going though the haystack. no thanks. there are better time sinks out there.
This is very true. When I left FB almost two years ago, many of the feed management tools people are referencing did not exist. I did block people with nothing but absolutely worthless contributions.
I never felt “too cool” for FB nor did I feel that I was somehow above it. What really bothered me then, and I still see now, is that people see it as a default means of communicating with friends. people at work will say “Oh, you don’t know about (insert actually pertinent life change information), you’re not on FB.” Then they tell me what happened.
I left not because leaving would be some sort of rebellious statement to the world, but because the act of leaving or not having an FB account seemed to be an aberration.
I’m fully plugged in to Amazon and Google services because I like them. I would never recoil in horror if someone never used these services.
I don’t begrudge FB users at all. If you like it then keep doing what you’re doing. I just think that having social interactions with people need not necessitate every person on the planet being signed up with one company.
Looking at the other thread (which I was not aware of), I seem to be in decent company. Not to infer anything negative about FB users.
BTW I find it far more effective to insult my usage of Google+ than to infer I’m some sort of snob by not having a FB account.
I don’t have a Facebook account, and no, I don’t think I’m ‘too cool for Facebook’, whatever the heck that’s supposed to mean.
I created an account long ago and never did anything with it. It sat untouched for years. One day a couple of years ago, after reading some hullabaloo in the news about a security issue, I decided to delete the account. I did, and that was that.
I never did anything on Facebook, and don’t understand why I should want anything like it in my life. From what I’ve read and what people tell me, it seems a bit inane, but I’m probably not its target audience. I do find it chortlesome, however, when Facebook users get that incredulous, gobsmacked, deer-in-the-headlights look whenever they meet someone who doesn’t use it.
Because some posters are sick of all of the “I’m not on Facebook” threads that pop-up every month? Like somehow not having one is a status symbol around here or something.