I Refuse to Join FaceBook!

Dyre Straits · Jan 14, 2008, 01:05 PM

I've been getting loads of invitations from family members and a few friends who are so excited about their new FaceBook profile and want me to take a look at it.

BUT....as many/most of you probably already know, you cannot simply VIEW these profiles unless you FIRST join FaceBook as well.

I refuse! I'm not particularly interested in devoting any of my time to putting yet another personal website up online that will/can only be used by people who will ALSO have to join up to see what I've put together.

I think it's insane the Microsoft actually has purchased a stake in this outrage!

Microsoft and Facebook Hook Up

Sandok · Jan 14, 2008, 02:24 PM

I got a Facebook account (everyone at my uni does so I got one...). It's stupid but it has fun flash games

Zelig · Jan 14, 2008, 02:33 PM

Just leave your profile empty, it's basically what I've done.

Vikingod · Jan 14, 2008, 02:58 PM

I've not really embraced the "share every second of your life with the rest of the world" culture generated by MySpace and FaceBook and the like. I can't blame you Dyre, maybe we're just getting old

OmegaRED · Jan 14, 2008, 03:11 PM

Facebook is the only social network worth signing up for, which I recently did, like Zelig mentioned you could leave your profile empty and use the account to keep in touch with people.

Sandok · Jan 14, 2008, 03:16 PM

I don't share anything really... I mean, I share what movies I like but that's about it

It's a good way to keep in touch with people

Dyre Straits · Jan 14, 2008, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sandok

I don't share anything really... I mean, I share what movies I like but that's about it

It's a good way to keep in touch with people

That's what e-mails are for.

Everyone that needs to know anything about me is already in my address book.

AND, MY e-mail addy's are already in too many spammers' address books it gives me the creeps! I'm just glad my spam blockers work on most of my accounts.

YAYitsAndrew · Jan 14, 2008, 03:44 PM

I have a facebook account for like 4 years now. At first it was really good for getting in touch with childhood and high school friends but now that I'm out of college it's useful for keeping in touch with college friends and it's a networking tool.

Using it to talk to your family? You can probably do that with a phone. Plus you'll give your family members all kinds of dirt to use against you.

calidan · Jan 14, 2008, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YAYitsAndrew

Plus you'll give your family members all kinds of dirt to use against you.

If you wouldn't share it with your family why would you want to share it with friends.

Dark Lord · Jan 14, 2008, 06:08 PM

i have a phone, i have an email account, and i have AIM. if some one wants to get ahold of me, they know damn well how to.

i wont touch myspace, facebook,xanga, or the like if my life depended on it.

BlueMak · Jan 14, 2008, 07:03 PM

I find it and myspace, almost scary.
I was pressured by more than one people to join. How cool it is and all that. Few months ago I joined only to be able to access faster and easier some photos of a friend of mine. I signed in with a fake made up name and I haven't said to anyone other than her, that I have that account. I have posted like once or twice in it and played one game I think.
For some reason without me telling anyone about it, and fake name and info and all that, friends that I used to know, invited me. They of course with their real names etc. WTF?
My guess is either they constantly keep searching for people they know (email) if they have a page there, or they have allowed the system (facebook) to check their email address book (which for those that don't know, requires the user to give to Facebook their email address AND their PASSWORD for that email address).
I just don't know what to think of these people any more...

Anyway, I see this original friend working with her page and keep adding little shit like "games" and "Tests" etc, but more importantly perhaps, all the little details about what they are doing each day. It's like a big brother nightmare only that you willingly give out all the info yourself.
From what I understand there are more and more sites like the two above and they all have thousands and millions of members.
Have the population gone crazy all of a sudden? What the fuck is wrong with these people? Why would you want to share all your personal details with friends or "friends" and have them being able to basicaly stalk you from a distance?

The whole thing is sickening.

Sandok · Jan 14, 2008, 07:42 PM

BlueMak, everyone is not that paranoid...

You're not posting anything people can't find out (phone numbers, names and such are all available through the net)

LHC · Jan 14, 2008, 08:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vikingod

I've not really embraced the "share every second of your life with the rest of the world" culture generated by MySpace and FaceBook and the like. I can't blame you Dyre, maybe we're just getting old

Naw, it's not 'cause you're old.

I'm one of the few kids in my high school who refuses to be a part of any social network website, i.e. Myspace, Facebook.

I can't stand that stuff. It's really disgusting. Everybody in my school who has a facebook is CONSTANTLY on it when they're on their computer. If they close the browser, they just go back on it 5 minutes later. And when the school finally blocked Facebook and the likes, everybody was freaking out because they couldn't get on in school.

That's why it pays off to be techy. Their firewall is REALLY easy to get passed, but only me and 3 other people know how to do it

They don't block IP's of websites, so.. yah

Just like Dark Lord said.. whoever needs to contact me knows easily how to contact me

**dj_stick** · Jan 14, 2008, 10:11 PM

I use both facebok & myspace sparingly, I have managed to get in contact with people I haven't heard from for years - so that's the main benefit, but my myspace music profile is a good place to just chuck up a track i'm working on and get feedback from it

MGaz · Jan 15, 2008, 04:26 AM

i can't stand facebook, but i do have an account.

What i hate is all the AD related crap on peoples pages. I know it's an 'AD supported business' but it 's hard to believe that facebook associates its self with some of the worst types of SPAM BASED ads & JUNK such as dating sites for example, and STILL expects it self to be seen as a reputable website/social network!.

If that amount of rubbish was on any other website, you would steer well clear!

There just so greedy for the cash, that they will except any old web based company's rubbish advertised crap,..regardless.

All it's doing is giving them a really bad reputation.

And it will cost them there business in the end because there user base will eventually have enough of it and leave! And who's going to want to continue paying for AD space on a 'social network' with no users?

YAYitsAndrew · Jan 15, 2008, 05:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by calidan

If you wouldn't share it with your family why would you want to share it with friends.

LOL

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Jan 15, 2008, 06:20 AM

i hate the direction it has gone to... it was a networking site for students, now everyone has it even my doctor... fuck i have to set privacy settings for them. it was more fun when it was just students. in addition, those stupid ads and applications ruins it. i have no applications except the songs i like that is all.

Sandok · Jan 15, 2008, 02:46 PM

Oh come on, Jetman is fun

mainman · Jan 16, 2008, 07:48 PM

I'm probably the only one over here that doesn't have nor care about myspace, facebook, hi5 etc etc. Most of the people that i know that have and use the sites do it to try and get
"new friends", meaning girls that wanna get "freaky".

Necrosis · Jan 21, 2008, 07:49 PM

If I want to create a site about myself I'll just build one from scratch.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Feb 4, 2008, 06:09 PM

I agree with Dyre. Watch some Dr. Phil and you'll see the insanity these social networking sites breed in teens, let alone adults who are supposed to have their common senses intact. Besides, these sites and cell phone texting SMS devices etc. are just leading to more and more degeneration in language skills, not to mention coprophrasia.

zaim · Feb 4, 2008, 11:32 PM

I like Facebook because it keeps my family and friends close, unlike the myspace mess. But I just use myspace to perve on chicks and advertise my music

BabylenTatarsky · Feb 5, 2008, 10:49 PM

I joined Facebook just to talk to a girl I met through friends at a party.

Due to this, I rate it very highly.

**Mousey** · Feb 5, 2008, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zaim

I like Facebook because it keeps my family and friends close, unlike the myspace mess. But I just use myspace to perve on chicks and advertise my music

I don't think that's the sort of thing your'e supposed to admit zaim

Quote:

Originally Posted by Necrosis

If I want to create a site about myself I'll just build one from scratch.

*Claps at logic* xD
I use myspaz mainly for digging up dirt on people i don't like at school, then holding it against em when they have a go at me ;p

zaim · Feb 6, 2008, 12:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mousey

I don't think that's the sort of thing your'e supposed to admit zaim

oh everyone perves

Jan 14, 2008, 02:33 PM	#3
Zelig HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,187 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Just leave your profile empty, it's basically what I've done. __________________ --

Jan 14, 2008, 03:11 PM	#5
OmegaRED Relapsed Gamer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ottawa , Canada Posts: 5,688 Rep Power: 173 System Specs	Facebook is the only social network worth signing up for, which I recently did, like Zelig mentioned you could leave your profile empty and use the account to keep in touch with people. __________________ E Penis Specs: <------------- See System Specs

Jan 14, 2008, 03:44 PM	#8
YAYitsAndrew Anti-Piracy Poster Boy Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 2,605 Rep Power: 79 System Specs	I have a facebook account for like 4 years now. At first it was really good for getting in touch with childhood and high school friends but now that I'm out of college it's useful for keeping in touch with college friends and it's a networking tool. Using it to talk to your family? You can probably do that with a phone. Plus you'll give your family members all kinds of dirt to use against you. __________________ "It is because the resistance to paying for copyrighted material, although often characterized as arising from a supposed technical burden or principled concern for the public interest, arises rather from exactly the same segment of the brain that is dominant in shoplifters." - Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism In other words, it's never okay to steal even if you think you have a good reason! www.yayitsandrew.com

Jan 14, 2008, 06:08 PM	#10
Dark Lord HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,945 Rep Power: 125 System Specs	i have a phone, i have an email account, and i have AIM. if some one wants to get ahold of me, they know damn well how to. i wont touch myspace, facebook,xanga, or the like if my life depended on it. __________________

Jan 14, 2008, 07:03 PM	#11
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I find it and myspace, almost scary. I was pressured by more than one people to join. How cool it is and all that. Few months ago I joined only to be able to access faster and easier some photos of a friend of mine. I signed in with a fake made up name and I haven't said to anyone other than her, that I have that account. I have posted like once or twice in it and played one game I think. For some reason without me telling anyone about it, and fake name and info and all that, friends that I used to know, invited me. They of course with their real names etc. WTF? My guess is either they constantly keep searching for people they know (email) if they have a page there, or they have allowed the system (facebook) to check their email address book (which for those that don't know, requires the user to give to Facebook their email address AND their PASSWORD for that email address). I just don't know what to think of these people any more... Anyway, I see this original friend working with her page and keep adding little shit like "games" and "Tests" etc, but more importantly perhaps, all the little details about what they are doing each day. It's like a big brother nightmare only that you willingly give out all the info yourself. From what I understand there are more and more sites like the two above and they all have thousands and millions of members. Have the population gone crazy all of a sudden? What the fuck is wrong with these people? Why would you want to share all your personal details with friends or "friends" and have them being able to basicaly stalk you from a distance? The whole thing is sickening. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Jan 14, 2008, 02:24 PM	#2
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	I got a Facebook account (everyone at my uni does so I got one...). It's stupid but it has fun flash games

Jan 14, 2008, 02:58 PM	#4
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	I've not really embraced the "share every second of your life with the rest of the world" culture generated by MySpace and FaceBook and the like. I can't blame you Dyre, maybe we're just getting old

Jan 14, 2008, 03:16 PM	#6
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	I don't share anything really... I mean, I share what movies I like but that's about it It's a good way to keep in touch with people

Jan 14, 2008, 07:42 PM	#12
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	BlueMak, everyone is not that paranoid... You're not posting anything people can't find out (phone numbers, names and such are all available through the net)

Jan 15, 2008, 04:26 AM	#15
MGaz All wheel driver! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: five Cylinder Heaven, wales GB Posts: 204 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	i can't stand facebook, but i do have an account. What i hate is all the AD related crap on peoples pages. I know it's an 'AD supported business' but it 's hard to believe that facebook associates its self with some of the worst types of SPAM BASED ads & JUNK such as dating sites for example, and STILL expects it self to be seen as a reputable website/social network!. If that amount of rubbish was on any other website, you would steer well clear! There just so greedy for the cash, that they will except any old web based company's rubbish advertised crap,..regardless. All it's doing is giving them a really bad reputation. And it will cost them there business in the end because there user base will eventually have enough of it and leave! And who's going to want to continue paying for AD space on a 'social network' with no users? __________________ Processor: 7.5 Memory: 7.7 Graphics: 7.2 Gaming Graphics: 7.2 Primary Hard Disk: 5.9 [3DMARK Vantage: 9229] [3DMARK 06: 18365] [3DMARK 03: 46941] [3DMARK 2001 SE: 36059] [3DMARK 2000: 29438]

Jan 15, 2008, 06:20 AM	#17
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	i hate the direction it has gone to... it was a networking site for students, now everyone has it even my doctor... fuck i have to set privacy settings for them. it was more fun when it was just students. in addition, those stupid ads and applications ruins it. i have no applications except the songs i like that is all. __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

Jan 15, 2008, 02:46 PM	#18
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	Oh come on, Jetman is fun

Jan 16, 2008, 07:48 PM	#19
mainman Mr. Nobody Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: OmniPresent Nightwatcher Posts: 5,961 Rep Power: 71	I'm probably the only one over here that doesn't have nor care about myspace, facebook, hi5 etc etc. Most of the people that i know that have and use the sites do it to try and get "new friends", meaning girls that wanna get "freaky".

Jan 21, 2008, 07:49 PM	#20
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	If I want to create a site about myself I'll just build one from scratch.

Feb 4, 2008, 06:09 PM	#21
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	I agree with Dyre. Watch some Dr. Phil and you'll see the insanity these social networking sites breed in teens, let alone adults who are supposed to have their common senses intact. Besides, these sites and cell phone texting SMS devices etc. are just leading to more and more degeneration in language skills, not to mention coprophrasia.

Feb 4, 2008, 11:32 PM	#22
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Feb 5, 2008, 10:49 PM	#23
BabylenTatarsky Rocks Your Socks Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: St. Helens [UK] Posts: 1,656 Rep Power: 63 System Specs	I joined Facebook just to talk to a girl I met through friends at a party. Due to this, I rate it very highly. __________________