Nope, my wife and I are both in our forties and neither have a facebook or twitter account.
In fact I don’t think I’ve ever visited a facebook or twitter page. No interest in it, no use for it. Can’t imagine wanting to share my mundane life with anyone else.
I’m not on, and I haven’t found a reason to start.
Got an account years ago so I could see my son’s page. Went back last year and there were 50 friend requests waiting for me, from people I don’t know. I backed out slowly and never returned.
51, male, no.
My older brother is a Facebook junkie…even when he visits here for just a couple days per year, he is on Facebook every five minutes.
I gave it a shot.
As I have mentioned here many times in similar threads, Facebook is like the world’s worst Thanksgiving dinner - whole bunches of people I don’t have any interest in speaking with and most of them with opinions/comments that drive me nuts.
I canceled it after about four or five weeks - mostly because my ex-sister-in-law was totally bent out of shape because I had not “friended” her daughters. It was no slight - I just hadn’t gone on in awhile, but you would have thought I beat them up with a baseball bat the way she was so indignant. I took a look at my page, realized there were already whole bunches of people I had had no contact with in years and didn’t really have anything in common - other than having gone to the same high school when Lincoln was President - so I just shut it down.
I did get a nice little automated response from Facebook asking if I was “sure” I wanted to cancel, and letting me know they would keep my little page open and ready for me to return for the next 100 years or so…
I have a couple of completely dead, empty pages because it’s become impossible to log into a number of sites without using an FB identity. But I have no active page.
I will be creating one in the near future as the public face of a major effort, but it won’t be a personal page.
I have a Facebook account but hardly every log in. I opened it so I could keep distant family members at arms-length, as it seems to be more reliable in keeping track of people’s e-mail than I am. If I want to contact someone I am fairly confident I could in Facebook.
But look at it all the time?, no way. The constant updates people make are too irritating: what you had for dinner, how wonderful and well-adjusted your kid is, links to stupid websites, etc.
I have a Linkedin account as well but only use it if I am searching for a job. No other social media - it’s a waste of time.
Mid-40s, male.
I’m not. I was for about a month back in 2009, but hated all the family drama I witnessed and deleted it.
What I hate about it nowadays is how tied in they are with seemingly every website on earth. I hate that about Twitter too.
Edit: male 37
What I hate about Twitter is that the media thinks it’s fun (and probably cheap) to quote “what people are saying on twitter” as if it’s news of some kind. Reading tweets on air is not good radio or TV. Twitter is a private company, I’d rather not hear it mentioned on the news unless they’re paying for air time.
Very good observation. I agree.
I’m not on Facebook because I value my privacy too much. The only social media I’m on are message boards like this one where I can be (somewhat) anonymous.
There are very few people that I communicate regularly with who need to know who I am. These are my immediate family, some co-workers, and a few close friends. I don’t need a special website to talk to them, email and the phone work just fine.
21, female, no facebook for me. I find the idea completely unappealing. I don’t want to read about the mundane details of anyone’s life, much less share such details myself. My best friend tells me I’m not missing much, it’s 90% inane blather, and I trust her opinion. Besides, facebook creeps me out - it stalks you all over the internet, and it knows your real name. No thanks.
I signed up a couple of months ago but a few people kept “sharing” with me and finally I’d had enough of that. Turns out I don’t like sharing very much.
I don’t believe Twitter is real.
Pretty much my status also. 66 next Wednesday.
I’m 38. Never have had Facebook. I have a Twitter account, but only to follow people. I think I’ve “tweeted” a total of 7 times and a few of those were accidents.
Do you guys think things will every change to a point where you will feel a NEED to join FB or Twitter?
Seems like some folk disliked e-mail, but quickly realized its benefits/necessity. And fewer and fewer holdouts lack cellphones. Wondering if social media will ever get to that point.
Depends what you mean by “on.” Yeah, technically I’m on Facebook, but I don’t remember the last time I was active. Maybe a couple of years. Total waste of time.
I’m not sure. I guess I’d get one if I needed it. I was an early adopted for email and cell phones, and don’t generally rebel against the newest craze. Just never got into the Facebook thing. Didn’t even want to watch the movie about it. I do like instagram, however. Only follow about five people. I mostly like to see my daughters’ photos. I guess that’s like a Facebook experience, but no conversation or politics (which I understand is part of Facebook).
I’m not on Facebook. I’m morally against it. It’s make us more egotistical as a society. No one cares about the things you posted on Facebook. If they do, they’re probably a stalker. Wait, no, they’re no. You have to friend everyone you’ve ever met in your life. I also would like to know what Facebook does with all this information. They probably sell it to companies.
No Facebook and no Twitter.
Female, 56 years old.