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If You’re Not On Facebook, It’s Time To Get Over Yourself

by chadp on 4/25/11, 11:38 AM with 5 comments

  • by mattgreenrocks on 4/25/11, 1:24 PM

    The author seems a bit too proud of Facebook. (Actually, it creeps me out whenever someone blogs passionately in defense of a product.) Maybe abstainers just don't want to deal with it? I know several people like that. They don't think they're better than anyone, they're just content to let it pass them by.

  • by cafard on 4/25/11, 3:36 PM

    "Everyone knows one of those self righteous Facebook abstainers."

    Yep, I see him every morning when I shave.

    "Except really, these people aren't defending anything except antisocial, extremely annoying behavior. And if you're one of them, you need to stop."

    Who am I annoying? I have about one friend who posts stuff on Facebook, and whose information I might care to see. Sorry, PK.

    "Facebook is the most important way we touch our friends online, period."

    For some value of "we".

    "Birthdays, parties, Passover seders, graduations--they're all organized on Facebook."

    They all can be organized on Facebook. (Though "birthdays"--are we organizing a birth?) Also on 3x5 index cards, with telephone calls, or by runner.

    No doubt, in many respects I should get over myself. But this fellow isn't the one to tell me.

  • by gersh on 4/25/11, 4:16 PM

    How did Zuckerberg build such a cult following? You're crazy if you don't use this service. Even Apple hasn't achieved that.

  • by copypasteweb on 4/25/11, 1:26 PM

  • by pwg on 4/25/11, 12:16 PM

    Facebook == The new AOL