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

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Do you have a myspace, facebook or any other social networking site or none at all?

  • Myspace

  • Facebook

  • Both myspace and facebook

  • Myspace and facebook and more

  • A social networking site but not myspace or facebook.

  • None

  • None at all ATOT takes up all my time


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Imp

Lifer
Feb 8, 2000
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None. Friends tell me to get one, I refuse.

I have a fake-name-stalker account to use the search function on FB though.
 

QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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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??

No, I genuinely hate them all, and am not bashing them because it's the cool in thing to do. I don't care if it's cool or not, that's irrelevant to me. The logic on here is because people spend time on forums like ATOT they can't hate social networking, because I guess it's the same thing? I suppose that means because I like Pizza I can't hate Little Cesars. I'm not trying to support shit to show how cool I am. I just want to say fuck Facebook & Myspace every chance I get.
 

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
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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.

You also interact with complete fucking retards. I don't have any of THOSE people on my facebook account. See sig

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.

I can has free ipodz don't ring a bell? lol


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.

We must be reading different message boards

see replies above
 

iRONic

Diamond Member
Jan 28, 2006
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No, I genuinely hate them all, and am not bashing them because it's the cool in thing to do. I don't care if it's cool or not, that's irrelevant to me. The logic on here is because people spend time on forums like ATOT they can't hate social networking, because I guess it's the same thing? I suppose that means because I like Pizza I can't hate Little Cesars. I'm not trying to support shit to show how cool I am. I just want to say fuck Facebook & Myspace every chance I get.
"Fuck Facebook!"--James Taylor
 

rh71

No Lifer
Aug 28, 2001
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quebert do you not have any friends you care about enough to check out their pics once in a while? Unless you're in college, people actually post interesting pics of themselves here and there. It sounds like you hate the idea and nothing ever will persuade you otherwise... and you can guess what that makes you look like.
 

hanoverphist

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 2006
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I don't use commercial, social networking sites. I have a phone and email, and magically they have been melded into a single device called the smartphone. Getting in touch with me is easy. I do use LinkedIn for work though.

i could access facebook, twitter (i dont have a twitter, and never will), myspace and all those on my smartphone as well, so txt is just one form of communication available to you. i check my fb and ms once in a while, check on my kid and some of the friends and such. i use linkedin for work as well, but i have all the apps blocked on fb and ms. annoys the hell out of me to get spam from friends to help them with their bakeries, farms, aquariums and such.
 

Nik

Lifer
Jun 5, 2006
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I have a myspace and a facebook, but I don't spend any time on myspace.
 

Kyanzes

Golden Member
Aug 26, 2005
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Been toying with the idea of using Facebook. Yet, I have not achieved anything in life that would justify my public display.

When you have little to tell about yourself, when friends have already progressed farther in life, you can become laughing stock. When you have achieved a lot more than others then you are envied and hated by all.

When you are in-between you don't really stand out, you are just a grey nobody in the crowd.

OFC it's just my very personal take.
 

QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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quebert do you not have any friends you care about enough to check out their pics once in a while? Unless you're in college, people actually post interesting pics of themselves here and there. It sounds like you hate the idea and nothing ever will persuade you otherwise... and you can guess what that makes you look like.

My friends are idiots who email me pics all the time. OH JOY I get to see them drinking, with their kids, making retarded poses. The plus side is I don't have to log into a web site that tracks what I do to see the pics. I see my friends in real life, and the out of state ones email dumb shit all the time, so it's not like I'm going long stretches of times without talking to them. I interact with my friends perfectly fine using Yahoo Mail, even better in fact because when I email most of them they get it instantly on their blackberry or iPhone. Social Networking sites are slower methods to accomplish the same shit I can do in Email. Very pointless. As for the ending I would gather it makes me look like an incredibly intelligent person, because I do shit the fastest and easiest way.
 

hanoverphist

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 2006
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My friends are idiots who email me pics all the time. OH JOY I get to see them drinking, with their kids, making retarded poses. The plus side is I don't have to log into a web site that tracks what I do to see the pics. I see my friends in real life, and the out of state ones email dumb shit all the time, so it's not like I'm going long stretches of times without talking to them. I interact with my friends perfectly fine using Yahoo Mail, even better in fact because when I email most of them they get it instantly on their blackberry or iPhone. Social Networking sites are slower methods to accomplish the same shit I can do in Email. Very pointless. As for the ending I would gather it makes me look like an incredibly intelligent person, because I do shit the fastest and easiest way.

ok, so you email them and they have to open the email program and download the message. they send a mail on fb, it notifies you via email/ sms. you open the fb app (already logged in) and see the message. how is email so much stunningly faster than the fb app that is available for any phone that can do data? id say your hatred is more personal than logical at this point, you are like a 93 yr old person that grew up without color tv, so dammit you wont have any of that. also, the benefit to the fb way it, if there are pics/ events/ other info they feel like giving you, its already there at the tip of your fingers instead of linked in an email for you to open a browser and get to.
 

brblx

Diamond Member
Mar 23, 2009
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My friends are idiots who email me pics all the time. OH JOY I get to see them drinking, with their kids, making retarded poses. The plus side is I don't have to log into a web site that tracks what I do to see the pics. I see my friends in real life, and the out of state ones email dumb shit all the time, so it's not like I'm going long stretches of times without talking to them. I interact with my friends perfectly fine using Yahoo Mail, even better in fact because when I email most of them they get it instantly on their blackberry or iPhone. Social Networking sites are slower methods to accomplish the same shit I can do in Email. Very pointless. As for the ending I would gather it makes me look like an incredibly intelligent person, because I do shit the fastest and easiest way.

i think you basically feel the same way i do- facespace is for exhibitionists.

i can keep in touch with people just fine without having to alert the entire internets as to my current activity.

ATTN: EVERYONE. I'M JACKING OFF RIGHT NOW.
 

Ausm

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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i think you basically feel the same way i do- facespace is for exhibitionists.

i can keep in touch with people just fine without having to alert the entire internets as to my current activity.

ATTN: EVERYONE. I'M JACKING OFF RIGHT NOW.

using the right or left hand?
 

Schadenfroh

Elite Member
Mar 8, 2003
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I am not on facebook and/or myspace. It would... complicate... things if people from my past were easily able to locate me on something so trivial as a social networking site.