To think people have a pompus snobbery over not being on Facebook?

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you know the kind of 'oh no darling all of my social interactions are face to face on mums net'

Facebook? What's a Facebook? Is it a book of faces? Can I get it in the library? I don't even know what it is, unlike the OP.

sugarice Well by doing that you are actually following good facebook etiquette because there is nothing worse than people who are real 'takers' but not givers...you know the ones who have a page but dont offer anything on there but are quite happy to look at everyone elses phots etc.

Yanbu

At the moment is 'cool' to hate Facebook. The detractors will move on when the next fad comes out...

YANBU. However, I have extra special pompous snobbery because I have been on FB and am now not on it. I am post-Facebook.

"I am so glad that it wasnt around when I was a teenager, it has the capacity for causing so much trouble/arguments"

You are so right. DD's school has to deal with loads of fall-outs because of the silly stuff posted on Facebook. The pastoral team hate it. As a parent of a preteen I admit to being judgy about Facebook. I have an account but never post anything on my wall. I wanted a presence on there so that when DD turns 13 and wants an account I will be able to advise her without being ignorant of how it works.

I still prefer to keep in touch with my friends by other methods though - and none of my family use Facebook.

I use it but only for a handful of people who I don't often see and who lies far away. I do not do the whole status thing nor do I ever get involved in the trivial crap that lots of adults seem to. If that makes me a snob then so be it.

YABU.

I can spend a whole day flitting between MN, Twitter and Ravelry, quite easily. I see no appeal at all in Facebook, though.

I think some have missed the point of my post, which of course is my own fault for not being clearer. I am NOT SAYING everyone who is not on facebook is snobby about it ..I am saying some people are when they make those pooh pooh comments about their social interactions as if people who use facebook dont do any socialising.

Well some people are snobby about everything in life. Some are snobby about the size of your TV scene, some are snobby about wheat you spread on your toast, some are snobby about the cotton count on your bedclothes. It's no biggie.

What not wheat

YABU to assume people not on FB are snobby about it.I'm not on but lots of my friends are.I don't look down on them for it,if anything I'm just a bit of a technology dinosaur.Between TV,radio, e- mail and MN just feel enough time each day taken up with techy things and after a stressful few years love nothing more than a spot of day-dreaming,or a soak in the bath with a good old book.I simply feel I get loads of social interaction in my job and life generally,and can keep in touch with friends very well without it.
TBH I also don't see why some people have the need to constantly update news about their lives in minute detail.Like the thread about someone on an exotic holiday posting several updates a day.Does that make me snobby?

yy yanbu op.

Though not everyone is like this. Some people are just 'shrug' I'm not on it, types.

But others are really quite sanctimonious about it also often the same people who have very few friends and are sensitive about it

I know one lady who rants and raves about it and turns up her nose over facebook. But still logs onto her DH's account to stalk people on there!

I don't see what's pompous about announcing your family and friends aren't really the sort of people you want on your friends list

I have never joined FB and feel like I am the only person who is not on it.

My best friend is always on at me to join but tbh I don't really have much interest. Told her last week (face to face that DD is doing well on the cello and she said, "see, that is something you could put on FB".

I keep thinking of joining as I have friends abroad and it would be a good way to keep in touch but never get round to it.

Yanbu. My sister thinks facebook is silly. That's because she doesn't have kids and can do things like socialise.

I'm a working LP so I don't get to go out. FB enables me to keep up to date everyone. I'll never socialise again but if we see each other in the playground / street / supermarket we know what each other has been up to.

I'm also very nosy which makes fb perfect for me.

Facebook is a more modern and year-round equivalent of the Christmas round robin letter - the ideal medium for show-offs and bores.

I've never noticed anyone being snobby about not having a FB account, but then I don't have one so I'm not sensitive about it. I've seen people on Twitter slating MN for being (insert prejudice here; you name it) and not to their liking. Similarly many posters here think Twitter is rubbish because it's full of sleb twaddle and you can't post pictures (you can). I often feel the urge to defend my choice of social media. Stupid really. They're all what you make of them.

what is snobby about not wanting to be on fb

If you really want your privacy protected you do not on there or use a made up name

I am on there but never update I find it odd that people know I have done things without me telling them when I have been tagged. I set my private settings then fb revamps and they all go. I only have one picture too

Freudian - there's nothing snobby about being on FB, it's just that some people look down their noses (or keyboards) at those who choose to use FB. None of their damned business really.

People get bored of hearing about arguments about fb and about how stupid people are putting their whole on there then moaning about it

how many people know that fb owns everything you put on there regardless of your settings

Or rather fb can use your photos/posts/videos if they want to

jinxdragonYes its the 'i have better things to do attitude' erm if your chatting on mums net with strangers then I beg to differ!

If I read another 'I dont have a facebook account and I am not a snob about it' reply to this thread I will eat my own head...well I am not talking about you then am I!