People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious'

My motto with regards to Facebook was originally used as 7up's marking slogan in '82:

"Never had it, never will."
 
So, not using a service that the the most associated name of the service called his users 'dumbfucks' over handing their private information to him is suspicious? Card me up then. Facebook is the ultimate creeper because people aren't just willing, but enthusiastic at the prospect of handing over all of their information the service asks for with no qualms.
 
Meh, the FBI has had a file on me since 1968. I don't have a cell phone or a FB page.
 
Don't need Facebook. I hang out or talk to all the people I'm friends with IRL. I don't need to "friend" people I haven't talked to in 10 years.
 
Would make sense, the government uses data from Facebook and Twitter a lot to track people, if a person does not have it they can't track as much, so they think the person is suspicious. Everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

All I know is the US government must think my life is boring because the only thing I really post about on Facebook is stuff I do around the house such as handyman projects. :p
 
Inu said:
Not having texting is weird, not sure anyone is going to refute that. It's less immediately intrusive.
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Oooh, pick meeee!

Then again, I don't really do the whole cell phone thing except for one that is only supposed to accept work related calls, but has text blocked altogether. No one ever calls me after hours anyway which means that either the systems I administer are totally and completely flawless or that I've crushed their hopes of ever getting reasonable support when they do call. :p

But yeah, texting is silly. It's faster and easier to share information by talking over a phone than typing a limited number of characters on some crappy touchscreen or teeny keypad.
 
NKDietrich said:
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.)
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I know, I'm still a dinosaur since I have gone cell phone-less since.. well forever. I'm married, so I don't need to worry about giving out my number. And to be honest my wife has a cell phone and that usually is good enough for both of us. Although if she ever gets pregnant she's going to make me get a cell phone... one of those pre-paid throwaway ones though :D
 
RadCliffeX said:
Who the hell is she texting if you don't have a cell phone? :p
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Well from what I can gather, when you send a text you send it to a phone number. My cousin has texted my home phone more often than I care because he still can't grasp the fact that it isn't a cell phone, not sure what happens the phone doesn't ring or anything it just gets lost in the infinite multiverse!
 
I don't get out. That's way more suspect than a lack of an FB acct.
 
...That there's a Pak Protector using FB to keep an eye on things; I'm sure it's just a rumor.
 
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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So!?! My choice to not participate in Facebook makes me "weird"? And that means I can't date some shallow Woman who lacks the intelligence to understand why? I can accept that gladly.

In fact I'm sure it will spare me allot of pain in the long run. And think about this for just a few seconds... Most women that are addicted to social networking are actually "socially inept". Meaning they can keep their FB page up to date, and they'll read yours, but they can't really hold a decent conversation face to face. If for no other reason than they can't disconnect from their damn smartphone.
 
the girls who think you're weird because you don't have a FB page are not worth dating anyway.

if someone has to ask why, I say that FB is for children.

besides, you can still cheat even if you have a FB page
 
NKDietrich said:
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.
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I only have one from work, and I hate it. 5PM---it gets turned off.

NKDietrich said:
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.)
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It's a huge price--one that I'm unwilling to pay. MyGoogleFaceSpaceBookPlus is nothing but a gigantic waste of time and bandwidth, and I'll be happy when social networking sites die the death they so richly deserve.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Would make sense, the government uses data from Facebook and Twitter a lot to track people, if a person does not have it they can't track as much, so they think the person is suspicious. Everyone is guilty until proven innocent.

All I know is the US government must think my life is boring because the only thing I really post about on Facebook is stuff I do around the house such as handyman projects. :p
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The penguins are ON to you RED SQUIRREL! :D


I am so on board with this. The thinking that everyone "needs" an online presence is ludicrous. I don't feel the need to tell complete strangers how i am feeling, or tweeting random thoughts like some narcissistic a hole. Basically, my life is BORING, no need to share that same boredom with other people, they SHOULD have their own lives to live.

It's sad that today we have to make fake online presences to fool potential employers and vice versa. It's like a crazy cyber tech scifi novel come true.
 
Knight_of_BAAWA said:
I only have one from work, and I hate it. 5PM---it gets turned off.

It's a huge price--one that I'm unwilling to pay. MyGoogleFaceSpaceBookPlus is nothing but a gigantic waste of time and bandwidth, and I'll be happy when social networking sites die the death they so richly deserve.
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Isn't [H] forums a social networking site, that has been a gigantic waste of time and bandwidth of yours for almost 8 years?

Just playing advocatus diaboli ;)
 
Skripka said:
Isn't [H] forums a social networking site, that has been a gigantic waste of time and bandwidth of yours for almost 8 years?

Just playing advocatus diaboli ;)
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Yet I disagree. I didn't start browsing [H] to be social, I came here for problematic computer hardware solutions . This is an Internet forum dedicated to computer hardware (technology) enthusiasts , no?

I've learned so much from [H], all I learned on FB was that people are stupider than i thought. I've been FB free for close to a year now.
 
spugnor said:
It's sad that today we have to make fake online presences to fool potential employers
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This is the only reason I would ever setup an social networking account.
Next time I need to look for a job I'll likely have to setup an account on Linkedln. :(
 
The quote was stupid, but holy shit, the blatant ignorance and misguided fear of Facebook in this thread is staggering. Not to mention the completely false sense of superiority if you don't use one... there is no :rolleyes: emoticon big enough.
 
I've seen people use Facebook and it reminds of a bunch of high school gossip type stuff. Totally not using that bullshit. Proud non-user of Facebook.
 
MavericK96 said:
The quote was stupid, but holy shit, the blatant ignorance and misguided fear of Facebook in this thread is staggering. Not to mention the completely false sense of superiority if you don't use one... there is no :rolleyes: emoticon big enough.
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+1 million..I actually think it is sorta sad that you are stereo typed for "having a FB account"..Sorta reminds me of the Apple haters around here..

Disclaimer: Yes, I have a FB account. I do not spend my entire life on it, I rarely post anything unless it is of importance. At the time of this posting, I have not logged in over ten days..

Disclaimer #2: I do own an iPod nano that is hiding somewhere in my junk pile..Until Apple changes their way of "I'll sue any other tech company just because we have the money", I will not support them. This does not make me an Apple fan boy.
 
FUCK YES!

I dont have a facebook account because face book and fucking twitter are lame as fuck.
 
OH and Nobody cares about peoples fucking girlfriends.

Its like that fuck twat and his girlfriend in the transformers movie nobody gives a fuck what they are doing get back to the fucking huge alien robots that turn into cars.
 
wow you needed 2 replies to firmly put down facebook.

Facebook = online friends

Before Facebook everyone laughed at you when you said you had friends online. Now you need facebook , for what ? To make Facebook money ?
 
NKDietrich said:
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.
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Pardon me for saying so, but all of this is "el supremo stupido" in the extreme...;) You might want to think about the fact that phony Facebook accounts are even easier to make than the Facebook accounts in which the owner tells the truth about himself. It was revealed the other day that at least 83 million US Facebook accounts are entirely bogus. I'd estimate the actual number to be far higher, especially if you include all of the false/phony/fake information people post to Facebook simply to improve their "profile" among all of the other narcissists with Facebook accounts.

It isn't that you are a hypocrite--it's more like you just haven't thought about any of this to much of a degree. Since the accounts are so easy to fake, people who "trust" Facebook accounts are not hypocrites, they're just a little slow in the cranium department.

Facebook was never designed or set up to be a kind of "social credit bureau" for checking people out as "dating material" or "roommate material," etc. Trying to use the service for that is just plain stupid, imo, and by doing so you are just asking to be swindled.

The proper thing to do for roommates is to get personal references from them with *phone numbers* (not email addresses) so that you can check out the quality of the references and speak to them yourself. And, if you can't explain to a prospective date *why* you don't have a Facebook account, and in the process make her swoon at the depths of your incredible mind, intellectually agile beyond belief, well, maybe it's difficult on the dating front for reasons *other* than whether one has a Facebook account or one doesn't.

The question is not whether I exist if I don't have a Facebook account; the question is rather if Facebook exists if I don't use it. For me, Facebook pretty much just doesn't exist. My wife, however, loves it for family and friends and that sort of thing. But as a "people verifier" or a "truth-telling machine" Facebook is an epic fail.
 
MavericK96 said:
The quote was stupid, but holy shit, the blatant ignorance and misguided fear of Facebook in this thread is staggering. Not to mention the completely false sense of superiority if you don't use one... there is no :rolleyes: emoticon big enough.
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People start foaming at the mouth anytime Facebook is mentioned on [H] ... you eventually get used to it.
 
Linden said:
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!
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LOL!
My wife FaceBooks and reports on me. But I have no use for it at all. She actually says it is ANNOYING because 90% of what is on there is worthless crap; but there are a lot of people that don't call and let you know what is happening anymore. They just assume you read their every work on FB. So to find out what is happening with some of the family members you will only find out that way.
 
I know a number of people that don't have a FB account, several for very good reason - a past with not very nice people that they really don't want any form of contact with, nor do they want to be found and that abuse to possibly start over.

I find it amusing that some folks will post anything and everything about their life (some very very personal) and will get all bent if people comment, or even more bent if they don't comment. Yeah, those types have been removed from the list...
 
TheCAD said:
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.
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Most of what people put on Facebook is not real or greatly exaggerated anyway. You really think Betty makes 95K a year working at Claires as a sales associate after attending MIT for particle physics at age 19? Do you really think I have a 13" staff of justice? Nah, it's all a lie.

I find most of what I read on Facebook and other social networks unbelievable. I label all of it suspicious. Not having one isn't weird or wrong. Some people just don't have a need. I like it because I can be social and say hello without having to call or swing by (which is difficult when they are overseas, deployed and can only say hello every once in a while - when they have time).

I'm a geek, and I've been to Slashdot twice. Once was an accident. That makes some people suspicious. Never saw a need, nor did I find it very informative.

What I find suspicious is when hardcore geeks say they've never heard of [H]ardOCP. WTF?! Living in a cave?! GTFO!
 
Even most of us that aren't fans of the service use it now - it's just practical. The school moms use it for organizing events for the kids, people use it instead of email now, etc.

Actually looking at the news stream these days tends to be useless game invites, stupid gifs and memes, repost/like this if (the new version of email forwards), etc. Which is too bad.

Still, it's like trying to run your life without an email address - it's kind of needed now.

I made a fake FB account for coupons and such...that's the way to keep corporate spam out...that helps a little.
 
Yes put all your information online in a public place, nothing can go wrong with this. Facebook isn't the real issue, it's that people are dumb. Facebook is simply the new vehicle with which idiots can share their idiocy with everyone. And that has ruined Facebook more than Facebook has ruined itself.
 
At least this made me laugh...

A suspicious laugh...
 
MavericK96 said:
The quote was stupid, but holy shit, the blatant ignorance and misguided fear of Facebook in this thread is staggering. Not to mention the completely false sense of superiority if you don't use one... there is no :rolleyes: emoticon big enough.
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But, but... we must mock any IE users, Twilight fans, Facebook or Tumblr usage, etc.!

FB has its problems, but isn't it useful for planning events? I meet new people through social networking (blues dancing).

You can unsub from someone's updates if that person is always vacuous and ignore them.
 
MavericK96 said:
The quote was stupid, but holy shit, the blatant ignorance and misguided fear of Facebook in this thread is staggering. Not to mention the completely false sense of superiority if you don't use one... there is no :rolleyes: emoticon big enough.
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It's not really Facebook that's the problem. Honestly, I doubt that anyone can fault the service provider for having a population of idiots using it. :( They're just a scapegoat because they built the stage where the actors play out their moronic drama with each other.

Yeah you can argue that they intentionally appeal to people who aren't that intelligent so they can easily exploit them and turn their usage of the site into money and while that might be true, Facebook was originally intended for college students. College students are usually pretty much broke because they don't hold down normal jobs and live off loans and parent monies, but they're at least one or two rungs up the human brains ladder. The trouble is that, after a while, all the really, really dumb people started to jump on the bandwagon.

So yeah, I agree. Stop expressing hatred for Facebook and start expressing dislike of clueless idiots that use it. Dislike should be pointed at the actual problem, not the building it sits inside.
 
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