You hate facebook? Too bad...you will eventually get an account.

MADASINHATTER · Mar 3, 2012

Quote from peilthetraveler:

I was at a seminar last week and they said something very interesting. We were learning marketing techniques and they asked how many people do not have a facebook account. About 40 or 50% raised their hands. Then they asked, how many of you plan to NEVER get a facebook account and about 25 or 30% raised their hands.

Then the guy said "Now, those of you still holding your hands up...how many of you said 15 years ago, you said you would never get a cell phone?" About the same amount held their hands up. Then he asked "and how many of you still don't have a cell phone" And only 1 person raised their hand (in a room of 300 people).

Although many of you do not want to admit it, if you are not on facebook, its almost like not having a cell phone. If you dont have a facebook profile, there are many employers nowadays that are going to think there is something wrong with you, or that you are hiding something. Although today its still accepted by that its ok to not have a facebook profile, maybe in 5 or 10 years, it will be unacceptable. You will be looked at the same way we look at people that live in the mountains without TV, electricity or the other comforts of life. Yeah, maybe its ok to live that way, but dont expect anyone to give you a job or that it will be easy to integrate back into the world should you get tired of living that way.
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Learn to trade .. you don't need an employer or facebook.In this world today you either take complete control of your life or it takes complete control of you

luisHK · Mar 4, 2012

Quote from peilthetraveler:

I was at a seminar last week and they said something very interesting. We were learning marketing techniques and they asked how many people do not have a facebook account. About 40 or 50% raised their hands. Then they asked, how many of you plan to NEVER get a facebook account and about 25 or 30% raised their hands.

Then the guy said "Now, those of you still holding your hands up...how many of you said 15 years ago, you said you would never get a cell phone?" About the same amount held their hands up.
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A little fishy, I doubt those not wanting a facebook account all were the same ones not wanting a cellphone - I had my 1st cellphone as soon as I could, slightly over 15 y ago, yet don't intend to get a facebook account. As of not beeing on facebook sending a wrong impression on beeing too secretive, discretion is actually a quality apreciated in many circles .

S2007S · Mar 4, 2012

Quote from peilthetraveler:

I was at a seminar last week and they said something very interesting. We were learning marketing techniques and they asked how many people do not have a facebook account. About 40 or 50% raised their hands. Then they asked, how many of you plan to NEVER get a facebook account and about 25 or 30% raised their hands.

Then the guy said "Now, those of you still holding your hands up...how many of you said 15 years ago, you said you would never get a cell phone?" About the same amount held their hands up. Then he asked "and how many of you still don't have a cell phone" And only 1 person raised their hand (in a room of 300 people).

Although many of you do not want to admit it, if you are not on facebook, its almost like not having a cell phone. If you dont have a facebook profile, there are many employers nowadays that are going to think there is something wrong with you, or that you are hiding something. Although today its still accepted by that its ok to not have a facebook profile, maybe in 5 or 10 years, it will be unacceptable. You will be looked at the same way we look at people that live in the mountains without TV, electricity or the other comforts of life. Yeah, maybe its ok to live that way, but dont expect anyone to give you a job or that it will be easy to integrate back into the world should you get tired of living that way.
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Its not like having a cell phone??? What ever this guy is talking about just take it and throw it out the window, he has no clue what he saying. You cannot compare a cell phone to having a facebook account....

As for something being wrong with a person who doesnt have a facebook account to me is idiotic, its just absouletly foolish to think like that...

Why does not having a facebook page mean you are hiding something, I need a really clear answer on that first....and since when do you need a facebook page to get a job, who is coming up with this nonsense????

If anything most people on facebook today hide their accounts from outside people, meaning the only people who get to view their page are the selected few that they allow.......

facebook is a trend, how anyone can think having a facebook page is the thing of the future doesnt know much....facebook will lose its hype just like everything else in social networking thats hot now and not hot the next.

S2007S · Mar 4, 2012

Quote from luisHK:

As of not beeing on facebook sending a wrong impression on beeing too secretive, discretion is actually a quality apreciated in many circles .
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exactly....sooner or later people who have accounts are actually going to finally say what is the point of posting this lame worthless content day in and day out....who cares what restaurant someone is eating at or what music they are listening to, its all worthless dribble.

southbeach4me · Mar 4, 2012

Quote from S2007S:

exactly....sooner or later people who have accounts are actually going to finally say what is the point of posting this lame worthless content day in and day out....who cares what restaurant someone is eating at or what music they are listening to, its all worthless dribble.
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Why anyone would want hundreds of other people knowing when they are going to a movie, taking a vacation, or about to take a dump is beyond me. I deleted my acct last summer and have never looked back, good riddance !!!

riskaddict · Mar 4, 2012

My local newspaper's online content now requires anyone who wants to comment on an article to link your FB account to the site and then when you comment your are actually doing it under your FB account so it isn't anonymous any more. So no more hateful or racist comments which makes it not very entertaining to read but even people that once posted insightful comments no longer post.

I know a bunch of people who's employers forbid them to even have a FB accounts; teachers, a couple federal employees... I guess you can always have a dummy account with an alias to stalk people or find deals. I also know a few people that have ruined friendships and made family situations very uncomfortable because of FB. All in all I would say the cons out weight the pros as far as fb's effect on society.

S2007S · Mar 4, 2012

Quote from riskaddict:

My local newspaper's online content now requires anyone who wants to comment on an article to link your FB account to the site and then when you comment your are actually doing it under your FB account so it isn't anonymous any more. So no more hateful or racist comments which makes it not very entertaining to read but even people that once posted insightful comments no longer post.

I know a bunch of people who's employers forbid them to even have a FB accounts; teachers, a couple federal employees... I guess you can always have a dummy account with an alias to stalk people or find deals. I also know a few people that have ruined friendships and made family situations very uncomfortable because of FB. All in all I would say the cons out weight the pros as far as fb's effect on society.
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All you have to do is type in facebook and link it to news in any search engine, you will find more cons than pros when it comes to news relating to facebook and the people that are it....

jalee25 · Mar 5, 2012

read an article about a study saying facebook can be a waste of valuable time

thinks et is a better read

trader345 · Mar 5, 2012

Quote from byteme:

Unlike you Andrew, many people prefer not to have a lot of personal information about them, their families, their relationships, including personal photos, locations, ages, names, etc. publicly visible to complete strangers.

For this reason alone there will always be people who opt-out of Facebook. Indeed, my understanding is that Facebook membership may actually be declining or plateauing in developed countries - perhaps partly due to numerous privacy issues that Facebook has had to deal with.

Out of two prospective employees, I know that the one with a Facebook account will waste more company time and Internet bandwidth on non-work related matters.

Out of two prospective employees, I may not decide to interview the one with a Facebook account if I see something on his/her profile that puts me off.

I could be more persuaded about relevance of a LinkedIn profile.
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how would you feel about a prospective employee who uses facebook under a pseudonym to prevent being data-mined?

Mayhem · Mar 5, 2012

Eh, I'll tell you why a cell phone is a vital tool, and facebook is just another decaying social media app like MySpace... because even back in the 70's (assuming you had a TV), it was super-cool to see Capt Kirk, Spock, and McCoy using a Communicator:

Everyone who saw that wished they could have one, and wondered if it would ever be invented in their lifetimes. No one, absolutely no one, wanted to see Capt Kirk hunched over a computer keyboard trying to look at thumbnail photos of women he remembered as hot back in high school.

To me, that's the most depressing aspect of Facebook... all the hot girls from high school got really un-hot so freakin' fast. Speaking about TV, I was channel surfing last night, and stopped at Trump's Celebrity Apprentice for about 5 minutes and saw a 40-year Debbie Gibson sucking up to Trump, and that, too, was depressing.

Debbie went from fresh faced cutie:

To divorced mom with an eating disorder who sucks up to Donald Trump for a few moments under the spotlight again:

How sad... especially when you consider the calorie counting, the personal grooming, and cosmetic injections she needs to go through just to achieve that... she's got thicker lips now than she has when she was 18.

As for me, I deliberately post disinformation on my bogus Facebook page. That way I can get all the $2 off coupons from Dominos Pizza that I want, and the interwebs think I am an Obama-lovin' lezbo activist who is really interested in the "reproductive rights" of lesbian couples. Plus I auto-clear my cookies and use multiple browsers so they can't even data mine my real interests.