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Is it possible to live in the modern world and not use Facebook? - ArtLover - 03-28-2014 11:59 AM
Candy Crush wants me to connect. Farm whatsit wants me to connect. My school sends out notifications solely via Facebook. Everybody wants to connect on Facebook. I can create 10 different logins and passwords for 10 different sites, or I can log in to all of them with Facebook.
Is it so bad to not want to use Facebook? It's inconvenient, but I just feel like I want to keep my private life private. Should I give up and jump on the bandwagon?
OMG FACEBOOK HAS ITS OWN CATEGORY ON Y!A . I think I may have just answered my own question. I'm going to go wear a tin foil hat now before it takes over my brain too.
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Chris: Yes! That's what I find. It's Facebook or nothing, and Facebook always tries to steal your contacts! I hit the "hell no" button too. I was just wondering if I'm fighting a losing battle here.
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- Eric - 03-28-2014 12:06 PM
don't do it. its just a phase. remember Myspace?
- Tan - 03-28-2014 12:12 PM
Absolutely, if your worried about the business side of not having a Facebook, there's LinkedIn and for the social side there's twitter, tumblr etc
- punk921 - 03-28-2014 12:24 PM
I don't like using Facebook, as well, mainly because I think it's a privacy invasion(MY OPINION).
Nevertheless, to be connected with my social group, there's always Twitter.
- Chris - 03-28-2014 12:31 PM
There are some applications that give you no choice; it's the only way to authenticate. So far, I have decided simply to not use any of those. I have a (very) few things tied to Facebook, but most applications want rights to access your friends list, personal information, sometimes photos, and worst of all, the right to post as you *even when you're not logged into the application*. To those, I say "hell no", because they're almost certain to spam my wall and my friends with advertising posts that supposedly came from me, many of which I'd probably be unhappy with.
- Kapil - 03-28-2014 12:35 PM
Your private life as much private as you would want to make it.. don't share any personal info there.. just observe activities there.. that's what i do...
- Tommy - 03-28-2014 12:49 PM
I have Family that were on Facebook 'til 3 or 4 years ago . . . then just dropped it & never came back.
I'm not sure who's better off . . . them or me?
- Daniel - 03-28-2014 12:52 PM
Yes its Possible To Do So Not Everybody Is on Facebook and Uses it
- bcnu - 03-28-2014 01:06 PM
I see no reason to ever use FB or even to apply for an account. When I try to comment on blogs and it asks me to "sign in using Facebook", I just assume they don't want my business and so I go away and never come back.