The only people who truely hate facebook hate it because it shows they have no friends. If you just don't have an interest in social websites you shouldn't care about it.

OP, if you're the one who made the comment on that picture, I hate you more than I could ever hate any website.

>>7691675
What am I looking for? I don't see shit.

>>7691709
Justifying having a facebook because of all your e-friends? Lol you probably do have more "e-friends" than real friends I bet.

>>7691743
>implying most people don't know their friends on facebook

Its not myspace.

>>7691675
Face book gives us a glimpse into our future society where people will joyfully give up their privacy without even realizing it.

>>7691740
>>7691740
>>7691740
>>7691740
>>7691740

I AM NOT SHITTING BRIX. WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR?

I get annoyed seeing people doing nothing but wasting hours of their day playing shitty games on there and sitting on the chat on there, then expecting me to sit there talking to them rather than making the effort to meet up with me somewhere.

The internet has made people into lazy fucks who don't care about socializing and it happened way before Facebook.

i hate facebook too. wanna talk about it? 2246161676

I hate that facebook is a requirement for social acceptance in every school precisely because of fuckshits like Larry !cRAckErsW2

>>7691777
>Face book gives us a glimpse into our future society where people will joyfully give up their privacy without even realizing it.
http://blippy.com/ blockistan

Am I taking fucking crazy pills? WHAT IS SO BRIX-SHITTING IN OP'S PICTURE. NO ONE WILL ANSWER.

I hate [social networking site]. Nobody cares about your self-obsessed bullshit.

>>7691861
I don't see anything either, Captain.

>>7691879
christfuck. A response. Thank you.

maybe the nipple poking at the shirt

>>7691887
No problem. I just figured this thread was an elaborate troll, that's why I didn't respond to your pleas.

Sorry about that.

is that a dildo under the pillow
??

I hate the bitch's facial expression in the OP pic. Why the fuck can't you look at the camera? What is with your stupid charade, as if you're too cool to have your picture taken, yet you obviously take great care in preparing a stupid vanity photo? I hate fake smiles and I hate the stupid facial expressions white people make for cameras. Fuck you you phony mugging piece of shit.

Death to America.

why would i hate facebook? i have so many jackable pics of girls i went to high school with. hot cousin pics too.

also i can follow the slow decline of the jocks and wiggers who hassled me back in the day. out of my 3 main high school bullies, one died of an oxycodone overdose, one is still living at home at age 23 and working retail and one is serving in Iraq.

>>7691675

I don't lurk it 24/7 but I check at least once a day to keep up with friends, and check events and sample sales in my area.

People who truly "hate" facebook are just bitter assholes trying to make everyone else feel worse because misery loves company

>>7691709
Yo, look at what the creator of blippy said about people who don't like blippy:
"People are loosening up. The biggest risk is that their purchases are totally mundane and you're really super boring. At least go to a bar or restaurant!"
Congratulations, asshole, you equate buying expensive things with social success. You've been thoroughly brainwashed by capitalism.
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/01/15/philip-kaplan-on-blippy-people-are-loosening-up-onlin
e/

Don't like Facebook because of the lack of privacy, and if I really wanted to keep up with people from high school or college, I'd have their phone number.

>HE HATES FACEBOOK BECAUSE HE HAS NO FRIENDS LOL
Incorrect; I talk to my friends on the phone. Yes, I have plenty of friends.

This thread is swarming with neckbeards. You don't have any friends. Facebook exposes that. And everyone on Facebook cares about the way that other people perceive them, whereas you (the typical neckbeard) do not.

>>7691968
dude, you choose how much information you want to share. Calling bullshit on that argument right now.

i'm suspicious of people who don't use facebook. it's so ubiquitous at this point, not using it just kinda seems shady.

does anyone here have a serious philosophical beef with facebook usage? i.e. beyond being annoyed by petty shit like 19 year old girls taking goofy photos of themselves and polluting the feed with games and song lyrics

I don't like FaceBook because social websites are boring. That's why I'm here.

>>7691943

What the fuck?

Why am I so attracted to this?

>>7692032
she has really nice skin for a fat chick

it's ok for keeping in touch with people that live far away. otherwise it's pretty much a waste of time. my family lives across the ocean, so I can't really call them or anything and facebook helps with this.

I just don't see a point.

I don't take pictures of myself.
I don't need another avenue of communicating with people I already know.
I don't need to "reconnect" with highschool acquaintances and shit.
I don't need to post on my status thing every 5 minutes with quotes I think are deep or witty, or what I'm doing.

Why do people feel anyone who doesn't use Facebook is missing out? It's pointless, and I don't care to start using it. I'm perfectly fine without it.

>>7692000
Facebook is notorious for leaking "private" information, cooperating with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and is pretty much expressly designed to trick people into giving out information that they otherwise wouldn't. It's pretty much just a trojan horse used as a front for intelligence agencies.

I stopped using facebook because of the 80 something people I know [I don't add strangers] maybe 1 person replies to me if I post anything and if I post on someone else's wall or whatever it's like I'm invisible. I remember poking some fun at a girl and she deleted my message or some shit.

Facebook isn't for me, all it does is make me realize how forgettable/invisible I am, I don't need that shit.

Keeps me in contact with old college friends, older high school friends, etc. A guy who I went to elementary school with (who had left in the 4th grade because of his parents job) added me today, and it's been interesting catching up with him. Also serves as a great tool to see which of those "he's definitely gay/she's definitely a lesbian" high school classmates actually turned out to be homosexual.

i hate facebook because i am a failure, have withdrawn socially and i'm ashamed of myself. yet now it's so widespread, and i'm so late in joining the crowd, that my very absence probably blatantly indicates to my former friends and acquaintances that something is fucked up with me.

at least myspace sucked enough that you could easily opt out of it. plenty of people did. facebook doesn't suck, that's the problem.

>>7692054

same reason people camwhore. swear to christ i see people on facebook during class and they're always either browsing through endless albums or dumping their own pictures. people spend more time with photos, status updates, etc than they do with communication. and that's why i'm not on facebook.

I enjoy walking circles around around people who rudely ask me why I don't have a facebook.

I find it stupid and a waste of time. I'm probably just part of a handful of people on my campus who doesn't have one

I have a grand total of 3 friends and don't really feel like "reconnecting" with random people I went to school with. No point in using Facebook.

I hate facebook and twitter but I do admit I have a few throwaway accounts on both services just to keep tabs rivals and potential enemies. It's very time-consuming so I have software automate the process.

I'm just going to assume that my enemies are doing the same to me.

I know you're reading, Walter. Show yourself.

>>7692000
I don't want to share information with anyone. If people want to know what I did last week or what music I'm listening to or when the last time I put a racecar up my butt they can ask me in person or on the phone. I don't like talking to people online with my online identity to other online identities. It makes me feel alienated and annoyed. Calling bullshit on something won't make it disappear or become wrong.

>>7692064
i am talking about joining facebook. you need a name (presumably your real one), a birthday (can be fake), and an email (can register an adress with fake info)

where is the lack of privacy? other than those three things, of which there is no confirmation of on facebooks part, where is the privacy leak starting? with the person that puts it on the internet.

I like Facebook because it provides an easy way to keep in touch with all my friends.

facebook gives me social anxiety, so I just don't use it.

I've posted like 10 status updates ever, and each time I did I'd break out in a cold sweat and get this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever it took longer than 5 minutes for someone to 'like' or comment on it.

>>7692169
Here are some links and shit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Privacy_concerns
http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/22/is-privacy-an-illusion-facebook-fans-claim-hack-exposes-private-pro
file-information/
http://linqs.cs.umd.edu/basilic/web/Publications/2009/zheleva:www09/f
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW5BJ7Av-80

A very prominent, active area of research in computer science right now is basically on just how to be a better internet stalker.

>>7691943
Lol i tot her l-bo was hur nipl

I don't have enough friends in real life to warrant using Facebook to socialize.

>>7692238
>>7692152
no no no no no
What I am saying is that participation on facebook is on your terms. You don't have to tell anyone anything, really. Yes, facebook has privacy settings that can be circumvented. big whoop. it's information on the internet. This can happen to anyone anywhere if someone spends enough time on it.

You're conflating blind trust and ignorance with a genuine lack of privacy. Use of facebook is voluntary, and if you want an account, but you don't want to share any information, real or otherwise, that's up to to you, too. But don't say that you would post compromising information on the internet and not expect to get fucked with. Why are you holding facebook to a double standard? personal information there is there because someone volunteered to put it there, not from data mining.

If some girl complains about creepy stalkers all getting up in her face and scaring her with rape and she's a loudmouth who opens up all sorts of information about herself on twitter and facebook you know she's a stupid attention whore piece of shit.

Fun fact: Tweets posted from iPhones have the GPS coordinates of where you were at the time attached to the message.

>>7692362
Facebook is especially insidious because it infers information that you DID NOT give out from information that you and your friends inadvertently did.

I JUST BECAME A FAN OF SITTING IN A CHAIR
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF FOOD
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF BREATHING
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF TALKING TO PEOPLE
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF GOOD MUSIC
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF SNOWBOARDING
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF FUNNY JOKES
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF THINGS THAT ARE RED SUCH AS RED GUMMY BEARS
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF JUSTIN BEIBER
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF SITTING IN ANOTHER CHAIR
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF MAKING PANCAKES
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF PENCILS
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF EVERY FUCKING NORMAL THING THAT HAPPENS EVERY FUCKING DAY AND IS COMPLETELY INSIGNIFICANT OR STUPID

Fucking hell I can't stand this fan shit. Everything else is fine. Just not that fan shit. Also, girls that think they're SO CUTE OMG XD and they're fucking horrid.

I personally dislike it quite a bit because it doesn't protect it's users at all.

Also it is highly annoying that everytime I change my picture I start getting 10-20 random requests from people I both don't know and don't share any friends with. I mean seriously, wtf, where are they finding me?

>>7692362
>Use of facebook is voluntary
Yep, and I'm not signing up. Have fun!

You're confusing me (>>7691968, >>7692152) with someone who has paranoia issues. It's not about data mining and viral marketing and lord knows what else. It's a matter of disliking the medium. I'm not trying to say that "Facebook objectively is evil." I'm trying to explain why I have made a choice which is based mostly on subjective disinclination. I don't like the way Facebook makes me feel. I don't like communicating with people on there. And I hate looking at pictures of myself!

I'm aware of the fact that I am the member of a minority, but that has no bearing upon my actions. I'm aware of the fact that people will make an attempt to associate me with antisocial people and conspiracy theorists, but that doesn't have an influence upon what I do, either.

>>7692428
>SO CUTE OMG XD and they're fucking horrid
I don't know if it's because of my age group that I just entered (20+), or if it's because of some social revolution due to mainstream media (Twilight, ect.), but now I can't get a girl to save me life. Even the most passively attractive and bland/modest looking girls think they are sooo cute when really they should be lucky I even talk to them out of desperation. Seems every girl no matter ugly they are thinks that some sparkly vampire will could sweep them of there feet. I can't wait to hit 29 and girls biological clock starts ticking and they realize the gig is up. Suddenly all the lonely guys who chose a life of education to make a career, instead of being a lame mtv douche who looks like they just rolled out of the dude factory, become prime husband material.

>>7692443

I wish I got random friend requests. I only have 21 people on my list and I'm too lazy to find more.

>>7692540
Couldn't have said it better myself, haha. I can't wait now either. I'm almost 20, so I've got a bit longer to wait though.

Facebook is "voluntary" the same way alcohol, team sports, popular music and fashion, moving out and getting a car are "voluntary". You can't deny that there is a huge social pressure in the 16-25 demographic to participate in this shit whether you like it or not.
Facebook is this generation's rite of passage. It's just something that you're expected to do. If you don't, you're going to face some pretty heavy shunning.

It's a decent substitute for having friends who I can see in real life :(

There is nobody on facebook I give a shit about. Same goes for twitter. Nothing wrong with the medium, it's the content that's bad.

I DON'T FUCKING SEE ANYTHING TO SHIT A BRICK TO

>>7692573
Voluntary, you mean practically forced to. I was forced to sign up with Facebook just to get notices from my dorm's community assistant in the University of Maryland. These days I use it mostly for Mafia Wars, even though I lost interest recently.

Facebook does help in keeping in touch with old friends, but in reality social networking takes work.

But social networking really takes work.

I deleted mine cuz i have no friends

>>7692573
>If you don't, you're going to face some pretty heavy shunning
I disagree with that. Nobody I spend time with, male or female, cares about whether or not I use Facebook. I spend time with all sorts of different people. If people are judging me based on that, what other characteristics about me will they use to make faulty judgments about me?

Just recently deactivated mine after having one for a while. Feels good man.

Just tired of all the stupid groups, fanclubs, status updates, and stupid games. Facebook just feels like being in high school again, and I'm over it. I need to move on.

>>7691906
where? Point it out, would you?

>>7692697
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF RIDDLES
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF CEREAL
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF PILLOWS AND BLANKETS
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF ELECTRICITY
I JUST BECAME A FAN OF MOUNTAINS

>>7692658
At an interview for a job I applied for, I was asked how many followers on twitter I had. I don't have a twitter.

I didn't get that job.

I wish I got random friend request from thousands of girls wanting to sex me.
One day I'm going to log in and it will happen...
Same thing with my phone. I'm going to open it and suddenly thousands of text messages. it's going to be the prom queen and all of her friends wanting to sex me.

one day...

*sniff*

maybe...

>>7692713
You should be happy you didnt waste time at that soul-stealing job.

I have friends from home a few states away that I can "keep in touch with" which no one really does on facebook. The sad thing is that it makes it painfully obvious that I have no friends where I am at now.

I used to be way into the social network thing, but the more I realize how insidious it is the less I want to even log in. I wish I had some fucking friends where I lived, I would abandon that shit in an instant.

>>7691740
>>7691861

Buttons are on the right hand side of her shirt. IT WAS A MAN ALL ALONG!

>>7692713
sounds like you dodged a bullet there

>>7692673
>If people are judging me based on that, what other characteristics about me will they use to make faulty judgments about me?
The details of your facebook profile. Which movies, books, TV shows you namedropped. What groups you are in. Who you are friends with. What kind of photos you put up. Whatever comes up in a Google search with your name. The kind of browser, computer, or operating system you use. The frequency with which you check your facebook or post updates.

There's a lot.

SO does facebook track user statistics and give it to the government or what?

also deleting doesnt get rid of your shit apparently

>>7692756
>Whatever comes up in a Google search with your name.

i fucking love having a common, nondescript name

>>7692549
...I can be your friend..?

>>7692710

*cringes*

Dose anybody know how to block people from the 'chat' without blocking them all together?

I am a shameful Facebook user. I go on it every day, sometimes more than once a day, just to peep on friends' and strangers' profiles. Whenever I go on a trip, I always think, I need to take a picture of this so that I can upload it to Facebook.

But then I pretend that I'm not a fan of Facebook, because when others do what I do, I find it really annoying.

>>7692774
just go offline on the chat since it's useless anyway

>>7692774
I think that you should first search on Google. If that fails, you should make your own thread about that instead of asking here.

>>7692540
thats pretty much been my opinion for about the last 6months of being single.

I use it to stay in contact with my friends who I met overseas, and too tell alot of people the same thing for free.

>[slutty girl] is in a relationship with [slutty best friend]

>>7692771
Here are some REAL ones, just from the past day:

Why Can't my Shampoo and Conditioner Run Out at the Same Time?

YOU came to OUR country. YOU learn OUR language

Skinny Jeans

Not Going to School

I change the pitch of my voice when quoting the opposite sex

having a friend of the opposite sex that you can talk to about anything,(:

EPIC FAIL

I Hate When Your Txt Message Fails To Send & You Don't Realize It For Hours

You two just whispered, then looked at me. I'm not stupid k?


... This is all from ONE day from TWO different people. They also became fans of 27 more profiles. There are people like this everywhere. I can't stand this fan shit.

>>7692768
i have an uncommon name, but there is (or was) one other person with my name and he has been missing for nearly a decade. google me and you get endless results for some 50+ year old banker on missing persons websites. pretty important guy, wealthy family man, thousands upon thousands of search results. i'd have to become world-famous to bury all that shit.

>>7692828
well theres your life motivation, make it happen

couragewolf.jpg

>>7692756
True story, I lost "friends" because they saw what steam games I was playing and they didn't like my taste in games.

What the fuck

>>7692540
>Suddenly all the lonely guys who chose a life of education to make a career, instead of being a lame mtv douche who looks like they just rolled out of the dude factory, become prime husband material.

fuck that. if they didn't want me before it was "convenient" for them, they can fuck off and die childless and alone.

>>7692841
well what was it. if i saw one of my friends playing Modern Warfare 2 or something i would stop talking to them forever.

>>7692898
It was Portal

>>7692880
Yeah if they're willing to settle down with that kind of guy then that's pretty strong evidence they're just gold diggers looking for a sugar daddy, growing up to be cougars that will suck the young pool boy's dick long into their 30s and 40s.

>>7692824

OH GODDAMN MAKE IT STOP!

>>7692953
If there was no "fan" feature (with the exception of maybe bands) then I would probably believe that Facebook is a genuinely great social networking site. Fuck, its taken over by attention whores and whores in general.

I'm sorta meh about Facebook. Though people taking high contrast pictures of themselves all the time pisses me off.

if i want to hang out with some peeps, i log onto facebook, leave messages on their walls, check back later

whats so hard about that?

>>7692979
You can blame society for that. Facebook is just catering to them.
Facebook-hate is half normalfag-hate. And I sure do hate normalfags

>>7693003
Send them a text message instead

>>7693011
god i fucking hate text messages too

>>7693005
I have no problem with Facebook minus the fan stuff. Normalfags. I can't say I hate them, but damn, do I dislike them.

>>7692824
>>7692824


I FUCKING HATE THOSE THINGS

WHAT?

nobody uses the hide function or something> If shit gets annoying, just hide the shit of them all..

>>7691815
how the fuck is this at all successful. What the fuck are people thinking signing up for this shit. This is bullshit. Fuck this gay fucking shithole society.

I can only stand looking at that failure of a website in its "Lite" or "Mobile" versions.
No "BECAME A FAN OF" and "JOING EMILY'S MAFIA" bullshit.

Facebook is a place where all the fucking idiots looking for attention go

I have nothing, i am a shadow user of the internet, I don't exist on the net

Was fun till my ex I still loved added me.
Now I'm so self-conscious about what I say and I had to hide the bitch's news feed.

So sad.

i never signed up for a facebook account and i never will

i am slightly suspicious of my level of privacy if i do succumb to it and make an account

but more important to me is the fact that i've gone this long without one and faired just fine, so really I see no reason to start using it -- ever.

i also have a very common name and do not show up on the internet when searched for, I would like to keep it that way ... anonymity for life!

>>7693097
you sir are fucking stupid. And not just him all of you. Have you guys even tried facebook?

don't like facebook because if i quantified my friends i prob only will have like 10 people on my list.

I use it mostly to gather information about what's going on and when. It's a neat way to get invited into parties and such.
One thing I do hate are the attention whores, "look at me look at me, my cellphone broke and I just came back from a bar!" I mean your pathetic life isn't that special that you should tell everyone about it, it just makes you look like an idiot.
And another thing, it's fucking annoying when people you barely even know try to add you as friends in order to make their list look more impressive. I only add people I work with in order to improve communication and possibly pass through some gatekeepers more easily and friends that I've known along the way, but not some dickweeds I've chatted for 5seconds at the busstop.

I write lots of bullshit stuffs all the time on my facebook page, and when people see me they kind of taking my writing seriously..

I don't really have friends so facebook is not of any use to me.

>>7692824
>>7692603
>>7692278
>>7691913
>>7692093
great thread gentlemen