May i join the "I HATE FACEBOOK" Club?

[JimR24]

I hope your kids are in elementary school or they are going to miss out on a bunch...

Give me a break!

I have a daughter in 4th grade. She is an all-star fastpitch softball pitcher and an A student. I would rather her be on the softball fields with friends or out with us rather than on facebook. I can't see what is so important that she is going to be missing out. Can you shed some light on that please?

 

[Missy1961]

Turn that feature off.

Only allow people who are important to you to be your friends.

Dont engage in drama. If someone posts a different viewpoint politically, they are entitled to their opinion, move on.

If you dont like certain things coming into your newsfeed, click on the little x and get rid of it. I dont care what games my friends are playing or how many swagbucks they earned so I turned them off.

I dont know what the big deal is. You make it as simple or as complicated as you want it to be.

I agree 100%! I love Facebook. But then, I haven't engaged in drama since I left middle school.

 

[Missy1961]

Give me a break!

I have a daughter in 4th grade. She is an all-star fastpitch softball pitcher and an A student. I would rather her be on the softball fields with friends or out with us rather than on facebook. I can't see what is so important that she is going to be missing out. Can you shed some light on that please?

And my nieces & nephews are on Facebook & still manage to play sports, do well in school, and have tons of friends.

 

[JimR24]

And my nieces & nephews are on Facebook & still manage to play sports, do well in school, and have tons of friends.

Good for them.

 

[browneyes106]

I don't completely hate Facebook but they are things that I feel Facebook needs to change. One is the people you may app or tool. I can't stand that thing at all.

 

[shortbun]

I hope your kids are in elementary school or they are going to miss out on a bunch...

Whaattt???????? bALONEY!!! Boy, they sure have you sucked in.

 

[shortbun]

And my nieces & nephews are on Facebook & still manage to play sports, do well in school, and have tons of friends.

If this is true, then exactly what would they be missing out on without Facebook? My son is in highschool, your description fits him and he doesn't have Facebook. He doesn't really have time for Facebook...he has homework, conditioning or practice, music rehearsal, sleeping, eating, watching a little TV(a game usually) and some time with the family. He has had a cell phone for many years and texts but not like some kids. HE says he has no time for "Facebook foolishness." He says Facebook is full of drama and bullying. He says 9 hours at school daily and weekends with his friends provide him with plenty of social life. I know three of his friends well and only one of them has Facebook-because his girlfriend asked him to.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

I see Facebook as a passing phase in my life and same for most of the people I know. Like just a couple years ago everyone was on AIM and now no one is. Most of my friends on Facebook are my age or older and I see less and less activity on their accounts - seems they post at first when they first join, then get bored and quit posting, and move on and forget their accounts. I can see me doing that at some point. Just a phase.

I also see more and more people who update their statuses often and never get any responses on their wall. It seems everyone is just talking to themselves. It seems other peple rarely read other people's walls anyway, least in my circles of friends. Not much point if there is no participation with others.

I admit I already am on the Internet far less than I used to be. Losing interest in Facebook and surfing the net in general - I rather be doing other things in my life that involve being with real people and places.

Of course I am an old fogey - the youngin's who grew up with a cell phone in their ear probably see this being connected electronically at all times as normal and can't imagine life without it!

 

[hulagirl87]

I hate Facebook in general.

I'm with you on this. I had it about a year ago for a couple months and then deleted my account. I had no interest in knowing so much about people and I didn't want people knowing about me either

 

[C.Ann]

I hate Facebook in general.

Welcome to the club! DH and I deleted ours about a week or two ago and haven't looked back. It's been nice!!

Precisely how DH & I feel. Don't have an account & don't plan on getting one.

Our family has never had a Facebook, MySpace or Twitter account. We will not allow our kids to have one either. If I want to keep up with people, I'll pick up the phone and call them.

By dangerous I mean that it pulls people back into your life that you left behind for a reason, and it puts a great deal of personal information at risk.

Whaattt???????? bALONEY!!! Boy, they sure have you sucked in.

OP:

Change your title to "dislike" and "totally unnecessary", and I'll join your club..

 

[kimblebee]

I am starting to strongly dislike it only because my daughter asks, no begs DAILY for me to let her get an account. I tell her sure, use your real birthdate and see if they let you. She is only 10 but she says alllll her friends have accounts. This is one thing I'm not budging on. She already spends enough time on MSN. If I let her get a FB account she'd never go to bed willingly again

 

[donaldduck352]

Should of done a poll on this.

Put me down for strongly dislike FaceBook!!!

Thought I was the only one.Boy am I wrong...

 

[mhsjax]

I hope your kids are in elementary school or they are going to miss out on a bunch...

Really, my DD who is NEVER home and always out and about with friends is in MS, she hasn't missed a thing because of not having a FB acct.

Why is it, that the first thing out of anyones mouth regarding FB and teens is that they are going to miss out. It doesn't happen around here, the kids do have FB but they don't communicate their plans that way, they text.

Man, you just can't have a negative opinion about FB, your are almost forced into believing by others that you can't live without it, YOU CAN!!!!! And still have a life.

I will have a good laugh at this everytime my DD asks me if she can do something with her friends, and wonder just how did she find out about this, her friends have FB but she doesn't, just makes me wonder because the darling child without FB is always out doing with her friends.

 

[bambii]

and have deleted a bunch of people some i dont know why i ever friended them, and to much drama... i keep it to stay in touch with family and real friend , my daughter lives in michigan , sisters live in mich, florida, vegas.. it is just a way to say hi.. ... i use to play games like csi and yoville but lost interest...

 

[bumbershoot]

By dangerous I mean that it pulls people back into your life that you left behind for a reason, and it puts a great deal of personal information at risk.

FB doesn't pull people back, people pull people back. In the same month or so, I got a friend request by an ex that could have been serious if he'd realized I was serious (he realized it too late), and my husband got a friend request by the woman that he had a wedding with (annuled less than a year later, and when he contacted the lawyer's office for the paperwork just before we got married, he found out that the person that officiated wasn't a legal minister so it was never actually legal to begin with) in his eary 20s. We talked about it, decided there was nothing good to come out of friending them, and ignored their requests. Easy peasy.

And the only info at risk is the info you put out there. You have to really understand that if you put info on your page and a friend of yours does a quiz, the people who made that quiz might be pulling all of your info. It's SO annoying. So you have to make sure you don't have secret info out there for companies to pull and use.

But FB isn't dangerous in and of itself.

What are they missing out on, exactly?

If their friends (and the OP was talking about older kids) are on FB and are communicating there, they might forget to mention it in person, and those without it might miss out. Of course, this can happen without FB.

Funnily enough, it's *through* FB that I'm finding out about the things I missed in HS. We all joined just before our 20th HS reunion, so we could easily communicate about it without having multi-person emails flying around. And recently I'm finding out about all the events my friends went to and I never knew about, because we were in different clubs, we had different feelings about sports, and I had much less money than they did...they went to tons of SF Giants games, etc, and had other things they did that I never knew about.

 

[Mkrop]

Really, my DD who is NEVER home and always out and about with friends is in MS, she hasn't missed a thing because of not having a FB acct.

Why is it, that the first thing out of anyones mouth regarding FB and teens is that they are going to miss out. It doesn't happen around here, the kids do have FB but they don't communicate their plans that way, they text.

Man, you just can't have a negative opinion about FB, your are almost forced into believing by others that you can't live without it, YOU CAN!!!!! And still have a life.

I will have a good laugh at this everytime my DD asks me if she can do something with her friends, and wonder just how did she find out about this, her friends have FB but she doesn't, just makes me wonder because the darling child without FB is always out doing with her friends.

That is the key to your post, it doesnt happen AROUND HERE. I am sure other areas of the country FB is the in thing among teens and it is how they communicate and others use texting or a combo of both.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

FB doesn't pull people back, people pull people back...

Nah, I'll let you keep guessing.

 

[mhsjax]

That is the key to your post, it doesnt happen AROUND HERE. I am sure other areas of the country FB is the in thing among teens and it is how they communicate and others use texting or a combo of both.

Just as the pp that stated that kids will miss out on things, Can't have it both ways. My comment may not be an absolute truth, well then neither is stating that kids will miss out if they don't have FB. Just because in other areas this is how they communicate doesn't make it a truth for everyone.

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

Just as the pp that stated that kids will miss out on things, Can't have it both ways. My comment may not be an absolute truth, well then neither is stating that kids will miss out if they don't have FB. Just because in other areas this is how they communicate doesn't make it a truth for everyone.

Agreed - kids here text one another and use twitter. My oldest son used FB for a few months then decided to stop as none of the other kids in school were into it.

That said, he is a boy - I think that the girls around here use FB a little more.

 

[powellrj]

Just as the pp that stated that kids will miss out on things, Can't have it both ways. My comment may not be an absolute truth, well then neither is stating that kids will miss out if they don't have FB. Just because in other areas this is how they communicate doesn't make it a truth for everyone.

My DD is in high school and several of the groups she is in use FB to communicate within the group. They post the dates and updates on FB so unless you do have a FB account, you do miss-out from that angle. They also use text to keep in contact. These are groups that most of the kids don't attend the same school so its an easy way to keep in contact without having to rely on the phone.

My middle DS is in college and he doesn't have FB anymore and they do use twitter and text to do all of the communications.