Posted on 05/18/2012 6:30:22 AM PDT by C19fan
More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least once a month, but millions more are Facebook holdouts. They say they don't want Facebook. They insist they don't need Facebook. They say they're living life just fine without the long-forgotten acquaintances that the world's largest social network sometimes resurrects. They are the resisters.
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I don’t have it either—its nothing but a huge tracking device.
“Resistance is futile”
Darth Vader
My twins have an account but I have no desire whatsoever for one for myself.
Why is this news? Some people use FaceBook, some people don’t - so what.
Yes, its the SECOND LARGEST tracking device on the face of the Earth.
My Mom keeps hounding me to joining Facebook, but I refuse. She hates that and is always saying what this person or that person posted on their FB page. Sorry, I’m not biting.
Ann Barnhardt called Facebook a “a giant self-service surveillance net.” I agree. “They” already know enough about us as it is without our giving them even more help.
I agree.
I don’t do Facebook either.
FWIW, Trend Micro AVG anti virus now has added a do not track feature. Facebook and Google analytic trackers are on nearly every site, including this one.
Hasn’t FB been complicit in China’s oppression of political dissent?
I saw that recently when I renewed my AVG subscription. There's tracking everywhere. Nothing is hidden.
Call me paranoid if you must, but I see this as the first step of a campaign to paint those of us who don't submit to "voluntary" surveillance of our online activity as "suspicious" and "secretive."
Good for you.
I love these threads because I thought that - other than a few Amazoian Rain Forest tribesmen - I was the only person in the world not on Facebook.
I have a life. I don't need to share it with everyone, nor do I need to live vicariously through other people's lives on the computer.
Good for you.
I love these threads because I thought that - other than a few Amazonian Rain Forest tribesmen - I was the only person in the world not on Facebook.
I have a life. I don't need to share it with everyone, nor do I need to live vicariously through other people's lives on the computer.
If others want to, that's fine. Facebook just isn't for me.
I’m not sure what you’re asking, but you can’t use Facebook in China. It’s blocked.
Facebook is just a passing fad.
Because you can’t use facebook and credibly make an argument about the importance of individual privacy. It would be like bringing a prime rib dip to a PETA rally.
Google is naked about saying, “Whatever you send us is ours” and then makes it so the ONLY way you can sync an Android is with their Google Docs Suite.
This is where the money is for them. If you hold out, well, ‘it doesn’t fit the plan’.
Nope. Heavens no! Just chalk me up as a Facebook Denier. As far as I'm concerned, FB doesn't even exist and never has.
And BTW, shouldn't the term be spelled as resistor, with an o instead of with an e? Inquiring minds need to know.
What’s a facebook?
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