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In reply to the discussion: At What Point Ought Communication Technology Have Frozen Forever? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)I hate Facebook because I'm a deeply introverted person who has no use for a social networking platform that lets people I haven't spoken to in 20 years and never want to again find me; I have no intrinsic need or impulse to share what I happen to be doing at any given moment with friends, acquaintances and strangers, and I find most of what passes for communication on Facebook (or for that matter, on Twitter) to be shallow, banal, and mindless, and not worth my time. If you are the sort of person who enjoys that sort of thing, by all means go ahead.
I rarely use a mobile phone either and really only have one for emergencies. If I want to get in touch with the people I care enough about to want to (who I can count on my fingers and toes), there's email, and instant messengers, and the phone, and any number of ways that don't require Facebook, at all.