People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious'

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I know it is only Monday but I have a feeling this is going to be one of the stupidest things you'll hear all week (if not THE stupidest).

I am writing with some words of caution. I used to say that “if you’re not on Facebook, it’s possible you don’t actually exist.” I think it’s time to update that, courtesy of Slashdot: Facebook abstainers will be labeled suspicious.
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First thought - “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear".

Second thought - Facebook is spyware, abstaining from spyware is suspicious?

Third thought - I'm being trolled

Fourth thought - Why is this news....lol
 
There's a far more serious consequence:

Try dating without Facebook. I dare you.

Girl: "Hey what's your Facebook, I'll add you."
Me: "I don't have one, never really saw the need."
Girl "Oh you have one you just don't want me to see it because you got a girlfriend or a wife I bet!"
Me: "Hah, no, I just... ahh fuck it I'm turning gay or something."

But seriously, it's true. A lot of people view a minimal online presence as suspicious, that you're hiding something, or that you're just weird. I eventually gave in and just made a Facebook, privatized it to shit and only add close friends and family.
 
WHY IS THIS NEWS?
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Because it will bring reactions, like mine: I used to be fairly active on Facebook, until the empty-headed chattering types took over. It is now my belief, that in general, the amount of posting a person does on Facebook is inversely proportionate to that person's intelligence. There is nothing new under the sun. Decades previous, these incessant chatterers would tie up the telephone (the type wired into the house or office, for you younger types) for hours at a time. "Oh, do you know what Betty did today? She got her hair done..." But wait, they had children and they now do the same thing on their smart phones. Higher technology bringing you more senseless chatter.

Luddites rule!
 
NKD has a Facebook. Proof that suspicousness has nothing to do with owning a Facebook account or not. :D
 
Oh, I forgot to add, the moment of clarity when I created my Facebook:

Me and my buddy are screening potential roommates using Facebook, and we were automatically throwing out people we couldn't find online because we weren't willing to take that risk. Then I realized...hey, I don't have a Facebook either. I'm a fucking hypocrite! So I went and made one.
 
This is pretty stupid.

If you wanted to lie to someone about who you were backing your story up with a fake online presence would be the best way to do so.
 
NKDietrich said:
There's a far more serious consequence:

Try dating without Facebook. I dare you.

Girl: "Hey what's your Facebook, I'll add you."
Me: "I don't have one, never really saw the need."
Girl "Oh you have one you just don't want me to see it because you got a girlfriend or a wife I bet!"
Me: "Hah, no, I just... ahh fuck it I'm turning gay or something."

But seriously, it's true. A lot of people view a minimal online presence as suspicious, that you're hiding something, or that you're just weird. I eventually gave in and just made a Facebook, privatized it to shit and only add close friends and family.
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This is actually quite accurate. Girls will think you're a creep if you have no Facebook. They would rather accept someone who has an obviously creepy FB page than one with no FB page at all.

Solution: Russian import bride.
 
If you suspect that I don't have a Facebook account, then you suspicions have been confirmed.(I hope:eek:):p
 
Any woman putting that much emphasis on Facebook isn't a woman I would want to date.
 
I had a Facebook account then deleted/closed it as it was kind of pointless and I switched over to Google+ which I like much more. Facebook has gone past its purpose to me and I really did not care what everyone was doing every second of the day, and is why I do not do tweeter as well. You do not need an online profile on every single social website pick one you like and move on with life.
 
NKDietrich said:
There's a far more serious consequence:

Try dating without Facebook. I dare you.

Girl: "Hey what's your Facebook, I'll add you."
Me: "I don't have one, never really saw the need."
Girl "Oh you have one you just don't want me to see it because you got a girlfriend or a wife I bet!"
Me: "Hah, no, I just... ahh fuck it I'm turning gay or something."

But seriously, it's true. A lot of people view a minimal online presence as suspicious, that you're hiding something, or that you're just weird. I eventually gave in and just made a Facebook, privatized it to shit and only add close friends and family.
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Add to that no cell phone to give them, good luck getting a date ever!
Girl: Why didn't you text me back
Me: I don't have text on my phone
Girl: Everyone has text!
Me: Pretty sure my phone doesn't have text
Girl: let met see it
Me: Ok lets go to my place
Girl: you creep!
 
LeninGHOLA said:
This is actually quite accurate. Girls will think you're a creep if you have no Facebook. They would rather accept someone who has an obviously creepy FB page than one with no FB page at all.

Solution: Russian import bride.
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Girl-centric weirdos though...they're always worried that a girl who has half a brain would think they're some closet carnival side-show freak because they don't have their lives plastered all over that cesspool of human stupid that is Facebook. All I have to say about that is that you're dating down on the intelligence ladder to be a white knight and deserve the 70 IQ points you're chasing after anyway. If she has a Facebook account, well...run away guys...really.
 
I dated quite successfully without giving my entire private life away thank you very much. It's called being a mature adult individual who makes their life choices based on their own perspective of what's appropriate and what's inappropriate.

Newbs.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Add to that no cell phone to give them, good luck getting a date ever!
Girl: Why didn't you text me back
Me: I don't have text on my phone
Girl: Everyone has text!
Me: Pretty sure my phone doesn't have text
Girl: let met see it
Me: Ok lets go to my place
Girl: you creep!
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So true. I didn't get a cell phone until like 2005. Talk about feeling like a dinosaur. I got the weirdest looks when I said I didn't have a cell phone.

Our society expects people to be more connected and more open with their social lives these days. It can be annoying, but at the end of the day it's a small price to pay for not locking yourself out of potential social opportunities. (read: getting laid.)
 
SkribbelKat said:
Girl-centric weirdos though...they're always worried that a girl who has half a brain would think they're some closet carnival side-show freak because they don't have their lives plastered all over that cesspool of human stupid that is Facebook. All I have to say about that is that you're dating down on the intelligence ladder to be a white knight and deserve the 70 IQ points you're chasing after anyway. If she has a Facebook account, well...run away guys...really.
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Even them thar smart girls are doing that Facebook. At least quite a few are.

Personally, I don't care. I tell a girl I'm not on Facebook, and if she runs, well... my tranq gun is at the ready. Stupid bitch has the GALL to call me creepy?!?!
 
LeninGHOLA said:
Even them thar smart girls are doing that Facebook. At least quite a few are.
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Hell, good luck finding a brainy girl who ISN'T on Facebook and every other god damn social media site. Any girl working in a tech field has one. In my experience the ones who don't have an online social presence can be awesome women overall, but tend to be boring luddites. Not exactly a good match for a software engineer.
 
LeninGHOLA said:
Even them thar smart girls are doing that Facebook. At least quite a few are.

Personally, I don't care. I tell a girl I'm not on Facebook, and if she runs, well... my tranq gun is at the ready. Stupid bitch has the GALL to call me creepy?!?!
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Oh shit, I'm still laughing. Thanks
 
LeninGHOLA said:
Even them thar smart girls are doing that Facebook. At least quite a few are.

Personally, I don't care. I tell a girl I'm not on Facebook, and if she runs, well... my tranq gun is at the ready. Stupid bitch has the GALL to call me creepy?!?!
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If a girl is on Facebook and she's smart, that's superficial intellect only or she's above average, but still missing some pieces.

I don't think you're creepy. Though you should get with the times and buy one of those tazer gun things that rent-a-cops use.
 
NKDietrich said:
Hell, good luck finding a brainy girl who ISN'T on Facebook and every other god damn social media site. Any girl working in a tech field has one. In my experience the ones who don't have an online social presence can be awesome women overall, but tend to be boring luddites. Not exactly a good match for a software engineer.
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Boring luddities can work in the tech industry too, you know.
 
NKDietrich said:
There's a far more serious consequence:

Try dating without Facebook. I dare you.

Girl: "Hey what's your Facebook, I'll add you."
Me: "I don't have one, never really saw the need."
Girl "Oh you have one you just don't want me to see it because you got a girlfriend or a wife I bet!"
Me: "Hah, no, I just... ahh fuck it I'm turning gay or something."

But seriously, it's true. A lot of people view a minimal online presence as suspicious, that you're hiding something, or that you're just weird. I eventually gave in and just made a Facebook, privatized it to shit and only add close friends and family.
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Or you have a job that discourages you from having one and you really don't see a reason for one when it will just encourage more lonely 23 year old Asian nyphomaniacs (aka Chinese spies) trying to friend you.

Me personally, I'm always suspicious of anyone who asks me for my Facebook account.
 
NKDietrich said:
There's a far more serious consequence:

Try dating without Facebook. I dare you.

Girl: "Hey what's your Facebook, I'll add you."
Me: "I don't have one, never really saw the need."
Girl "Oh you have one you just don't want me to see it because you got a girlfriend or a wife I bet!"
Me: "Hah, no, I just... ahh fuck it I'm turning gay or something."

But seriously, it's true. A lot of people view a minimal online presence as suspicious, that you're hiding something, or that you're just weird. I eventually gave in and just made a Facebook, privatized it to shit and only add close friends and family.
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Have had the exact same experience.
 
Last I checked there were more people without facebook than with, so...um. I had a fb account years ago and after discovering there was no intelligent life to be found there I deleted it and found something better to do.
 
RGMBill said:
Or you have a job that discourages you from having one and you really don't see a reason for one when it will just encourage more lonely 23 year old Asian nyphomaniacs (aka Chinese spies) trying to friend you.

Me personally, I'm always suspicious of anyone who asks me for my Facebook account.
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Hey there's an idea. I'll pretend I'm a spy and therefore not allowed to have a Facebook. Women will love that. Until they remember that spies are all unrepentant womanizers.
 
I am suspicious because I find Facebook stupid? Actually going to see my friends and family in person, shooting them the occasional email, and talking on the phone makes me suspicious?

Oh, well, I guess I am just suspicious. Not to Facebook hate, but I never really got it at all. Myspace or tweeter either. They seemed rather mindless to me.
 
sfsuphysics said:
Add to that no cell phone to give them, good luck getting a date ever!
Girl: Why didn't you text me back
Me: I don't have text on my phone
Girl: Everyone has text!
Me: Pretty sure my phone doesn't have text
Girl: let met see it
Me: Ok lets go to my place
Girl: you creep!
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Who the hell is she texting if you don't have a cell phone? :p
 
hdfreedom said:
Any woman putting that much emphasis on Facebook isn't a woman I would want to date.
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Bingo.

sfsuphysics said:
Add to that no cell phone to give them, good luck getting a date ever!
Girl: Why didn't you text me back
Me: I don't have text on my phone
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I finally added texting to my work phone to make it easier for the monitoring software to notify me of an outage. NOT so people could text me :)
 
Not having texting is weird, not sure anyone is going to refute that. It's less immediately intrusive.
 
Don't have a Facebook or Twitter account. I can count on one hand the number of times I have visited either site. How suspicious does that make me?
 
hdfreedom said:
Any woman putting that much emphasis on Facebook isn't a woman I would want to date.
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^this.

My financee has always loved this shit, ever since we got together 6 1/2 years ago. I didn't ever have a myspace and was forced to create a Facebook only to get updates on when my friends bands were playing, otherwise I never would have. Haven't logged into facebook in months, probably more than a year.

If she would have cared I would have laughed in her face and walked away. Someone that cares about something so insignificant is likely very superficial and probably dumb. In these cases I recommend you make up a Facebook, nail her, and never talk to her again.
 
Most of the people I know in real life have no Facebook account (some never had it, some deleted).
 
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