No Facebook? You might be a psycho!

[J.P.]

Eh....I've been debating on whether or not to activate a fb page for my businesses.
It's the cheap/easy way to set up a webpage and apparently all the kids are doing it.....but I mean it just looks cheap (and lazy), so I may just skip it and go with individual/dedicated sites.


Like I said tho'...as far as my personal/individual is concerned, I neither view nor assign any value to having one.

 

[Hobbes]

Although I have no personal individual need for a facebook page, I did sign up so that I could view my kids' pages.
I mean, I don't even have a real "page" or anything...basically just the ability to "sign in", etc.

That pretty much sums up my attitude on FB as well.

I only created an account so I can keep up with news on the FB page for our homeowners association.

Some of my coworkers found me on fb and requested to be friends.
What can you do? Say no? Ignore them? You have to work with them every day so you almost have to say yes.

That's when I realized that a lot of fb is about who has the most "friends".
It's a status thing like who is a member of which clique in high school.

 

[willystruck]

I'm on FB but I don't acknowledge friend requests. Just tell everybody I have enough friends.

 

[J.P.]

.Some of my coworkers found me on fb and requested to be friends.
What can you do? Say no? Ignore them? You have to work with them every day so you almost have to say yes.

Yeah, that's exactly whatcha' do...just say no, laugh, and tell 'em you don't play that stupid sh!+.

(then laugh again)

 

[Perplexed]

All the "reaching out" and friending stuff with people I wouldn't know from Adam is why I deleted my FB account, and even to this day, I still get cajoling messages from FB to come on back, I'm missing out on SO much, how can I possibly be such a heathen not to rejoin, etc. Eye roll.

 

[J.P.]

Yeah, and to all of the OSAers on facebook (or myspace)....
I'm not ignoring you to be a dick, I just don't hang around over there.
Oh....and I don't know if I still even have a myspace account, but I only signed up there to hook up with a girl who's phone was broken.

 

[fishfurlife]

I would see facebook as a form of social network. It would be on the extreme end of a social network as you can become very involved/exposed on the site. However, I view forums such as this in the same way. It is a social network as well. My guess would be that the quoted study is referring to individuals that are completely disconnected to social media.

So posting "I am not part of any social network" on any forum is almost an Oxymoron.

 

[tntrex]

I would see facebook as a form of social network. It would be on the extreme end of a social network as you can become very involved/exposed on the site. However, I view forums such as this in the same way. It is a social network as well. My guess would be that the quoted study is referring to individuals that are completely disconnected to social media.

So posting "I am not part of any social network" on any forum is almost an Oxymoron.

Please read the article.

 

[RidgeHunter]

Some of my coworkers found me on fb and requested to be friends.
What can you do? Say no? Ignore them? You have to work with them every day so you almost have to say yes.

This is the exact reason I do not have a Facebook. The owner of the main company I work for is on it, his son is on it, all the girls in the office are on it I'm sure. MY MOTHER IS ON IT. That's just a start. I don't want to friend any of these people and and don't want to have to explain why. I can see some positives about FB. I have a few friends who live away I'd like to keep in touch with, etc. But I just don't want to deal with it.

I think the article is somewhat right about it being suspicious to most people. I think it actually cost me a lady a while back. I met her and hit it off pretty good, and she took a pretty aggressive lead in keeping contact via phone and making plans until after a couple weeks she said "Hey, I tried to find you on FB but couldn't. Are you under a different name?" (which in itself makes me seem like an ID thief) I said I didn't have one and she acted weird/apprehensive and that was pretty much that. I think she honestly though I was lying to her about my name/who I was.

Besides myself, I have three friends (20s) who are not on FB. Both my octogenarian grandmothers are not on it, but my octogenarian grandfather is (uses a computer every day). Besides those four people, everyone I know from age 10 to age 86 is on FB. By those numbers alone, yeah, I guess you're weird if you're not on it.

 

[fishfurlife]

Please read the article.

I did, and the reference to social network in general is made a few times.