People (under 35) who DON'T have a facebook account?

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EL PRESIDENTE

EL PRESIDENTE

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Can you trust them at all? Or are they too mysterious/creepy/private?
 
Mediocre Man said:
Or they simply have a life
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nope. its strange and weird for people who grew up around tech and computers and email to not have one. its almost if one has to go out of their way NOT to have a facebook account for this demographic.
 
I don't have one... and I live and work in Silicon Valley (under the age of 30 too).
 
blazerboy30 said:
I don't have one... and I live and work in Silicon Valley (under the age of 30 too).
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too cool for school?

don't want people "knowing your biz"?

don't understand the need to connect online with people?
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
too cool for school?

don't want people "knowing your biz"?

don't understand the need to connect online with people?
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A couple reasons:

1) I don't feel the need to show everybody my business, and I figure that they won't care about 95% of it anyway, so why waste my time? The people that I think would want to know my biz will already know, whether I'm on FB or not.
2) If you want to stay in contact with me, do it. But don't pretend to be my friend because you send out mass invites to hundreds of people at a time.
 
blazerboy30 said:
A couple reasons:

1) I don't feel the need to show everybody my business, and I figure that they won't care about 95% of it anyway, so why waste my time? The people that I think would want to know my biz will already know, whether I'm on FB or not.
2) If you want to stay in contact with me, do it. But don't pretend to be my friend because you send out mass invites to hundreds of people at a time.
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I don't do that. I am only friends with people I really know and am friends with in real life. I think it is a great way to keep in touch with people and see what's going on in their lives. I love see my close friends pics from vacations and stuff like that. Just wondering, are you a quiet and shy person? Were you or are you very social?
 
HCP said:
I don't do that. I am only friends with people I really know and am friends with in real life. I think it is a great way to keep in touch with people and see what's going on in their lives. I love see my close friends pics from vacations and stuff like that. Just wondering, are you a quiet and shy person? Were you or are you very social?
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To me it doesn't have anything to do with being shy or social. It is just an odd media for some things that people use it for. Pictures I can understand. But you have been able to do that with Picasa for quite awhile. Other people have announced deaths and births and those sort of things on FB before actually telling their extremely close group of friends or family, and that strikes me as strange.

It strikes me as a crutch for people to psuedo stay in touch with people without actually having to put in effort of being a real friend.
 
The type of person who would announce things like that on facebook are dumbasses whether they are on facebook or not.
 
blazerboy30 said:
To me it doesn't have anything to do with being shy or social. It is just an odd media for some things that people use it for. Pictures I can understand. But you have been able to do that with Picasa for quite awhile. Other people have announced deaths and births and those sort of things on FB before actually telling their extremely close group of friends or family, and that strikes me as strange.

It strikes me as a crutch for people to psuedo stay in touch with people without actually having to put in effort of being a real friend.
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I like it to digitally show how large my cawk is.
 
I had facebook 4 years ago but quickly deactivated it after too many people were creeping my shit. Does that count?

The way I see it is, if I wanted to contact you, I'd simply call/bbm/skype you.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
nope. its strange and weird for people who grew up around tech and computers and email to not have one. its almost if one has to go out of their way NOT to have a facebook account for this demographic.
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In a way, that would be its appeal to me if I were under 35.
 
blazerboy30 said:
I knew I had forgotten point number 3 of why I'm not on Facebook.
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Find me on facebook man. I'll say hi, I promise. I have already made an exception for a couple of these S2 geeks already.
 
Are there like rules of facebook that say if you have an account you have to open the world up to your entire life? Because I have an account and you can learn almost nothing about me by looking at it, besides what I look like. I am not the kind of person that enjoys sharing shit with people, but I couldn't imagine not having an active facebook account to stay in some sort of contact with people you don't normally run into to.
 
blazerboy30 said:
It strikes me as a crutch for people to psuedo stay in touch with people without actually having to put in effort of being a real friend.
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There's some truth to that. However, FB also puts you in touch with people that you would otherwise never be able to reach. I've re-connected with old friends I used to work with years ago on a cruise ship, who now live in Europe and other parts of the world, and I'd never have seen them again if it weren't for FB.
 
Nate Dogg said:
Its because they have Twitter accounts instead. Twitter is more hip I guess for the younger crowd?
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Tumblr is. its more graphic/creative.


Twitter is for news mainly. and has anonymity.
 
A hundred years ago people used to sneer at the telephone. If you want to talk to somebody, go visit them and see them face to face. It's impersonal bullshit to think you can really connect with somebody over a wire.
 
mook said:
A hundred years ago people used to sneer at the telephone. If you want to talk to somebody, go visit them and see them face to face. It's impersonal bullshit to think you can really connect with somebody over a wire.
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I really don't like the telephone. I'd rather talk to someone in person or chat or send messages...

Telephones aren't visual, and I think (whether it's body language or emoticons) vision is too large of a part of communication to be excluded comfortably altogether.

Ed O.
 
mook said:
A hundred years ago people used to sneer at the telephone. If you want to talk to somebody, go visit them and see them face to face. It's impersonal bullshit to think you can really connect with somebody over a wire.
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And there is a reason we didn't stop at the invention of a telephone. We've created video conferencing and people still travel to visit and for business meetings.
 
HCP said:
Find me on facebook man. I'll say hi, I promise. I have already made an exception for a couple of these S2 geeks already.
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Nah, now you know that I'm cooler than you, HCP!
 
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