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In reply to the discussion: Outside the Facebook wall [View all]Phentex
(16,334 posts)1. I feel very much the same...
and now many things require a facebook account just to get information. I go to my kids for that if it's something I really need.
My biggest reason is my family. I hear from them individually about something someone else posted on Facebook and there's much conjecture as to why. The last thing I need is one of them second guessing my motives.
I can't tell you how many times someone on both sides of the family assumes I got a piece of their news because it was on Facebook. Guess they have too many people to realize I'm not one of their followers.
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And I'm eight. Since my family are all right wing nutty repubs I just had to get off of Facebook.
monmouth3
Mar 2013
#7
Isn't this like someone in 1970 complaining about all his friends using telephones.
Johonny
Mar 2013
#15
I didn't say my friends on Facebook are being narcissists, and don't pretend that I did.
klook
Mar 2013
#18
I always thought of FB and Twitter as something for people without lives to follow those with lives
thetruthhurtsforsome
Mar 2013
#28
I have a dummy account but being a techno-moron, I never thought I had to take any precautions.
snagglepuss
Mar 2013
#54