Anyone out there who does not have Facebook, Myspace or Twitter?

[stczt]

I have none of the above, if I wanted to keep up with people I would have there phone number or email. I want to give someone a private note not let the world know my business.

 

[Danauk]

I have a facebook account, but to be honest don't really use it. I only joined as my friend had uploaded her WDW holiday pics to there and I wanted to see them! I don't use myspace or twitter and don't intend to either. My life really isn't interesting enough to read about on a daily basis!!

 

[Christine]

No, I don't. But I am one of those over-40 old people so that probably explains it. Plus, I don't want people stalking me from high school.

My co-worker joined Facebook so he could view a good friend's videos. What a mistake. He started being bugged by a few girls from high school and it drove him nuts. Oh, and he had been out of high school over 20 years.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Everyone seems to be on these social-networking sites, but not me...just does not appeal. Anyone else not interested in them?

I'm not, either.

 

[NMAmy]

I resisted for a long time but finally gave in to peer pressure. I really hate talking on the phone so Facebook actually makes it a lot easier for me to communicate with my family. My "friends" are all people who are related to me. It's a nice way to keep in touch without me having to pick up a telephone.

DD is at her dad's for part of the summer and then off to college. I've noticed that she and I spend a lot of time chatting and sending each other messages through Facebook. She used to send texts all the time and I'm unbearably slow at that so I prefer talking to her this way.

 

[Amy]

I'm another one who doesn't have Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. I'm lucky I can find enough time to check my email and the Dis once a day!

Both of my boys have Facebook and MySpace accounts (not Twitter). I've joked with them that since they spend so much time on Facebook, maybe I'll get an account and they can "friend" me. NO WAY MOM!

I'll stick to plain old email to keep in touch with friends.

 

[MineMail]

ME! I have no interest in social networking sites; my page would be out of date and no one would ever receive a response. I've worked in computers since 1980, I've SET UP Facebook and MySpace pages for groups and companies, but I'm just not interested in maintaining a page or having my name in the directory.

One group I know just started a "private" Facebook page and got nasty when I asked to be able to read the pages without an account. I didn't care about posting, I just wanted to be able to keep up with whatever news and conversations they were posting. Their attitude was that there was something wrong with me for not wanting to join. (The organizers have admitted that they're "addicted to Facebook.")

I get lots of requests to join (via email) from friends and I think "You already have 200 'friends,' why do you need me to post on your wall?" To many people, the number of "friends" is a status symbol, a measure of popularity.

I've had the same email addresses for years and I'm listed on the internet for my business, so if someone really wanted to "reconnect" with me, they could easily get in touch. One of my friends said that he recently found out that one of his long, lost friends from grammar school was an insurance salesman now. Guess what he wanted to talk about via Facebook?

I'm actually a little ticked off that a lot of organizations and companies are starting these pages without any regard to those of us who don't want to have a presence on these sites. It reminds of when touch-tone telephone answering machines came into vogue - a lot of companies didn't want to recognize that many people only had rotary phones. That's less common today, but I've sometimes called companies via the car's phone system and gotten stuck at the menu - there's no keyboard! I've had to hold my cell phone up to the microphone and press the digits.

Social Networking brought one major bonus to my life: my family has stopped sending me their "forwards" and "pass it on" requests because they send them through MySpace and Facebook now, lol.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Me, although I might be interested in Twitter.

Heck I don't look at emails enough. I don't need to manage another thing.

 

[MickeysMommy]

I resisted for a long time but finally gave in to peer pressure. I really hate talking on the phone so Facebook actually makes it a lot easier for me to communicate with my family. My "friends" are all people who are related to me. It's a nice way to keep in touch without me having to pick up a telephone.

DD is at her dad's for part of the summer and then off to college. I've noticed that she and I spend a lot of time chatting and sending each other messages through Facebook. She used to send texts all the time and I'm unbearably slow at that so I prefer talking to her this way.

I'm jealous you have a facebook account

 

[georgina]

I don't either. Don't want to tell the world what's going on in my life, don't want to be found by long lost friends, don't want to know what Rpatz is up to this minute of this day (really!)

My DH belongs to facebook though, and seems to get a kick out of it.

That's my situation also! I told DH I don't want him to post pictures of me and the kids, I hope he's not. I really don't want that much presence out there in cyberspace.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

My parents don't....my dad "doesn't trust" social networking sites. The rest of my family has Facebook, so I do as well. I've also found a couple of old high school friends.

 

[Chicago526]

I have zero interest. I have no "long lost friends" and if I live the rest of my life without seeing any of my old classmates that made my life a living hell, I'd be perfectly happy.

I think the whole thing is stupid, myself. If people like it, fine, but leave me out of it.

 

[mfd25wife]

I resisted for a long time. However, my DD had Myspace and Facebook so I set up both to help monitor. I am not so surprised by anything she posts, but several of her friends asked to be mine. Several of them call me mom, so that was no surprise. Some others I've just known since they were all in pre-K. Some of the kids post things that absolutely shock me. I try to remind them that the things they post can follow them FOREVER. Because they are young, they have no clue. I also found where one girl was starting to cyber bully my DD. Also, since I'm friends with some, I can see their wall. Some of their friends will post things to them. I can get some idea of who DD should be around, and who she shouldn't.

For me, I have found some old classmates that I have lost touch with over the years and it is great catching up. Also, when we were in a wreck on our way to WDW 5 weeks ago, DD and DH both posted to their pages and my page that I was hurt badly. It went from theirs to some mutual friends. The other firemen and paramedics were able to keep up with me. Many people at church, work, and other parents have accounts and followed what was happening. Since cell phones didn't work so great in the hospital, posting to Facebook was an easy way to update my progress. Also, best of all it really cheered me up to know that people were thinking of and/or praying for me.

 

[PRINCESS VIJA]

I don't and I am happy about that! I have a family member that stalks people on the internet! (Hi stalker!) I am sure they have followed me over here, I don't want any more opportunities for the stalking!

 

[Veronica Lodge]

I signed up for Link'd In, but I only did that to invite DH so he can make business contacts.

I think I signed up for Facebook ages ago, but I never bothered setting up a page or anything.

I think my DH has a MySpace, but he never uses it.

I really am not into all of that monkey business. There are a handfull of HS friends I have lost touch with who I might like to find, but frankly I get too disttracted by real life to fart around on social networking sites all day.

 

[RC Fan]

I don't participate in the social networking sites. I am a private person. I also stubbornly resist doing what everybody else does 'just because'.


I will say some people seem to be very comfortable sharing all sorts of personal info on the internet.

 

[waltskids]

My DH and I have no interest in social networking sites.

 

[NotUrsula]

I don't use my real name anywhere but a couple of professional discussion boards, and I don't let people who have the Social Networking habit take my photo, because I don't want it appearing anywhere on the 'net. I cherish my anonymity.

The problem for me is that my stubborn refusal to partipate in Facebook is beginning to be an issue in career terms. The chairs of some of the committees that I serve on have recently begun adopting Facebook as the place to conduct business, and if you don't join you cannot participate. Luckily, my workplace blocks both FB and MS, so I have an ironclad excuse, but others grumble long and hard about it.

Twitter I find useful short-term, for instance, if I'm going to a big festival and want to get updates on performance times or something like that. I've joined and deactivated my account several times over the past year for short-term use. I wish that WDW would create an official account for posting ride-times.

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

I don't belong to Facebook, MySpace or Twitter - I am not interested.

My DH & DD each have Facebook pages and they want me to get one too. I told them I already keep in touch with the people I want to keep in touch with. And what I am supposed to post there as my status?? "Just did a load of laundry". Fascinating.

 

[Darcy03231]

I don't. I have all I can do to get on here sometime during the day.