No facebook account = suspicious

eth0

According to this anyway: http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2012-07-25c/Facebook_Abstainers_could_be_labeled_Suspicious.html

Think its a load of shoite myself but do you view facebook non-users as social outcasts who are not to be trusted? If someone applies for a job and you can't find them on FB do you throw their CV in the bin?

FatherLen

that link doesn't work for me.

meoklmrk91

I personally think that is a load of ****e, Facebook used to be good craic and handy to have. Now it's just liking pictures of kids with cancer to make them better, assholes putting up passive aggressive statuses, assholes putting it pointless statuses and getting a million game requests a day even though you never play them. Wish everyone would **** back to Bebo really

eth0

FatherLen wrote: »

that link doesn't work for me.

Maybe you are behind a firewall that won't allow you access to port 82, these contrary lads run their webserver off a non-standard port so I look at them with suspicion

According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de, not having a facebook account should be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.
No facebook, no job offer.


The article mentions the fact that in the US, people were subject to handing their passwords over to potential employers, which privacy advocates, facebook, and the US government disagree with. But the article takes it one step further in claiming that not only did US employers have a legitimate point, but also suggesting that those who abstain from facebook could be mass murderers.



As examples they use Norwegian shooter Anders Breivik, who used myspace instead of facebook (or as they put it, "largely invisible on the web", haha @ myspace), and the newer Aurora shooter who used adultfriendfinder instead of facebook. So being social on any other website isn't good enough, it has to be specifically facebook that people are using.

While it is already established that sites like facebook and google+ are no good for political activists, abuse survivors, and people in the witness protection program; abuse survivors will have to take a back seat while more and more insane articles like this come out.

There seems to be an insanity bubble around older people which has arrived after the initial facebook boom that brought in the youth, where they see facebook as a necessary utility; instead of a trendy website that will have passed in a few years.

Father Damo

I have to admit, if I met an Irish person over here who had no friends from his home area he could introduce me to, coupled with not having a FB account, I would think it pretty likely he was running away from something sinister. People with a vague past usually have one for a reason.

Jester252

I hope employer spend more time on your CV than Facebook

Makes about as much sense as declaring that non car owners are stuck in their ways! :rolleyes:

Ghandee

Their is no real stereotypical Facebook user imo.

I have friends, outgoing people who have profiles, I have shy, socially awkward friends who have accounts also.

I have an 80 year old uncle whose on Facebook, uses it quite a lot tbh, and my own father in his early sixties is also on it.

But then I've lots of mates (some of which are in I.T) who would be very computer literate who just don't 'see the point' of Facebook.

What does píss me off though, are the ones who use it to tell you the goings on on their mundane lives, I don't care that your in pizza hut, or the mall. I'm not interested you're doing the ironing love.....

Also their are the attention seeing types who give you a cryptic message, begging you to ask what's up with them. Something along the lines of, 'will anyone be passing such and such a hospital, that would like to do me a favour? I'm going to be in here for quite some time.....
Just let us know, you've got a kidney infection got Christ sake, why all the drama?

I have an account, its used mostly to catch up with friends, some of which are in this country, some are abroad, I just don't feel the need to tell people what I've had for dinner on it.

eth0

Father Damo wrote: »

I have to admit, if I met an Irish person over here who had no friends from his home area he could introduce me to, coupled with not having a FB account, I would think it pretty likely he was running away from something sinister. People with a vague past usually have one for a reason.

Escapism does seem to be a big reason to "go traveling" these days. Although they'll spin it off as a kind of 'new experiences' and 'get away from backward ould ireland with going to mass every week' thing but really it boils down to escapism for a lot of people

Jason Todd

I don't care whether someone has an fb account or not... what bothers me are the people who don't have one and somehow think they are better than you for not having one.

mikemac1

According to this article printed in tagesspiegel.de, not having a facebook account should be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.

What's that website about?

Is it full of spoof stories like The Onion?

**** Facebook.

eth0

mikemac1 wrote: »

What's that website about?

Is it full of spoof stories like The Onion?

Not quite the onion, the Germans equivalent of the daily fail maybe

antodeco

Ghandee wrote: »

I don't care that your in pizza hut, or the mall.

GTFO

Scioch

I suppose it is a handy way of checking someone character to some degree. I mean if you have no references your unlikely to get a job too so backgrounds checks are part of the process, and a job isnt just professional it also has an element of socialising in regards to a team and how well you can fit in and be a a part of that team. If your an oddball then an employer may think you might not be best suited to the position. Which to me is fair enough. Not grounds to think someone is odd not to have a facebook account but perhaps more likely to hire someone who does that can be checked out in a way.

The handing over passwords thing though which was on here a while back is just lunacy.

AnonoBoy

I'd be more suspicious of someone who said they'd never heard of Facebook.

Father Damo

I await Run to Da Hills input.

Clearly the Norway and Colorado shootings were a clever illuminati plot to make it so that people who do not have FB are viewed as unemployable sociopaths, and the few remaining holdouts will be forced to open accounts in order to compete in the job market and leave themselves open to illuminati monitoring:pac:

hoodwinked

to be fair its those who have facebook accounts that deliberately exclude certain people that make me suspicious to be honest!

like someone i know who refused to add (in fact blocked) all their inlaws from their facebook! :pac: despite "getting along" in real life.

makes you wonder what they are hiding on there. :pac:

Rabies

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I'd be more suspicious of someone who said they'd never heard of Facebook.

Watch out, many AH posters have never heard of most things, especially U2. You know, to sound cool

Scioch

Rabies wrote: »

Watch out, many AH posters have never heard of most things, especially U2. You know, to sound cool

Cool ? Never heard of it. :cool:

Toby Take a Bow

If I was running Facebook, I'd probably feed similar stories to the press. 'If you don't have a Facebook account, you're kind of like nutjob mass murdering dicks'.

The inclusion of snide references to 'failed' social media sites is a nice touch.

Scioch

antodeco wrote: »

GTFO

Mall is fine here as long as its pronounced "Mal".

Festy

What the hell is a Facebook ?

Toby Take a Bow

Ghandee wrote: »

Also their are the attention seeing types who give you a cryptic message, begging you to ask what's up with them. Something along the lines of, 'will anyone be passing such and such a hospital, that would like to do me a favour? I'm going to be in here for quite some time.....
Just let us know, you've got a kidney infection got Christ sake, why all the drama?

Don't forget the posters who have their baby's photo as their Facebook photo. Along with constant updates/photos of how their baby is developing.

latenia

So how will they be able to tell who's a mass murderer when facebook collapses, sometime in the 3rd quarter of 2015?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Meh, I use Skype and email to stay in touch with people. Hardly use facebook at all for the amount of utter shite people "Like" on it. A major weakness of facebook is the number of shit articles people are encouraged (by virtue of the API) to share on it. It's like an RSS feed of rubbish I'm not interested in.
I wouldn't be surprised if this attempt to marginalise non-users was some marketing ploy. It's pretty pathetic, it's just a website.

Ghandee

LordSmeg wrote: »

Mall is fine here as long as its pronounced "Mal".

Equally fine if 'the mall' is actually where you're at.

Bow street mall in lisburn, high street mall in craigavon.

These are which I was referring to, not trying to sound all American lol.

crazy cabbage

Facebook is ****.

Nowardays when i go on it i just mindlessly say happy birthday to people that i barly know, then scroll down through some really pathatic statuses and stupider pics and likes. I mean i do not care that you cant wait for friday night. Why do i need to know? Just more habit than anything that i go on it.

Ok i will admit that it is handy for keeping in thouch with a cuple of people that i know that live abroad.

adocholiday

I refuse to have a facebook account. It's not to be cool or anti-conformist or any of that rubbish. I don't have one because I don't see a point in having one. If I want to speak to a friend, no matter where in the world they are, I pick up the phone. I don;t want to hear about every other person's mundane daily activities, or your political views, or how bored you are. Couldn't give a fiddlers! I just don't see why people feel the need to exhibit their lives to all around them.

Also, when it comes to employers/potential employers looking at it; I know a lad who works for a small American company. When they interviewed people for jobs, they looked up every person on facebook. Two people that they had short-listed as potentials were dropped because of some of the content on their facebook pages.

I can understand why some people have it but I don't think people realise that everything that they put up there is there to stay and they should be more careful.

Ghandee

Jason Todd wrote: »

I don't care whether someone has an fb account or not... what bothers me are the people who don't have one and somehow think they can ask you to log into yours, then stalk (and sometimes sneer) at mutual friends accounts.

FYP,

Also:

The lurker/stalker who reckons they're too cool for an account yet you often hear then comment to you that they 'saw it on Facebook' really annoys me.

Either stay off it, or open an account.

Saint_Mel

Hahaha sounds like people without fb accounts cant be trusted cos they have something to hide ... I hope they apply the same logic to people with beards!!!

ThunderApple

Omg, the world is getting more and more crazy every day. They are going to give you 1000 reasons why you have to put all your real data and pictures of everyone you've ever met on Facebook.

I've heard Facebook was planning to launch some kind of a job market app. You possible future boss can see all your messages, drunken linked pictures and all the 'funny' shared crap you've ever posted. No, thank you. I hope I won't have to use it.

petes

I deleted my facebook account and by tomorrow it will be deleted forever.

I was constantly checking it and feck all happening on it. So it's gone and don't really miss it. Couldn't give s fcuk if someone has one or not though.

Agricola

You can almost see Zuckerberg laughing manically and stroking his white cat when he reads articles like this. He is one step closer to global domination if the consenus is that people who don't use his site are deviants!

CruelCoin

I don't monitor FB accounts. Provided it doesn't impact the business, i believe private and professional lives be kept seperate.

Outkast_IRE

I wouldnt equate No facebook account=Suspicious

but that said i do know someone who wouldnt keep one for years as he was cheating on his girlfriend on nights out and he was afraid one of the other girls would cop on.

Chuck Stone

Fuckfacebook.

Notorioux

I don't see the point of FB either. I've a cellphone to communicate with my mates so why do I need that ****. All I'm seeing there are stupid sad statuses that I don't even give a single ****.

partyatmygaff

I'm suspicious because I'm not availing of the services of a private business who lives off selling my data?

There's nothing suspicious about not having a Facebook.

VEN

Father Damo wrote: »

I have to admit, if I met an Irish person over here who had no friends from his home area he could introduce me to, coupled with not having a FB account, I would think it pretty likely he was running away from something sinister. People with a vague past usually have one for a reason.

why would they want to share their friends and personal **** with you if you've just met? i personally know people i wouldn't add on facebook, its my private space, my business and my business only. no hard feelings.
sure here, have a look in my wardrobe or better still i'll show you my bank account!

Did i ever show you the pic of me puking at my mates party.?


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kincsem

How do you close a Facebook account? Is that possible?
Is is possible to deactivate, and I've done it.

eth0

kincsem wrote: »

How do you close a Facebook account? Is that possible?

it is but they give you 2 or 3 weeks where your account is in limbo waiting to be closed just in case you change your mind

amacca

I recently opened a facebook account having not had one for years and years because I needed access to some facebook only sites..tag rugby etc to join

it has 13 "friends" on it that are only there because they were email contacts in the email address I supplied

Having got access to what I wanted I rarely ever log in and I dont respond to friend requests on account of not wanting people from different areas of my life to link to pictures of me out drinking whatever etc that have been tagged.....

I think its an invasive, kind of insidious thing in a way.......I'm not a mass murderer and genuinely have very little or nothing to hide but I'm not really comfortable with the idea that everytime you go out etc pictures of you can be up for all to see kinda keeps me nervous and stops me from relaxing when out sometimes if a person you know with a facebook account that simpl must take a million photos and tag you specifically in them is on the prowl........you all know the person I mean too I'll bet

I hope Facebook dies a death in favour of something less invasive.........wonder if all the bebo migrants to facebook will join up and migrate into linkedin in a couple of years

I know people whos job it is to go through peoples facebook accounts as their job. There is so much info up there. Insurance company's etc ... Got rid of mine.

Father Damo

Ghandee wrote: »

I don't care that your in the mall. .

Notorioux wrote: »

I don't see the point of FB either. I've a cellphone to communicate with my mates.

WTF are people talking like this

why would they want to share their friends and personal **** with you if you've just met? i personally know people i wouldn't add on facebook, its my private space, my business and my business only. no hard feelings.

I will re phrase.

Say I met an Irish girl, over here, who did not have FB, or even someone from another country/ different part of Australia. Things are going well, she wants to move in together.

Yet I have never met one friend of hers from her hometown, and have no evidence she is even in any contact with anyone back home bar family.

You would not be just a tad suspicious of whether this person has something to hide? People who have no discernible past usually do not have one for a good reason, I have met a few people in my time like that.

V_Moth

Father Damo wrote: »

WTF are people talking like this




I will re phrase.

Say I met an Irish girl, over here, who did not have FB, or even someone from another country/ different part of Australia. Things are going well, she wants to move in together.

Yet I have never met one friend of hers from her hometown, and have no evidence she is even in any contact with anyone back home bar family.

You would not be just a tad suspicious of whether this person has something to hide? People who have no discernible past usually do not have one for a good reason, I have met a few people in my time like that.

Paranoid much?

After your first date you will wake up in a bath full of ice without kidneys.

eth0

eth0 wrote: »

it is but they give you 2 or 3 weeks where your account is in limbo waiting to be closed just in case you change your mind

LOL
Facebook NEVER fully deactivate your account.
You can still log back in 1 year after deactivation and everything will still be there.

Father Damo

V_Moth wrote: »

Paranoid much?

After your first date you will wake up in a bath full of ice without kidneys.

I would not be paranoid of someone who plain does not like FB if I had met, say, a few friends who had grown up with them.

But for someone not to have it, and to seemingly have no contact with friends they grew up with, you would not find it a bit sus?

VEN

Father Damo wrote: »

WTF are people talking like this
I will re phrase.

Say I met an Irish girl, over here, who did not have FB, or even someone from another country/ different part of Australia. Things are going well, she wants to move in together.

Yet I have never met one friend of hers from her hometown, and have no evidence she is even in any contact with anyone back home bar family.

You would not be just a tad suspicious of whether this person has something to hide? People who have no discernible past usually do not have one for a good reason, I have met a few people in my time like that.

no i wouldn't be suspicious at all. maybe she uses Badoo, Orkut or yes Myspace. maybe she doesn't bother and uses just skype and email, msn, google chat. its endless.

old_aussie

Father Damo wrote: »

But for someone not to have it, and to seemingly have no contact with friends they grew up with, you would not find it a bit sus?

Most of the friends I grew up with are dead, will facebook put me in contact with them.

Personally I don't give a rats arse about facebook.