# Why haven't any aliens got Facebook accounts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804 "2016-04-01T03:55:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bomberswarm2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bomberswarm2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bomberswarm2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/1 "2016-04-01T03:55:02Z")
Why haven’t aliens connected to the internet? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/2 "2016-04-01T03:57:30Z")
Do you have any idea how much an internet connection costs per light year? ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/3 "2016-04-01T04:00:48Z")
Who says they’re not? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/4 "2016-04-01T04:06:55Z")
Please don’t post joke questions in General Questions. Moved to MPSIMS. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![bomberswarm2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bomberswarm2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bomberswarm2)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/5 "2016-04-01T04:10:13Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Please don’t post joke questions in General Questions. Moved to MPSIMS. > > Colibri > General Questions Moderator This isn’t a joke, its serious. Why haven’t they connected to the internet if they do exist? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/6 "2016-04-01T04:12:43Z")
> [@bomberswarm2](#): > > This isn’t a joke, its serious. Why haven’t they connected to the internet if they do exist? They have. It’s just they’re using a direct mind-to-mind connection. Thursday is your turn as a server. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/7 "2016-04-01T04:17:53Z")
I’m sure there are plenty of illegal aliens on Facebook. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/8 "2016-04-01T04:18:49Z")
> [@bomberswarm2](#): > > This isn’t a joke, its serious. Why haven’t they connected to the internet if they do exist? Maybe they don’t have faces. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/9 "2016-04-01T06:42:56Z")
> [@bomberswarm2](#): > > Why haven’t aliens connected to the internet? Your OP proves that they have. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/10 "2016-04-01T07:12:51Z")
> [@bomberswarm2](#): > > This isn’t a joke, its serious. Why haven’t they connected to the internet if they do exist? Do you mean “if they exist, and walk amongst us”? If this were true, they they probably also share and tweet amongst us too. Or do you mean “Across the void of space, from their planet”? This would be pretty damn near impossible due to latency of signal - ping times in the International Space Station are probably bad enough to make for a generally subpar internet experience - ping times measured in years or centuries just aren’t going to work. There’s no way for aliens to connect to the internet, unless we explicitly provide a way that is adapted to deal with the latency. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/11 "2016-04-01T07:34:09Z")
> [@bomberswarm2](#): > > Why haven’t aliens connected to the internet? They’re all still on MySpace. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/12 "2016-04-01T08:29:41Z")
I’m sure aliens exist, but in order to connect to our internet, they’d have to be here, and there’s no evidence that aliens are here to connect to our internet. I guess with sufficiently advanced technology they could connect to our internet from their planet, but given the speed of light we won’t see any aliens on Facebook for decades and their updates wouldn’t exactly be current. While watching our internet would be fun that way, interacting with us wouldn’t be nearly as fun. So if aliens actually did connect to our internet I suspect they’d just be lurking. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/13 "2016-04-01T09:02:09Z")
What, Trump doesn’t count? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/14 "2016-04-01T10:32:26Z")
[Zombo.com](http://Zombo.com) The GQ answer. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/15 "2016-04-01T10:54:03Z")
They do, they just take human personas. They would never _admit_ to being an alien on a human site. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/16 "2016-04-01T11:17:47Z")
Imagine the lag. “Call of Duty” would be freaking impossible. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/17 "2016-04-01T11:30:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Imagine the lag. “Call of Duty” would be freaking impossible. The intergalactic release, although $4.99 more, would take that into account. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/18 "2016-04-01T12:53:12Z")
They’re not on Facebook, but many have accounts on Alienbook. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/19 "2016-04-01T13:18:09Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Maybe they don’t have faces. Duh. Yes. This book shows what they’re waiting for: > **[Till We Have Faces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_We_Have_Faces#/media/File:Till_We_Have_Faces(C.S_Lewis_book)_1st_edition_cover.jpg)** > > Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. This story had haunted Lewis all his life, because he believed that some of the main characters' actions were illogical. As a consequence, his retelling of the story is characterized by a highly developed character, the narrator, with the reader being drawn into her reasoning and her emotions. This was his last novel, and h ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804/20 "2016-04-01T13:19:56Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > They do, they just take human personas. They would never _admit_ to being an alien on a human site. France. I come from France. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-any-aliens-got-facebook-accounts/750804.md?page=2)