<p>@ generally: I don’t believe “antisocial” means what you think it means. There’s a lot more to someone actually being “antisocial” other than not liking to be around other people. And once again, there are other means of communication other than Facebook.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry, what? I have friends and I’m not insecure. I lived more than half of my life without Facebook, and I’m fine. Like I said previously, I have other means of keeping in touch with people without Facebook. It’s a sad day in society when people like you think that Facebook is the only method of communication in the world. 
And since Google came out with Google Plus, I might use that instead of FB since so far, Google Plus doesn’t have privacy issues like Facebook does.</p>
<p>I used facebook a lot in the beginning, but I don’t think I have used it more than 5-10 times in the last two years. A lot of people are way too obsessed with what other people are doing. I, however, am only interested in what other people are doing 5-10 times every two years. If one of my friends wants to get in touch, they have my number.</p>
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I have never had privacy issues with Facebook (that I noticed), but I have had privacy issues with Google services (not Google Plus in particular; haven’t used that).</p>
<p>Paragraphs upon paragraphs about a website, don’t we have better things to do than argue about Zuckerberg’s cash cow?</p>
<p>I’ll start a gay roommate thread.</p>
<p>Facebook is good to stay up to date on other things too, like my university has several “pages” and clubs at the uni do as well. Plus you can make groups of people (ie a sports team or club) and communicate with them in the same place…you can’t do that with email unless everyone pushes “reply all,” and that never happens.</p>
<p>I do a lot of communication VIA texting, but also use facebook to follow other interests. For instance, the Wisconsin Badger page posted a link to a live chat with three football players that were answering questions for 30 minutes. If I had not had facebook, I would have missed out. I also use it to keep in touch with my brother living 1500 miles away, as well as friends living in the same neighborhood as me. Obviously the manner in which I communicate with them is different (“How is Montana?” vs. “Hey, do you want to have a LAN party at my house tonight?”).</p>
<p>I really don’t care if someone has a Facebook or not though. If they choose not to, they probably have a good reason for it, and they have to live with the benefits (not being addicted to it), and consequences (potentially missing out on social events).</p>
<p>Email/text/phone/instant messaging/twitter couldn’t easily replace everything that I do with Facebook. I use Facebook for</p>
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<li><p>Sharing pictures. I would never get most of the pictures that other people have of me if they didn’t upload them on Facebook. </p></li>
<li><p>Organizing events. It’s easy to invite my friends or groups or networks. I found that more people RSVP on Facebook than via email (probably because it takes only a single click on Facebook) and Facebook will track the RSVPs for me. And there’s space to discuss the event; having all of the information in a single central location is so much more convenient than flooding people’s email inboxes. </p></li>
<li><p>Keeping my social life separate from my school- and work-related life. I kinda use Facebook messaging like a third email address. (My two real emails are for school/work and spam.)</p></li>
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<p>Barium, that’s exactly true. Instead of treating facebook as your life, think of it as an extension of your life. Use it to coordinate and supplement real events.</p>
<p>Smart. Who ever doesn’t have a Facebook is smart ass hell, ii mean you gotta listen to other peoples crap all day, why the hell would someone want to read pointless posts, if you want to know what your friends are actually thinking, just ask…</p>
<p>@Majurg, there’s an option to remove certain people’s statuses from your news feed. It’s awesome!</p>
<p>I personally could probably count with the fingers on one hand the number of people I know who are of high school or college age and don’t have a Facebook, but I don’t see any reason to judge them for not having one… I myself didn’t have one until last summer, when I attended a summer program with kids from all over the state; some new acquaintances suggested that I create one, and I did at the time mainly to keep in touch with acquaintances I would likely not see in person too much, if ever again, once the program was over. Now that I’ve graduated h.s., I find Fb as an even more useful tool to help keep in touch with h.s. friends and classmates. However, I could totally see why someone might not want to have one… I was reluctant to get one earlier b/c I was afraid I’d become addicted to it (I’m not). Also, there are many other ways to keep in touch or communicate with friends besides chatting/messaging ppl or reading/posting statuses. While it is pretty unusual, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with someone not having a Fb account, or some other social networking account. It doesn’t make you antisocial, rebellious, or weird.</p>
<p>I don’t have facebook and neither do any of my close friends. It’s not that I’m against conformity (which I usually am), I just do not see a use for it. I am not into partying or attending social events and family members in other parts of the world know my home number if they need to contact me. So, in response to your question, I wouldn’t think any more or less of them if they did not have a facebook.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t have a problem with people that don’t have one. I’m just less likely to get to know them. I’m sure lots of people without Facebook are really nice people.</p>
<p>I’d think maybe they were international and or they used either myspace, hi5, orkut, bebo, friendster, cyworld, livejournal, IRC-galleria, google+, linkedin, QQ, xanga, or live spaces instead.</p>
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gay roommates wearing cargo pants?</p>
<p>Depends on who they are. Depending on the type of vibe they give me, either:</p>
<p>A. They live in a hole (too ignorant to have one)
B. They’re “too cool” for it (this is rare)</p>
<p>Two of my best friends just gave up their Facebook accounts, and another of my best friends gave his up in March. Contacting these people is a little bit more challenging, but I’m certainly going to remain friends with them.</p>
<p>I’d recommend having a Facebook in college. How much you use it is entirely up to you.</p>
<p>I almost never check Facebook, but I do have a page. It certainly can’t hurt and at least this way I don’t have to worry about somebody pranking me by creating a fake one.</p>
<p>If somebody doesn’t really use Facebook, that seems smart to me. If somebody never even created a page, I figure they have something to prove.</p>
<p>I usually think that they don’t have internet, overbearing parents, or they just aren’t big on social networking.</p>