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I used to be a huge myspace fan. But all the crap and spamming that went along with it just turned me off. I haven't even tried facebook, and i'm not about to!

I tend to avoid Facebook, like the plague.

http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/job ... 22897.html

Interesting Article.

I'm anti-facebook too.
I've already been stalked on the internet by mobbing co-workers trying to get their hands on as much sensitive information as possible - mostly to ridiculize me back at the office with things they knew caused me a great deal of pain.
Even at my current workplace there's this idiot who yesterday took the guy I was talking to aside and began howling that he had "found evidence that I was a fa***t" and went on a vicious 10 minute rant out of which I could only get the other guy replying "aw, c'mon, he's not gay. . .". This idiot has done similar things in the past and had been walking past my cubicle while staring at me for the last few weeks before this outburst - it's a typical mobbing/harassment case as it's obvious he's been reacting to things that most likely caused him an insane amount of envy.

So why would I want people like that to track me down and make acquaintances with people I actually do get along well outside the workplace? to know who my friends are? to know things about my girlfriend? Why would I want people who did similar things in high school or uni to obtain information about me and become acquainted with everyone in my present life? Why would I want to bring employers, teachers, graduate school classmates into this mess? Why would I want them all to know how do I relate to Nietzsche, what food repeats on me or whether I was feeling lonely during holidays?

I think facebook and the like may be for the majority of people - who are knee deep in their own socially shared sewage anyway - but I can't see myself profiting from it; even if limited my information or post misleading stuff it'd just create another social/privacy layer to have to be worried about.

I'm both on facebook and hi5. I often recieve friend requests from both people I know and don't know, and now I've got myself a considerably extense list of friends on both socializing networks. I also sometimes send messages and comment on profiles of people I know, and I think all that is pretty cool and helps me to be a little less shy and secluded, since my social skills in real life aren't exactly sharp-edged...even though I sometimes find all of these "socializing activities on the Net" very boring and I even feel I'm wasting my time on things that aren't really indispensable to me.

Facebook is fine, if you post on forums enough your soon realize if you like the internet privacy is pointless.

I don't like facebook or anything that has to do with chat sites, besides wrongplanet

I don't see the appeal. I opened a facebook account to see what it was all about, so nobody can say I never gave it a go. It's just not something I'd be motivated to put any time into maintaining.

my feelings exactly

Very interesting indeed - thanks for the link

I enjoyed Facebook since people have busy lives most of the time. I am able to contact my friends and they will get back to me when possible. Being social is a good item in life and you have to face the music eventually. I have being on Facebook since my freshman year at Mason when a good friend of mine mentioned the site to me.

Not a facebook or myspace fan. Being social is something I'd rather do in person. Spend enough time behind a computer as it is and too me facebook and others are like more work.

Thank god/allah/ganesha others agree Facebook sucks! no choice in backgrounds, cant browse peoples pros before adding... I will die a loyal myspace user!

I have account at Facebook; I wanted to try and explore it. I have this account for about 3 months and have 8 friends there. Now I am using it very rarely, only for discussions in groups.
I don't hate it; I simply don't understand why to use it and I don't understand people which are logged on Facebook for hours. Somebody tells me that "it's fine that you know what your friends are doing, when you see picture of them in Paris, you know why you are not meeting him" but I really don't care what they are doing.
But on Facebook I really hate all that invitations for games, online tests and virtual lollipop licking, beer drinking etc.! !

Mostly agree with the above, and in fact I know know more about my friends and vice versa than from real life. And see them in person more as a result.

One issue though,(It's guilt mainly, an open apology to anyone who might have been affected )

I am private, and there are not that many people I know well enough to tell when they make comments I dislike. There is a "core" of friends I can say exactly what I think to, as rudely as possible and they are the same.(it's kind of a running joke of insulting each other too)
I also wanted to put some family pictures on FB, and then got paranoid about people I didn't know seeing them. So a while back I had a bit of a purge, and deleted anyone who wasn't on my "I either know IRL or know well enough" list. (worse still, I had set up a list and just deleted names not in that list)
This unfortunately got rid of some people who were AS but who I had next to nothing in common with or didn't feel comfortable with them seeing family pictures. I feel sort of bad about this as I know I dislike rejection without explanation....but I don't go around adding people I don't know IRL on facebook unless I have read enough posts on groups etc by them and have more than just AS in common. Ok, I can tell I feel guilty, I'm rambling.

So if you were a deleted one, SORREEE

personally, I like facebook. Myspace I only use because there are some people that only use facebook. I most prefer facebook because of the privacy issues until some changes they made with the settings. But after reading how to fix them, I took care of it. It makes it easy to keep in touch with people without having to talk with them.