How many of you out there aren't on face book or other "social" networking sites ; I specifically mean sites such as facebook , myspace , orkut. It would be great if you could reason out too. I frequently hear about people quitting "FB" and wanted to understand what turns off ppl.
I created a facebook account a few years ago; looked around; decided that there wasn't anything interesting to see; logged out; and promptly forgot my password. I haven't heard anything since which makes me think that I'm missing anything.
[tldr; "a girl"]<p>I deactivated my fb because I didn't really use it. I'm not mr. social and I felt that if anyone needed to reach me <i>and really wanted to reach me</i> the extra effort was worth it. I especially didn't like this idea of mass fb invites. I don't want to be a checkbox on a list to get invited to a party. I know I know, its convenient, but I'm just stubborn like that.<p>Ok, mostly I deactivated my fb account because my last gf and I parted ways and it was not a good idea to have that absurd of a connection with someone you have to let go. - yes, blocking was not enough, I needed to drop off the face of the planet for a little while ...<p>Turns out its not that bad at all.<p>I am an edge case, people can have their facebook, I'm just the type of guy that rather have 2 lifetime ultra friends, rather then 3,000 facebooky friends. Is it mutually exclusive? Who knows.<p>Why don't people hand write letters any more? Because in a world of text messages and email its the <i>hugest pain in the ass</i> to hand write a letter.
-Yeah.<p>And that is <i>exactly</i> the reason why any girlfriend of mine is going to get a damned hand written letter every now and then until the end of time.<p>-Yeah.
Not on FB, MySpace, or Twitter. Accounts on all three lasted no more than a week. Reason? Spectacularly mundane way to interact with other humans who live dull lives.
No Facebook, MySpace etc. and never have. I can not really find time for any more activities at the moment, online or offline, and Facebook is very low on priorities list so it does not make it. I guess I just see no benefits from having an account.<p>I have a LinkedIn account though - created when I was last looking for a job. I almost never login though, but sometimes people that know me in real life send invitations to join their network, and I accept. That pretty much sums my activities.
I deactivated my Facebook account. It was a privacy thing, I suppose. There are probably only 20 people I feel totally comfortable with. There are about 100 people that I don't. It just got too awkward ignoring repeated friend requests.<p>If Facebook let me choose to be entirely hidden, except to those 20 people, and only let me initiate outgoing friend requests I'd reactivate my account. I know there are friend lists, but I don't think there's anyway to use them to do this.
I only use Facebook and Hacker News (and a couple of forums: BoS and FreelanceSwitch). I use Facebook because all (yes, with no exception) my friends are their and we have fun commenting at videos or chatting. Sure I do control my time on FaceBook and the overall experience was always great.
I've never had a Facebook or MySpace account. I am on LinkedIn because a former boss was all excited about it and asked everyone to sign up, but I rarely log in or update my profile