Facebook - I Refuse

[Jack_Dawson]

I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on earth who refuses to create a Facebook profile. When will I want to relinquish all my privacy?

I do have to Twitter for work so there's that...

:beer:

Edited because of grammatical horror - thx Slampoet

[Solly Mack]

1. Sure enough to make a wager? :)

[NightWatcher]

2. you've got to create one so you can play Farmtown and Mafia Wars

as far as teh privacy thing is concerned, I think that if anyone wants anyone else's info there are a million other places they can find it. We are all too exposed already.

[Donnachaidh]

6. don't forget vampire wars and yoville

level 34 farmer ;-)

[NightWatcher]

10. dude, I'm only a 22...got to go plow

:rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

71. the key to fast leveling is raspberries and grapes

and yes, I'm an addict :rofl:

[redwitch]

116. wnat to be my neighbor?

Level 29 here. What a timesucker farmtown is!

[maryellen99]

7. I like yoville and farmville nt

[pipi_k]

24. OK how pathetic is this...

I actually arrange my time so I can work in the widget factory three times a day. I only hope I don't get so obsessive I wake up at 2 AM to weave cloth or whatever the hell my job is there... Well one good thing about it...at least the Widget boss doesn't look over my shoulder...ha ha

And Farmville...yeah...there's something satisfying about harvesting different kinds of crops. Saved up a bunch of money and bought a barn the other day....wheeeeeee!!!!!!!!! :7

[WolverineDG]

36. I plan my day around spinning Mandy's Wheel in Vampire Wars

;)

[pipi_k]

41. Do you get all antsy when it's getting time to do it and you can't?

I'm like, "Get the hell outta my way!!! I have to GO TO WORK at the factory!!!"

Like a little cartoon guy is gonna kick my little cartoon person in the ass and fire her...


This is serious business we're up to here...

:7

[WolverineDG]

95. toss a water balloon at him if he does

;)

:rofl:

dg

[pipi_k]

31. Oh wait, I forgot....Farkle!!!!!

I have a love/hate relationship with that game....

[Lex]

101. My weakness is Bejeweled Blitz.

nt

[pipi_k]

103. I see lots of the ladies playing that...will have to check it out someday n/t

[Dappleganger]

28. Sure do!

Which is why I have a fake profile for online presence and another one for my family and friends.

[realisticphish]

117. ditto

I feel like an enormous dork, but it lets me have 300+ friends without cluttering my real profile with strangers

[dog_lovin_dem]

66. LOL!

I just recently became a facebook member to keep in touch with my niece. Within 3 days I became a FarmTown addict....Love it! I also have a pretty nice zoo going.

[Scout]

72. I love FarmVille! I'm addicted.... haven't tried Mafia Wars or YoVille yet.... n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

73. Yep, FarmTown, Mafia Wars, Pirate Wars (arrgggh) and Dragon Wars

are all great.

I have to go log in now.

[WolverineDG]

98. Did I hear Pirate Wars?

:)

What about Vamp Wars???

Or the new one, Uno! (god help me)

dg

[yellowdogintexas]

107. to quote a young friend of mine "Curse FaceBook and their Many Games"

LOL

I love Pirate Wars.

[Ignis]

78. I feel like a lab rat, addicted to Mafia Wars.

Press button, earn food pellet. Repeat at regular intervals.

[trueblue2007]

91. I'm on Farmtown. Farmer Pat

Level 29

[trueblue2007]

92. I also play Sorority Life..... (LOL, I am one)

[dog_lovin_dem]

132. Level 27 here.

Farmer Linny...:D

[conscious evolution]

115. I would rather be a for real revolutionary

then a wannabe mobster.
Thats my standard answer to those that try to get me into mafia wars on fb.

Someone asked what the purpose of the games you can sign onto is and someone answered "The purpose is to give spammers your e-mail address and profile info"

[flor de jasmim]

3. No, you're not alone. I refuse to do Facebook or twitter. For the same reason.

[slampoet]

4. "When will I want to do give away all my privacy?"

English type do not very well you.

[Robb]

11. ...

[reflection]

34. .

:rofl: :rofl:

[Robb]

5. I also have no MyFace pages.

Doesn't seem to have hurt me any. :shrug:

[mdmc]

8. I have a friend that refuses as well

another buddy made a "Force Deck to join Facebook" fb group. The group has over 100 members.

[Auggie]

9. I just created one and immediately got involved in an argument

over health insurance reform with a repuke.

[krabigirl]

18. That place is crawling with repukes.

[Posteritatis]

38. It's almost as though there's nearly two hundred million people there

And no, that's not hyperbole.

The place is going to be crawling with anything any collection of people that big will have.

[pipi_k]

45. Half of them are hanging around the "Furniture Store" in Yoville

waiting to play Rock, Paper, Scissors or Tic Tac Toe with unsuspecting shoppers

[SoCalNative]

12. that's cute

you're on the internet and you have some delusion that you actually have any privacy left.

[maxsolomon]

13. my sister feels the same way

it's not so scary, and i've reconnected with people i care about.

[Cant trust em]

14. I don't understand all of the paranoia about Facebook.

It's up to you to use it however you want. It's not like they force you to post your SSN or anything.

[pipi_k]

30. Very true!

It's as private or as public as people want to make it.

Some people post every. single. boring. detail. of their lives.

"Work today" "Came home" "Had baloney sandwich"

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..... :boring:


then there are the ones who post cryptic messages. Like..."People really need to lighten up"


then there's the classmates from High School nearly 40 years ago that you don't even remember but they figure they'll be your friend because you both went to the same school. You each know you're not gonna ever say two words to each other, but what the hell...

the best ones are the family fights. I have a bunch of cousins I've never met but hey, we have the same last name, so what the hell...anyway, it's sort of amusing to see the family feuds going on in a distant part of the family that I don't have to deal with.

Anyway, you're right...people can be as public or private as they want. I like going there for the games and virtual shopping sprees on Yoville.

:7

[Cant trust em]

37. The cryptic ones are the best, IMO.

I have no nostalgia for high school. One of those people just sends me crappy corporate networking event invitations. I wonder what percentage of these people I'd still have something in common with and what percentage have become conservative or just plain boring.

[pipi_k]

49. Hahahahah!!! Do you sit and ponder the meaning of the cryptic ones?

I do sometimes.

I can't really say I'm all that nostalgic about High School either, especially since I was not one of the "cool" kids.

Although it did give my poor ego a bit of a boost when one of the "cool" girls sent me a friend request and actually does communicate with me. Turns out she's a lot nicer 40 years later than I thought she was in school...

:)

[Cant trust em]

52. My current status is

Josh Low is getting out of the life. Mafia Wars is an offer he could refuse.


Status updates should be people's way to show off their creativity, not just report on their recent happenings.

[Posteritatis]

40. I managed to miss most of the wackier drama

Most of my friends aren't into that though, aside from one tangential one who's the type that has multiple chihuahuas to match her purses. (I'm not kidding.)

I use mine as a combination of tertiary email account and Weird URL Storage Device. I like posting a couple of odd links there every day or so for the sake of raising eyebrows; the reactions can be fun.

[pipi_k]

51. OK I would say that chihuahua lady sounds a bit like one of my sisters

except she's the type to put the dogs in the purse (along with her bottle of Kahlua) and dress the poor things up in stupid little chihuahua outfits. She's got two of those little rat-dogs, may All Powerful Dog have mercy on them...she would have made a rotten mother to a human child; she's an even worse one to animals....

[Posteritatis]

54. That rings a bell

Oh, the purses are chihuahua carriers. This one treats them well - hell, probably treats them too well; you know how neurotic chihuahuas can get - but it just leaves me sitting there, looking at those, looking at another friend's rough collie, and marveling that the two things are part of the same species.

I dunno, I think I'll always understand Kids These Days or the new tech fads or whatever else far more easily than I'll ever understand some dog breeds. ;)

[pipi_k]

104. You know what I found out recently about dogs?

and this sort of surprised me...

It was on "Life After People", which is one of the Discovery or Science channel shows...anyway, what they said was that without human interference/presence, dogs would go feral and all would end up looking pretty much the same eventually...about the size of a Whippet, and around 35 lbs.

[Posteritatis]

109. That makes sense; that's close to the ancestral form

With that in mind it's probably hypocritical of me to consider collies or labs to be more "real dogs" compared to chihuahuas or the like, but oh well. ;)

I still need to see that show one of these days. Discovery in Canada suuuuuuucks, so we don't get the fun shows.

[Posteritatis]

44. It's not a very tech-literate crowd here

There was this huge bout of pants-wetting paranoia here about a week or go when people found out that Web cookies exist and started howling about the fourth amendment or what-have-you. If someone has even a fraction of a clue about basic web security, doesn't volunteer things they don't want to volunteer, and reads their terms of service on sites to know what they're getting into, they don't have much to worry about.

Since the TOS change debacle some months back, Facebook's going farther out of its way to be open about how it deals with privacy/content issues than I've ever seen a site like that go, too. I dunno how well their approach will work in the longrun, but I like some of the stuff they're trying and give them props for even the attempt.

[redqueen]

47. Good Lord... cookies?

I wish you were joking.

[Posteritatis]

48. I wish I was too

The short version is that people are confusing them with keyloggers.

ACLU's throwing a gale-force tantrum over their existence, people were acting like Obama's going to use them to steal all our privacy, etc. It was more than a little sad.

[redqueen]

50. LOL

Okay, at first it seemed sad, but the way you just described it... Obama stealing all our privacy... that makes it sound more funny. :)

[Posteritatis]

53. No reason it can't be both!

I just really wish people would use something other than the media or press releases as their source of information about insert-technology-here. It just isn't that difficult, and most things in either format tend to just be FUD these days. On the other hand, the ACLU's the one that was making "these are really keylogger" type claims, and if someone thinks it's intrinsically Republican to ever disagree with a word they say... agh.

I'd be less depressed about it here (DU's average age is close to twice my own, going by a couple of polls I'd seen) if I didn't run into even worse silliness in my graduate school classes last year. Sigh.

[redqueen]

58. Ageism!

;)

Seriously though, it is very disappointing that the ACLU didn't get their facts straight first... and I know just what you mean about questioning 'sacred' orgs. Bah.

[Posteritatis]

63. Touche!

I find the age distribution here fascinating, really; it causes a fairly impressively different perspective here than a lot of other forums I'm around on, and is one of the reasons I stick around. It's just a wee bit more depressing when most of the students in my digital history class were self-described luddites actively offended at having to learn about technology.

I really get the impression that that was a case of not wanting to get facts straight; it's easier to extrapolate to the absolute worst case scenario, decide that's what's going on, and go apewire based on it. I've been around the net in one way or another since '92, and that really seems to be the default attitude when one group or another decides to react to something on it. Of course, there's some drooling optimism at the other extreme that I'm hardly innocent of, but I do wish when it came to technology people would put at least a tenth of the amount of fact-checking energy that they pour into your average forwarded email before going off.

[redqueen]

70. Well said...

re: the energy that is spent checking forwarded emails.


Also downthread, re: y'know, the internet. :rofl:

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Oh yeah? Well I refuse to use the internet! So there!

In fact, I live in a yurt and refuse to communicate by any means other than smoke signals.

[Atman]

16. That's absolutely silly. I've found the benefits far outweigh any privacy risk.

I have reconnected with family and friends I haven't seen for years. You don't have to give ANY information about yourself if you don't want to. And it's not actually public information...it's only available to those in your network of friends, so supposedly they'll know most of this info already anyway. I know a lot of people don't like to Facebook just out of contrariness. It's cool to be a Luddite. I'm not one of those people. I don't fear technology.

.

[krabigirl]

17. I hate Facebook. So many right wing polls on there. But I do have an account.

I don't use it very much, though.

[Strong Atheist]

19. I am too lazy to jump through the hoops to get an email address, a pre-requisite to

something like that...

[seabeyond]

20. i refused too. friend pressured me into checking out her face book. so i registered

and looked, so what... and went on with life. you KNOW what happens.

they know you went in, they start hounding you to write something on some wall or something, they nag nag nag and say what fun it is and then... complete strangers you dont know send you a "you are a friend of so and so" who wants you to chat, and you dont even know her

get on the hubby's face whatever. and dont know the man

pressures

i should have just stayed away

now

they are gonna think i am a bitch or something cause i wont put something on some wall

[Lars39]

21. Sounds like Junior high, doesn't it.

:D

[seabeyond]

35. lol, exactly. yes.... that is what it is. thanks.

and i dont want to play. so funny. i have these emails they sent me sittin there. waiting for me to get in mood to be.... oh what?, nice. lol. going on three weeks now. i am so bad.

[Lars39]

62. I haven't signed up either...

nice to know they can tell if you go there or not. They'll get over it when the next shiny new friend comes along...just like in Junior High. lol

[redqueen]

43. I'm not seeing all the drama. I joined to see my sister's page.

I check it now and then... it's no big deal.

I guess you have different kinds of friends than I do. That sounds fucking weird.

[seabeyond]

57. except none of them are friends. the gal who started it all.... she works at the eye doctors

office we go to.

hubby fixes their computers. more acquaintances, lol lol.

[redqueen]

59. Aha...

I only have my sister and a few friends from here on... don't use it very much at all.

[enlightenment]

22. You HAVE to Twitter for work?

Why?

[Jack_Dawson]

113. PR

Yep. search.twitter.com what are people saying about us? That part is actually kinda fun.

[BlooInBloo]

23. You're sooooo independent. *yawn*

[Jack_Dawson]

26. Don't hate - appreciate

:toast:

[reflection]

25. I won't do it either. Not a chance.

I'm too accessible already.

[malaise]

27. I have neither

and have no plan of changing.

[beac]

29. Neither a Facebooker nor a Twitterer, I.

Hell, I don't even blog.

My cell phone is over three years old too.

But so far I have never exorted anyone to be gone from my house-surrounding grass, so I'm hoping I'm not a hopeless old git yet.

[Hepburn]

32. No facebook here either.

But...I do love some of the people that use it ~~ case in point: I was looking to serve someone and I found his home address cuz of the info his wife posted about herself.

:hi:

[HillWilliam]

33. I refused for the longest time, then lightening zapped my server

where I kept my wedding albums. As a last (free) resort, rather than running out and buying another server, I transferred all my wedding albums from backups to FB. Once I learned how to block all the sillyass pillowfights and hugs and kisses and farmville and yoville and ... well, crappage that FB throws at you, I found I could use it to my advantage. There are about a hundred privacy switches you have to learn to (1) find and (2) set, but once you've got them lined up ("view as another user" is your friend!) you can be about as private as you wish.

I figure, I'm already here, I mezzwell go 'head on. The up-side is I reconnected with a lot of my buds from the old DNC KA blog who also left when the mods quit modding.

[ismnotwasm]

39. I didn't refuse

I just don't have time for it. I started, then put all the names in a folder and forgot my password. Maybe someday. I'm considering Myspace, and since it's I hear it's low end, my peeps are probably all there anyway.

[redqueen]

42. Uh... good for you?

:wtf:

[NeedleCast]

46. Why?

I'm always baffled by people who feel the need to explain why they reject a certain bit of technology. On the flip side of that coin, I'm almost never baffled that they post something idiotic in regard to that technology. Why do you think creating a FaceBook account requires that you relinquish all your privacy?

[pipi_k]

55. Oh, so anyway, back to the topic at hand...

Not only do I have a Facebook page, but my two German Shepherds do too.


I told Mr Pip that I'll be pretty insulted if they end up having more friends than I do...


:7

[hlthe2b]

61. Maybe that's my solution... set up a page for my doggy girl...

Thanks for the thought...

[pipi_k]

105. One of my friends set up a page for her pet rabbit...

it's so nice when our pets can all be buddies...

:7

[hlthe2b]

56. Me too.... and for the same reasons...

And, I ignore all those who send me a "be my friend" request (or whatever the hell it is called...I know this has pissed people off, but one can't even respond to these replies without creating a damned profile.

I'm old school. I STILL worry about identity theft, invasion of privacy, or simply being misunderstood because by however many see and misinterpret something on my profile. I know that is not an "in-vogue" opinion, as I guess we are all supposed to post every friggin detail of our lives, complete with horrendously embarrassing photos/videos. :eyes:

[NeedleCast]

60. I love these hysterical, over the top anti-(insert technology here) screeds

As if there is some FaceBook Fairy that comes along and posts all these pictures, details and other minutia about your life. If it "pisses people off" that you don't accept a friend request, they're not your friends.

"I'm old school." Yeah, refusing to have a FaceBook account sure makes you the original gangsta. Keep it real.

[Posteritatis]

64. I'm a fan of the fact that they're so vehement about it on, y'know, the internet (nt)

[Jack_Dawson]

67. It's *OK* to follow trends...

don't be so defensive! Where would we be w/o acid wash jeans and Atari? Sall good. :toast:

[hlthe2b]

76. curious, though... why do you have to "twitter" at work?

How are you using it if you don't mind me asking?

[Jack_Dawson]

114. In two words, PR

Someone *else* handles the FB stuff.

:toast:

[BlooInBloo]

68. It's all good. They can go to their graves muttering about their illusory phantasms...

They're not hurting anybody with their false superiority, watching the world pass them by and not recognizing it.

[hlthe2b]

75. You know, everything I do in terms of work is based on the latest

technology, from communications and computer applications to diagnostic and therapeutic technology. I could not do what I do without it as in my line of work I am one of those on call 24/7 and have been for the past 10 years. What I don't have to do is adopt every faddish social networking tool that comes along. To each his own. Enjoy. I have no problem with that.

So, your assumptions are a major FAIL. I am not superior, just selective and I hardly think the world is passing me by if I elect to pass on facebook.

[BlooInBloo]

80. Ah. So you're not "old school". My apologies for believing a word you said.

[hlthe2b]

84. Only from the standpoint of protecting my privacy...

Civil discourse, BinB? It is really not that hard.

[hlthe2b]

69. Perhaps if you get off facebook and twitter for just a second...

you can post a reply that is coherent. Why, pray tell, would you equate "old school" (i.e., old fashioned) with "gangsta," except to use a ridiculous term to try and make yourself sound "hip."

It is these kinds of ridiculous discussions I prefer to avoid. Facebook is full of this crap. Thanks for making my point, though.


Oh, and you might take to heart the fact that many people find the constant "friend me" requests to be fairly pathetic and intrusive--sort of like the friggin chain letter emails someone in the office always finds it necessary to send to five zillion people in and out of the workplace.

[NeedleCast]

77. Old School has a whole separate connotation and I assumed you knew that

I'll stand by the coherency of my post though, as several others seemed to understand it perfectly and without clarification.

I'd say, on average, I spend zero to five minutes a day on Facebook and/or Twitter. As I've said in the past, both tools are simply that...tools. Facebook and Twitter are an easy, fast way to inform people of things. I use them to let people know I may be doing something social. I used them to do grass roots organization for Obama. Your screed that I originally replied to indicates you have either no clue at all how either tool works, or you're being intentionally obtuse. You pick.

[hlthe2b]

85. No....

And your incoherency stands apparently. Childish use of the term "old school." Very juvenile.

But since you are so concerned, I am exposed to twitter--as well as most of the other emerging communication and social networking tools. I stand by my issues with Facebook and the annoying way in which those who use it expect everyone else to do so. Enjoy, but stop thrusting this crap on everyone else.

[Skittles]

141. YOU KNOW IT, HLTHE2B

I refuse all friends requests - if you need me for something, contact me you lazy fuck

[DutchLiberal]

65. If I had *have* to Twitter for my job, I'd quit.

And find a job with a company that's run by mature people.

[NeedleCast]

79. Obama's Campaign Used Twitter Very Successfully

I'm sure they're just a bunch of children though.

Way to take a moral stand against absolutely nothing though.

[DutchLiberal]

81. I don't care. I still think it's childish.

And so are people who force their employees to use it.

[Posteritatis]

88. No mere fact can convince you, eh? (nt)

[DutchLiberal]

131. Which facts? I believe it was successful in Obama's campaign, yes.

Does that mean I *must* like it?

[Jack_Dawson]

135. I think I inadvertently started this...

While I, too, think Twitter is stupid, it's a fact of life (as is Facebook which I've somehow avoided) if you work in PR. :beer:

[Codeine]

129. Twitter is childish

but posting on a message board isn't? What, pray tell, is the substantive difference? What elevates this post over any comparable Tweet?

[DutchLiberal]

133. As I've understood it, Twitter is used to 'follow' people...

...to keep up what they're doing, and to let other people know what you're doing. How childish is it to need that much attention, to let other people know when you're going out, watching a film or taking a dump? Who cares anyway?

A message board like this is designed to discuss current events, politics etc. We can have lengthy debates and we can exchange arguments. Somehow I don't think that's anything like Twitter. Or are you here to know what I've been up to today?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

140. I follow The Nation, Rachel Maddow, Rails-to-Trails, and the local indie paper...

to name a few, not people who announce they've taken a dump. I thought it was idiotic once, too, but after giving it a try, find the newsfeed a useful resource.

[yellowdogintexas]

74. all of us who have FaceBook need to DU the 'would you vote for Obama again?

poll. The one with the awful photoshopped pic of him with a cig dangling from his mouth.

It is way too heavily freeped.

[TahitiNut]

82. Do you have any problem with cordless and cell phones that broadcast everything you say?

I regard the concerns about privacy to be strangely compartmentalized ... and too focused on the devices rather than those who do the collection and exploitation.

[hlthe2b]

89. You were not asking me.. but I'll weigh in on your question

nonetheless. Yes, I am cautious about what I say on all forms of verbal communication and on the internet. I don't hold any illusions that someone somewhere can find far more out about me than I like. Bush destroyed any illusions of electronic privacy. Yet, I don't make it any easier for them than I have to.

Identity theft all but destroyed several friends of mine. It is highly stressful trying to get it all straightened out, time consuming, and often only temporary. One colleague of mine had a recurrence of issues 8 years later and had to repeat all the steps she'd taken before. I know the stress of it all and the credit report hassles and bank flags attributed to at least one divorce in my circle of friends. It is sort of like being on the "no fly" list-- nothing you do every really removes you permanently in terms of all residue...

Would I like to be able to connect with friends I may have lost contact with decades ago. Yes, I suppose. Perhaps I will embrace Facebook or its successor when I feel there are some protections in place. Until then, caveat emptor (even if it is "free')

[proud patriot]

83. I'm on face book waging a battle on the Health care polls

see sigline please vote

[rucky]

87. All my crazy RW friends are coming out of the woodwork.

I've been sparring nonstop with them and their disinfo. I've been unfriended 4 times in the past 2 days.

[WolverineDG]

96. I've defriended a few asshats already

for some reason, I don't know why, they got all upset because I kept calling them stupid.

dg

[yellowdogintexas]

108. voted. nt

[dog_lovin_dem]

134. Thanks proud patriot!

I just gave my vote and response to the quiz. Had a bit of a debate with an opponent as well. I'm feeling pretty good right now!

[rucky]

86. My brother won't, either.

So I end up having to send messages to our mutual friends on his behalf. It's getting old.

[Jack_Dawson]

111. What about...email?

I mean, if I have to talk to a "friend", I'll just email them. Can your brother do *that* much? :-)

[rucky]

124. How archaic!

I usually ping my friends to get updated contact info for my brother.

[Holly_Hobby]

90. I refuse too...the last thing I want is for people from my past

to find me. If I wanted to talk to them, I'd be talking to them.

[lies and propaganda]

93. FARMTOWN Unite!

i adore that so many of us have them!

Mine is a winery, Im a level 16... I spout liberal shit all day long, so if anyone wants to add a fellow DU'er, just send me a message..we can be neighbors!

[anigbrowl]

94. So what?

I mean, really, so what? Nobody's making you sign up. For that matter, you can put as much or as little information on your facebook profile as you choose. Mine has hardly any on it, and I only check it occasionally. It's mostly a handy way to send out an email to 60 or 70 friends at once without setting off a spam alert. I can think of a ton of conventional activities I choose not to participate in, but I don't think they're worthy of an announcement. Not being snarky, but am I missing something here?

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

97. You will be assimilated.

Resistance is futile.

I don't have an account either. Someday when they develop an anti-social network, well, then, I'll be all over that. I'll be unfriending people left and right.

[hlthe2b]

99. ....

:rofl:



:toast:

[bikebloke]

100. I used a nom de guerre.

And keep all my personal information out. Primarily, to pimp my photo/videos. To get eyeballs, sometimes you have to circumvent the Hollywood machine.

Most of my friends are DUers.

[Lex]

102. People felt that way about telephones too.

Not cell phones. Telephones.

[t0dd]

106. Same here

but not for privacy concerns. I just think it is a waste of time. People I want to talk to I talk to in person. It's that simple.

[Toasterlad]

110. You're a Great Person!

[Jack_Dawson]

112. Thanks!

And the Eagles suck. :beer:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

118. I have a Facebook account but I refuse to do anything with it.

I haven't posted a picture, posted my daily update status, joined any games or gifts or whatever the hell people do there. I have it in case someone does pop up that I know that I might want to touch base with, but I haven't even done much of that, frankly...

I had a Myspace Page that I updated for a while, but after most of the profiles went private and I could no longer snoop in on people without actually haven't to request them as friends, it sort of lost its fun. And because it is impossible to snoop in on Facebook pages without having to request people as friends, Facebook is even less fun.

[Liberal In Texas]

119. Not the only person on earth. I can't imagine why I'd ever create a FB page.

No interest, no need.

[Rebubula]

120. No Profile here...eom

[Vidar]

121. I don't do social network sites.

[Bluenorthwest]

122. I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook

I know far too many people. It is hard to deal with it without help.

[Soylent Brice]

123. welcome to Kurzweil's world. the age of digital self projections.

facebook, myspace, twitter, blogs, it's all headed to the inevitable step of brain scanning, and digital upload of our consciousness.

welcome to the world of the human machine.

don't worry, we'll drag you kicking and screaming.

:evilgrin:

[Morning Dew]

125. No FB for me, either

Not against it, it's just not for me.

[loosey goosey]

126. Me neither. First of all, what is the point? To make inane comments

on other people's walls like I was back in HS? To detail every mundane fact of my day? To show off all the people who love me? Honestly, I think it appeals to the same folk who send those form letters every Christmas to everyone and don't realize they're all laughing at them behind their backs.

[azmouse]

127. I've never even visited the website. No interest in it whatsoever.

For me it's not about privacy. It's about not having anything to say and not giving a shit what others are saying there.

[Hawkeye-X]

128. I'm in the Mafia Wars game - a big addicting game.

I've already "donated" money to continue my play. Crazy isn't it?

I'm LCN Hawkeye-X in Mafia Wars.. I also play School of Magic, and Farmville.. athough it is getting boring for me.. need tractors!! LOL!

Hawkeye-X

[stewartcolbert08]

137. That game is the most addicting game ever!

[laughingliberal]

142. Mafia Wars Addict here

Level 321. I play on Myspace. Lame, I know but there you have it.

[crazy_vanilla]

130. you're not alone, my friend

[704wipes]

136. You could start one as: Socialist Health Care Reformer

nt

[question everything]

138. No facebook, no twitter

I do guard my privacy.

I think that individuals who expose themselves on the Internet have no one to blame but themselves, when all of a sudden things that they say, photos that they post come later to bite them.

I also think it is a bit of hypocrisy to scream about the government listening on conversations.

[Skittles]

139. I won't have anything to do with Facebook