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[11 Bravo]

1. Never had one. I've also never tweeted, been on MySpace, or any other ...

kind of social media. On the other hand, I AM an old fart.

[freshwest]

43. Don't worry! I'm sure you make up for with an exciting offline life, though.

[hrmjustin]

2. I just use it to keep up with family out of the region.

I use it maybe 4-6 times a week.

[warrior1]

3. You're a wise old fart.

[badtoworse]

4. No

[cynatnite]

5. Nope, and I'm not going to...

My whole family is on it and it's how we keep in touch, share pics, plan gatherings and so on. We have our own private group with rules like no political or religion talk allowed. Some don't like it, but it's kept the peace for over 2 years now.

I also have a public account that gets just about everything else that's not allowed in our group.

FB is here to stay unless my family decides to leave it for another social media site.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Never signed up for one.

[shanti]

7. it's been about 4 years now

don't miss it in the least. i do have a twitter account, but rarely use it. i only got it so i could keep up with my youngest son.

[MindPilot]

8. Did that a few months ago.

got tired of the political BS.

And I had concerns about privacy

[Zorra]

9. No way I'd ever join Facebook.

IMO, this satire is not all that far from reality.

[Kali]

32. !

so true

[Morning Dew]

10. No, 'cuz...

Dang pigs need a hurtin' put on 'em and I got the birds to do it.




But that's all I use it for - don't have a single friend on FB.

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. After a quick analysis of what they wanted and what they were free to do with it,

and having an expert understanding of the power of databases (it's much, much worse than you might imagine), I never had one.

Which kind of sucks because I can't boycott them now.

[defacto7]

27. Same here.

Never had one, never will, and for the same reasons that you mention.

[Poll_Blind]

12. Never had one. Nor MySpace. Nor LiveJournal or any of those. (Pumps both fists in the air) "I WIN!"

From the moment I heard about something they described as "Web 2.0", I made a promise to myself that I'd never register on those sites. At the time the biggest thing was something called "Friendster". Anyway, amazingly, I was able to keep my promise. I've only had one Facebook account, under an assumed name, with which I communicate with my son- which is rarely because we live in the same town.

If you type my name into a search engine you get nothing or inaccurate information. Amusingly (and a stroke of luck) my name is actually the name of a semi-famous person in a certain field and so, if anything, it brings up them. If you know my name and type it into Intellius and pay the $50 (or whatever it is, now) I come back clean.

If you're the government, you can find me in a heartbeat. As it should be, of course.

If not...even with my name...good luck!

I fucking can't express how much I love that. Many years ago I got into computational linguistics, mostly for authorship attribution purposes. You think companies have The Snoop on ya? You have no idea.

Burn your Facebook accounts, get rid of all that social media shit. I've had to listen to otherwise intelligent, educated, articulate people complain like sophomores in highschool over endless Facebook/Twitter/Social Media kerfuffles.

"I hate that! And then they unfriended me. And so I unfriended them back. You know?" they ask.

"No, sorry. I don't." and a smile. I used to practically jack off to cyberpunk when I was a kid. It was a kind of unimaginable freedom. This cyberpunk learned a long time ago that meatspace has many, many more places to hide.

The promises of omniscience of the cyber world. Slinking among the cathedrals of data, flitting like an angel through a satellite with a list of protocols like a riverboat gambler's deck of cards... All of that is nothing to the useful information you can learn from a bored city employee, a coffee shop barrista in the old section of town, a cashier who's fighting with the underwire in her failing brassiere in a Mexican bakery.

Meatspace. It's what's for dinner.



PB

[Pragdem]

13. No, mine will stand as a protest against the irrational fears of privacy advocates.

The Internet has wiped away a lot of layers of bullshit in the makeup of society.

I attribute social networking and the increase in virtual presences of people and companies to many positive changes throughout the world and I'm not going to join the "A company knows how old I am and what movie I watched... I'm dead now!" chorus.

[msanthrope]

14. Never had one. nt

[CJCRANE]

15. I deactivated my account due to security concerns.

Facebook is very laissez faire, there are some very alarming groups on there.

[Brickbat]

16. No, and I don't think this will inspire me to, either.

[KG]

17. not going to. I'm satisfied with my experience using a totally free service.

I didn't give my DOB, address, SSN or phone #. didn't even have to use my real name on a couple of my accounts...

[liberal_at_heart]

18. I don't use Facebook now but probably will when my daughter moves away.

[Mz Pip]

19. No

I keep in touch with old friends and really enjoy some of the pages like Andy Borowitz and John Fugelsang and Richard Dawkins. Lots of links to interesting articles. I ignore the ads.

[Initech]

20. I have one but rarely, if ever, use it.

[RebelOne]

38. Same here. I may check in every 6 months

since much of my family is on it.

[Jennicut]

21. I never had one but I do use Twitter. Facebook is about pictures and liking stuff and finding people

from 10 years ago. I am not into that. I prefer short bits of sarcastic humor that I can throw out there in 20 seconds. Facebook is way too much work for me.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Twitter is just an illegible mess to me.

Too many #s and @s and juvenile abbreviations for my taste.

[Zoeisright]

23. No, I need it for work.

[HappyMe]

24. No.

I keep in touch with my sons and other family that way.

[derby378]

25. Facebook put me in touch with a truckload of local Democratic activists

So no, I'm not signing off.

[MillennialDem]

26. Deleted mine long ago... average Joe Blow is on there now and Joe Blow usually isn't smarter than a

poop flinging monkey.

That and I don't want students or coworkers facebook stalking me.

[HappyMe]

28. lol!

Oh my!

Aren't you the high and mightiest of all!

[MillennialDem]

33. I gladly admit I'm smarter (or more likely, think I'm smarter) than the average ape is a

great strength of mine!

:p

[HappyMe]

34. Most humans I know are smarter than apes.

There have been a fair amount of poo flinging threads around these parts.

[MillennialDem]

35. Humans are great apes (except freepers who are lesser apes)

[Bay Boy]

39. Why would you 'friend' people that you don't like?

And you don't have to let anyone you don't want to know about your Facebook posts.

[Elwood P Dowd]

29. Found out half my friends were racist repukes and dumped it a year ago. (nm)

[Blue_Adept]

30. Not deleting at all

I use it pretty heavily, though primarily for work aspects since I connect with my readership through the site I run with it.

And while I know there are privacy concerns, as there is with anything on the internet but "more so" when it comes to social media, I do have to laugh at the responses here because so much of it does feel like "luddite" kind of responses that I'd expect to see over on "that other place" when it comes to things like this.

Everyone makes their choices and it's fine, I just wish we had a little less demonizing of it because there is an immense amount of good that comes from social media. But people only hear about the bad, just like the news, cause that's what draws eyeballs.

[NWHarkness]

31. Why would I shoot myself in the foot?

Facebook is by far the best tool available for organizing local activists.

[aristocles]

36. I stopped using Facebook over 1.5 years ago; I don't tweet either.

I found both Facebook and Twitter users childishly narcissistic.

I know some businesses use Facebook, but I think in many cases they do so because they can't afford a professionally-designed website.

I've noticed that my children use FB and Twitter less and less now that they've finished university and have professional careers in banking and finance.

The family does text a lot, using Apple's messaging service on our iPhones.

[AndyTiedye]

37. No and I'm Not Gonna

I KNOW that "Facebook privacy" is an oxymoron — What I put on Facebook is what I want everyone to know.

Let them TRY to digest and monetize the stuff of my life. Their marketing machine will either choke on it or be transformed thereby.

[anneboleyn]

40. a few years ago. Got very boring, very quickly -- tedious "updates" from high school "friends"

and other nonsense that I really did not care about and that had nothing at all to do with my real life. Plus everyone spent so much time bragging and posturing (my kid is x, y, and z) that it became a parody of itself.

[Marrah_G]

41. Nope

[donheld]

42. I have no intention of deleting anything.