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Beware, Tech Abandoners - People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious'
Forbes ^ | 8-6-2012 | Kashmir Hill

Posted on 08/07/2012 6:41:50 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

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To: Sir Napsalot
I'll keep my dumb phone and no way will I ever put myself on facebook or any other social bullshit!!!!

Mark me suspicious and put a brand on my forehead if you must!!!

41 posted on 08/07/2012 10:39:22 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Sir Napsalot

I went to school with 2 kids whose actual names were Merry Christmas and a guy named Happy New Year.


42 posted on 08/07/2012 10:42:07 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Sir Napsalot

Not only am I not a twit, and don’t have a Farcebook page, I still carry an antique “flip phone” I got about 6 years ago. It needs charging a lot more often these days, but I just keep it plugged in when I drive and it stays charged. When the battery finally dies, I’ll search high and low (if I have to) for a replacement battery.

Watch out - - I am really ‘suspicious’.


43 posted on 08/07/2012 10:56:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Sir Napsalot

Facebook sucks.


44 posted on 08/07/2012 11:00:41 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: dalereed

I went to school with Adam Baum and Harley Davidson..........


45 posted on 08/08/2012 12:41:12 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And those of us non-Facebook types who don’t twit are downright evil!

I do have a facebook account but to say that those who don’t are evil is ridiculous. I do know that the military is big on Facebook where they have information (administrative only) on different things. I think it is a good tool, but just a tool. You can still get the information from other sources. I don’t know if it will be a requirement to have Facebook someday to do banking or pay bills and other things but until then enjoy life without Facebook.


46 posted on 08/08/2012 3:39:49 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Attention Republican National Convention voters....Santorum/Bachmann 2012! Dump liberal Romney NOW!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I am too old !!!!


47 posted on 08/08/2012 4:52:48 AM PDT by lawsone
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To: cuban leaf

HEY! That is a great idea. I have just left all of that info blank, and used a fake email address to register my facebook account.


48 posted on 08/08/2012 4:59:22 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: cuban leaf
I have a fake facebook persona. It’s pretty detailed too. He went to a particular high school and graduated in a particular year in a state I’ve never been to, and he graducated from a particular college and works at a particular large company site several states away. He even comments about specifics of his home town and stuff in the town where he now works and lives.

Sayyyyyyyy...Aren't you the guy with the fake Hawaiian birth certificate and Connecticut SS#?

What does your son look like and in which of the 57 states do you reside?

49 posted on 08/08/2012 5:10:40 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: cuban leaf

HEY! That is a great idea. I have just left all of that info blank, and used a fake email address to register my facebook account. I was having a ball last week with the chick-fil-a stuff and “you didn’t build” that previously.


50 posted on 08/08/2012 5:17:51 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: Sir Napsalot

The data in Facebook is easy to collect and store is a designed database and then data mine. The same with all your Gooogle searches that are stored in a database. Your card you use at the store is used the same way. The Muslins are no longer the enemy. Now the new enemy is white, military past, gun owner, Conservative. You are now the enemy of America.


51 posted on 08/08/2012 5:17:54 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: cuban leaf

HEY! That is a great idea. I have just left all of that info blank, and used a fake email address to register my facebook account. I was having a ball last week with the chick-fil-a stuff and “you didn’t build” that previously.


52 posted on 08/08/2012 5:18:16 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: ican'tbelieveit

HEY! That is a great idea. I have just left all of that info blank, and used a fake email address to register my facebook account.


I have about five gmail accounts for various purposes. I created a new one for this.

The reason I tried to make my fake address look legit is because I want to get friend requests from complete strangers as I continue to post comments on news stories. I want to see where it goes.

So far, all my friend requests are from people who went to the same high school I chose. I picked a large one so it would be possible that we “never met” yet still went to the same school.

The key is that this account needs to look real, and not “obviously fake” like the first one I tried.

Also, I can use it to look at my “real” facebook account to verify my security settings.


53 posted on 08/08/2012 5:26:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I’m married, so why would I need to do “social media”? For me the only purpose of “social media” would be to make my getting laid easier.


54 posted on 08/08/2012 5:27:06 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Lancey Howard
Not only am I not a twit, and don’t have a Farcebook page, I still carry an antique “flip phone” I got about 6 years ago. It needs charging a lot more often these days, but I just keep it plugged in when I drive and it stays charged. When the battery finally dies, I’ll search high and low (if I have to) for a replacement battery.

I could have written that same post, word for word.

55 posted on 08/08/2012 5:29:23 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: cuban leaf

Yeah, I have the fake email addresses down pretty good. And the email address I provide for professional purposes is not linked to any social media sites. Almost another fake email address.


56 posted on 08/08/2012 5:31:02 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (School is prison for children who have commited the crime of being born. (attr: St_Thomas_Aquinas))
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To: the invisib1e hand

Agreed. I got rid of my Facebook because it was a meaningless set of updates and I received more spam than anything else. Idiots wasting time on pokes and “whatcha doing” updates along with the phishing scams led me to deactivate it shortly after getting it.
The interesting part is the odd assumption that the first one or two people within a first and last name combination in a Facebook search are “you”. (My combo is rare, but there are a few others in the US with it).
I have received correspondence from people dead certain I was this other person and must take care of something. No, I didn’t meet you in that party. No, I am not a health official in Oregon that sent out that notice.
I have a professional website, a blog and I’m on linkedin. That is enough for my work. Facebook wastes my time, and it never generated legitimate business.


57 posted on 08/08/2012 6:59:58 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Rebelbase

That’s hilarious.


58 posted on 08/08/2012 7:01:37 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: JRandomFreeper

LOL!


59 posted on 08/08/2012 7:05:15 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: tbw2
I have a professional website, a blog and I’m on linkedin. That is enough for my work. Facebook wastes my time, and it never generated legitimate business.

I finally succumbed and generated a Linkedin profile. What's your assessment of it as far as a business tool?

60 posted on 08/08/2012 7:05:30 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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