Poll: Do you have facebook?

[Jack_Uzi]

I don't and I am not planning on putting all kinds of things on sites like that about myself for people to see. The people I know and like, know how to get in touch with me perfectly fine without things like that. I won't say it couldn't be handy, but it's not my thing.

 

[Jake the Snake]

I do. It helps keep in touch with my friends that I don't see on a regular basis. Like my best friend who lives in fucking hawaii for instance.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

"Yes and i use it everyday"
It's one of the few ways I can communicate for free at irregular but frequent intervals with a lot of my friends, those who are relatively far away. Why wouldn't I use it?

EDIT: Just for the record, though, since a lot of you guys seem concerned about how people use Facebook:
I'll catch up with my (physically) close friends face-to-face every second day. And for the aforementioned more distant friends, I try to see them for 2-3 days every 2 (occasionally more) weeks.
But in the mean time, for the distant friends, Facebook is great. I don't use it for games or apps (except Robot Unicorn Attack, every now and then ), I mostly just use it to keep up with what people are doing, and organising the next time I'm coming down to see them again.

 

[DeepComet5581]

By the end of today, I may have a girlfriend thanks to Facebook ^-^

 

[Jamieson 90]

No I don't and I don't want to either. What you are basicly doing is giving away all your persoal and private information as well as the images you upload to Facebook. Facebook then legally owns everything and do what ever they want with your stuff, sell your personal information to advertisers what ever.

Not only that but boradcasting your private life to the internet is incredibly stupid, For example it might make you feel good to boast you are going away for 2 weeks to your friends, but to a criminal thats just saying yes my house is going to be empty for 2 weeks please rob it.

Its also becomming increasingly annyoing how everyone assumes you have facebook, I was asked the other day what my facebook was and I when I said no they looked incredibly shocked.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

Yes, I do. I like to keep in touch with my friends who I don't see on a fairly common basis.

Please don't flame me

Of course we won't =)

 

[Vilcus]

I made one for lulz. Then people I know started adding me, so I let them. I use it to make fun of the many people who have added me.

Personally, I haven't added anyone on Facebook to my friends, because I really don't think it is an appropriate way to actually communicate. However, it is damn useful for setting up online games for things like Warzone 2100, which thanks to Facebook, I was able to get a few of my friends into it.

Other than that I post jokes, and I troll all my friend's pages. That's about it, I check it like twice a week.

 

[HK_01]

No, and I don't really see the point of it. Also, the fact that everyone constantly goes on about it and that it's omnipresent everywhere, including the Escapist, makes me outright hate it.

 

[BonsaiK]

I have one.

* Work requires it
* I can find out what people I know are doing without having to actually talk to the annoying pricks
* I can help my girlfriend play Facebook games
* Hell, I met my current girlfriend through a party invite I got hooked up through FB, what's not to like
* Instant communication with lots of people has its benefits

and best of all

* I get to annoy too-cool-for-FB internet hipsters just by having one

 

[aether-x3]

I dont have one and I certainly do not want one. ;u

 

[Kevlar Eater]

I have no need for a social network designed for sheeple.

 

[Creepy Woodsman]

I got peer-pressured into getting it. >_>

 

[Brandon237]

Do not have.
Do not need.
Do not want.

What? Are you expecting more? The friends of mine who do have it don't use it often, and the rest don't have it and I couldn't care less about random classmates from 2004...

 

[Ham_authority95]

Not only that but boradcasting your private life to the internet is incredibly stupid, For example it might make you feel good to boast you are going away for 2 weeks to your friends, but to a criminal thats just saying yes my house is going to be empty for 2 weeks please rob it.

Of course, you don't HAVE to post what your address, phone number, or actual city is. Plus they have privacy setting so that only friends will be able to so your info.

OT: I have one and it's pretty useful to communicate with all my friends and bandmates.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Nope! I don't plan to get one. I don't want people to be able to quickly search me and find out all that personal info. Kinda scary...

Again, you don't HAVE to post any more contact info than your freaking first name.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I have one.

* I can find out what people I know are doing without having to actually talk to the annoying pricks

Oh yes....you can't click "ignore" in real life, that's for damn sure.

 

[Fridge]

Yeah I do, I use it to stay in contact with friends I don't see all the time and lets me keep track of different events that are being planned.

 

[TheHecatomb]

No, and I'm not interested. I do have a Hyves though, which is sort of a Dutch equivalent, without the whole international thing.

 

[Neofishie]

I just use it to keep up to date on what people are doing. Many of the people I'm not even really friends with. I just love the data stream.