If you're not on Facebook (and you're young), you're a pain in the ass

[Mai72]

Facebook is incredibly useful if you're living/working overseas. I get to see what people are doing, and I can take pics of a country that they will probably never visit.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

So I guess you should only go on Facebook if you like drama.

FTFY.

 

[Kneedragger]

Nuked my FB account 3 yrs ago too. I might consider re-joining if they would implement a "Hate" button.

I would go one step further and a STFU button haha.

 

[Kneedragger]

I don't usually ask dudes for their number. Not at a bar anyway. Facebook friending someone is much less weird. If I have a reason to need their number later I can ask for it.

You can do the same with Instagram. It even has private messages..

 

[Zodiark1593]

Sorry, you are. You're as annoying as those people that refused to get cell phones until 2009.

You don't need to turn it into a competition, I don't think I have more than 150 friends and I've been on the site for six or seven years now. You don't need to post selfies or read your uncle's annoying libertarian memes, you can ignore all that shit.

I hung out with some of my roommate's friends last weekend and some of them were cool enough that if they posted that they were in a bar and I was nearby I'd probably drop in, but I couldn't friend them on Facebook because my roommate is one of those "LOOK AT ME I'M NOT ON FACEBOOK" people. So I had to search his ex-gf's name and go through her list of friends to find them. So I send out half a dozen friend requests, and have yet to hear a response. Probably because we share no mutual friends (I'm not FB friends with his ex) and they don't realize who I am. What a fucking PITA.

Is there something wrong with talking to people in person?

And no, unless otherwise asked, I don't divulge my lack of social media presence.

To add to that, I'm a bit too cold to care what my friends are doing over the weekend. Heck, I hardly know why they continue to follow a demented beast like me.

 

[Blackjack200]

Is there something wrong with talking to people in person?

That's pretty much what we do when we meet up. You know, at the event we planned on FB.

 

[rsbennett00]

That's pretty much what we do when we meet up. You know, at the event we planned on FB.

What did you do before facebook?

 

[Leyawiin]

I shook my head so hard at the premise of this thread it almost came off. Some people need someone to hand them the toilet paper I suppose.

 

[Ken g6]

If classmates.com had been run like Facebook then I'd be on Facebook-er- classmates. But they didn't so I'm not.

 

[Blackjack200]

What did you do before facebook?

I don't know, people accomplished shit before cell phones, so I guess we should get rid of those too?

 

[rsbennett00]

I don't know, people accomplished shit before cell phones, so I guess we should get rid of those too?

I don't believe in insulting people that don't feel the need to be tethered at all times. I don't carry my phone everywhere. I really only have one for emergencies.

 

[Double Trouble]

Facebook = complete waste of time. If someone is that desperate to have 'friends' that they need to be on facebook all the time, I don't need them as a friend anyway.

 

[alkemyst]

bunch of losers in this thread.

 

[Capt Caveman]

With the OP, I belong to a number of groups and organizations. FB is the easiest way to communicate to a large group but also seeing what your friends are up to. It's easy to create an event to invite others(ie. High School reunion this fall).

Don't see what the huge difference between FB and here, so it's hard to understand why people here are so anti-FB.

 

[Captante]

If you're on Facebook (and you're any age), you're a pain in the ass

FTFY :thumbsup:

 

[squarecut1]

I despise Facebook. Was there for a few months. It is even worse than I would have thought.

 

[squarecut1]

Facebook is the perfect vehicle for the narcissism of the current young generation. What is worse, it is not just the young who are that way on it.

 

[squarecut1]

So if I don't have trouble keeping up with the friends I care about, what's the point of facebook? I've always avoided it because I don't see it sticking around, it's business model is completely flawed. I'm surprised it's lasted this long.

Disagree. It's business model can't be more suited to the growing superficiality and narcissism of the society

 

[Capt Caveman]

So if I don't have trouble keeping up with the friends I care about, what's the point of facebook? I've always avoided it because I don't see it sticking around, it's business model is completely flawed. I'm surprised it's lasted this long.

How is their business model flawed? Kind of like this forum?

 

[Red Storm]

OP: "If you aren't doing what I am doing, you're an ass."



Don't need FB to communicate/stay in touch/coordinate hangouts with friends, I manage that just fine with chat, email, calls and texts.

 

[Remobz]

I don't have facebook. does that annoy you OP?

I still don't have a facebook or twitter. Never owned my own personal computer until I was 25 and never had the internet until 26. Never owned a cell phone until I was 32 years old.

I am 40 now.

I guess I sucked in life.

However, I can see a possible need for facebook in that my sister moved to another Country and I have MANY friends and family living abroad.

One small example, is that my Dad and I speak to my sister on skype everyday but my GF here knows almost up date info about stuff happening in my sisters life before my Dad and I do. Its like I am out of the loop so to speak. My sister even knew about my cousin in England having an accident way before I did. Oh well, might as well get it right?

 

[PlanetJosh]

If I get a small business started I'll be sure to discuss with any associates if we should go on Facebook. I'll go along with the decision to do so because it could be good for publicity.

Of course it would be great if the website of your business got popular on its own meaning by without FB or Twitter. Maybe through a YouTube video or two, and your product being so good that it sells itself by word of mouth too.

 

[Leros]

I got rid of Facebook in the middle of college after being annoyed by the 300 non-friends I had on there. I got tired of having to dig through all their junk just to see the few people I actually cared about. I decided to prune down the list to just the people I was really friends with and it actually made people mad and caused a bunch of drama, so I just deleted my account. It did hurt my social life a bit, mainly in that I missed out on some events because people did all their inviting through Facebook and didn't realize they were missing me

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I was forced to create a Facebook account a few years ago as part of a lab meeting coordination thing. We stopped doing that after a month or so. These days I do use it to communicate with one person, maybe once a month or so. I'm surprised to read about the invitation/social event angle mentioned repeatedly above tbh. I'm too self-conscious to head to any even I wasn't explicitly and formally invited to anyways, but it seems weird that out of everyone you know in real life discussing events on Facebook, you wouldn't know at least one person to give you a text or call about a given party or school reunion or whatever.

 

[zinfamous]

The reason you have data on your phone is not so you can use twitter (you don't need it for Twitter, only SMS), it's so you can find shit while you're driving.

I use maps and actually, this is the weird thing: I actually prefer to learn where I'm going and how to get there.

It's the most hilarious thing--I ride around with people who have lived here for years and they can't fucking find some of those common places, know any of the major roads and how to avoid them, etc. when their little GPS brains are malfunctioning.

I never got that. I much prefer being useful, rather than woefully dependent on subpar devices. :\

If I'm traveling long distance, I have an atlas. It's actually amazing to be able to use an atlas. Hate it when someone is with me and I ask them to find a route, and they have no idea how to use a simple fucking roadmap and interpret distances, size of expressway, and all that. Oh, you have no signal on your phone? imagine that!