<p>If you don't really know the person, or even if you knew him/her, why would you think that they dont have a facebook?</p>
<p>I would be friends with that person instantly. lol </p>
<p>I am not a fan of social networks. I only use Twitter to keep up with musicians, comedians, etc.</p>
<p>I bet people who have top secret jobs arent allowed to b on fb. And i bet alot of teachers are scared to be on fb. Probably alot of grandparents arent on fb.</p>
<p>professors can be on facebook if they please ^</p>
<p>I was ‘convinced’ by my elderly family members to get one a week ago >.></p>
<p>I think people who don’t use facebook value their privacy very much. I heard from some of them such that “using facebook is a violation of privacy” “facebook is a waste of time” kinda things. lol</p>
<p>i think they are weird. if they dont have one, they don’t seem to want to put any effort into keeping in touch with people. avoiding facebook never says non-conformist to me, it just says weird.</p>
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It is somehow impossible or less meaningful to keep in touch with people through other means?</p>
<p>^Of course it is! Don’t you know that friends were invented in 2004?</p>
<p>I only know a handful of people without a facebook, and I never see them and hardly ever talk to them because almost all my social events are organized through facebook. They tend to have an air of superiority about it which I find to be rather obnoxious so I don’t go out of my way to call to give them a personal invitation. If they weren’t jackasses about it I might.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen one useful application of Facebook aside from being able to dig up juicy info on people for employers or having easy access to whackable pictures of hot girls who do all the work for you in uploading their pics. Anyways, if I really didn’t know the person as you say, I would simply think they’re not American or European. Not every region in the world uses Facebook as social networking site of choice.</p>
<p>Well my roommate doesnt have a facebook, and well he turned out to be the most boring and introverted person I have ever met. He doesnt even attempt to try to make friends, sleeps at 10pm, studies everyday all day despite not having difficult classes and goes home on the weekends. He has no hobbies or interests at all other than academics and well thats it.</p>
<p>I don’t have a facebook and am basically Ranka’s description except I go home every day. </p>
<p>Not really… but I don’t have a facebook, sleep early, and go home everyday. My lack of friends has nothing to my lack of facebook.</p>
<p>I have a friend with no facebook and she’s just really **** with computers haha don’t judge people with no facebook they might just be stupid!:P</p>
<p>wait a minutes. I deactivated facebook. Does that mean I’m a loser? :'(</p>
<p>My brother doesn’t have a facebook and he has tons of friends. He doesn’t like it because he says it’s so impersonal and if people want to get in touch with him, they should call him. So I think people who don’t have facebook just don’t care for it or don’t need one.
I love facebook, I can keep in touch with people I probably would have lost contact with because of lost phone # or far distance. My friend deleted her facebook for a little bit and was in Kenya this summer, and it was so hard to keep in touch. Also I love how easy it is to share information if you want.</p>
<p>But like I said, it’s not for everyone.</p>
<p>I don’t see how facebook is an invasion of privacy… you can pretty much hide everything from anyone if you want to.</p>
<p>There’s several types of people who don’t have Facebooks. Most are ugly and friendless - so to have a page entirely devoted to photos and interacting with friends isn’t a good idea for them. They’d much rather avoid the whole thing and keep some small sense of dignity instead of having a page with 12 friends on it and no pictures, except for one of their cat. </p>
<p>Then there’s psychologists or counselors who don’t want to be stalked by their patients. Trust me, I’ve tried.</p>
<p>lol
Good ol’ Will Hunting.</p>
<p>On the flip side, I know many psychologists or late stage psych grad students who do have FB profiles. You just keep them very locked down (max privacy settings!), take them off search, and use a shortened/psuedo-name (though many use their real names as well). And of course, never friend your clients.</p>
<p>I actually read an interesting journal article about the use of social networking sites among psychologists/psych grad students…</p>
<p>It’s interesting who some of the other posters know. </p>
<p>All the people I know without facebooks or who rarely use it are the really popular guys at my school. And I suppose their logic is “why keep in touch with people I see every day on some website when I can do it physically?”. It makes more sense when you’re actually in college and beyond so that you can keep in touch with old friends. But most high schoolers (and now middle schoolers) use the site unneccesarily, in my opinion.</p>
<p>That being said, I have one lol</p>
<p>I first created my profile the week before high school graduation so I could keep in touch with acquaintances. Mine is currently deactivated. I’m trying to ween myself off of it so I can just visit the site once a week when I reactivated it at the end of this year. It is going well actually. I don’t even miss it! I’m trying to ween myself off the internet in general, but it is not going so well, hahaha.</p>
<p>But I don’t think much of people who don’t have one. I know a boy who is quite outgoing and has a lot of friends and surprisingly he doesn’t have one. And then there are a few loners from high school that have a Facebook profile.</p>