<p>****, I have one and don’t have many friends IRL.</p>
<p>I currently do not have one, but I am about to cave and make one. Since graduating, I hardly ever talk to some of my friends, so I’m going to make one.</p>
<p>During high school I had a few reasons for not having one.</p>
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<li><p>I didn’t need it. I saw most of my friends every day.</p></li>
<li><p>I didn’t want it to steal my soul (it happens).</p></li>
<li><p>I knew that I probably would not use it because I saw my friends every day and if I needed to talk to them I would just call them. This actually happened with myspace back when it was the craze. Everyone pressured me into getting one and then I never used it.</p></li>
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<p>And for the record, I was very popular in high school. And I don’t mean the super popular guy who is an ******* to everyone. I mean the guy that everyone actually likes.</p>
<p>I also don’t have a superiority complex about it. If you want to use facebook, then you can go right ahead.</p>
<p>My roommate this year didn’t have a facebook last year. We had to make one for her. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t necessarily think anything bad about that person. I would be a bit annoyed if we had to do a group project together though because fb is generally the easiest way to do group projects IMO.</p>
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<p>How do you do group projects on Facebook?</p>
<p>The best way to get projects done is to meet in person.</p>
<p>^What if your schedules make doing so very difficult?</p>
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<p>It’s called time management?</p>
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<p>This. </p>
<p>Our classes meet at very different times and often some people have night jobs and others have morning jobs. Two of us leave the city on weekends because we have jobs elsewhere.</p>
<p>I’m in one group project right now and we have to meet at 7:30 AM with our prof because that is the ONLY time during the week all three of us could get together. </p>
<p>If you’re working on a semester long project or something and can only meet once a week, at the most, then fb is the way to get things done. Most of us don’t have a ton of flexible spare time.</p>
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<p>It’s called having fixed responsibilities- fixed job hours, fixed class times, etc.</p>
<p>I’m not friends with people who don’t have facebook. Too much effort.</p>
<p>my roomate doesn’t have a fb cuz he has 6 girlfriends and obviously that would present a problem. now there’s a legit reason lol</p>
<p>I guess if I find out someone doesn’t have a Facebook, I think they must not have many friends or aren’t very socially connected. Maybe that’s not the nicest thing to think, but I’ll admit that’s what comes to my mind first.</p>
<p>Also, the people I have met that don’t have Facebook have been really awkward, in my personal experience.</p>
<p>Well I have a facebook but I only made it and started using it a few months ago to keep in touch with my half-sister and other members of my family, it really holds no interest to me because I already talk to the only people I care to talk to through other means. Personally my impression of someone who has to ask a question like this or feels that people who don’t talk on Facebook are weird is that they have some superiority complex of their OWN to work out.</p>
<p>First impression: they’re a snob who doesn’t have a facebook because they want to be different and have no other way of standing out.</p>
<p>This isn’t always the case, so I make sure to ask a few follow-up questions. It’s true only about 3 out of 4 times.</p>
<p>I guess I’m different than most people’s assumptions. I deleted mine almost 2 months ago. 1) It wastes too much time. 2) Too much gossip and junk for me. 3) I was getting tired of relationships with friends and whatnot that were almost exclusively facebook-based.</p>
<p>Now, if someone wants to talk to me, they can either text or call me. I like and prefer it that way. It’s a lot easier to become good friends with someone that way and through hanging out than through facebook.</p>
<p>I know lots of people who don’t have facebook (or who used it and then deactivated). They’re not <em>that</em> different from the norm. </p>
<p>And I know plenty of other people whose facebooks hardly have any activity at all (especially academic geniuses). If they could stay away from facebook for so long, I’m sure a lot of others like them could live without it </p>
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<p>OMG wow - do you have a URL?</p>
<p>If you tried to manage all our friends and connections thru phone and text only, there is no way I would have time for anything else in life. Its simple and reduces complexities.</p>
<p>^^Agreed.
I know this girl who refuses to have a facebook or a cell phone because she think it’s so conformist. She makes everyone call her dorm room phone (which she pays the bill for), and sometimes her roommate picks up and you have to ask for her. It’s so weird, and just yuck.</p>
<p>She’s very difficult to be friends with because she’s really haughty and if you do anything that other people happen to do as well (aka listen to Vampire Weekend or something) she immediately assumes you’re just conforming. She insists on listening to oldies 24/7 and consistently rambles on about “how much teenagers just suck” all over the place. It’s honestly so annoying.</p>
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<p>And that is weird because?</p>
<p>It’s weird because the reasons she pays for this dorm phone, are just so unreasonable. She comes from a wealthy family and EVERY SINGLE OTHER person in her family has a cell phone, but she won’t get one, just because she doesn’t want to “conform” to the today’s young people. She looks down on everyone else who has a cell phone.</p>
<p>And then when she picks up the phone, she’s all smug because someone called her to talk, and didn’t just text like they would for everyone else. I had to call her at the beginning of the year because she had something of mine and she was all “doesn’t it feel good to be away from that cell phone keyboard for a change? for once, you’re not a conforming teenager”</p>
<p>Honestly.</p>
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<p>Can you give me her phone number because I completely agree with her. :)</p>
<p>I hate cell phones with a passion. I do not use them and have no use for them. If I want to contact somebody I’ll send them an e-mail (if it’s not urgent) or call them (if it’s urgent). </p>
<p>I see so many people today strapped to their cell phones texting or others who look dumb and have a cell phone on their ear. My question to them is: Are you really that important? Isn’t it easier to talk to that person directly than text the person? In a way, we are go backwards in communicating with each other.</p>