I had one and most of my “friends” were people I know from work. Turns out, away from work, they were overly opinionated assholes who were fond of posting pretty hateful stuff. Since that wasn’t my idea of fun, I just dumped it. I don’t miss it.
59, female - and I’m now retired, so those assholes aren’t even coworkers anymore.
We’re already there because nearly everything on the internet linked to one and/or the other. I’ve found places online where you cannot post nor reply to anything unless you have either account. I avoid those places like the plague. It’s bad enough that FB already knows my RL name – I don’t want it spreading any more than it already has.
This is what I hate–the requirement to join one thing in order to participate in another. Quit trying to make me to use social media, you bastards!
I bet in the future, employers will implicitly require prospective employees to have a Facebook page because NOT having one is–in some people’s eyes–tantamount to being an anti-social freak. And if you don’t have a Facebook page, how else can your private life be scrutinized? You could be badmouthing the company right now and they would have no idea!
83 years old, and think Facebook represents the pinnacle of narcissism. And think Twitter is also stupid.
If anybody wants to get a message to me they can just get out the old goose quill, ink and parchment!
That’s exactly why I don’t have anything to do with Facebook.
I value my privacy.
For example: I recently decided not to go to a wedding I was invited to.
I had a great excuse: I couldn’t attend because I would be out of the country for 2 weeks on vacation at that time.
And it was true–almost. I really was out of the country for 2 weeks—but returned home 3 days before the wedding date. But they didn’t know that, so it was easy to tell a little white lie.
If I’d had Facebook–I couldn’t have gotten away with it.
Or worse–I might have told the lie, and then been caught red-handed, which would have created a very embarrassing and awkward situation .
Can you look at a Facebook page without being a member? Whenever anyone sends me a Facebook link, it always tells me I can’t look at it unless I log in.
I’m not a Facebook member yet, but I suspect I’ll have to be within a couple of years just because so many sites are now using it as a proxy login, or else I’ll need one for my job (with my luck, it’ll be because my job has me building some piece of software that requires Facebook for a login 
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Never saw the point of it.
For 1 thing why would I suddenly care about high school friends from 30 years ago?
And for current friends I really don’t care what they did for dinner last night.
I am on twitter but I just read stuff there.
My point exactly 
Heck, most of the people I have on FB I know from other online places. I have very few RL people on there, and I prefer it that way. The past belongs in the past, IYKWIM.
37, female, no, also my SO, who is 36, male, no.
Email is generic. Facebook is a specific product that I don’t particularly want to “buy”.
I’m very much on the techy side, so I’m happy to use technology that is useful. Facebook does nothing for me.
Male, 52, never been on Facebook, probably won’t be.
I’m not on the internet.
Male 55. Never had an FB account or had any interest in opening one. Or Twitter.
Female, 66. No FB no twitter no Pinterest. No. FB seems to be a way for people you haven’t spoken to in years to find you. No idea why I would want to participate in that. Twitter seems ridiculous and I don’t get it at all. Pinterest looks like a bigger time waster than SDMB or Ravelry and I don’t need another one.
Indeed. Catching up with old school friends from decades past is often used as a selling point for these things. But I’ve actually hooked up with a couple of old high-school friends and acquaintances, and we’ve grown so far apart that there was no need for any follow-up. One guy who was a pretty good friend even after high school is now a truck driver based out of Los Angeles. He seemed to have gone through a spell as a small-time mob enforcer – the guy who would come break your knees if you didn’t repay the loan shark – and was moaning about how he caught yet another young Filipina girlfriend cheating on him. Um, yeah, nice to catch up with you but gotta go now!
Male, 44. Never been on Facebook. Have no interest, for the same reasons many in this thread have so eloquently described.
No personal Facebook and no Twitter.
Female, 56 years old.
I do manage a Facebook page for a non-profit. For 11 weeks out of the year I post a schedule and photos. I make no personal comments.
I’ve never been on Twitter either.
Somebody tell her.