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

[PapaG]

Its because they have Twitter accounts instead. Twitter is more hip I guess for the younger crowd?

Twitter is basically just the status update for Facebook. I actually find people that have Twitter accounts to be more self-absorbed than the FB people. I dumped teh Twits a month after joining. It was stupid to me. My friends were wasting my time with their Tweets, and I had no way of screening the Tweets without dumping them.

Yippie, I went to Clm Jmpr for lunch and it wuz gud.

 

[julius]

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.

if I never talk on the phone again in my life, I'll be ok with it. I'm more of an email/message type person.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Well thank god I'm 36 so I made the cut and don't have to worry about that fucking pile of shite.

FWIW, I had an account but probably checked it once every 6 months, I turned down friend requests from anybody but family members, and even then I never replied to them much either.

Other than the apparent fact that I'm an antisocial asshole, I can't quite put my finger on why I hate it so much ... only that I do hate it to the very fiber of my being.

 

[MARIS61]

Any form of "personal connection" that allows businesses to join is useless to me.

I have a phone, I have email, and I use the US Postal Service almost daily. My investigative skills are such that finding anyone I want to find no matter where they are in the world has never been a challenge.

Mostly, I'm a face-to-face kind of guy, and the people I know but seldom see don't have the time or interest to join facebook either.

 

[barfo]

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.

A million years ago people used to sneer at talking to somebody. If you want to connect with someone, feed them, fuck them, or kill them.

barfo

 

[Minstrel]

Facebook is rather trite and stupid. If you want to connect meaningfully, obviously you use Google+.

 

[jlprk]

Facebook's smear campaign against Google--paying PR firms to pay off journalists to run negative articles

http://www.pcworld.com/article/227722/facebook_fingered_in_google_smear_campaign.html

 

[3RA1N1AC]

i think it would be great if everybody stopped using facebook all at once, and they were worth nothing overnight

 

[mook]

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.

I'm actually pretty much the same. The thing I hate most about telephones is the way somebody else can use the device to barge into your life and demand you talk to them, just because it's convenient for them. Sure there is voice mail, but the socially acceptable response to the phone call is to answer it unless you have a pressing reason not to.

Fuck that. You call me, you leave a message. I'll call back when I'm good and ready to. And if you feel the same, well, then let's take it to email/messaging, or let's just see each other face-to-face at a prescribed time.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

i think it would be great if everybody stopped using facebook all at once, and they were worth nothing overnight

myspace.com
friendster.com

I am of the belief that Facebook will not exist in 10 years.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

myspace.com
friendster.com

I am of the belief that Facebook will not exist in 10 years.

yeah but overnight would be great, all those dorks worth nothing