No facebook account = suspicious

eth0 · 30-07-2012 09:40AM #1

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 · 30-07-2012 09:43AM

that link doesn't work for me.

meoklmrk91 · 30-07-2012 09:45AM

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 · 30-07-2012 09:46AM

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 · 30-07-2012 09:51AM

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 · 30-07-2012 09:52AM

I hope employer spend more time on your CV than Facebook

30-07-2012 09:53AM

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

Ghandee · 30-07-2012 09:56AM

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 · 30-07-2012 09:58AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:00AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:00AM

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?

30-07-2012 10:00AM

**** Facebook.

eth0 · 30-07-2012 10:01AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:06AM

Ghandee wrote: »

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

GTFO

Scioch · 30-07-2012 10:07AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:07AM

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

Father Damo · 30-07-2012 10:10AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:12AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:14AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:14AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:16AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:17AM

antodeco wrote: »

GTFO

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

Festy · 30-07-2012 10:18AM

What the hell is a Facebook ?

Toby Take a Bow · 30-07-2012 10:18AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:19AM

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/ · 30-07-2012 10:22AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:22AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:30AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:31AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:31AM

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 · 30-07-2012 10:39AM

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!!!

No facebook account = suspicious

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