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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1912338" data-attributes="member: 4319">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.</blockquote>