[Closed] Why haven't you got a Facebook account?

Not at all interested

Privacy is important to me.

I've managed until now without one, but I can't help feeling there is stuff I'm missing out on

You could apply that equally to not having the opposite gender's genitalia, but on reflection you might be better sticking with what you know.

I joined myspace back in the day and it was utter shite and i dont have any reason to believe facebook wont be more of the same

It's nothing like myspace

Just don't feel the need. Twitter is pitched just at the right level of social interaction I want to have with people.

What's it for?
As far as I can see all that happens is that people gossip in public. I do that in the pub or on the phone. I do often wonder about why I mess about here.

You could apply that equally to not having the opposite gender's genitalia, but on reflection you might be better sticking with what you know.

Interesting analogy 😆

It's nothing like myspace

My missus won't let me have one in case women from my past inbox me whatever that means!

For a miserable **** like me who has no friends as a matter of choice, it is utterly pointless. if I have friend who are up to something I would be remotely interested in, I'll know first hand. I can't stand the way people post pics of themselves with a view to showing everyone what a wonderful glamorous life they are leading, when the truth is obviously some distance away.

Plus I am a very private person, why would I want people I don't know and have and will never meet to see anything about my life. The wife knows to keep me and my life well away from her Facebook account.

Absolutely appalling invention

Because I'm a miserable git who isn't interested in the ins-and-outs of everyone's business.

Left in December.

Reason: waste of time.

Plus I am a very private person, why would I want people I don't know and have and will never meet to see anything about my life.

ashleydwsmith - Member

My missus won't let me have one in case women from my past inbox me whatever that means!

It means your pathetic & do as your missus tells you 😈

loddrik - Member

For a miserable **** like me who has no friends as a matter of choice, it is utterly pointless. if I have friend who are up to something I would be remotely interested in, I'll know first hand. I can't stand the way people post pics of themselves with a view to showing everyone what a wonderful glamorous life they are leading, when the truth is obviously some distance away.

Plus I am a very private person, why would I want people I don't know and have and will never meet to see anything about my life. The wife knows to keep me and my life well away from her Facebook account.

Absolutely appalling invention

We have read your footy posts, we know enough already! 🙂

I have a fake account in a stupid name so I can manage some marketing stuff for events. You can't use corporate sites without your own account. I have to confess I have turned off most of the drivel that comes through. So I am kind of on Facebook, but not on Facebook, like Leonard Cohen.

I don't have it as i have no use for it, but i can see how it could be a good way of keeping in contact with distant friends/family. Its sad seeing the people who's life seems to revolve around it telling people what they've had for breakfast and what they are doing every hour throughout the day.

I think its slowly creating a generation of social retards 😐

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Isn't this just the popular misconception?
A bit of investigation on here would reveal quite a bit about who you are and due to the lack of privacy settings here, more people have access than would have if you set the privacy settings correctly on facebook.

Other than what I volunteer on here, you know very little. Certainly not what I get up to day by day, or my family, etc etc.

And you wouldn't want to anyhow as its all pretty boring, and that's just the way I like it. Plus I'm really not interested in what strangers are interested in, no matter how, ahem, 'glamorous' their lives are....

And you wouldn't want to anyhow as its all pretty boring, and that's just the way I like it.

I hardly post on FB, but find it quite an easy way to catch up with folks in Spain and can give a feeling of being part of a group of friends rather than splintered pairings.

I'm on it but hardly use it. My pet peeve at the moment is that a few friends/family have started thier own small businesses so I keep getting marketing updates from them but it doesn't take long to de-friend them. I do feel its reaching a turning point as once I start getting sold to on it I'll just leave.

Originally the whole thing irked me and I just imagined the whole thing was for annoying idiots.

Now I'm a bit more relaxed towards it but I've got lots of accounts for various things (Foursquare, Twitter etc.) that I don't use that much and I can't be bothered to sign up for another one.

I downloaded the Instagram app for my phone and I've never got further than the 'sign up' screen for the same reason.

You are aware that it's not obligatory to share the intimate details of your life with the people you choose to share them with, aren't you?
I hardly post on FB, but find it quite an easy way to catch up with folks in Spain and can give a feeling of being part of a group of friends rather than splintered pairings.

You're not convincing me, I'm a lost cause...

I've got a STW account..... 😕

You're not convincing me, I'm a lost cause...

Just as well..

My Space? Get with the programme grandad!!!! 😀

Well I had a cracking ride on Tuesday with a lot of other ner'do'wells that was posted up on the STW Bikers Facebook page

Plus I am a very private person, why would I want people I don't know and have and will never meet to see anything about my life.

Why should you give anything away? I think this is a popular misconception. I used to think it was hideous but eventually I opened an account, hardly ever post anything but I do visit often, I have friends and family (some overseas) whom we rarely see and they use it a lot. I might think that much of what they post is pretty pointless but you do get to see what they're up to and it keeps you connected in an electronic kind of way.

I think there comes a tipping point where it's better to be in than out, even if you don't contribute anything. Once you get used to this it's pretty useful. I'm sure it'll get replaced by something further down the line but for the time being why not?

If your friends or family don't use it then it has nothing to offer, but if they do then it adds another dimension to your social communication, whether you choose to use it or not is up to you.

Because it is the root of all evil.

I had a facebook account when it 1st started and was getting a huge number of people asking to be my friend. NO, **** OFF, I do not know you, nor wish to know you, you bunch of weirdos!

It is startling how many 'incidents' either start or are continued on facebook. Bullying is huge on there and as mentioned in a different thread, it made me sick to the stomach to find that some poor family discovered their only son had died on it. It is evil, intrusive, and should be banned.

I'm with Don Simon on this one, I don't post up much, apart from photos for my friends to see, but it's a great way to keep up with scattered friends and family.
It's also become my default source of info from a great many people in music, literature and arts, which was always a struggle on MySpace, but is very easy to use on Fb. MySpace shot itself in the ass by sticking with Flash when most of its customer base were using mobile devices which don't handle Flash. On Fb it's dead easy for musicians to post up music from Soundcloud and Bandcamp, and for fans to communicate directly with the artist.
I discovered a great local band at a little festival last weekend, and went onto their Fb site, where a link took me to their Bandcamp page where I could download and play tracks from their new EP.
Yes, I could get it from iTunes, but from their Fb/Bandcamp page I could, and did, download a FLACK or ALAC (Apple Lossless) file, five tracks for three quid.
After watching the new video I asked on Fb where it was filmed, as parts looked like Savernake Forest. A very quick reply said it was, and other shots of the band were at Wroughton Airfield, which is what I suspected.
I have no private details on Fb, and neither does anyone I know, because we're not stupid.
It's a convenient communication tool, that's all it is..

I value my privacy and this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-18351855

Nope ... never going to have one.

"No" friends ... 😆

I've got an account, but rarely use it. It has some use to me for various MTB-related activities, but that's as far as it goes. I still can't see the massive attraction, and the valuation placed on it in the recent listing was laughable.

No animosity to people using it, just not particularly for me.

A chap i knew in his late 2o,s had an account and would brag he had so many new cyber Freinds every time i saw him, he just lost a real freind soon after, ME.

I used it to trace an old mate I lost touch with, He joined Navy I joined Army.
Still active but not used much, still trying to find another old mate who went to Uni.
Apart from that not too bothered with it.

I binned mine off a while ago and haven't missed it at all.

I don't have anything against it but for me personally if my friends are arranging stuff than it's all done through texts, phonecalls or emails, never via Facebook so it's no biggy really.

It was quite useful for viewing photos of stag do's weddings etc that I'd been on but I don't feel that it's worth having an account for that reason alone.

I think it's like a lot of social media in that if you put in the effort and use it in a proactive way it's probably a great tool but I could never be arsed so it was just a dormant account listing the news and opinions of loads of people I barely know. Which was great in a voyeuristic way but ultimately I have far too many ways to waste time on the internet, so could do without that as well.

To the OP, if you've managed without an account up til now then you're probably not missing anything at all.

I value my privacy and this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-18351855
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Because a lad i locked up tried adding me as a friend a few weeks later . . . . 🙁

I do, but I only really use it for band-related stuff. I browse it fairly frequently but rarely post anything unless it's to do with [url=

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wow, look how many fans we have! a whole 45! (plus another 65 elsewhere)

link to the STW bikers group please binbins!

i only set one up to stalk iDave. he's taller than he looks on this forum.

deadlydarcy wont stop 'inboxing' me 😐

don simon, i'm going to search for 'Simon' and add them all til i find you x

You miss everyone posting pictures of their children.

We don't ****ing care if your kids smiling - you're the only one who cares, stop mucking up my stalking of ex girlfriends!

*yes I do have kids...*

I use it.

a good way to keep in contact with scattered friends - a good way to pool photos of trips with the friends, I find it useful. Its also useful for various common interest groups

You can set up your privacy as tight or slack as you want and you don't have to accept friend requests from tossers you don't know - I don't.

I have found some old friends I had lost contact with thru facebook

stopped using mine after after my mate(now ex mate)missus used it to stalk me and tried to convinse my wife that i was having an affair with her(she a bona fide nutter)not worth the aggro and facebook did nothing to stop her after i complained.

[i]Because a lad i locked up tried adding me as a friend a few weeks later . . . .[/i]

I bet I locked one up more times than you!
An ex con tried adding me as a friend (mind you, I did go to school with his Dad)

TandemJeremy - Member

I use it.

a good way to keep in contact with scattered friends - a good way to pool photos of trips with the friends, I find it useful. Its also useful for various common interest groups

You can set up your privacy as tight or slack as you want and you don't have to accept friend requests from tossers you don't know - I don't.

I have found some old friends I had lost contact with thru facebook

Exactly this, we even have an invite only group for a mid week ride.

Like TJ says it's what you make it.

I'm quite happy with Friends Reunited thanks!

I think if your selective about your FB friends it's very useful. I don't accept or add randoms. Only people who I want to share my stuff with. I cull regularly too as the list slowly builds up. Nothing private there for me just holiday and biking snaps. Don't know why so many have such a problem with it.

Sometimes I wonder about the FB lurkers. They seem to know everything about you so check often enough but never contribute anything. Why bother then?

Had an account for a few years. Use it to keep in touch with people in other parts of the country/ other countries. Have a policy of having no friends or relatives local to me on it. If they want to talk to me, they know where my door is and what my phone numbers are.

Bullying is huge on there and as mentioned in a different thread, it made me sick to the stomach to find that some poor family discovered their only son had died on it. It is evil, intrusive, and should be banned.

Taken in that context, we should then ban:
the internet
school
workplace.

Taken in that context, we should then ban:
the internet
school
workplace.

No; facebook, however, seems to bring out the worst in people.

I just don't get this hogwash about keeping in touch. How many mediums do we needs?

Email, snail mail, landlines, mobile phones. Or here's a novelty - why not arrange to visit or go for a beer, and have a really nice long chat. You know, catch up with your friends - have a conversation.

I don't get twitter either. Really, does every idea that springs into folks' minds need to be made available for everyone else to see? YOU'RE NOT THAT INTERESTING!!! If you think you are [b]YOU'RE ESPECIALLY DULL[/b]

i like the new Facebook email / pm thing! useful!

Over my rotting corpse.

cos its ****
get a life go and see ya mates face to face

why would i 😐

I have a facebook account.. I think on the sliding scale of internerdy wierdness it ranks a fair bit lower than being a regular user on STW.. 😉

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get a life go and see ya mates face to face

But I've got 437 of them. It's alright for someone like you who only has three or four. 😛

Email, snail mail, landlines, mobile phones. Or here's a novelty - why not arrange to visit or go for a beer, and have a really nice long chat. You know, catch up with your friends - have a conversation.

No; facebook, however, seems to bring out the worst in people.
I just don't get this hogwash about keeping in touch. How many mediums do we needs?
Email, snail mail, landlines, mobile phones. Or here's a novelty - why not arrange to visit or go for a beer, and have a really nice long chat. You know, catch up with your friends - have a conversation.
I don't get twitter either. Really, does every idea that springs into folks' minds need to be made available for everyone else to see? YOU'RE NOT THAT INTERESTING!!! If you think you are YOU'RE ESPECIALLY DULL

Get with the program granddad.

I have a Facebook account, never really used it for anything other than poking fun at my sisters and using it to save interwebs links I liked ... then my wife decided to close her FB account and piggy-back on (i.e. take over) mine ...

So now, it's full of endless drivel from all her friends, most of whom seem to spend the entirety of their lives posting up pictures and LookatmeTube videos they've come across ...

Nothing original or interesting to say for themselves, just copy-&-pasting "stuff I found online" ... I mean, what's the point, really? ... then all their sycophantic friends all 'like' it, thus justifying their post and making them feel all warm and fuzzy ...

FB and Twitter are both just devastating belt-fed dispensers of pure bollox (to steal a phrase from Cpt Slow)

So now, it's full of endless drivel from all her friends, most of whom seem to spend the entirety of their lives posting up pictures and LookatmeTube videos they've come across ...
Nothing original or interesting to say for themselves, just copy-&-pasting "stuff I found online" ... I mean, what's the point, really? ... then all their sycophantic friends all 'like' it, thus justifying their post and making them feel all warm and fuzzy ...

Sounds a bit like an Internet forum I use from time to time.

I have facebook.

I have "family", "friends" "colleagues" groups etc. My brother might be chuffed to see a pic of my little boy playing with his Bday present but it might not interest others so you can choose who you share with. (if you remember to do it) You can set your default shares

I also started a group called "cotswold singletrack" and have met a couple of chaps off the back of it

If one of my facebook "friends" gets annoying, they get blocked and moved to the "limited profile" friend group . (they dont get to make another friend request then) Simples.

What is this Facebook you speak of?

Didn't we do this last week?

Got one (obviously) 😆 wouldn't be without it, chat with people, see online news/articles I wouldn't normally see, or have to look for, band updates (tours gigs, whatever) adverts from shops/sites I want to see, links to all sorts of stuff, and of course all my friends

And yes gossip to, and to many "OMG LOL", as well, but so what? where else would I have seen an ex schoolmate on gonewild... hahaha slut.

I have facebook

What, all of it?

You must be worth millions ...

What is this Facebook you speak of?

It's a tool for stalking people, and tracking down people you lost touch with years ago (who never kept in touch with you for a reason)

In the real world, I have riding buddies that perceive STW users in the same way that some STW users perceive Facebook users.

Get with the program granddad.

😯

Meh... Kids today with their rock and roll trousers and fancy T shirts....!!

It's a tool for stalking people, and tracking down people you lost touch with years ago [i](who never kept in touch with you for a reason)[/i]

Ahh that's OK I've never had any friends 😆

I've got a facebook account which I use occasionally to keep up with distant family members and friends. Facebook is so jam-packed with shite that it's difficult to get to the worthwhile stuff though.

In some cases I just stop viewing the posts of some folks (e.g. the ones that post on facebook everytime they go for a coffee or have a shit) and definitely stop all the game updates. Unfortunately some of the worst offenders for re-posting crap and my mum and other close family members and I'm too polite to hide their updates!

deactivated my account last month just got sick of the endless drivel
and that was just the stuff i posted

I have account, only 100 or so friends and some are people I never really see but it's nice to know what they are up to and sometimes paths cross. It's not the evil thing people think it is and I post quite a bit about hobbies and stuff because I share with other people with the same hobby (similar to here!). I share lots of photos, it doesn't force people to look but they can if they want to. I've hidden quite a few people because I'm just not that interested in them, including some very close friends because as someone said, if they are that close you know this stuff first hand

My missus won't let me have one in case women from my past inbox me whatever that means!

I think you'll find the issues is more that you might in-box them

It's too much information and takes some of the fun out of life. I don't want to know everyone who will be at the party. I'm more likely to go "Oh, he's a bit of a dick, it's going to be a bad party" instead of just turning up and seeing what happens.

When I see someone who I haven't seen in ages but aren't friends with them enough to meet up, I want to be surprised. I don't want to know ahead that they're coming to the city. I just prefer the surprise, it makes life a little bit better.

I don't want to passively know what everyone has been up to. I want to [i]ask[/i] them and have a [i]conversation[/i] about it. Even then, too many conversations go:
"I went to Spain"
-"Yeah, I saw on Facebook."
"They had a lovely donkey in the garden"
-"Yeah, you took a photo and put it on Facebook"
That's boring. You're just talking about Facebook.

I don't want that potential new friend to satisfy their curiosity about me by looking at my Facebook page and never talking to me again, instead of inviting me out and getting to know me. And these days, even if they do invite me out, instead of a personal invitation to an event, I get an invite along with 326 other friends / childhood friends / promoters / donkeys / their mum. I call this the 'gathering vs party facebook pitfall' - it's not cool turning up with 'da hoes' to a Star Wars viewing.

I've not got one as I'd set one up only to find out the ex-wife and her family were snooping on me, Shane really that she's that sad, she was bloked but then her family started snooping.

It's a tool for stalking people, and tracking down people you lost touch with years ago (who never kept in touch with you for a reason)