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Re: Who here is not on Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, etc.?

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles And why?

Because they're crap.

oh god wtf is Orkut? I'm not going to join until it becomes unpopular.

Me. Because I think it's retarded. If I want to talk to my friends I call them. And I don't need to tell everyone on the whole fucking internet that DJ Sammy is my favorite artists and that I like sunny days and having fun and hate bad weather and liars.
I've seen grown up people with a respectable job who wanted to show me their fucking farm on facebook. I never want to turn into such an idiot.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Me. I have real friends. If someone cant be bothered to pick up a phone, drop round or shoot me an email, then it was never meant to be.

How about friends and family who live on the other side of the world?

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Originally posted by Fledz How about friends and family who live on the other side of the world?

As we all know "the other side of the world" is Australia. No matter where you actually live, the other side is always Australia. And no one worth liking lives there.

Edit: The obvious exception are Australians. For them the other side of the world is Austria.

The fact that you made a joke betrays the fact that you have no answer because you know I'm right.

People seem to think all Facebook is used for is updating statuses and conversing with people you could just meet up with, but they forget the incredibly useful and practical application of keeping in touch with people that you have little hope of actually seeing in person or even calling any time soon.

I've never been on a single social networking site simply because I see it as a massive waste of time and yet another pointless distraction. Although vast majority of my friends has a facebook account, I've never felt social pressure to join the site nor do I feel like I'm missing something important.

I think social networking nurtures human obsession to be up to date with everything right here right now; isn't enough that we're bombarded with worldwide news on a daily basis, we now must know what our so-called "friends" are up to, however trivial it may be. Of course, it all begins with human's desire to share the oh so relevant news with "the world" in shortest time possible, which ensures that everyone involved stays in the circle jerk for as long as possible.

It seems that technology helps to hide our growing distance from each other and ourselves. Consider how many of us are desperate for human contact yet will phone, text, chat and blog rather than walk outside and meet the neighbor we�ve been living next to for the past 4 years and don�t even know by name.

Have you ever heard about E-Mail? Or Skype?

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Originally posted by Meat187 Have you ever heard about E-Mail? Or Skype?

What benefits does email offer over Facebook?
How convenient is Skype really for all parties involved?

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Originally posted by Fledz What benefits does email offer over Facebook?

Well when I log into my email for one I don't have to see a bunch of gay drunken Mexicans updating their status in Spanish. So that's good for me.

I am not on any of them, and never have been. There are a number of reasons why, but the big one is that I just don't see any utility in them.

Even if they were modestly useful, however, they would pose problems. I'm a private person, so I really can't imagine sharing much information on them, and if I were going to then I would have to sharply limit access, which would entail awkwardly refusing to add people as friends and so forth. It's a mess I'd really rather not get involved with.

Further, I prefer to compartmentalize my various friends, family, and associates. The last thing I want is some kind of clearinghouse of information about myself and my personal relationships where everyone I know can see everyone else I know and is privy to some of our online interactions.

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Originally posted by Fledz How about friends and family who live on the other side of the world?

for sure, but neither of those really apply to me; no relatives i care about and my friends never stay away long enough to really warrant me stalking them online. i dont really need an internet alert every time somebody's new child rolls in their own shit. if the shit is that memorable and newsworthy, you can attach a pic to an email or send me a text.

i think i'll succumb eventually though. but im holding out til its actually required. i waste enough time online already.

I'm on facebook. I just recently deleted my myspace, fuck myspace lol.

If you think that various governments don't monitor the Web and social media, you're ill informed.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06...-For-Terrorists

http://search.slashdot.org/story/10...On-the-Internet

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06...rest-In-England

Of course they do. Any national security agency that doesn't monitor social websites is a shit agency. It's got little to do with controlling people like some of you morons think and more to do with security.

Oh, I'm not saying it's all Orwellian Nightmare (TM) type shit. Just saying they do in fact keep tabs on some people via teh Webz.

On facebook for events and keeping up with long distance family/friends. Also on twitter for the news.

If you deleted your facebook account due to privacy, what the fuck where you putting on your profile that you did not want people to see?

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Originally posted by leph555 If you deleted your facebook account due to privacy, what the fuck where you putting on your profile that you did not want people to see?

There were other reasons, too. I was getting little use out of it. The people I really wanted to be in contact with, I already communicated with through other means. It also irked me a little that I never had any fun photos like other people, and almost no one wrote anything to me. Vanity!

I probably still would not be on Facebook today if it weren't for my half sister - whom I found and got in contact with through the site.

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Originally posted by jennypie I probably still would not be on Facebook today if it weren't for Jay - who was so nice to create a profile for me.

Fixed.

I have only a facebook profile and I hate that thing. Unfortunately, I need that profile to keep in touch with some relatives who are in USA and also some business contacts. Apart from that, I hate it because, first, there is too much crap information like who has found a pink cow in his/her farm or needs some help in a mafia war, and, second, it turns too much into a gossip place and sometimes I can't resist (which I hate about myself) to look someones profile and (mostly) her activity.

You can turn all that shit off and block applications, etc., you know.

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Originally posted by Arbiter Further, I prefer to compartmentalize my various friends, family, and associates. The last thing I want is some kind of clearinghouse of information about myself and my personal relationships where everyone I know can see everyone else I know and is privy to some of our online interactions.

you make a good point here. i limit what i say on facebook pretty significantly because i don't think it should be used for sharing information about myself that isn't already public knowledge. that being said, i do still find it useful to keep track of friends who i don't always have time to talk on the phone with or don't reply to emails. it's better to see a periodic photo of their kid on facebook than to talk to them only once a year.

i have been meaning to join linked in because it seems like a respectable professional networking site. i know a few people who got pretty good jobs from it while not looking for a job, and i have been invited to groups on it from several vendors that i work with. i think it might actually be a good tool.

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