Ask HN: How many of you aren't on facebook ?
How many of you out there aren't on face book or other "social" networking sites ; I specifically mean sites such as facebook , myspace , orkut. It would be great if you could reason out too. I frequently hear about people quitting "FB" and wanted to understand what turns off ppl.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 32.9 ms ] threadIf Facebook let me choose to be entirely hidden, except to those 20 people, and only let me initiate outgoing friend requests I'd reactivate my account. I know there are friend lists, but I don't think there's anyway to use them to do this.
I deactivated my fb because I didn't really use it. I'm not mr. social and I felt that if anyone needed to reach me and really wanted to reach me the extra effort was worth it. I especially didn't like this idea of mass fb invites. I don't want to be a checkbox on a list to get invited to a party. I know I know, its convenient, but I'm just stubborn like that.
Ok, mostly I deactivated my fb account because my last gf and I parted ways and it was not a good idea to have that absurd of a connection with someone you have to let go. - yes, blocking was not enough, I needed to drop off the face of the planet for a little while ...
Turns out its not that bad at all.
I am an edge case, people can have their facebook, I'm just the type of guy that rather have 2 lifetime ultra friends, rather then 3,000 facebooky friends. Is it mutually exclusive? Who knows.
Why don't people hand write letters any more? Because in a world of text messages and email its the hugest pain in the ass to hand write a letter. -Yeah.
And that is exactly the reason why any girlfriend of mine is going to get a damned hand written letter every now and then until the end of time.
-Yeah.
I have a LinkedIn account though - created when I was last looking for a job. I almost never login though, but sometimes people that know me in real life send invitations to join their network, and I accept. That pretty much sums my activities.