I am the only one on the net not on facebook or myspace. W/ poll

[jlchoi]

None for me, but even if I had one, I probably wouldn't use it much.

 

[Kelemvor]

People still use myspace? I have an account at myspace, linkedin, facebook, etc. But FB is the only one I ever use.

 

[brblx]

online 'social networking' is generally for annoying and/or stupid people, who i do not wish to deal with. i get enough of that shit without the internet. so no.

twitter is the worst. i'd like to punch everyone on twitter in their faces.

 

[meltdown75]

forums are cool tho

 

[slightlyhuman]

no one cares. just like you don't care that i have one, i don't care that you don't.

 

[Ns1]

54321 QueBert - Both Facebook MySpace suck they are no different blah blah blah



The best is forum lifers bashing about how worthless facebook/myspace are

LOL

 

[Jeff7]

I'm "on" Facebook, but I log in there about once every month or two, for whatever reason. It's definitely not something I have a substantial attachment to.

That's reserved for ATOT. Because I'm a masochist.

 

[Kev]

for me, fb is just a fun way to waste time and stalk people. I quite enjoy it.

 

[ktehmok]

None of those.

 

[tyler811]

for me, fb is just a fun way to waste time and stalk people. I quite enjoy it.

This is almost as good as the lesbian post but not quite.

 

[DT4K]

.....
I'm still tempted to join FB, though, at least to get in contact with people in high school that I lost contact with.

This is the reason I joined FB. It's not a replacement for real life socializing. It's in addition to real life socializing.

In real life, we live in a very friendly neighborhood, where we've become friends with a lot of our neighbors. I play poker (in real life, not online) with a group of about 15 guys from the neighborhood once a week. My wife goes out to lunch with several friends from the neighborhood and has coffee with the girls on at least a weekly basis. We spend quite a lot of time actually socializing with people in real life.

But I love Facebook for several reasons.
It's made it easier to stay in contact with friends and family all around the country. It makes it easy for me to share family photos with my extended family who lives far away. And it's allowed me to catch up with old high school friends who I haven't seen in years.

 

[krunchykrome]

People still use myspace? I have an account at myspace, linkedin, facebook, etc. But FB is the only one I ever use.

There was an article a while ago that included a study on users and these networking sites.

Basically, they said that people making more money with more of an education tended to use linkedin, followed by facebook, then myspace.

 

[Babbles]

Online social networking as become society's norm, and to actively refuse to participate in it is itself a sign of wanting the attention of being part of some sort of counter culture. Just like ten years ago if you walked around bragging about having a mobile phone you were striving for attention; however now, if you brag about not having a mobile phone you are trying to get attention. Same difference with online social networking tools.

I graduated college in 2000 and as such I did not have any sort of "growing-up" exposure to online social networking, as it did not exist then. I did not create a Facebook account until a little over a year ago and I have immediately found how valuable it is. Now as a returning graduate student (MBA) I have found how immensely useful networking tools such as Facebook and LinkedIn are - as an side I had a LinkedIn account for a few years.

As a MBA student I have gone to some MBA conferences & career fairs and essentially every employer/recruiter has info for the Facebook, Twitter, and/or LinkedIn pages. If you are not involved in online networking, you will be left out of many possibilities.

To actively refuse to participate in social networking is just silly. Now with that being said, of course it is silly to spend hours upon hours playing around on Facebook but taking a few minutes each day to keep up with it should not be too prohibitive for the average internet savvy person.

54321 QueBert - Both Facebook MySpace suck they are no different blah blah blah



The best is forum lifers bashing about how worthless facebook/myspace are

LOL

Too true.

 

[cheezy321]

Dont have any friends.

Fixed for you.

 

[iRONic]

No FB or MySpace accounts for me.

I'm a member of several forums/MBs that relate to my interests/hobbies and a few [like ATOT] do have SOCIAL areas.

FWIW, I'm 50 years old and I've never sent a text message or a tweet. My kids however...

 

[BoomerD]

I have no myspace or facebook pages...in fact, the only time I've ever wandered into either is when someone here posted a link to one of them. Once I look at whatever pic the link was for...I bail out before the stench overwhelms me.

 

[QueBert]

54321 QueBert - Both Facebook MySpace suck they are no different blah blah blah



The best is forum lifers bashing about how worthless facebook/myspace are

LOL

QFT on the first comment, but if that 2nd is for me I'm a long way away from being a lifer, plenty of people who have been on here less than a year have more posts than me.

I would change my statement to say FB is actually the worse of the 2, MS has better looking females so I guess it gets 1/2 of 1 cool point for that. But the rest of the bullshit still has it at about -5,000 cool points.

 

[CRXican]

FB

 

[Ns1]

QFT on the first comment, but if that 2nd is for me I'm a long way away from being a lifer, plenty of people who have been on here less than a year have more posts than me.

I would change my statement to say FB is actually the worse of the 2, MS has better looking females so I guess it gets 1/2 of 1 cool point for that. But the rest of the bullshit still has it at about -5,000 cool points.

Yep, 7 years and 9995 posts on a computer geek forum bashing facebook and myspace. LOL

 

[QueBert]

Yep, 7 years and 9995 posts on a computer geek forum bashing facebook and myspace. LOL

Hell I've been bashing social networking sites long before I was a member on here. I bashed Sixdegrees when next to nobody knew what social networking was. Actually it wasn't even called that back then. I thought I might like Blackplanet which is the 2nd social networking site I remember seeing. But not even big booty black wemens could make me want to use them. I don't bash them today because it's "cool" to be anti FB or MS. I've been bashing these sites since 1997 and will continue to bash them forever.

 

[zinfamous]

people are dum.

 

[sdifox]

I have an account on both facebook and myspace, but it's just a placeholder.

 

[TridenT]

QFT on the first comment, but if that 2nd is for me I'm a long way away from being a lifer, plenty of people who have been on here less than a year have more posts than me.

I would change my statement to say FB is actually the worse of the 2, MS has better looking females so I guess it gets 1/2 of 1 cool point for that. But the rest of the bullshit still has it at about -5,000 cool points.

Uh, who here is less than 1 year and has over 10k posts? I don't see them.

 

[Babbles]

Hell I've been bashing social networking sites long before I was a member on here. I bashed Sixdegrees when next to nobody knew what social networking was. Actually it wasn't even called that back then. I thought I might like Blackplanet which is the 2nd social networking site I remember seeing. But not even big booty black wemens could make me want to use them. I don't bash them today because it's "cool" to be anti FB or MS. I've been bashing these sites since 1997 and will continue to bash them forever.

Wait, did you just make an argument to support how "cool" you are because you have been bashing social networking sites before it was cool to bash them?

Seriously? That is the logic you are coming from??

 

[brblx]

to the people who think it's silly for forum members to bash myspacebooktubewhatever-

sorry, it's different. BBS's have always been the realm of the slightly more savvy crowd. facebook is where you go to interact with people who can barely turn the computer on. i have no interest in being part of any 'counter culture' (other than wanting to counter morons in the face with blunt objects), i just consider facebook to be akin to willfully signing onto a dozen spam email listings.

and last i knew, we weren't allowed to post a thread on every random retarded bullshit topic that popped into our heads. reading twitter is basically like reading the thoughts of a retarded seven year old with ADD.