<p>I’m on a performance team/club and we use facebook as a way to keep updated between our weekly practices. We run discussions through group messages discussing links to costume choices/performance opportunities/ changes in plans/ rough choreography videos/ect. We also host a beginner’s class and all announcements/ reminders are sent through facebook. Many clubs on campus rely on facebook alone to be their form of communication between members.</p>
<p>I dont have a facebook, I just use my celly to keep in touch with people. If people are stupid enough to judge you just because you dont use an online item like they do, then i think that is just ridiculous, seriously…passing judgement on others just because they dont have a facebook. Its perfectly fine to keep in touch with people any way you like, it just has to be convienient fot YOU.</p>
<p>Cell phones are actually very useful, especially in emergency situations. And just because someone owns a cell phone doesn’t mean they are strapped to it… I mean damn, it’s they same concept as a land line phone, people can be/use to be strapped to their land-lines when they were home, someone people would be on their land-line phones all the time.
And sometimes it IS easier to text someone, especially if you’re not face to face someone… you obviously can talk to them directly… you have to use some form of a other communication.</p>
<p>I prefer personal contact and interactions with my friends; face to face kind of things, so that I can more easily navigate the world of interpretation and understanding that comes along with being able to /see/ reactions to the things we talk about… but after all that, I do have a facebook. However, in no way do my friends from out of state use it to keep in contact with me after all these years, despite being on my facebook friends list.</p>
<p>After a while it seems kind of pointless to have one.</p>
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<p>This. Only real reason to not have a Facebook.</p>
<p>We live in a time where there is too much technology to not join Facebook. You’re getting left behind in the dust if you don’t have a Facebook yet. Start catching up with the times. Seriously.</p>
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<p>What are you missing if you don’t have Facebook?</p>
<p>^^^ Exactly. I get the important, quick updates from things I’m interested in from Twitter. If a friend wants to talk or chill or something, I have a cell phone.</p>
<p>If you don’t have a Facebook, you’re missing out on a crapload of gossip. Whoopdedoo.</p>
<p>If someone is going to judge me because I don’t have a facebook, **** them. I honestly wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who looks at me differently only because I don’t have a facebook. On facebook people can have any image they desire. But in real life your friends see what your really like, not some fake picture on your wall.</p>
<p>I don’t have a facebook. Splendid isolation worked for the Brits right? I’ve got enough friends and a girlfriend, so I don’t see the point of making “friends” with lots of people that I don’t want to know.</p>
<p>love how everyone without a facebook flocks to this thread to defend themselves</p>
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Um… well… Idk, only the most creative way to communicate by long distances ever? Keeping in touch with friends you guys supposedly have? What else… hmmm. </p>
<p>John: “Oh crap, my phone was damaged/lost”
Jim: “Aww man, how are you going to get in touch with your girlfriend who lives 40 minutes away?”
John: “Idk… this sucks…”
Jim: “Whatever, sucks for you man. I’m going to go talk to my aunt who lives 700 miles away, my son who goes to Harvard, and my mom who is on a cruise in the Caribbean all on Facebook. See ya!”</p>
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Gossip? Let me tell you what I just did on FaceBook like 20 minutes ago. I saw one of my friends online. I sent him a message just saying what’s up. He said Did I do the AP Biology homework. I said, holy crap, I totally forgot. Thanks to Facebook, I’m doing my AP Bio homework.</p>
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How do you feel about someone who doesn’t have a phone and you need to contact them? Same thing with Facebook. In the future, this waste of time called Facebook (and other similar websites) will be an important way to communicate. Jobs might use them to talk to employees. It might be used for the college admission process (already is in some cases). </p>
<p>If you guys want to be left behind in the dust, go ahead, be my guest. </p>
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<p>Anyways, I’m out. G2g do my AP Bio Homework. Actually, first let me hit up my AP Language teacher from last year who moved away, and I really need a recommendation letter from her. OH WAIT! She didn’t give students her phone number… Oh that’s right. I have her added on Facebook. SEE YA!</p>
<p>You can’t do that with email or a phone? Get real kid.</p>
<p>^ To be fair, a lot of people check their facebooks a lot more than phones and emails are generally too slow unless you’re constantly checking it.</p>
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<p>Uh… not many people check their e-mail frequently. Cell phones cost more than Facebook. 
Plus, they aren’t even half as interesting, cool, and fun to use as Facebook for communicating purposes. Unless you don’t have friends, I really don’t understand the negatives of Facebook.</p>
<p>I check my email very frequently, but it doesn’t hurt that I have a BlackBerry. Also, in college you’ll be expected to check your school email at least once a day because that’s how teachers communicate with students. </p>
<p>And yes cell phone plans do cost more than Facebook, but everybody I know has a cell phone, even poor day laborers.</p>
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<p>My phone bill costs $20 every month. Internet costs $50. You be the judge.</p>
<p>Yeah, but your cost for internet is spread around several things, not just Facebook.
Would you rather get ten oranges for $5, or 5 apples for $3?</p>
<p>I don’t know. I guess I’m comparing apples to oranges, but you decide.</p>
<p>Well I’d say a cell phone and an Internet connection are both very important things to have these days. That cell phone already provides two forms of communication (text and phone), even more if you have a data plan. That internet connection in and of itself provides email but also provides access to other forms of communication.</p>
<p>I do admit that my friends and I mainly coordinate things through Facebook, but that’s just the tool du jour. Before that we’d use AIM and phone conversations (and we still often do use phone convos). In 10 years it’ll be something else.</p>
<p>And frankly I hate having long conversations over the internet (excluding things like Skype), because a long conversation generally is a conversation of importance, and I like to hear the other person’s voice when we’re talking about something important. Consider a friend texting/chatting you with “I just broke up with my gf” versus that friend calling you and saying that, versus that friend meeting up with you face-to-face and saying that. You can’t garner any sort of information on how your friend is feeling through plain text, you can get some information by voice alone, and you can get the maximum amount of information through seeing his face.</p>
<p>My friends and I used livejournal to coordinate social gatherings before facebook. Now that’s barbaric. :P</p>