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Original poster

To ask if anyone else doesn't have Facebook?

32 replies

turquoiseamethyst · 10/03/2015 20:58

How do you find it? I had it for a few years but haven't for a while.

I am trying to make friends and am tentatively wondering about rejoining but it really makes me depressed at the same time and I have no friends to add

any thoughts?

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pinksparklynails · 10/03/2015 21:03

I removed myself from it.. I find it tedious and I get zero use from it at all.

feel much better for not having it Grin Grin

OrinocoTheWomble · 10/03/2015 21:04

No! I hate it. I'm on twitter. Enough for me. (I have no friends either!).

RabbitSaysWoof · 10/03/2015 21:05

I dont miss it one bit. I dont think you make new friends on there do you?

MsVestibule · 10/03/2015 21:05

Why do you find it depressing? Apart from not having any friends to add (which I'm sure you do!).

TheHappinessTrap · 10/03/2015 21:05

Fb is awful. There are other better ways to make friends.

Salmotrutta · 10/03/2015 21:05

I don't have it.

It doesn't seem like much fun.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 10/03/2015 21:07

I don't do Facebook or Twitter or anything else (Instagram, MySpace,Beebo etc)

I get these "You have more friends than you think" photos flashing up, one I recognise from someone I worked with years ago and they are no friend of mine Grin

I ignore . Bliss.

OrinocoTheWomble · 10/03/2015 21:10

The real world is the place to make proper friends. Not FB.

I am happy to be your friend... what are you like? (Not that MN is the real world either!).

cheminotte · 10/03/2015 21:10

I have a profile under a fake name so I could free cycle some stuff, but haven't used it since. I waste enough time on here, I don't need any more opportunities. I am aware I may be missing out on get together or baby photos but I think I make more effort to actually see my friends and catch up properly.

MsVestibule · 10/03/2015 21:10

I really don't get the anti-FBness. I use it for sharing photos occasionally and keeping in touch with friends through PM. It's easier to arrange nights out and apart from the odd bit of vaguebooking, it doesn't annoy me at all.

Have I just got really normal, boring friends?

TendonQueen · 10/03/2015 21:10

I don't have it and never have. I think if it makes you depressed, you should leave it alone and look for friends in a face-to-face environment.

SwirlyThingAlert · 10/03/2015 21:12

I have Facebook (not helpful, sorry Grin Why does it make you depressed? Genuine question.
I love it as it allows me to keep in contact with friends I don't always get to see as often as I like due to distance, and can chat to them on there and see their updates.
I only ever add people I know in RL and would stop and chat to in the street so I don't get any drama b*x on there.
Facebook isn't somewhere to make friends in my opinion. It's somewhere to keep in contact with existing friends and family.

ChipDip · 10/03/2015 21:13

I love fb but then again I only have people who are actually friends on there. People who hate fb usually have the wrong type of friends on there.

OrinocoTheWomble · 10/03/2015 21:14

I am of a certain age where I think e-mailing or sending a text is a good way to communicate with friends!

AryaOfWinterfell · 10/03/2015 21:14

I don't have it, don't see a reason to. If I'm doing anything I'd like my friends to know about I'll tell them and vice versa.

For friends living abroad - I've got email that I can send messages/pictures through.

It does bother me though when the school pta put info on their facebook page & not a note on the school website/in book bags.

Original poster
turquoiseamethyst · 10/03/2015 21:15

i think because I see everyone else's happy lives and mine is nothing like :)

It's more for trying to join local baby groups and so on.

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SwirlyThingAlert · 10/03/2015 21:15

I don't do Facebook or Twitter or anything else

Oh, don't get me started on Twitter. Now that's addictive and anyone can follow me on there. I may be private on my Facebook, but Twitter is a free for all follow and I don't care who follows me on there (well over 3,000 at last look)

DoJo · 10/03/2015 21:16

I love Facebook too, but it's not really a way to make friends so much as to keep in touch with those you have. Unless you want to rekindle relationships with people from your past, in which case it can be a nice way to share news etc, but I wouldn't have thought it would have a huge impact on your social life, compared to joining a group or club and meeting people in real life. If you are going to do that though, joining a group of Facebook is a good way to keep up with their social activities so it could help!

BetweenDogandWolf · 10/03/2015 21:18

I have Facebook. I'm not sure about the friends thing. I'm in a group of fans of my favourite band and I've met two people in real life I actually like through that. So maybe if you have a minority interest it can help!

On the other hand, there are people I already knew in real life who I now like less after discovering their Facebook personas!

Rafflesway · 10/03/2015 21:21

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GoldenBeaches · 10/03/2015 21:22

I can't stand fakebook.
I like Twitter though. I can keep up to date with all my gaming friends easily and see what's happening in my gaming world.
I found fakebook was just for boasting and became boring very quickly.
I couldn't care less what the people I went to school with are doing now and my real friends text or call me anyway.

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turquoiseamethyst · 10/03/2015 21:22

I do love Pinterest though.

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bumbleymummy · 10/03/2015 21:25

I do have an account but I rarely use it. We have family and friends spread around the world so it's a way to keep in touch :)

SisterMoonshine · 10/03/2015 21:26

I don't have it. From what I've seen, there's a lot of showing off.
It would depress me so I know what you mean.

TheMaw · 10/03/2015 21:29

I came off Facebook a while ago, every so often I sign back in but it annoys me too much. Too much moaning and bragging, drives me mad. I'm all about Twitter now!

But it is tricky when most baby groups are on Facebook. Some of the groups I go to only post undates (cancelled classes, for example) via FB and don't text. And if you meet someone new, I think the modern-equivalent for starting a new friendship is adding them on Facebook. Asking them outright for their number seems a bit too intimate, somehow.