<p>"Guys…the OP asked you to please not tell him to “Just get a Facebook.” FYI. "</p>
<p>Well it was dumb to ask if its possible to have a social life without it. Obviously it is… So we will be dumb by telling him to get one. heh.</p>
<p>what I don’t like about Facebook is how it kills small talk.</p>
<p>Back in the day you’d call (or at least text) a friend and ask him what he’s been up to. Now you just check his Facebook or Twitter, see his stream of status updates about every facet of his life, then go on about your day. Then when you actually meet up you don’t have much to talk about.</p>
<p>Well, you need to know that if you do get a FB page, you don’t go about meeting people by friending strangers! Unsafe & unwise.</p>
<p>It is useful to have, however, as many activities are promoted on FB and if you are totally out of the loop, the friends/acquaintances you do have will think you are antisocial for never coming to their events.</p>
<p>Your friends will likely use facebook for party invites and other social gatherings.</p>
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<p>Wait, are some people saying the only way they hear of a party is from FB? My friends call or text me if there’s something going down. I don’t know of anyone at school or at home who only use FB for events. We don’t bc such events promote parties and we can get into trouble. Plus you don’t want a bunch of strangers RSVPing. Don’t get FB unless you don’t have a phone. You won’t miss out unless you are not social. People cling to FB too much. When we want to have something, we talk to eachother.</p>
<p>Well, the invitation will only be visible to your friends…not friends of friends/strangers.</p>
<p>Or members of a group that you have designated, such as “Film Society.”</p>
<p>If you’ve survived high school without facebook, you can survive university without facebook.</p>
<p>yes think about the days before facebook im sure people were still able to make friends in grad school or any school without it haha</p>
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<p>E: Chances are high that facebook has already inferred a lot about you from people who you associate with that have given facebook their address books unknowingly.</p>
<p>I’ll never understand the people who uses last generation’s tech but refuse to use the current one’s.</p>
<p>“Facebook? Psh, who needs that ridiculous new technology? It prevents people from meeting up and actually talking to each other face-to-face. Just text me on my cell phone to get a hold of me.”</p>
<p>^Who said that? In those exact words?</p>
<p>I don’t mean to pick on anyone in particular, but that’s a general attitude of “neo-luddites”. </p>
<p>Usually old folks. They’ll gladly use telephones, automobiles, kitchen appliances, etc. while simultaneously putting down new technology like the Internet. It’s all technology, period. The only difference is their perspective in time.</p>
<p>True. My beef with it is that it removes the personal touch that even a simple phone call has.</p>
<p>I guess so. Text chat isn’t the best medium, but I hate using a phone. Something like 60% of a conversation is non-verbal (made up stat, but it’s in the ballpark).</p>
<p>Voice chat (Skype, etc.) is basically the best of both worlds. Still not as good as face-to-face interaction, though. But who has time to keep in physical touch with all of their friends?</p>
<p>True, true. Although I myself am a bit of an introvert… I don’t have a huge circle of friends, just a few who I keep quite close.</p>
<p>Working off of what pandem said about texting vs. Facebook, I’m sure people x years ago used to gripe about how telephones destroyed human contact as well. Instead of going over to someone’s house to talk to them, you call them on the phone. Sure, if someone wasn’t home you just wasted your time walking there instead of calling and leaving a message but…It was the “human interaction”.
Now people are arguing for phones vs. text/cell phone or email vs. snail mail. Again, it’s now about instantaneous interaction. There’s still human interaction, but not face to face…that means nothing though if you’re several hundreds of miles away anyway.
Facebook is good to keep in contact with people you’ve moved away from. I’m looking forward to using it to keep in contact with HS friends, sport friends and family when I go away to college.</p>
<p>@Mockingbird7 Omg I missed WoW, I graduated WoW to become addicted to FB :D</p>
<p>I would not know personally, as I am a rising high school senior but facebook is just unnecessary.
I can say that I honestly used to spend too much time on facebook and now that I do not I am much happier and more satisfied with life in general. It simply serves as a distraction from one’s aspirations and ambitions and strings one along to believe that IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY $%#!!!. It’s more of a danger than it is a pleasure… and perhaps I do not overly prophetic and no, facebook is not the armageddon but generally it is just another way that corporatism coaxes us into doing their bidding.
Furthermore, the NSA has big money in facebook. More and more information is coming out supporting the fact that facebook operates to serve its advertisers who supply them with $$$$$$$ revenue and not the users.</p>
<p>Also, not having facebook makes someone more interesting in my opinion.</p>
<p>Facebook in general has intertwined with everything on the internet which is one positive thing about it. Now there are so many privacy options and hiding those annoying people that it is an actually enjoyable experience to talk to people you haven’t seen in years. Facebook has become such a huge impact on the internet that by saying theres no point to it, is like saying what the point in the internet. What would you all do if there were no computers?</p>
<p>I am wondering if pandem is being paid by FB. If not, he/she should be. I have never had a FB and I never will. It WILL be obsolete before I have time to care. People who think otherwise have a very short memory regarding the way the internet works, or are too young to remember.</p>
<p>For the record, I was invited to sign up for FB way back when it was only available for private university students. I went to sign up and even back then I did a double take at how much information they expected me to give them JUST to be able to USE their stupid site. I decided right then and there that I wouldn’t use it.</p>
<p>Walled garden websites DO fail and FB will. It is only a matter of time. There are already tons of people who are just waiting for the opportunity to jump **** into a more open network. All it will take is someone providing it and the exodus will begin.</p>