Snicks and I watched the movie referenced in this post's title this week. Hmmm... afterward I just about deleted my FB profile. I was disgusted by the character portraying the founder of FB and then my brain started to swirl with thoughts of privacy, etc. Have any of you gone the way of ridding yourself of FB? Would I be throwing myself back into the dark ages by removing my profile?
PROS of Keeping FB Profile
- keep in touch with my cousins/friends
- an almost IRL connection to you lovely ladies!
- sharing pics of AG with family/friends (we do have a family blog for this, though)
CONS of Keeping FB Profile
- privacy concerns
- being too connected
Snicks has never signed onto FB and I am wondering if he was the smarter of us in that choice.
I am truly thankful for technology!
8 comments:
My husband and I have both never signed up for a facebook account. From what I hear, we are all the happier for it!!
I quit facebook about a year and a half ago. I was very concerned about privacy and most of the time, people I really wanted to hear about never updated their profile and those I didn't want to hear about always did. It was an easy choice and I'm very happy to be rid of the darn thing.
We never signed up for it. In both our professions, we encountered the downside of FB. :) They do change the privacy settings as well without notifying users so you have to stay on top of that. However, it mainly just seemed like a waste of time for us and our uses. I keep up with the family/friends I want to, so I never understood that point about it. BUT, I do miss the blogger pics that get there first! Still, I think some people would be miserable without their FB. Just depends. If you have both a family blog and a FB account, are you updating the same things?
E saw an interview with the real guy that invented facebook and he said the movie was very hollywood-ized. I've not watched it myself, but I am on facebook and enjoy the connection to friends.
I watched it, I almost fell asleep...I'm on facebook and since I got my new phone, I might be the new facebook whore. :) I am only friends with family and blog friends and a VERY few highschool friends. I deleted everyone else and I ignore friend requests if they aren't close to me. ;)
My husband and I are both FB holdouts...and proud of it! We just both agreed that neither of us wanted the other reconnecting with people that the other of us had never met/known. I think it's unnecessary to reconnect with a lot of people, unless maybe it's a long lost family member or something. Mostly I think it's a waste of time and pulls us away from living in the present. But to each his own. I don't think it's evil or anything!
I felt physically ill watching about what a jerk he was, but then my friend told me about some specific parts that aren't true and I realized I don't know the whole story. I imagine a lot of it is true though, but I don't have the time or desire to dig into it. I get where you're coming from. Since FB is not an obsessive thing for me, I feel fine about keeping it. I understand what you are saying though. I think it would only hurt you if you really like it.
I've been flirting with deleting my FB account too. I hardly ever use it...I rarely post updates, rarely post pics of my kids because I'm paranoid about the privacy issues. So what do I have it for? To "eavesdrop" on the lives of (long lost) friends? That's probably not the best use of my it. My DH, like yours, never got an account and swears he never will.
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