# Show of hands - who is not on Facebook? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754 "2013-04-26T13:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/101 "2013-04-28T02:41:04Z")
Not been there. Don’t want to go there. Read too many stories about how people will never be hired for jobs because of what they posted there. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/102 "2013-04-28T03:03:48Z")
I was on Facebook, and initially found it interesting. My request to join came from a former student, and over the next year or so, I contacted and was contacted by many former students. It was great. But after a while, the requests and links got to be too much, and I bailed. I found many of the links to be very superficial and self-absorbed, and the policy of sending me all sorts of unrequested links to be intrusive and maddening. So I quite several years ago. Too bad that it worked out that way. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/103 "2013-04-28T17:05:04Z")
> [@Yeticus\_Rex](#): > > No Facebook > No Twitter > No LiveJournal > No Pinterest > > . This, plus I don’t even have a cell phone. I do have a TV. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/104 "2013-04-28T20:55:48Z")
I don’t have a Facebook account, nor do I use Twitter unless I have no choice ( I don’t have an account, and don’t like the interface. Plus I hate the name.). Nor have i ever used Livejournal or MySpaces or any of that sort of thing. Also, I don’t have a cell phone either. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/105 "2013-04-28T21:50:37Z")
I have a Facebook account, only because a LiveJournal friend kept pestering me, saying I just had to be on Facebook. Set up the FB account, really \*hated \*the look of the place (does it still look like a web designer upchucked on the page?), but getting set up, figuring out who to friend, etc. took enough of my limited spare time and energy that I didn’t have anything left over for LJ either. So I wound up with accounts on both, but being active on neither. ---
**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/106 "2013-04-29T19:05:46Z")
Not on facebook or twitter (33yo female). As if my life isn’t complicated enough. If a potential employer ever wants to know why I’m not on facebook, I’ll explain that I don’t have a computer at home and no smartphone, so I’d have to use my work computer, and you don’t want me facebooking on company time, right? (SMDBing on company time, on the other hand…) > [@John\_Mace](#): > > Email is generic. Facebook is a specific product that I don’t particularly want to “buy”. With things like Facebook, the users are not the customers; _they’re_ the product. Of course, google works the same way… ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/107 "2013-04-29T20:59:35Z")
24 year old guy, not on facebook. I was wondering about it, a couple of years ago, because I never got invited to stuff, was losing ‘friends’ and facing exclusion from certain cliques, but decided I’d been making a stand for so long there was no point joining. The people I actually care about contact me in other ways anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754/108 "2013-04-30T00:14:59Z")
Just what is that facebook stuff, anyway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-of-hands-who-is-not-on-facebook/656754.md?page=5)