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I tend to add people I feel I have something in common with, or chat to on a regular basis. Or, if I've found you interesting in the past, I'll add you . So, anyone?

^ That doesn't mean I won't accept anyone!

I think I will pass for now. I do think this is not a bad idea at all is would give you the idea of how others on the spectrum are doing with at least their e-social lives.

From my perspective, Fakebook is Hermit Heroin; it just gives people another excuse not to go outside for 2 minutes out of the day. It gives the illusion that people really have that many friends and I'd hardly call fortune-cookie philosophical blurbs meaningful conversation. The only useful thing I get from it is that it remembers people's birthdays for me. Tried it, didn't like it.

I don't use it because I am wary of how the information I post there will be used. I mean, call me crazy, but it is a ubiquitous service that everyone posts all of their personal data, web site likes and dislikes and social connections on and it's free? How are they REALLY using the data they collect? How accurate a picture of you could someone paint just from reading your Facebook page and looking at the kinds of people you associate with? I prefer to reveal myself only to those I choose and even then, I usually only reveal a certain portion of who I am. I don't want my government or future employer having access to so much data that could be used against me. I'd rather make them work for it.

I don't use it. People make me feel like I'm part of a collection when they add me. It feels meaningless and superficial. If someone really cared they'd call me or hang out in person. It just feels like a cheap substitute for interaction.

I refuse to use facebook. I don't see the point, and I've dealt with other "social" networks before. People's "friendship" is treated as a commodity.

If you've ever seen the south park episode about it, Stan's experience is pretty much EXACTLY what I went thru involving stupid social networks. People who I knew in real life, who I was friends with in real life, would give me hell because I had a page and didn't add them... it's not about being friends with people, it's about artificially advertising to the world who your friends are, so you can find people with fewer friends and go "haha, look at me, I have more friends than you!" It's ridiculous, and it's dumb. I don't need to tell people about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich I just ate. And I don't care to know about anybody else eating one. If you want me to know something, friggin' tell me. I will never use facebook.

i have added 3-4 people from wrongplanet on facebook.
one of them clicks like to my pictures and status updates and viceversa
and with others there is barely any interaction.
but maybe you should start with the wrongplanet group on FB

Gee people, don't *throw* yourselves at me. I can't deal with your requests *all* at once.

/sarcasm

I would add you if it wasn't for f*****g facebook, in fact I would add anyone on here to my friends list. It's just a friends list lol.

True. It's just an address book with faces instead.

Funny how everyone just bluntly refuses to give their contact-id to the OP, I mean if Smudge if you like to add me somewhere you can have my gmail-address, that's all I have atm, I don't have a facebook account anymore and will never ever re-create it in my entire life.

I rarely add people because I am afraid of rejections. There were a couple of people here I enjoyed talking to and they both ended up hurting me. One of them apologize to me over a year later back in May. They were both on my Facebook friends from here. I had another person from here on my Facebook but we didn't even talk on here and he removed me because I didn't talk to him on Facebook such as commenting on his status or sending him messages and he thought there was something wrong with my picture because I wasn't holding my baby. But he was a jerk anyway and seemed unaware of it so it didn't bother me as much and we were never friends to begin with.

I think the thing that facebook does is everything where Robin Hood should be called for to fix, give popular people more friends and defriend and ignore those who are +- friendless.

I'm new to the forum but I do have Facebook. PM me for my contact if you want (females only, I don't feel comfortable adding men I don't know).

Any friends I have can call me or text me on the telephone, email me, or google chat me. Fairly simple. No need for Facebook.

The big reason I don't wish to use Facebook is I don't like anyone from highschool. Why would I want them messaging me?