To have never used facebook

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And I’m particularly glad about that having rewatched The Social Network tonight on Netflix. That Zuckerberg is a fucking tool. But that’s not why I never used it. I just don’t like all that putting all your personal info out there and reading what people are doing at every second of the day. It just seems so pointless to me.

It really is great to connect with family all over the place, keep in touch with old friends who’ve moved away, to catch up on everyone’s news and generally have a nose at what’s going on. However, I get extremely irritated by by ‘stream on consciousness’ posts like. ‘Thinking about what to have for tea’.’thinking about having steak’. ‘Just putting tea in the oven’. ‘Enjoyed tea. Wine o’clock?’. ‘Wish I hadn’t had the wine-can’t sleep’. ‘Just checking the alarm is set’. It can genuinely go on like that for hours (and yes I know I can delete people, but I’m too nosey!!)

I think it's perhaps popular with a certain demographic, like yourself I never understood the appeal, but from having an account, bit pot and kettle. It's good to learn which acquaintances repost stuff from places like Britain First and the like. Or people who merely just follow such pages.

Saying that I cannot honestly say when I last went on.

It's similar in many regards to Instagram, I was into it for a few weeks, never really posting, but quite shocked and what people share, even more shocked at what younger people share.

It's tragic that people base their self worth off such platforms. My main reason for having an account is DC were playing a game, if you did something you got bonus tokens which otherwise would cost about £10. I've got a teen who doesn't have an account, I do make a point of emphasising how they should view their self worth.

The number of girls posting how much they hate themselves, how they want to get various plastic surgery when older to iron out imperfections is saddening. I'm glad we didn't have it in my school years, in some ways it'd be interesting to be at school now and see how big of an impact it is.

I know peers of DC that have accounts, even the youngest, I think it's shocking.

I like Facebook. It’s great for family to keep up to date with what’s going on.
The boys footy team have a private page and it’s a great source of info of upcoming events. One of the grandparents is into taking fantastic game/ action shots and will share them to the page.
Like wise the scout troop have there own page and will keep us updated etc.
Also I like local pages as they often have upcoming events I wouldn’t normally hear about.
I’m not the person who puts up what I had for dinner. I just share events 😂 my friend once commented that I should work for the local tourist board!!!
I don’t however do Instagram. This confuses me terribly!!!

That sounds just like me-I’ve even set up a page to post information about local events!

It is nice to be vaguely in touch with old friends.
Mainly I use it as a low pressure way of chatting with my two boys who are studying abroad. I only talk to them on the phone once a week or so, but we send brief messages to one another almost every day, which is just lovely- unobtrusive but comforting.
I don't know anyone who posts racist rants, brags about their life in an unseemly manner, or thinks anyone is interested in their dinner plans.

Of course yanbu. All social media is completely a choice. My choice is to have it. Thankfully i dont have anyone on it who posts every minute of their life. Nor do I share all my personal information.

I like a lot of the groups on there. Mental Health support ones, ones that related to my breed of dog (had loads of great tips for training on there) , womens groups, funny groups. I also like it to keep more upto date with friends abroad. Better than email. It feels more current.

But not having it is just as valid choice as not having it.

YANBU, but I'm so pleased that my friend from school and I both use Facebook, we keep in touch, and even though she's moved out of town, she's on the staff of the annual festival there. We travelled last year, DH, the DC, DM and I, and had a wonderful time, I met my friend, I'm so pleased! We'll go every year now.