i don't have one

i visit myspace though to look at the profiles of my favorite bands

19.

But who cares? I always point out to others that it's just circle jerking anyway to have a myspace/facebook etc. It's part of my superiority complex to avoid setting one up, as it shows mastery of my own psychology. But also because it would just be pathetic for me to play the game anyway.

25, I have managed to avoid it completely. Whenever I think about it, even my friends who have myspace say "don't!!" so.. kinda encouraging not to

I get weirdly into stalking people with these things. I have accounts on almost every social networking site imaginable. I google everyone's screen names, every email they post to their accounts, every username they use. If I hate someone I will look at their profile obsessively. (I know I have a problem, but you asked.)

For awhile I was all "against it" to feed my ego. Then I used to have a bands only myspace, but then I gave into it and used it to talk to friends who were too stupid to get on AIM.

There's no reason you need to keep yourself from using them. They're convenient if you like talking to people.

I had one briefly when I was 13 maybe but I never used it. I really hate those things but I wish I had the patience for them since so many people use them and all

I'm all over the fucking internet, but manage to keep out of the drama/creepy stalking/etc.
If you're good at life, the internets aren't a problem.

>>3189411 It's part of my superiority complex to avoid setting one up

(OP) basically, yeah, all said and done this is my main reason.

>>3189424
We all know you fell prey to ego boosting.

twenty

I hate social networking sites, it's basically Pokemon for young adults, "collecting" as many friends as you can.

it's pathetic

though admittedly, I have setup fake accounts to stalk people

goddamn I'm such a hypocrite

I think people who REFUSE to make a facebook/myspace are bigger assholes and more pathetic than those who do make them. It doesn't make you any cooler to be social profile-free. Who the fuck cares?

Just because you have one doesn't mean that you are automatically one of the idiotic whores who revolve their lives around it. I use Facebook to keep up on people's lives who I don't normally talk to because I'm bad at keeping up with people (i.e. calling/texting just to say hey how are you). It's a useful tool, as long as it's not overdone and overused.

Same here, I was already out of school when all the cool kids started doing it so I never got into it.
I don't actually have any friends so its not like I'm missing anything.

After resisting for a long time I finally made a facebook account to keep in touch with the people I train martial arts with. I figure this is fair enough since I don't use it for other purposes, and they need some way to let me know if a class is canceled (since I've also refused celphones)

It's where I look at the most recent pictures of my ex-gfs and jack off to them.

I have kept myself off of these things for privacy purposes.

25 bitches , no facebook , no myspace , nada

fuck , i never even wanted a cellphone until my job *MADE* me get one .

i have had my own domain..... however .

>>3189449
>>It doesn't make you any cooler to be social profile-free. Who the fuck cares?
It's not in order to be cool in the eyes of others that I refuse to have one. It's to be cool in the eyes of me. I know that the only reason I would ever set one up, is because there would be a chance of ego boosting. I don't need that shit. It's my FU to my brain.

>>3189444

But that's the thing about facebook....it hasn't turned into the disgusting pit that myspace has. I have tons of old teachers, older family members, even a family friend who is a NASA engineer on my friends' lists, and it's nice to see what they're up to without actually having to talk to them.

You don't see stupid shit on Facebook like "GIVE ME A COMMENT AND I'LL GIVE YOU FIVE MORE PLZ PLZ PLZ I NEED MORE COMMENTS!!!"

At least I haven't yet, anyway.

I blocked everyone I know from viewing anything regarding my contact info, profile, wall-posts, friend-list, etc.

Nowadays, I only use Facebook to play that Biggest Brain flash game once in a while. Fuck yearrr.

23 and I've never. Partially because I have no one at that particular level of familiarity to keep in touch with. And partially because keeping something like that is a chore (hell, even keeping a plain old email is a chore for me).

I'm 19.

I have no friends.

I have no family members young enough to give a shit.

I obviously don't have a girlfriend.

I don't even talk to people online outside of 4chan.

Why the fuck would I need a social networking account? To entice the ladies with pictures of my ugly face? Fuck no.

20 years old here and I only have last.fm, obviously because I'm interested in music and not in seeing my friends' friends' friends.

I have a lot of friends, but if I need to reach them, I don't need a fucking facebook. I have phones, e-mails, IMs... I could join just for the sake of it, but I despise the social networks.

The thing about Facebook is their lousy history of dealing with people who want to remove their profiles. They got better at it for a while, but they still make it difficult, and they just changed their TOS agreement to remove any contractual obligation they would have had to let you withdraw anything you previously gave them.

They just aren't trustworthy.

I only have about 5 people i give a shit about.

My mum tried to get my to make a Facbook account...

i use facebook kind of as a blog, that way people i love can see how im doing and i dont lose touch with them..

Most people on them don't seem to be very literate. It'd be a pain to communicate that way, for me at least.
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>>3189540
On the contrary!
If you had a superiority complex, AND made one. THAT would be pathetic.

Get over yourselves.

I can understand people who wouldn't want to make one because of privacy reasons or just because they don't feel like it, but I personally believe that those who refuse to make one out of some odd sense of superiority are kind of sad.

I'm 27 and I have an account on everything, but I only log into facebook maybe once a week or so, and the others pretty much never. I've also scrubbed them all, except facebook, of pretty much all personal infos. Basically I use my accounts for stalking others, and keeping track of my event calendar not grandstanding and being an attention whore.

I have a few friends who are a lot more social than I am and they aren't in facebook, while as I am. This whole discussion is retarded.

i dont have a facebook or a myspace. i had a myspace for about 2 years, but i slowly stopped going out and talking to people, and it got to the point where i just felt really sad going on and reading bulletins about things i wasnt involved in. people leaving me comments/sending messages and me not bothering to respond, thus slowly severing friendships

i also felt sad because although i had over 250 "friends" i barely had enough to legitimately put in my "top 4".

i guess mostly it made me feel bad because i knew i was overanalyzing everything and making things extremely hard for myself, while everyone else was doing great, going along with their busy lives, have lots of friends, reading and responding to eachother without a care.

>>3189585
I'll bet those friends ain't on 4chan either. Your disapproval is nulled.

>>3189444

I am proud to say that of all of my friends on facebook/myspace, blah, there are only three that I didn't become friends with in person before adding them as a friend online. One because she's really hot and we talk for hours every day on AIM and she sends me n00dz on request, another because we're old internet friends from the 90s, and another simply because he's the husband of the coolest girl, and thus, pretty cool himself (we have conversations periodically as well).

You don't have to be a friendwhore to social network.

i have an account just to look at pictures, but my account is full of false information. I don't like having my shit on the internet. Although I'm sure a lot of my pictures are up there from friend's accounts and stuff. I don't have the heart to tell them to take that shit off.

>>3189585
O HAI ANONYMOUS!!!

THE ONLY REASON YOU'RE ON FAILBOOK AND YOUR SUPER SOCIAL FRIENDS ARE NOT, IS SIMPLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE LARGER SOCIAL INSECURITIES ABOUT YOURSELF THAN THEM!!! FACEBOOK GIVES A SORT OF COMFORT AND SATISFACTION TO YOUR EGO WHICH YOU DO NOT GET IN REAL LIFE ALONE!!! YOUR FRIENDS DO NOT HAVE THIS INSECURITY, AND THUS DOES NOT NEED FACEBOOK!!!

YOU ARE A FAILURE ANON!!! HAVE A FRICKN AWESOME DAY :DDDDD!!!!

>>3189574
That's not a bad idea. I should get back on Facebook and check once a week or something. At least so people know I'm still alive and I can keep track of old friends and acquaintances...

>>3189598

also i am 21, female, embarrassed to have my pictures whored on the internet.

I use them to stalk girls I knew in high school and to learn everything I can about new girls I meet without having to talk to them. And by meet I mean see and manage to learn the name of.

>>3189641

>:DDDDD!!!!

Ruined it.

I basically only log onto Facebook or Myspace when I get an email saying that someone has sent me a message or left a comment, or something like that. I get on, reply if needed, get off. Pretty simple.

Also, if I have something to say to someone, and I don't have their phone number, there's an easy way to do it.

I'm in college and a facebook account makes life a whole lot easier. You can notify people en masse about an event coming up such as a party without having to know their emails or phone numbers. Plus it's fun to post comments when someone posts pictures from a party you went to the night before.

Nobody I know actually cares how many friends they have on facebook. I think it's something people who are against it just say to make themselves feel better.

>>3189643

Yeah, that's basically what I did too. I scrubbed instead of deleted, because in my mind the best thing about facebook is randomly getting contacted by old friends. That alone keeps me from deleting my accounts. As for the rest, I have lots of friends who are very busy. Facebook enables us to keep in contact and schedule things, so for those things, at least, it's useful.

I will fucking defriend you if you send me a superpoke request though. Fucking faggots.

>>3189598
i know this is what would happen to me, it would just make me sad out of pretty pathetic jealousy and spitefulness of not being included

I'm 20, in college, and have 44 friends on facebawk. Most people have >100. Is this bad?

>>3189432
Yeah, I did. I guess what I was trying to say is that it doesn't matter what you do if you like doing it and it doesn't hurt anyone else.

I didn't set one up until about a year ago because I never had any interest. Eventually, my friends convinced me to set one up when I was drunk. The next day I had to clean all the random shit about me off the internet and updated it with actual stuff, and since then it just kinda flowed into my internet routine. I hardly consider it a social slavery thing, my friends use the message threads to keep tabs on what we are doing, it's basically a 4chan thread with important shit.

Facebook tests my resolve to treat RL and internet differently.
People with facebook accounts I treat as scum that should be trodden on, spat on, and shot.
And in RL, I'm able to hold back spitting in their face.
I don't even wince anymore. I'm awesome.

>>3189661

So don't post whorish pictures. One of the hottest women I've met from an internet dating site deliberately puts up nothing but photos of her looking her absolute worst, and usually face partially obscured by hair or angle or whatever on all of her various profiles. I just thought her messages were neat and she wanted to go see the same show I did.

I met her and I was like "oh my goddamn." Turns out she hates being judged by her looks.

Here's the truth

Those who avoid it are afraid to find out how little their friends either care about them or like them.

There is nothing wrong with facebook. It's cheaper than texting, it's faster than calling and although there's a little fluff involved (throwing sheep etc) it's a good thing. Myspace I hated because it was clogged with shit on their page, facebook has a really neat layout.

You don't HAVE to stalk, be jealous and hate on people's status.

No, I grew the fuck up and stopped thinking I was special.

yes I have one, just a myspace. I live away from my friends, so i can keep in touch with them easier through it. Also it has got me laid numerous times.

>>3189763
No. But it confirms your weakness! You are no spartan!

SRS QUESTION

is there any way to view a private profile without being their friend/networked?

>>3189789
>friends
Haha, what are those?

I use facebook to quickly talk to or ask questions of friends, get info on local events, and sometimes just put up a status for people to see, such as "going to the mall tonight". Maybe I'll end up seeing one of my friends there..

It's quite useful, I see no reason to avoid it.

>>3189788

me too, i'm actually quite attractive, i just get embarrassed posting a plain picture and getting comments saying OMG YOU ARE SOOOOO PRETTY <33. bleh.