No facebook account = suspicious

war_child · 30-07-2012 01:30PM

Deleted User wrote: »

God almighty how did all those who left Ireland on the famine ships and in the 150 odd years prior to the facebook age ever survive? :rolleyes:

In a strange country, meeting other people with not a facebook account to their name. God above when i think of them poor divils :rolleyes:

Superb excellent outstanding, sir allow me to smack you with a legend also :cool:

ChunkyLover54 · 30-07-2012 01:30PM

I'd be more suspicious of someone who doesn't have a face

buried · 30-07-2012 01:33PM

Laughable article. Obviously set up by the company too. "More likely to be a mass murderer if doesnt have a facebook account"? hahahaa What genius came up with that and how can they sleep at night knowing there is potentially 6 billion mass murderer - killers on the loose throughout the globe??

Looks like facebook is finished and about time too. Anybody who actually falls for a statement like that is a total idiot.

Anyone · 30-07-2012 01:36PM

buried wrote: »

Looks like facebook is finished and about time too. Anybody who actually falls for a statement like that is a total idiot.

So its not finished and its not about time?

Sea Filly · 30-07-2012 01:39PM

Confab wrote: »

What the actual fuck? Why does a person have to hang around with other Irish people wherever they go? I actively avoided them when I was in Australia. Don't be so stupidly narrowminded.

Surely it's as narrow-minded to "actively avoid" them?

VampiricPadraig · 30-07-2012 01:50PM

I have stopped using Facebook because of all the regurgitation that people post on a daily basis.

If a employer asked me to look at my facebook profile, I'd say either 1) "I don't use Facebook any more" and/or 2) "I don't use Facebook, would you like to look at my Google+ Profile instead".

buried · 30-07-2012 02:11PM

Anyone wrote: »

So its not finished and its not about time?

Very good. Pity there isnt the sport of Smartarse-ery at the Olympics. You'd definitely win Ireland the bronze.

Shenshen · 30-07-2012 02:17PM

eth0 wrote: »

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?

I'm not on Facebook, so it wouldn't even occur to me to go looking...

30-07-2012 02:21PM

ChunkyLover54 wrote: »

I'd be more suspicious of someone who doesn't have a face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kia9tzvzjK4

foxyboxer · 30-07-2012 02:26PM

Don't have one. Don't need one.

Linkedin for the win!

30-07-2012 02:27PM

I'm not on it either, I deleted my account 3 years ago and signed back up there last year for a while, and I had to delete it when pictures of babies from people I haven't seen in 20 years starting popping up on my screen.

What a waste of bandwidth.

It's one database I don't want to be part of it.....

Toby Take a Bow · 30-07-2012 02:49PM

NoDrama wrote: »

It's one database I don't want to be part of it.....

I can think of some other databases you probably wouldn't want to be part of.

Helix · 30-07-2012 02:55PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

Surely it's as narrow-minded to "actively avoid" them?

depends on the context really. if you emigrate to another country and spend your time hanging around with other ex-pats (as many people do) then you're not exactly integrating or getting used to the country. there's no harm in actively avoiding other irish people for the first 6 months or so you're in a new country imo - it takes you out of the comfort zone

Sea Filly · 30-07-2012 03:04PM

Helix wrote: »

depends on the context really. if you emigrate to another country and spend your time hanging around with other ex-pats (as many people do) then you're not exactly integrating or getting used to the country. there's no harm in actively avoiding other irish people for the first 6 months or so you're in a new country imo - it takes you out of the comfort zone

Don't know about you but I tend to just talk to people, I don't really care where they are from, Irish or not. By talking to an Irish person abroad, you're not necessarily going to be inducted into an ex-pat community or that you have to be, even if they're are.

Helix · 30-07-2012 03:10PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

Don't know about you but I tend to just talk to people, I don't really care where they are from, Irish or not. By talking to an Irish person abroad, you're not necessarily going to be inducted into an ex-pat community or that you have to be, even if they're are.

well id class actively avoiding them as not going to irish pubs, or places known to be full of irish pepole. id absolutely take everyone on their merits regardless of nationality, but i wouldn't be heading to the nearest irish pub in a hurry, whereas i have mates who went to oz for a year and did nothing but hang around with irish people, even checking out the irish pubs regularly to see if any new ones had arrived. that i dont see the point in

war_child · 30-07-2012 03:28PM

whats the point , if ya want irish girls stay at homeifi was goin to america australia anywer id be tottin up some foreign bed post notches, lol Flag the Flag proudly

B.A._Baracus · 30-07-2012 03:37PM

It would be utterly sad if an employer checked out and apllicants facebook.

Why would they want to do that?

Check if they are single cause you got the hots for them? lol

Sleepy · 30-07-2012 03:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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.

Software that goes through Facebook and Twitter feeds of claimants is becoming pretty big business in the business intelligence market.

If some gob****e is discovered fraudulently claiming for whiplash because he/she posts pictures of themselves skiing whilst on "disability leave" from work, I'm all for it. The more fraud, the higher the premiums.

Leftist · 30-07-2012 03:41PM

war_child wrote: »

whats the point , if ya want irish girls stay at homeifi was goin to america australia anywer id be tottin up some foreign bed post notches, lol Flag the Flag proudly

state of irish education.

hooradiation · 30-07-2012 03:42PM

old_aussie wrote: »

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.

Are you sure they're dead or is it that they just don't want to deal with you anymore?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 30-07-2012 03:57PM

eth0 wrote: »

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?

I have a facebook accont that's not under my real name. Where does that leave me?

If I apply for a job, and you throw my CV in the bin because you can't find me on Facebook, thank you for not hiring me - I've obviously dodged a bullet.

--Kaiser-- · 30-07-2012 04:06PM

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.

I don't have many friends from my home area that I contact anymore (I do have friends in various countries and countries, believe it or not) nor do I (nor will I ever) have a Facebook account......why is this a sign of something sinister?

Sonics2k · 30-07-2012 04:37PM

war_child wrote: »

whats the point , if ya want irish girls stay at homeifi was goin to america australia anywer id be tottin up some foreign bed post notches, lol Flag the Flag proudly

I honestly have no idea what you're saying here. Can someone translate?

Border-Rat · 30-07-2012 04:58PM

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.

So have you seen that movie Arlington Road?

Dude111 · 30-07-2012 05:15PM

eth0 wrote:

Think its a load of shoite myself but do you view facebook non-users as social outcasts who are not to be trusted?

No i view them as someone like myself who is AWAKE and values thier privacy!

flanders1979 · 30-07-2012 05:17PM

It was a useful way of keeping in touch with people who I felt not worthy of the price of a phone call.

Scarinae · 30-07-2012 05:50PM

One of my friends doesn’t have a facebook profile, mainly because of her abusive ex-boyfriend - she is very careful about what goes online because she doesn’t want him to track her down. Why should that be held against her in a job interview, and why would that be any potential employer’s business anyway?

Mr Benevolent · 30-07-2012 06:54PM

Leftist wrote: »

state of irish education.

I don't think they teach them to talk like that. 'Ok students, it's time for another lesson on 'Topicul txtspk in evuriday situashuns'!

buried · 30-07-2012 07:27PM

The article is rubbish. Claiming that people are suspicous or dangerous and have no chance of getting a job because they are not signed up to facebook. And basing that claim on the fact that Andres Brehvik and the James Holmes were not signed up to the site.

Wasnt Raoul Moat on facebook? "Ahh yes Mr. Moat, I see you have a facebook profile which proves you are not a dangerous homicidal maniac, you got the job my good man"

Even if Moat did not have a facebook profile, Was there not thousands of facebook subscribers supporting Moat to go around and KILL people on fan pages? But by that articles logic, those people are stable, sound members of society too...just as long as they are signed up to bloody facebook. Jesus Christ.

Dont be falling for facebooks corporate nonsense. This article has clearly been put out by the company. People on facebook are sick of the relentless advertising, facebooks share flotation has utterly failed on the stock markets and now the company is resorting to using fear and suspicion to gain new members and keep existing ones.

Truly pathetic.

Wattle · 30-07-2012 07:40PM

Speaking of (alleged) mass murderers I wonder is Larry Murphy on Facebook?

No facebook account = suspicious

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