Life without Facebook

Woopydalan

I am wondering in this day and age, how feasible is it to go without things like facebook? Are there major hindrances to going without a social networking account?

The same could be said about this forum. There are people here that use this forum with similar purposes as facebook: they are the ones I see posting here everyday.

What would you do without a facebook or PF?

I'm starting to think I have a problem..I am always on FB or PF now that I am on winter break, but during the semester I turn off my FB, so I just go on PF even more.

Are we better off without social networking sites and internet forums?

Here's an example of how not having a FB would hurt me: On New Year's Eve, I made a post saying I would be running a taxi service. I got multiple calls and ended up with about $120. Facebook actually made me money.

Gad

*blank look*

I've only created a FB account to look for someone, didn't work, then ignored checking my profile.

jhae2.718

Woopydalan

I now extend the question as well

It seems that I am addicted to FB and PF, before that it was WoW, before that wc3, before that something else.

Is it possible to not be addicted to anything at all, and to live in complete moderation of all things?

bp_psy

To live in complete moderation, you should also moderate your moderation therefore you should have a moderate amount of stuff you are are not doing in moderation and a moderate amount of stuff you don't do at all.

I don't really know how my life with a FB account would be .

ImaLooser

I gave up on Facebook. I really don't see what the big deal is. Some people love it. To me it's the 24-hour Drivel Channel.

leroyjenkens

I've never even so much as visited the Facebook webpage on purpose. And I'm not unique. So yeah, life without Facebook is like life without any other specific webpage that a lot of people visit frequently; no different.
Everyone has free time to spare, and most of us have specific things we do to fill that time. For you it was a video game or Facebook, for someone else it might be TV.
Is it possible to not have a routine of doing similar things every day to fill your time? Probably, but it would be pretty exhausting searching for such variety.

Curious3141

I went without Facebook for the longest time. Then I created one (with my true identity) to participate in some silly giveaway or contest or something. Big mistake. Within a day, my wall got flooded with people I knew in real life. I retired that FB page almost immediately.

Now, I get by with an FB page using a nom de guerre. Useful for sites that require or accept an FB login.

Curious3141

Are you understudying Jimmy Snyder?

tahayassen

I hate most people so no, I don't use facebook.

Kholdstare

..... is a blessing.

Lisa!

FB doesn't leave you much time to live!

Jimmy Snyder

Now I get credit for jokes I don't tell. I follow the golden extreme.

Woopydalan

Ok, so now how would you guys survive without PF? Because many people use this website for a similar purpose to FB. I noticed everyone avoided how I tied FB and PF together..

Pengwuino

I don't use PF as much of a social network. I know people on this website and talk to some of them rather frequently, but almost none of which I'd call real friends. In contrast, facebook is my social networking site and my friends are there. PF is just a site where other people with similar interests as me join up to discuss things and like any other website on the internet. If I find people I actually want to be friends with, we exchange actual contact info.

As for whether or not I could survive without FB... sure! Unlike a lot of people, FB is secondary for me as far as means of communication with my friends. It's very nice being able to share pictures of cool places we've all been to and occasionally stalk that cute girl my friend brought to dinner with us all last week, but in the end it's a luxury, not a necessity.

On a side note, I always find the responses to any thread that mentions facebook rather hilarious. Everyone says it's full of crap, stupid posts, stupid people, senseless musings... but the site is what you make of it. Why do people allow people they clearly dislike or would rant about onto their facebook or at the most, to be visible on their newsfeeds? I've refused to add people on my FB because either don't care about them or know they'd just fill my feed with stupidity.

Ryan_m_b

I use Facebook a lot to keep up with friends who I, unfortunately, can't see often. Frankly asking if one can live without Facebook is one of those leading questions so beloved of sensationalist news agencies. Yes you can live without face book, yes there are people who. can't live with it, yes for millions it's a useful resource and yes for some people it's detrimental. Welcome to the world. People are different.

Woopydalan

Any other opinions on this? I think there is still more to discuss...how facebook has changed how people interact, and if it was a change for good. Also the issue of PF being used for similar purposes as FB