I just don't see the point of Social Networking, I know all my friends and if I want to ask them something I have my phone.No social life said:
Apparently not having Facebook makes you "suspicious" (epic facepalm)
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THE FUCK?!
This is perfect!!! Oh my God!
I have a Facebook account, so NOBODY will suspect me of being a serial murderer! FUCK YEA!!
I don't even have to hide the evidence anymore! Hell, I bet I could post the crime scene on FB and not even be a suspect!
Life is good!
This is perfect!!! Oh my God!
I have a Facebook account, so NOBODY will suspect me of being a serial murderer! FUCK YEA!!
I don't even have to hide the evidence anymore! Hell, I bet I could post the crime scene on FB and not even be a suspect!
Life is good!
That or somebody believes it. . . . Hmm. . . . Not sure witch one is worse. An evil mastermind or a legion of idiots.Fappy said:
Serial killer? Probably not. However I can see the logic. Facebook is nearly an omnipresent aspect of this generation and probably generations to come. I'm on it right now talking to four different friends while viewing two other's photos of their summer vacations getting all kinds of news. Its raw accessibility, utility and connectivity make it extremely easy to use. I do not know a single person without it, it would strike me as very odd if somebody didn't have it, and it will probably only become more prevalent in the future. So serial killer no, oddity definitely.
What about old people who don't know how to use it? Does that mean that they are mass murderers?
This means that since I have one...no one will expect me to become a mass murder?
Excellent, my betrayal will strike them harder, imposing more fear into their mortal hearts! MWAHAHAHA!
Ahem *Ignore the previous parts, I may have just been going insane a wee bit*
I just use Facebrick to keep track with friends and groups that actually do things. I also keep up with George Takei's silliness, which is great.
Excellent, my betrayal will strike them harder, imposing more fear into their mortal hearts! MWAHAHAHA!
Ahem *Ignore the previous parts, I may have just been going insane a wee bit*
I just use Facebrick to keep track with friends and groups that actually do things. I also keep up with George Takei's silliness, which is great.
I'd think it'd be the other way around, with constant friends updating you every half a second about their mundane lives via facebook and twitter, that you'd be driven to mass murder.
I'd argue that what happened with MySpace's community was more along the lines of "hey look, everyone's going to this other place, we should check it out", rather than "rl is so awesome!"carlsberg export said:
A person like that wouldn't socialize on the internet to begin with, so whether or not they would have registered an account on a very specific social networking site, is arbitrary and completely irrelevant in this context.Abandon4093 said:
I dunno whenever Facebook is brought up, I feel like killing someone 
Also aren't there like alot old people who don't use Facebook... Oh my God we are sitting on a time bomb of geriatric mass-murderers! No wait! It gets worse, Facebook has only been around since 2004 so practically everyone pre 2004 was a mass murderer waiting to happen! Bolt your doors and stay inside, nowhere is safe! /joke
So if this article is anything to go by, in the future it looks like if I want a job I have to let my potential employers see a facebook account to prove I'm not a drunken lay about who will phone "sick" every Monday, and spy on me in general. Or provide them with some sort of pyscho analysis test to prove I'm not going to wearing my fellow worker's skin by the end of the week.
On a side note, the article doesn't say anything about people without Google+ accounts. What atrocities would these people possibly commit?
A slightly less silly opinion now.
That seems to quite the logical leap there. There are many reasons why someone may not have a social network account, i.e. lack of no how, limited circle of friends, prefers face to face interaction (remember that world?) etc, none them instantly mean pychopath. For employers to turn away applicants because they think they are suspicious without facebook accounts is idiotic, and could also be considered discriminatory if you think about it, as it would bias the opinion of the applicant.
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Oh I forgot the bit a the of the article about slade.com's advice on not dating anyone without a Facebook account. Great advice! For as we all know there are no rapist or child molesters on Facebook.
Also for your own sanity no not read the comments on the Daily Mail site, just don't.
Also aren't there like alot old people who don't use Facebook... Oh my God we are sitting on a time bomb of geriatric mass-murderers! No wait! It gets worse, Facebook has only been around since 2004 so practically everyone pre 2004 was a mass murderer waiting to happen! Bolt your doors and stay inside, nowhere is safe! /joke
So if this article is anything to go by, in the future it looks like if I want a job I have to let my potential employers see a facebook account to prove I'm not a drunken lay about who will phone "sick" every Monday, and spy on me in general. Or provide them with some sort of pyscho analysis test to prove I'm not going to wearing my fellow worker's skin by the end of the week.
On a side note, the article doesn't say anything about people without Google+ accounts. What atrocities would these people possibly commit?
A slightly less silly opinion now.
That seems to quite the logical leap there. There are many reasons why someone may not have a social network account, i.e. lack of no how, limited circle of friends, prefers face to face interaction (remember that world?) etc, none them instantly mean pychopath. For employers to turn away applicants because they think they are suspicious without facebook accounts is idiotic, and could also be considered discriminatory if you think about it, as it would bias the opinion of the applicant.
EDIT
Oh I forgot the bit a the of the article about slade.com's advice on not dating anyone without a Facebook account. Great advice! For as we all know there are no rapist or child molesters on Facebook.
Also for your own sanity no not read the comments on the Daily Mail site, just don't.
I fail to see how that's in disagreement with what I said.Abandon4093 said:
Except that we're not debating the uses of social networks here; we're debating the consequences of not using Facebook specifically. There's a world of difference between the two.
The Forbes article quotes a person as saying "You should be suspicious of someone who is not making your relationship known publicly on a site like Facebook. " There are employers who ask for the Facebook details of applicants, and now we're presented with the notion that anyone who may not have an interest in this particular social network, or who may have chosen not to create an account there, is a potential mass murderer.
No matter how you look at it, that argument is lunacy, and it is objectively, and provably, wrong.
To quote the ActivePolitic article on this, "There seems to be an insanity bubble around older people which has arrived after the initial facebook boom that brought in the youth, where they see facebook as a necessary utility; instead of a trendy website that will have passed in a few years. "
If you're not using Facebook, that fact alone is in no way indicative of your mental state, or your social status; it just means that you're not using Facebook. I know that some find this shocking, but there are a lot of people out there, who have absolutely no inclination to use that particular site. In fact, to put that further in perspective, there are statistics that show that in Europe, for instance, less than 50% of the internet-using population, use Facebook [http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm]. To suggest that something must be wrong with all those people, and indeed to compare them to known murderers, in the way that the supposed German "expert" did, is not only grossly ignorant, it is downright insulting.
i've never had or never will have a face book account. . .i wonder what it feels like to kill? since im a "mass murderer"
maybe i should find out? Muwahahahahahaa
Joking, of course
maybe i should find out? Muwahahahahahaa
Joking, of course
What if you have a Facebook but never really use it?
With many friend requests that you've neither rejected nor accepted...
Where does that fit?
With many friend requests that you've neither rejected nor accepted...
Where does that fit?
Even since opening an Anti-PrivacyBook account I've come to regret it. I'm on the verge of deleting it if I didn't use it as a contact medium between friends. It's had its uses, but it's not worth the paranoia for me and I'm just counting down the days before it's risks become a reality. By that I mean the day that thousands of people lose important personal information to hackers who are into identity theft. I'd wager it's less likely to not-happen.
But if I did delete it, does that make me a suspicious person? No, certainly not. It makes me a more safer person online. I reduce the risk of losing personal information, being stalked, hacked, blackmailed, burgled, defrauded, etc etc.
I like Twitter though. It's good for micro-blogging dates and venues, links and snappy questions/information; it's crap when people use it to fully blog their entire life stories and daily routines in continuous 140-character posts. Wrong site, dumbass. Go to WordPress or Blogger for that.
But if I did delete it, does that make me a suspicious person? No, certainly not. It makes me a more safer person online. I reduce the risk of losing personal information, being stalked, hacked, blackmailed, burgled, defrauded, etc etc.
I like Twitter though. It's good for micro-blogging dates and venues, links and snappy questions/information; it's crap when people use it to fully blog their entire life stories and daily routines in continuous 140-character posts. Wrong site, dumbass. Go to WordPress or Blogger for that.
Oh sa-ha-weet! Does this mean we can look forward to gaming finally dropping off of the radar of the ignorant masses who seem to think that there's some form of media that clearly corrupted the people who go on killing sprees? Because... you know... clearly there have never been any mass murders 100+ years ago. To think, all those deaths caused by Jack the Ripper could have been prevented if only we had invented Facebook sooner!
That's just plain stupid. You'd think it would be the screaming and the stench of blood that tipped them off, but NOOOOO, it's my lack of a Facebook account. Sometimes . . . I don't know . . . I just want to watch it all burn.
( Just wondering, people don't check your Escapist accounts for signs of suspicion, do they? )
( Just wondering, people don't check your Escapist accounts for signs of suspicion, do they? )
I think he missed a step in the chain. Not having a facebook can be a sign of anti social behaviour, which can be a sign of a sociopath or psychopath.
He just worded it reeeeeeeaaaaaalllly poorly.
He just worded it reeeeeeeaaaaaalllly poorly.