<p>Wonder how they manage to keep in touch with everybody they know</p>
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We have these things called “telephones”… We use them to talk to others. And we have this thing called “electronic mail”… We use it to write to others.</p>
<p>Email and telephone… What is this, 1990?
We use IM. AIM, MSN, gmail, yahoo, qq, etc</p>
<p>Oh, and seeing people in person. We do that a lot, too.</p>
<p>There’s some friends that I’m not close to enough that I would call or text them. That’s what Facebook is for.</p>
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I don’t think “friend” is the right term if you don’t feel comfortable talking to them…</p>
<p>I’m going to go out on a limb and assume you took it all in. Don’t start what you can’t finish next time. No less!</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m going to contribute my last opinion and then leave it alone. I just feel Facebook isn’t for everyone. Some have legit uses for it while others don’t. I’ll just go and explain why I deleted mine. I simply was getting nothing out of it. I started off with ~200 friends, and then deleted everyone I didn’t “talk to in real life” and got down to ~90. But after months of using it, I just found that I wasn’t enjoying myself and that everyone who I interact with on Facebook, I already keep in touch via other mentioned methods. Furthermore, I never found out about a party through Facebook (we’re emailed with advertisements for parties every week). I never found out about a school event (as these are also emailed to us). So I essentially had no use for it. </p>
<p>I just think Facebook isn’t for everyone. Some have real uses for it like “staying up to date” in large universities, or for those who friends and family are literally scattered all over the world. But for someone like me who has family and friends all in my city/school and who finds out about parties/events/etc via my school email, I found no use for it.</p>
<p>I don’t have Facebook at all. I don’t need it. If I join a club and people need to contact me, there’s a REASON I provided my email address and phone number. I’ve managed to get through 4 years of high school (though actually, Facebook didn’t become available to the public until 2006, so make that 2 years of high school) and 3 years of community college. If people needed to get in contact with me, they would just email me or call me if I gave them my phone number. I’ve never been into social networking sites like Facebook or Myspace, at all. </p>
<p>Are people so engrossed in Facebook these days that they forgot about the existence of email and other forms of communication?</p>
<p>^The common argument for using email is that “it’s very inconvenient to email everyone when I can just communicate with everyone with one click.” To me, I think that’s just pure laziness but nonetheless, that’s people’s reason.</p>
<p>It’s funny though. People like to say “email is so inconvenient” but fail to realize that there would be no Facebook without email accounts as you need an email account to create/have Facebook. Oh zee ironeeeeeee.</p>
<p>Emails are inconvenient. Using an email like an instant messenger service is like using a TV as a mirror. It’s stupid.</p>
<p>I’m going to college in a month and it doesn’t seem like I’ll use Facebook. I think I’ll just stick to MSN.</p>
<p>I know a few high school kids who are not on facebook. They have very active lives and keep up with friends just fine. Years ago, my nephew’s prospective freshman year roommate was not on facebook. My nephew said, “He’s either above facebook or below facebook.” True statement.</p>
<p>Sadcollegestud, to be honest, if I think someone is really cool, sure, I’ll probably text them. However, if it’s someone I don’t really know, I’m probably not going to put in the effort to text them when I can make plans with everyone else via Facebook. It’s inconvenient and I’ll probably honestly forget because I’m a busy person. If someone doesn’t have Facebook, they are more forgettable to me, simply because Facebook helps me keep track of everyone. I can just send out invites to a party or something and that’s easy; remembering to text someone about it because they don’t have Facebook is difficult and I’m honestly not going to remember to do that all the time. Maybe it’s laziness, but if a person is going to make themself hard to contact, then the chances of me really trying to pursue a friendship with them are smaller, because I’m busy.</p>
<p>If I was good friends with a person who didn’t have Facebook, that would be fine, I’d just text them or hang out with them. However I probably would talk to them less because I use Facebook chat a lot just to talk to people, and I wouldn’t be able to do that with them. It’d be fine, but I would talk to them less, is all. When it’s harder to get in contact with someone or when you have to put in more effort, the less likely a close relationship will form, that’s just how it works.</p>
<p>Email is also very necessary for many things, like most professional communication. I also think many people get email accounts specifically so they can sign up for Facebook or other things online, but they don’t send many emails. I use my email a lot for professional things, but I never email any of my friends. I don’t think it’s very ironic.</p>
<p>I don’t need a Facebook. I already communicate with my friends via Skype, and even if we don’t talk on Skype, there are other non-Facebook sites that my friends and I both go on. There’s other ways of keeping in touch without the use of Facebook.</p>
<p>Hmm, I wouldn’t judge them or anything, but I would be curious to find out why they don’t have one. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it is helpful especially to college students who are nervous and trying to see the people they are going to be going to school with. Groups like “X’s college class of 2015” for example do help people to get to know each other and sometimes, even help them find roommates and things before they even start college. So while I would definitely wonder why they don’t have one (hopefully its not for one of those ‘I’m better than facebook’ reasons), but judging them is kind of silly.</p>
<p>I dont have a facebook because my friends and my guys text me or call me. I dont care enough about the lives of strangers to facebook stalk</p>
<p>also i read an article about how the creators admit they have hacked into facebook users emails…good luck with that</p>
<p>I have a FB, but I barely use it. I will check my e-mail and see what has been said and what I’ve been sent before I log onto Facebook. The site is too addictive and too stalker-like for me. I have 90+ people waiting in my Friend’s Requests but I just don’t bother adding them because of the temptation to constantly be on FB. But Facebook does come in handy quite often and keeps me in contact with a lot of people I would have otherwise forgotten about. I do prefer phone calls and texts over FB.</p>
<p>Side Note: I have my FB e-mails go to a separate account just for that site, but that e-mail still links into my phones.</p>
<p>IMHO, the kids in my high school without facebook are friendless, insecure, faux nerdy losers with self esteem problems ranging from those physical to those mental. </p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>The judging going on this thread is just crayzee bro! -_____-</p>
<p>Anyway, I have a FB, and I’m on it every once in awhile. Practically my entire school is on FB, so when something interesting happens around school, everyone knows about it. I like being in the loop, in all honesty.</p>
<p>Back to the question: If it’s someone I don’t know and they don’t have a FB, I could care less. It’s not like I’m going to talk to them… If it’s someone I do talk to, I’d be confused and wonder why they don’t have one. I’d also think they were just trying to be defiant and individualistic, but that’s just me. It’s just a another website people use to stay in touch, no reason to get all huffity puffity over it.</p>
<p>they can still be cool i didnt find out about facebook until the beginning of this year i was still on myspace now when i get to facebook ppl are saying twitter and skype is what everyone is on now. i’d rather have phone numbers than a facebook page.</p>
<p>anachronistic or antisocial.</p>