As Facebook grows, millions say, 'no, thanks' | Nation & World | The Seattle Times

I admit that I have a FB account, but I've set the privacy settings so tight that I might as well close the account. Never been one to keep in touch with people I barely know or find out if my nephew farted this morning or not.

APC is MY FB!

 

I'm one of the "no, thanks" people. I don't need for someone I didn't like in school (or who didn't like me) to contact me and try to become friends. If we didn't care about each other enough to stay in touch then, why revisit it decades later?!

I have my circle of friends and acquaintances I keep in touch with through other means. I also don't need my pictures posted for the world to see.

 

I think it has a very minor value as a sort of public yearbook. Go in there once a year and put where the heck you live now. I go months without even thinking about it.

Was listening to an NPR talk show yesterday and they were saying studies show FB mostly appeals to narcissists. "Look at me." They were also trying to connect the media culture to youth today, saying that youth today define self based on public utterances rather than by internal metrics or means. The expression they used was, "I facebook, therefore I am." I find this kind of impoverished mentality sad because it denotes a person who cannot find contentment in the self. They apparently get depressed if they are alone. They absolutely must find happiness outside of the self.

Socializing is of course a happy thing to do, but when you cannot go 5 minutes without Tweeting, Facebooking, or yapping mindlessly on a cell phone then the culture has gone too far. Bear in mind this "I facebook therefore I am" culture is partly if not fully the result of long commercial exploitation by corporations wanting to sell services and equipment. I see pop media culture addicts as victims.

 

I use it as an easy way to reach out to people (who might have changed their email). I don't use the social aspect of it.

 

I'm a Facebook user. I started using it as a way to show my family and friends the videos and pictures of my deployments/layovers. However, since joining it, Facebook has changed in many ways and in ways that I do not like. Privacy concerns are a huge problem now. And as such, my profile is locked down as much as possible.

For networking, there is nothing better than Facebook. But in my opinion, Facebook is a fad and now is starting to go downhill. Many of my friends who convinced me to join it, don't use it anymore.

 

Agreed. In this job it can be an excellent way to keep in touch, or just see what your friends are up to since this career doesn't provide for much face to face interaction with coworkers/friends on anything resembling a normal basis. As well as trying to keep in touch via phone and playing constant phone tag, etc.

But it's quickly approaching a "myspace" level of an overly trendy fad.

 

Facebook is a hardware company...Always has been...

 

Myspace lost because they couldn't scale their hardware...

 

The best thing about Facebook is going to be the awesome shorting opportunity after the inflated IPO pops.

 

Technology is GREAT! It'll know who you are...
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