No, it didn’t. Not when your post says that there are literally no personal emails in your inbox.
Now I know what you’re saying, though, so it’s all good.
Those that think that being on Facebook automatically means all your information is there for everyone to see. I put on what I want to those who I want to see it. Any data mining that is done there will only give them one of my email addresses. But I find it useful for other purposes.
Try not to take it personally. Facebookers tend to be highly sensitive because they’re often dealing with a number of serious real-world problems. FarmVille crop yields, viral cat videos, posting your bra color, et cetera.
Exactly what Wheelz said. I like facebook, because I use it exactly the way I prefer. I’ve blocked all apps and games. I’ve got probably a third of my “friends” hidden because I don’t enjoy the way they use it and I don’t want it clogging up my feed, but they’re still able to message me and if I am curious about what they’re up to I can check their profiles.
I post status updates if and when I feel like it, and my rule for whether or not to post is “Will this be entertaining to at least some of the people who will read it?” In fact, it falls just short of “be funny or die”. Nobody cares about the mundane details of my boring life, but a joke about my admiration for the woman sitting across from me on the train who has apparently managed to hold on to a hair accessory she had to have bought in 1986 is worth posting.
And I agree that I hardly ever email anyone who’s on facebook, I message them on facebook, and it’s invaluable for event planning.
My best friend got married last summer and there were several people who were really aggressive, almost angry that I didn’t have a facebook. I think the whole personal life online thing is creepy anyway and the attitude that I was a dick for not having an account blew me away.
Posting pictures and writing posts just sounds like homework. I think it’s cool that so many people enjoy it and I’m not trying to come off like some hipster pseudo-Luddite, it’s just not my cup of tea.
Um, yeah. Your Facebook profile does not have to be public, i.e. viewable by any schmo with an Internet connection. You can lock it down to just your friends. You can customize individual posts. And, like anything else, it’s what you make of it. You can block game requests and apps, and not friend people who are likely to be a PITA. You can hide posts from jackasses (they won’t know that you don’t see them), or unfriend them altogether.
Beyond the privacy issues, I mostly see FB as one more staring-at-a-screen timesuck. One thing that bothers me is the growing tendency of websites that require a FB account in order to interact with them at all.
There are no personal emails in my inbox. All business. Any personal messages I get are by text or Facebook.
Same reason people argue about iPhone vs. Android. People like being in “teams” and will defend their choices.
plus, when someone does something outside of what the perceived majority does, there’s a “hipster” vibe to it.
that said, I don’t even know what a Face Book is 
seriously, it’s not any kind of backlash, it’s that there’s utterly no benefit to me of having one. There’s literally* nobody I care to “reconnect” with. the few people I care about, I know how to get in touch with them. Anyone I went to school with can rot in hell.
(*literally as in “literally”.)
There are no personal emails in my inbox. All business. Any personal messages I get are by text or Facebook.
I’m 44 in case that matters.
Whereas if someone sends me a message by Facebook I ask them if we can continue the conversation by email instead. I hate the FB messaging interface and I like to keep my personal comms all in one place.
ETA: I’m 44 too, so I cancelled out your datapoint Loach. In your face amateur statisticians!
Exactly. I treat Facebook like any other online record of my thoughts or information: I don’t give away any information I would not want made public. I assume that even in the private groups there’s always a chance of what I detail getting out (whether through carelessness or maliciousness), so even in private groups I choose what and how I write guardedly. Frankly, I can’t believe the dirty laundry some people air on Facebook. Luckily, those people are few and far between in my Facebook group, and it’s easy enough to block their updates from showing on your wall if you get tired of someone’s posts.
For me, it’s been a great tool for business, keeping in touch with periphery friends, and for organizing social events.
I use FB as my primary means of contacting and check my actual email accounts less and less. Sometimes it’ll be days before I’ll notice a personal email, and wonder why that person didn’t just send me a FB message in the first place.
A good friend of mine doesn’t have a tv. He gets a shitload of blowback when that comes up in conversation. He doesn’t feel superior or smug about it. He understands why most other people like television. He just doesn’t like it. Now he qualifies the shit out of it when he mentions it so people don’t think he’s being an ass.
I don’t think that Facebook has reached that stage yet but it’s coming. I happen not to have a FB account. It’s the same thing. It’s simply a very popular and useful thing for most people but it’s not for me. I sure as hell doesn’t make me feel superior because I know damn well that I’m the weird one.
I don’t have one and I’m not really interested. I do get hounded by the gaming group I’m part of for not having an account.
This is the way I am. I really should just delete the account.
Me? “Hipster”??
Hehehe.
The very *implication *makes my day. 
I do have a FaceBook; I play a couple games, time permitting, and communicate with a few friends thru it. It is a good way to keep in touch with groups, such as the dog rescue group I belong to, when we are trying to organize a transport, or spread the word about a dog in need.
I also enjoy sharing pictures and jokes. It’s fun. no other real reason.
Opposite here. My personal e-mail is checked more than once a day, but if someone uses FB they may not hear back from me for a few weeks. Same with texts - unless I am expecting one, I may not look at texts for a day or two and wonder why someone did not just call me. I guess I am old school.
It depends. Do people ask you on a fairly regular basis whether you’ve tried an electric razor on your legs? Not just friends and family, but people you’ve only just met, or business acquaintances even. When you say no, it’s not for you, do they seem surprised, then proceed to list all the ways said razor will make your life better? And are you then careful to word your reply in such a way that it’s clear that you’re not against electric razors? If so, and if you are curious as to whether there are other non-electric-razor-on-legs users, then yes.