Today someone asked me why I did not use facebook, I didn't know how to answer

Today someone asked me why I did not use facebook, I didn't know how to answer.

So Veeky Forums why don't you use any social media?

also to keep this Veeky Forums related

I do tho

I always say " ehh just don't really need it"
>the truth is that I have hundreds of photos of me and my deceased wife on there.

I don't know a single person without Facebook.
And to keep it Veeky Forums related: *BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP*

I only know 2 people outside of my family and I can't justify starting a social media just for that.

It's just reposts of stupid articles, quizzes, and repost if ...just stupid shit nowadays . I actually ask WHy people use facebook nowadays

it only makes me depressed since I'm having a hard time at uni, - taking me longer to graduate that expected (engineering major). Might return to it once I'm out in the workforce and have time an money to actually enjoy the hobbies I'd like to have. Play more sports, buy a motorcycle and go on adventures, move to a cool city.

because I'm not social

I'm distancing myself from everyone and everything

Facebook and social media programs are very powerful tools for communication, far more powerful than anything we've had in the past. Yes it can be used for bad or stupid things, but social media makes it very easy to establish and maintain relationships, and organize groups of people. Remember when your only options to bring friends to a party were to spend money mailing dozens of invitations or call each individual person on the phone? Plus, social media gives you more ways to share information besides email, like sending pictures, videos or documents over instant messengers or posting them for others to see and provide input.

Besides, you're using Veeky Forums, which is essentially social media anyway. You're probably afraid of socializing to some degree, since you prefer your communication to be done anonymously via internet proxy. Come into the light.

I hope this is pasta and you actually didn't type all this out hoping anyone would care.

>I value face to face communication and the people I really care about I talk to on a regular basis. If you don't think we spend enough time together, call me and we can set something up.

Some people care about others.

But it's such cringe corny advice.

It's like you want to make it 80% harder to find women or connect with friends

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Okay, it's fine that you think that. I hope you have a great day tomorrow.

you've autism and no friends

wow man,

Sorry for your loss.

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For all you social autists here's a tip: since you don't use facebook to fullfil your social interactions needs(because you don't have that), use it for networking.

I for one agree with what you wrote. fuck that other guy.

I don't even know you and this is just a random post on a shithole website, but this made me instantly sad

I use my Facebook mainly for lulz and for University. If I want to talk with someone I use WhatsApp.

I went off the grid years ago to avoid paying child support.

>Veeky Forums related
Only cardio I approve of is Running away from my legal responsibilities

I use Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter. I don't use the latter 2 very often. Twitter I want to eventually use to get famous but I'm not interesting or aesthetic enough for that right now. I don't use instagram because I can't compete with all of the /stacey/'s posting ass pictures 24/7

because im married and me and my wife both don't want to have doors open for ex's or people who want to "IM" us open, that may or may not lead to cuckolding.
Also people can spy on you.

People on facebook do not care about each other.

Its pure narcissism and all "support" is meaningless bullshit that they see as necessary to get attention.

university groups - thats it. and messenger

True

Damn...

because it's all one big depressing circle jerk on the personas of perfect lives

I don't care what people have for breakfast, what they do for a living or what they do in their spare time. I've got friends and can spend time with them when I want.

I don't use it because I hate the idea of no privacy and dealing with others that are completely unfiltered all the time. The documentary We Live In Public only cemented that mindset.

It sucks though that Tinder has to link to it because I want to fuck easy sloots but my profile has weird pics from season 1 of Adventure Time so they know to soon I'm a manchild.

Facebook is only useful as a phonebook now because everyone has it and its an easy way to plan things with a group of people.

The socializing aspect has turned into tagging friends in funny videos ripped from other sites and re-uploaded by "maymay" pages.
Most personal posts are just politics and anger.

There is no reason to have facebook besides contacting people you don't know well.

When I was a kid in the late 90's and early 00's, we were advised to NEVER post our names, pictures, addresses etc. online. Funny how in just few years the attitudes changed from that to "you're a freak outcast if you're not on facebook!"

I don't care about other people's political or social opinions, how mundane their day is or why they are perpetually upset about irrelevant bullshit.

damn user, what kind of disease?

Yeah, shit's fucked.

Appreciate the writing. I use social media but not very intensively. But maybe I should. I'll probably start doing it once I'm more than proud of my life.

I do

facebook, twitter etc. are datamining services. By cross referencing IP, cookies browser settings and such, they can get your exact geo localization, your every post ever, where are you going out etc. And it's not tinfoil hat theory. It's obvious for anyone who studied IT or is at least interested in IT.

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I tell people straight that I can't stand what most people post. I still use fb to keep in touch with my family in another country and share memes with best friends but that's it.

Start unloading on her

tell her about PRISM, 3-letter spying, Kuckerbergs "dumb fucks", the salt lake city 3-letter data center, the eternal botnet, FOSS and OSS, how to install gentoo, and why she should use a thinkpad

you'll be the greatest man who ever lived
source? - I'm on a thinkpad with linux right now

"I don't need it at the moment"

Because i dont need facebook. I keep in contact with the friends that matter to me and we hang out and have good times and i talk to my parents and send photos amongs siblings and such. I dont need to "stay in touch" with people from high school that im never gonna see again

Facebook is incredibly narcissistic and i couldnt stand the shit people would post. Its like, no i don't give a fuck what you ate for dinner, or that the rain outside echoes the feeling in your heart. Its all bullshit. Been off the shit for 6 years and not once missed it.

I care

"I just dislike using social media. I had a facebook before and I deleted it. It's just not my thing."

WOW
O
W

This sums it up.

When I had it I found myself using it out of habit. Its quite addictive. Got rid of it and now I have a little more free time to use for other things.

Damn man I was not ready for feels during my designated lunchtime shitposting session

This. Just look at what adverts you get exposed to.

Ouch, sorry for your loss user

i deleted my facebook last month
facebook made me realize how stupid my friends really are

Right in the feels...

Fucking this

you wrote this in Tor or what? It is first and foremost a social network of billions of people making organizing and contacting people easier than ever before.

"Facebook spreads controversial topics and I got better things to spend my time then seeing ignorant people whine on subjects they think they know"

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Pls,stop

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You are being watched. The government has a system... a "machine" that spies on you every minute of every day...

It's a great source for investigations. It is amazing how much incriminating stuff people post of crimes they have committed. Cross reference through their friends to find profile s and pictures of accomplices. Crooks can't help themselves.

I use Twitter, IG, Facebook(occasionally, Twitter seems to have replaced that for my group and people around me) and Snapchat if that counts.

How can you have a social life in 2017 and not use any form of social media?

nah, but I watch what I post on public services. On 4chin identifying you requires some effort, so I can call people retards and don't care that I'll be called out on it in the future. But i wouldn't dare to do that without tor or something like that on my alt twitter, youtube etc account. Of course you're easily identified by browser settings/cookies, so if Miyazaki or whoever owns 4chin, wanted to sell all your posts to facebook you could be identified in minutes. He wouldn't even have to include your IP.
That's obvious. But gov is gov and private company is a private company.

unless it's 400 series or under it's part of the botnet anyway

to add to that - the best case scenario is not to post any personal information on social media. Of course if you want to use them for networking, that's impossible, but I limit what I post just to my full name and city. No school, no job, no relatioship... tho those can be easily read through your friends. For example if there's a few people outside of your city in your friends that have the same school specified - voila they know the school without you telling them

I'm sorry for your loss, user

normies reeeeeeeeeee

Hope you cashed out with insurance user.

dude.

After i broke up with my gf i have left all forns of sm
I am in perma coccoon mode now

>sm
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No social media usage here. I'm just trying online dating if that counts though, but dropping social media took a tremendous amount of social stress off my shoulders. It's a lot quieter and I guess lonelier but it has never really bothered me.

It has certainly helped to reveal to me who my genuine friends are as soon as I deleted facebook years back.

Rob?

Isn't Facebook a 40+ thing now?
All my friends have no new pictures and status updates for years

sadomasochism (websites)

I just say I haven't got the time for it inbetween my business, lifting, archery, shooting/hunting and hanging with my mates.
What free time I've got left after that, I sink into lurking a Manchurian horse insemination bulletin board, but even then, I paid for a Pass as to keep my shitposting high speed low drag.

Truth be told, if I got Facebook, my debilitating autism would have me stalking all my friends to find out what they were up to and I'd feel like I'd have to set off some time of the day to be angry at stupid posts and congratulating people with their birthdays, lest they think I'm an asshole.

sfyl :(

There's literally no good way to answer that stupid question without the other party thinking you're at least a little weird.

Might as well just prepare to take the hit. And if they're fags about it then drop them like fags.

I don't care what other people are doing. 90% of the people I'm friended with I couldn't give a fuck about. If I care about someone they have my number they can call me with news.

I used to use Facebook back in middle school and early high school but I outgrew it. Stopped pretending to care about random fucks I had class with. The only social media I use is Snapchat because I like sending funny pics to my friends and it's more convenient then sending pics through messenger. I also have a secret instagram that I use for fap material so I don't watch porn.