Apparently not having Facebook makes you "suspicious" (epic facepalm)

[purplecactus]

Heh, that's pretty ridiculous. I held out on signing up to Facebook for a long time, only got it in this January past to keep in touch with the people I'd spent the past month with and would otherwise likely never speak to again.

My mum and my brother don't have it. Guess they're just too busy with all that killing to sign up.

 

[The Funslinger]

Well that explains why there's so many corpses in the house...

Both my parents lack Facebook accounts.

It all makes sense!

It makes so much sense. I bet they even took you as an infant from your deceased parent's arms.[footnote]Was that an adoption joke? I think it was![/footnote]

 

[dangoball]

I don't have a Facebook... Hmmm...

Bonus points for Hyperbole and a Half

It's like there is some insane madman out there who pays stupid people to say things in public. What a diabolical mastermind he must be.

It's them Illuminati I say!

OT:
Is there really anything other to say than: "This is fucking stupid"?

 

[Keltrick]

Well that explains why there's so many corpses in the house...

Both my parents lack Facebook accounts.

It all makes sense!

I might as well stop reading the rest of the posts, because you just won this thread.

OT: I have an inner debate about deleting my facebook. I don't like being so open to contact with most people. ANYONE can find me ... but for the few times its a good tool to get in touch with someone who I haven't exchanged phone numbers with, I'd be lost without it.

Maybe someday, but until then ... gah! I hate myself for being a slave to peer pressure, but 'everyone' has one, so I guess I have to have one as well, if only for convenience.

 

[Vhite]

Actually it serves as handy list of people and reminder why would you want to kill them.

 

[Keltrick]

I'd wager that it's much more interesting to know people who don't share everything on Facebook, who like to keep their private life just that.

The problem with Facebook is that people don't share everything; they just share the things they feel are interesting (or make them seem more interesting). That's my main gripe about Facebook (or social media in general): you don't really get to know people, you just see what they want you to see.

Yeah, but I kind of see that as a god send. Maybe it's because I'm in a younger age group (18-25), but I have the opposite problem. I have people I know who won't shut up about things that AREN'T my business. I do not need to know that "SOME PEOPLE really get you miffed when SOME PEOPLE forget anniversaries." Sweetie I DON'T CARE YOU AND YOUR BOYFRIEND FIGHT. Kindly stop broadcasting it.

I think a personal censor is a good thing online. Maybe I use Facebook to continue existing relationships, instead of forging new ones, and that's why I come from this perspective. I was raised to heavily monitor what parts of my life I make other peoples problems, and that includes posting it on their feeds. I know you can be more open without divulging everything, but most people online don't seem to know the difference. I'll personally take only the stuff they want me to see, over everything I don't want to see, any day.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Did someone say "cat video"?

I clicked on this forum for a reason, but now I can't remember what it was.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

You know, I'll keep asking this until I get a proper answer that I could give a damn about...

What the FUCK do I need Facebook for?

Ain't gonna happen...

Farmville, that's what. I think.

OT: Hm... I don't have Facebook, I've played an FPS, and I prefer people not look through my PC... I must be a TERRUREST!

 

[FalloutJack]

Farmville, that's what. I think.

I don't like farming games. Next?

 

[Starik20X6]

I can't remember the last time I used Facebook.

On a completely unrelated note, do you like Huey Lewis And The News?

 

[likalaruku]

Really? I would have thought that a massive collection of weapons, rampant missing pets, several local Amber Alerts, & the smell of rotting human flesh coming from your garage would be the first indication that you were a mass murderer.

 

[Rastien]

Oh how i love the Daily hate and bile,

So now i'm being compared to a murderer well shit... great. Other titles from the shit spewing factory that is the Daily Mail:

"Facebook use linked to weight worries according to study as users 'want their friends' bodies'"

"The Facebook fix: Are you an addict? Test that spots social network junkies"

 

[Grimh]

HA! Suck it Daily Bile!

I have a facebook account! I just never ever use it!

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

The amount of mistranslations coming from this trial is making me highly suspicious of anything the news says about it.

Also, the Daily Mail. No more needs to be said, but I'll say it anyway. They have outright fabricated news stories in the past, and no doubt they will do it again. In this age of digital media all it takes is for one person to write a false news story on their blog and the major outlets will copy it as is.

So highly reserved as to whether even part of this is true.

 

[Gardenia]

Forbes [http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/]


Daily fail [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184658/Facebook-Some-employers-psychologists-say-avoiding-social-media-suspicious.html?ICO=most_read_module]

An expert noted that mass murderers Anders Breivik and James Holmes both lacked much of a social media presence, leading to the conclusion, in Slashdot?s phrasing, that ?not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.?

Well shit, think what you will, but this is both stupid... and dangerous. Not everyone likes being watched 24/7. Not everyone wants to be an open book on the internet, me included. I'd wager that it's much more interesting to know people who don't share everything on Facebook, who like to keep their private life just that.

Breivik had a Facebook account. What does it really take for the media to call you an expert these days?

 

[Alcamonic]

One could analyze the situation and think that: Not having Facebook makes you a successful mass murderer. If they now had Facebook and made a comment "I will kill people at the batman opening tonight!" someone would probably notify the police.

Of course it could just be a load of bullshit, it is the dailymail after all.

I also don't have an active facebook account (tried, didn't see the point in it), and I will probably kill someone before going back.

 

[Tollo]

I have Facebook but I spend far to much time doing over things, and I would like to keep it that way. People who have free will and don't check Facebook every 5 minuets have the capacity to plan something horrible or you know something for the greater good, it's because we are not giving up our life's to something that will be remembers like Myspace is today IN A FEW YEARS.

Also Breivik had a Facebook account that got banned after his mass murder spree, also that other guy I doubt he was even a bit social because he didn't have any friends so he seeked out a character to pretend to be as his mental state slowly crumbled away in till well I don't want to type.

 

[Toilet]

That article was so dumb it makes me want to buy a large gun and go to the Daily Mail offices.

 

[No social life]

I have TWO FaceBook accounts, so that means I'm DOUBLY not a serial killer. Sweet.

ah, but if having FB makes you not a serial-killer, then having two account would make you not not a serial killer, I'm on to you...

I have 3 btw...

I have 4 (I was bored), and I have never made a single post on any of them,

 

[geon106]

If I was a mass-murderer i'd use Facebook to lurk on peoples profiles. I do that anyway but not for the same reasons