If I didn’t know better, I’d probably think you’re a facebook advertiser. Many people are content with the friends they already have and aren’t interested in meeting or getting to know more people. Even if they were, if one is not willing to befriend you due to your lack of a social networking profile, then they aren’t worth it in the first place. </p>
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This is classical projection. Just because you formed friendships through facebook, does not mean it should be considered a standard. Personally, I wouldn’t befriend people who aren’t willing to go the “extra mile” (is it really that difficult to dial a phone number these days) to keep in contact due to a lack of facebook. As I stated earlier, none of my small group of friends use facebook, ergo, it would serve me no use.</p>
<p>I’ll admit that im one of those people who are content with having few friends and have no desire to have tons and tons of friends. </p>
<p>I dont see how hard it is to text someone if they dont use fb. I mean its not like im asking them to mail me a letter every week or something. I just think thats pure dr laziness. And like some have mentioned, if someone doesnt want to ho the way to shoot me a text since I dont have fb, then that person isnt worth it. Plain and simple. We’ll both be fine. Our lives were good before and it’ll be good after.</p>
<p>If you’re a self-obsessed tween without an actual life to balance, maybe.</p>
<p>Personally, I find maintaining my Facebook account less time-consuming than checking my email, which is to say not at all. I log in once every few days to see if anyone has left me a message (because I have deactivated my wall to prevent people from posting idiotic crap on it) or sent me a friend request, and that’s pretty much it. I don’t have any personal photos there, and on the rare occasion someone tags me in a picture, I untag myself the next time I log in. I don’t share any personal info either–not even my gender and birthday. For me, there’s really not much to do on Facebook; I have trouble coming up with Facebook features that are compelling enough to actually take up enough of my time to… affect my life? What the hell.</p>
<p>I laugh whenever I hear someone not get a job because of things they have on their Facebook page. I also laugh when I hear people say it won’t happen to them because of their privacy settings.</p>
<p>It amazes me that for most of the folks who’ve posted here, they only relate FB to a single generation. While the OP made no such generalization.
There are groups of older people such as mothers, fathers, and grandparents as well as younger kids who are ‘facebookless’ but are still quite capable of functioning socially.</p>
<p>To make an assumption that all people(def. - 1. Human beings in general or considered collectively.) who are without Facebook are friendless, anti-social, or paranoid is purely ignorant.</p>
<p>My dad made my mom get a facebook. At first she was reluctant, but now she loves it and uses it to reconnect to classmates she hasn’t seen since high school or college and to keep it touch with family members who live far away.</p>
<p>I have noticed that my parents and their fb friends use fb differently than mine. Their posts are usually longer and the comment more often (and their comments are longer). Their news feeds are like a bunch of conversations.</p>
<p>Meh. Two of my best friends are people who have gotten facebook and deleted it. One of them has done that twice. They didn’t have a reason for it. The three of us…none of us play games on it. We don’t talk to anyone on it. They’re surprised I still use mine, since I pretty much never even friend people on it.</p>
<p>I use it to stay in contact with my college, for one. I can easily find messages that the school leaves about news on one easy access page. I can also keep in contact with a writing organization group thing I’m a part of, as well as view the short stories they post and quickly give them my opinion before they are deleted. I can follow a couple of small time musicians I like who post news there before anywhere else. And well…that’s about it.</p>
<p>So my opinion of those who are facebook-less is that…they don’t feel a need for it in their lives. Another friend doesn’t have a facebook because he hates the drama it causes, so that’s another thing there. Rambling…over.</p>
<p>I’d just rather not put in the effort to get to know someone who doesn’t have facebook when I can get to know different people who do have facebook. </p>
<p>When someone says they don’t have a need for facebook, I just assume they don’t want to be friends with me, which is perfectly fine with me. There are hundreds of other people for me to hang out with.</p>
<p>^Same. That’s what I’ve been trying to say as well. There of course will be exceptions, but I’m honestly too busy to track down people who don’t have Facebook.</p>
<p>I can understand you girls views. But in all fairness you should understand people who doesn’t too. I have a very small group of friends and I go to a school with ~1700 students. Also, all of my close family and friends live in my city. Add to this that I’m introverted and have no desire to have tons and tons of friends. So based off this can you see why I have no use for FB? I can totally understand why you have it RoxSox. I think your school has about 30-50k students (sp? correct me if I’m wrong lol). So I totally understand how convenient it would be to organize your social life through it. Plus we have different personalities and outlooks on making friends. </p>
<p>I’m not saying you should “give Facebookless people a chance” but instead of saying "I don’t understand why anyone would not want Facebook, try to put yourself in the shoes of say, someone like me, who virtually has no need for it. That’s all.</p>
<p>I agree with Stratusfaction, I don’t have a fb. I don’t need one. I have plenty of friends. I’m also always busy so I don’t exactly have time for one. Just because someone doesn’t have one doesn’t mean they are social outcasts or anything like that. Everyones different and everyone has a different lifestyle. People just need to be more open minded.</p>
<p>i don’t get what’s so difficult about just getting a person’s number and texting them or calling them. It doesn’t take any longer than posting on their wall would take lol.</p>
<p>I don’t use Facebook because…um…I don’t really like any of my RL high school friends–heh–and I don’t feel the need to keep up with the minutia of their lives. I do plan on setting up an account when I go away to college. When I do, will it seem strange or off-putting to potential new friends that I seem to have very few current friends and no old pictures?</p>