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7 Aug 2012, 03:12 PM | #1 |
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Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?
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7 Aug 2012, 07:02 PM | #2 |
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I don't have a Facebook account. Draw your own conclusions
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7 Aug 2012, 09:43 PM | #3 |
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Neither do I, but then I'm not that young?
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8 Aug 2012, 01:36 AM | #4 | |
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a conclusion. But one can be a form of Asperger Syndrome maybe and they are not psychopaths at all. AFAIK. One can be totally engaged in Sport maybe? Have no time for internet? On the other hand the others on the team would set it up and keep it updated Or one can be the target of Bullies and need to hide from them. Some tells me that I can set up a faked FaceBook account. That does not feels ethical to do to me. So still no FaceBook account. Haha I sometimes wish I could be a pyschopath. That would make life so much more easy. I am too empathic for such bad behavior. |
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8 Aug 2012, 02:10 AM | #5 |
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If you avoid it because you hate Facebook's security and other policies and the whole crowd culture and really don't care to spend your precious time scrolling through posts of what your old high school "friends" that you'll never see again are eating today and through their bragging posts, does that make you a psychopath? hmmmm
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8 Aug 2012, 02:36 AM | #6 |
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More likely the opposite. But I guess what the txt is about
is that seen from a statistically perspective then most people do go with the flow. So if one are not going with the flow then those that employ people get their Alarm Clocks ringing. But your example show that one can be opposite of being a psychopath. Psychopaths seems very active on FB. They love to try to exploit others or to make havoc. Stealing identities and such. Latest example got reported today in our Tabloids. A local famous young singer got her identity copied by others that tried to spread false rumors about here and a Boyband member. And all the false accounts has collateral damage too. Her real identity has been deleted two times because it where reported as false by some bullies. Facebook seem not good at knowing which is the real singer or her false impersonators. |
8 Aug 2012, 03:15 AM | #7 | |
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I only signed up for FB when my mom died and I needed to find/make contact with my estranged sister - I eventually found her daughter on FB. Never used it since though . . . As for finding old friends, school pals, etc - I'd rather NOT know how well they're doing in life - especially if they're doing better than me! |
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8 Aug 2012, 03:41 AM | #8 | |
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I am very busy and happy with my hubby, our five kids, and all our current friends and their friends too, I don't need to have contact with people from 30+ years ago that I haven't chosen to keep in contact with. Any people from our past lives that we have wanted to keep in contact with, we have. Sometimes it is just at Christmas with a nice letter (yes, I still find the mail more personal for sending individualized letters talking about our kids, their kids, etc.) I am perhaps a tad old-fashioned for these things, and at times, may have a few temporarily *insane* moments, but I certainly do not consider myself a psychopath! Susan |
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9 Aug 2012, 01:24 AM | #9 |
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I tried FB and MySpace and disliked it a lot, so I stopped using it after a few months. Three years later on and haven't missed it a second. The moment that people find people insane or backwards when they don't have a Facebook account (yes, I have met people literally saying not being on FB is "backwards") we have a problem. The moment people assume people abstaining from social networking are criminals with something to hide, it's total paranoia.
I have nothing against Facebook or Twitter users, almost all my friends use it. But please, respect it's not everyone's cup of tea and a) do not jam it down people's throat (like some webmail providers do by integrating it with social networks) b) don't just think a person without a profile is some weird person who never saw a computer in his life |
9 Aug 2012, 01:45 AM | #10 |
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Now im really in trouble
Guess I will have to go live in a motel and dress up as an old woman lol http://youtu.be/NG3-GlvKPcg |
9 Aug 2012, 02:06 AM | #11 |
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9 Aug 2012, 09:12 AM | #12 | |
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Waves to fellow psychopath SusanUKF
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I do have a Twitter account and I like it very much for reading news. There's a TON of great information there that's caught in a small amount of characters. I'm a sponge for info and it's like a news headline feed running in my bar all day (I use Yoono and if you're a FB lover, you can use it to watch those posts too) Anyway, if I'm offered multiple ways to sign in and Twitter is one way, I might choose that way. However, the companies that I respect most with regards to their registration are the ones that offer a selection of ways to sign up, as well as the traditional method of using an ID/email address and password of your choosing. You get to choose. It should be about a wonderful user experience, not anxiety over having to sign up with your id from a non-trusted company's credentials. |
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9 Aug 2012, 07:31 PM | #13 | |
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My problem is that a lot of my interests do have their activity on FaceBook so I feel left out not being a member Hahah one of the Admin on one such "Club for Bicycle Users" told me that he thought it okay to make a fake FB account. I would feel bad doing such. Not very ethical to do it. So I have been totally stuck for months now. If I give them my real name then the Bullies from my School will find me again and go on bullying and stalking me but if I give a fake name then FaceBook internal security something will see me as a bad behaving guy. That is not good either. Haha the worse thing is that in Sweden it is impossible to hide from Bullies due to our Personal Security Number. Is official so if one know that one then one find that person. Impossible to hide even if you change real name officially because the personable number stay the same. So they will know that you have changed name and what the new is. Only if you are a wife to a man that hit you really hard can you get a new personal number and new name that not get listed with the old number and name. |
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9 Aug 2012, 09:48 PM | #14 | |
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This is one of the comments on the Daily Mail article:
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I don't know whether this is real or made-up to make a point, but if that's really happening Facebook should be very worried. |
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9 Aug 2012, 10:18 PM | #15 |
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I guess I would not get that job.
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