<p>How do you make friends without Facebook in college? Because it seems pretty impossible.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman at a school with about 10,000 students.</p>
<p>I have a Facebook, but deactivated it in like 11th grade. Reactivating it would be weird, plus I just hate facebook.</p>
<p>Facebook isn’t going to make you friends. You need real live interactions to build quality relationships with people. Facebook is more of a way to keep in touch with people you’re already friends with, or to keep loose connections with acquaintances, but is not a friend building tool in itself. </p>
<p>Try involving yourself in more activities, or strike up conversations with those around you. Then invite them to do something.</p>
<p>The same way we did it before Facebook…by talking to people.</p>
<p>i dont have any friends on facebook that I dont know in real life. Talk to people! facebook was only around for like 6 years?</p>
<p>By spending time with people in real life.</p>
<p>If you’re only friends on facebook, but you’ve never really talked to each other or you’ve never done anything together or you don’t really know anything about each other, besides what’s posted on facebook, then you’re not really friends.</p>
<p>I only got a facebook in college for practical reasons (to talk to large groups of people, to keep in touch with people who are geographically far flung or who have very busy schedules, etc). Facebook has nothing to do with making friends, but it can help keep in touch with people that I haven’t seen in a while.</p>
<p>Umm…you know facebook has only been around for like 6 years right? Hell…the internet has only been in really widespread use for maybe 20 years. Facebook isn’t going to make you friends. Actual interaction is how you make friends.</p>
<p>If it’s that much of a concern though, why can’t you make a new facebook? I assure you that it wouldn’t be ‘weird’ to make a new one. I have many friends that have deleted their facebook accounts, and ended up making a new one several months later. Facebook is a great tool to have these days, but it’s not a substitute for going out and actually interacting with people.</p>
<p>I don’t really do much on facebook. I share an occasional scientific article or something like that. When I am on facebook, I mainly talk to people in closed groups that have very similar interests. But, I spend a lot more time actually interacting with people in person than I do on facebook.</p>
<p>I don’t use Facebook either, and I agree with all of you who said that Facebook is not a tool for making friend, but given the paradigm shift in the modern world in which people’s personal interaction with their electronic devices, and their engagement with each
other on phone or the internet, account for a large portion of human interactions that take place, it seems to me that perhaps a new way of socializing has emerged which has drastically changed the way we interact with each other? I used to be that kid whose hands would never seem to let go of his phone or computer, but now I’m rather against use of it whenever I’m with people… Though I’m not very social, I guess I just don’t accept the fact that everyone is so anti-social these days. (And because of the nature of sociality, you have to be anti-social to be social. Irony)</p>
<p>Get involved in clubs, talk to people in class. Exchange phone numbers and text. Voila!</p>
<p>Facebook just helps you keep in touch with people but it’s no big deal. I know a couple of people who don’t have Facebook and they have plenty of friends.</p>
<p>Okay, I guess this is an uncommon position, but Facebook has absolutely helped me make friends, including ones I’d later meet in real life.</p>
<p>My two main friends (beside my roommate)- Ah… nvm. ONE of my main friends I met outside of facebook during a college event. But it was orientation and everyone was so open to new people. Now it’s less of that mindset. However most of my friends… “real” friends are people I meet outside of Facebook. Techinally I only found like 10 friends including my roommate through facebook. So it’s far from impossible unless you’re one of those anti-social type.</p>
<p>I don’t have any friends on Facebook that I don’t know personally with the exception of two girls that wanted to be my friend that go to the same school. They’re interesting people but study 24/7 so I very seldom bother them.</p>
<p>I deleted my fb in high school and I rather have few friends than a bunch of fake friends. Most ppl I know use instagram.</p>
<p>Besides of people 10+ years ago made friends without it why cant people nowadays!?</p>
<p>I don’t have a Facebook and have no trouble building alliances.</p>
<p>What really helped me out in terms of setting myself apart from others is making my own business cards. I have glossy, 2-sided business cards with my contact number and custom email in black and red print that I hand out to people, the front side has my stylized logo and the back side has some quotes. </p>
<p>I ask them to text me their number. If they do, I know they are interested in a connection. If they don’t, then they wouldn’t have made a meaningful connection anyway or would have been flaky. </p>
<p>I have an excel spreadsheet with psycho-biographic profiles, video/audio samples, and assorted information on hundreds of people I have met.</p>
<p>You can also create decoy Facebook profiles with the sole purpose of gathering information and manipulating behavior within the online environment, which impacts the IRL environment.</p>
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<p>Why can’t they?</p>
<p>People still make friends without facebook all the times. I make new friends on campus all the time…by interacting with them. Most of my friends that I’ve met on campus aren’t even my friends on facebook. We do things like call each other on the phone, and meet in regular places on campus…talk before/after classes, get together for study groups, tell people about different events that are going on. You don’t need facebook to do this.</p>
<p>Facebook has destroyed the abilities of many people to socialize in the real world. Facebook is just a stream of digital information. Interacting with people on facebook is not “socializing.” It’s sending a string of digital information to another string of digital information.</p>
<p>I agree Curt!</p>
<p>No, I disagree with Curt on: “Interacting with people on facebook is not “socializing.” It’s sending a string of digital information to another string of digital information.”</p>
<p>You can still socialize with people on Facebook. The only thing that is missing is merely the “in person” and emotions elements. If it wasn’t for “socializing” on Facebook I would had never met some of the people irl. Don’t act like Facebook is just a string of “digital information” where you can’t engage other people in conversation.</p>
<p>Well the main thing I hated was having all these “friends” like we don’t talk in rl and you never say hi at school so why add me? </p>
<p>All those fake people jus got on my nerves. I’m better off having a few friends that genuine and there for me to really talk to!</p>
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<p>RL socializing is just flapping your tongue against various parts of your mouth while exercising your vocal cords.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, facebook is an incredibly useful tool. I’m not going to get rid of mine anytime soon.</p>
<p>It’s a simple fact that social media has drastically changed the ways that people socialize and interact.</p>
<p>Regardless, I rather doubt that very many people are going to look back on their college years 20 years from now and fondly remember those nights spent alone in their dorm room chatting with people on facebook.</p>