To think that there must be mumsnetters out there that don't use/aren't on Facebook?

[LaurieFairyCake]

there must be.....

Say I'm not the only one (don't have one now, got rid more than 4 years ago)

Nope - well just to monitor dd but she deleted me! FWIW the DC who are 14 and 17 are tired of it now and think it's passe

Nope - well just to monitor dd but she deleted me! FWIW the DC who are 14 and 17 are tired of it now and think it's passe

No, I'm not on Facebook either.

I find it strange that when someone asks me if I'm on facebook and I say no they almost always reply "No? I wish I wasn't really"

what is that all about?

I'm not on Facebook, not on Twitter, not on LinkedIn. I'm not actually 104, just feel like it sometimes.

Hello OP! I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. Dislike Facebook "owning" whatever you put on there and making it difficult to leave, plus the sheep-like expectation from some people that everyone is on there. You soon find out who your real friends are - they keep in touch despite you not being on FB. Facebook don't want to help you socialise, they want your details so they can advertise at you. Their code is on a lot of websites (this very thread has a Facebook data-collecting feature on it). I'd much rather have individual communications with fewer friends, than be posting blanket "news" to everyone. Even if you need to communicate with several people at once, how hard is it to reject FB and send an email to multiple recipients? The more I find out about FB the less I like it. Same goes for Google - you really don't have to have it as your search engine.

No, and am pissed of that they have bought instagram and are going to get rid of it and release their own version, which you will probably have to have a FB account to use. It's become a personal mission just to stay off FB now.

Love twitter though, that's a different kettle of fish.

I hate facebook and am not on it except I do have a fake account under an assumed name that I use to look at OU course stuff because the OU forums are dead.

I am not on Facebook. it is scary. it knows stuff and nobody knows how.

Nope. No Facebook, Twitter, telly, computer. Only just about have a phone.

FB is excellent for stalking

No facebook here either, if i want to chat to friends i ring or text 'em.

Used to have fb about five years ago. Quickly realised its basically for people who wish they were in OK! Magazine. It makes even normal people weird.

I think there's something really insidious about it, people can now be deleted fgs.

Along with not watching soaps and daytime tv, not calling people hun or hunni, not thinking its normal or acceptable to talk about shoes and handbags as if they come attached to a 10inch cock and not ever feeling the need to say 'im not racist but...' not being on Facebook makes me feel unreasonably smug.

"people can now be deleted fgs"

Oh I agree! Instead of talking things through if you have a disagreement with someone, and hoping to reach an amicable solution - you just click "delete"

Too bloody right, I'm not on sodding facebook.

I can't think of anything more boring than hearing what someone's having for their tea or seeing ridiculous amounts of photos plastered all over the place.

And like a PP said, I'm getting well and truly fed up of telling someone something and hearing that they already know as they've seen it on facebook

It's quite satisfying, deleting smug people.

In fact I wish I could do it on MN

I had to join facebook to get updates on a local club.

I feel relieved I don't have to keep up like the poor teens/20 somethings who post because they have to update regularly and their pics look exactly like they are in real life lolling around in front of the tele stylish with them in reflective mood or partying wildly - poor things, what an image to have to maintain.

I'm on Facebook. I like the window it gives me into my friends' and acquaintances' lives, even the mundane stuff. I don't really have any "OMG LOLZ wel jel!!!!!111" friends anyway. It works for me. [shrug]

Usualsuspect - oh i can well imagine the satisfaction of deleting someone you dont like. I never got to experience that as i didnt add anyone i didnt like. Seems pretty normal for most though....bizarre.

I was on Facebook but I saw the light and left, life is too short to spend with virtual friends.

And all those mind numbing status updates... Who cares!

All the people on my FB are people I actually like , which is more than can be said for MN