Comments on: No Facebook = Social Suicide?

By: a Guest

a Guest — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:50:10 +0000

In all honesty… I don't care if I barely exist to you. Why should I care what some average joe thinks?

Proper social skills is making the effort to meet someone for real, sitting around a table and talking to them face to face, over a coffee / beer / dinner.

It makes me laugh when people say they have a 1000 friends on facebook. They are not real friends, they couldn't give a f*** about you, a REAL friend is someone who will do anything for you, not some random on facebook.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:17:27 +0000

"I mean, how do you live without Facebook?"

Is that a serious question because my answer would be: probably the same way you lived before Facebook was created.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:04:11 +0000

the only reason facebook excist is getting as much as possible information about you to sell to advertisers, they dont care about privacy. Facebook is banned from my computer No single bit are going to them

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:27 +0000

Well I dont have a facebook, and im more social than one friend of mine that has one…the true social life is not on internet but in real life…what do you think ,that puting " like" on a photo is going to make you more friends? of course not…people that use facebook too much have no life…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:07:22 +0000

Fuck facebook. It’s such a pathetic waste to try and micromanage every aspect of your life let alone every aspect of your image. There is no romance in the world anymore and nothing is left to chance. Everything is a cold calculated move made after hours of studying a persons FB page. Companies now base their sales on the information we put on it and we base our judgements of people on it even though we know their pages are like plastic surgery. You can imagine with this opinion how annoying it is to hear someone say “you’re a social outcast” if you don’t have one. if everyone in life is a creepy, fake peeping Tom I’ll just go be a “social outcast”. I don’t want to live a life of small talk and spoon feed consumer goods.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:14:48 +0000

Lots of people are so fake on FB so why would anyone put thier trust in a profile where you can say whatever you want to look important.FB is not important and it shouldnt be thats the problem.People are getting more and more insecure about them selves so this is just another way for them to feel good about themselves.FB or no FB take people as they come and not how they look on a socail networking site thats meaningless.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:44 +0000

I totally disagree with this article. Besides the fact that real relationships are sustainable without facebook, as covered by many of the previous comments, facebook puts a false image on people. You're conscious of the fact that everything you do and say on facebook is for all to see, making people narcissistic and image obsessed. I got rid of mine because it was giving me anxiety and making me feel like a failure to see other people's amazing statuses and pictures, even though I knew in my mind it was more of a show than the actual truth. Besides not wanting people to be able to see anything they want about me at any time, there's a lot on facebook I just don't want to see.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:35:36 +0000

I don’t have a Facebook and I will never get one. I’m not even considering it. Frankly, I don’t care that my friend’s dog learned how to do a backflip through a ring of fire two hours and thirty six minutes ago. In a world where potential employers do background checks on popular social networking sites, I think it’s best not to have any.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:29:28 +0000

Oh my goodness! I feel so relieved to see the other people also dislike facebook. I dont have a facebook, and sometimes I feel lots of peer pressure to have one. The worst part is that people expect you to have one. I think fb was ok in the beginning, but now with timeline etc its getting wierder than ever. I like the idea of having your email on there and maybe a quote, but why would I want so many people to see my photos. Either they know me, and know what my mom/dog/sister look like b/c they actually met them and NOT b/c they recognize thier face from fb. And another thing I hate is that people judge you if you dont have fb. I makes me so mad. If fb was still the way it was 2years ago I might get one but have just 1photo and email addresses (no wall, no friend lists). However, now in 2012 you cant even limit your profile picture visibilty to "only friends". Also, soon everyone will be forced into having timeline and that is scary.

By: Consumerism’s Claws « The Collector

Consumerism’s Claws « The Collector — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:58:50 +0000

[...] Internet Generation (or Generation Z) is almost as if you are not existing. It is even perceived as social suicide. In other words, the values that hyperreality poses on individuals, makes them participate in it. [...]