If you could go back in time to when you first got Facebook, would you stop yourself?

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If you could go back to the day you got Facebook, would you stop yourself?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 24.6%
  • No

    Votes: 49 71.0%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Total voters
    69

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I definitely would.
 
I'd have to go into the future, but I won't because I can't live in a world without roads.
 
Well...since there aren't any flying Deloreans yet with flux capacitors the best thing to do would be to deavtivate your account ;)
 
No, I only have family and actual friends on there so it's a good tool to keep in touch with them and not burn all my cell phone minutes.
 
I have fond memories of helping my cousin make his university-email-exclusive facebook butt pirate (or pirate butt) profile. So no. I don't put anything compromising out there anyway.
 
Facebook is the best time waster ever, so no I wouldn't stop myself.
 
Facebook is the best time waster ever, so no I wouldn't stop myself.

That's exactly my problem... I waste too much time on it :D
 
No, I only have people that ive met and know on there as my friends.
 
If I had a time machine I think Facebook registration would be the last thing on my mind...
 
If you have seen last night's new episode of South Park, I would.
 
Well I never got facebook because I was able to stop myself. To me it just looks like a place people can snoop and gossip on other people's news and photos or for people to simply show off. Then there are people that just browse through it looking for good looking girls and adopt stalker like behavior browsing through their photos. Then there are people who are paranoid about what they post 24/7 because they are afraid their employer might see it and fire them.

I've got everyone I need to talk to on msn/email so I keep in touch that way. I don't need a webspace to gloat I have 500 friends which I have maybe met once in my life.
 
I wouldn't, since I don't have too much of a way to network with my friends during the week (Church twice a week is all), it helps me keep in touch and we organize a lot of cool stuff to do together (Just recently scheduled some airsoft games a few weekends back)

It also lets me expose my graphics work to a new audience, resulting in some small projects I've done for friends and family.

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Just like others said, its a great way to keep in touch with old friends and people you know... as long as you just add people you know and dont pay attention to those stupid games, its quite a handy site :) So no, I wouldnt stop myself ;)
 
Facebook is more constant then house addresses, e-mail adresses, etc good to keep contact or find people back. I do not spend a lot of time on Facebook.

However I spend a lot of time on :gtplanet: and GT5p not certain that is the best for my life, but I seem to pull myself through personal and work challenges for the moment.
 
No. I don't have a Facebook and that's how it's going to stay.
 
No, I wouldn't stop myself, even though it is a big time waster for me.
I have reconnected with many family members and friends from way back.
Strangest thing was when I discovered Jack had Facebook after seeing him on my Mum's friend list.
 
No, i don't have accounts on social networks and that will stay that way. I only created different fake account for my research for my work at the university, but all closed.


Closed not deleted, because once online, it will stay forever. Promised.

And i don't understand that behaviour now with all that "myface -bullpoop". Why do i need to tell everyone that i am now in the bus and tell people what i see through the window; people really believeing they have 200 or 500 friends. Learn the meaning of the word friend. Real friends can be count on the 2 hands.

BTW, myface changed it's policy. Now they will give away your data to third people, but not tellling you who is the third party.

And all agencies try that to track down people by social networks,...
And who knows what will happen in the futur.
Stasi, kgb, cia would have been happy if that had existed 30 years ago. Spy on all humanity.
Take a look and google yourself(google is not better, they save every search made with the ip, street view is ideal utility for buggellars,...). For me i'm absent on the web. And that should stay that way forever.

Edit about deleting: I don't know about now, but a year ago it said deactivate account and not delete. +the web has memory sites which actually take very basic photos (simple text backups) of the internet.So everything whats posted on the internet will stay there forever (sometimes very easy , sometimes very hard), in some way.

If you really need to enter a social network, choose an S.N where the servers are in EU, 'cause than they need to follow Eu directives about information and privacy, shich are probably the strictest (even if not optimal) of the world
 
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I wouldn't, it's as easy as deleting someone who just not using facebook to stop it becoming a problem. Nothing ever happens interesting gossip wise for people to take from my profile so no matter on that front.
 
You know, if it was such a problem, you could stop using it.

Sounds like you've been tagged in something you wish other people hadn't seen.

I answered the inevitable no.
 
No. It's my primary method for keeping in touch with my ex-school/uni mates.
 
I like Facebook. I've reconnected with a bunch of old friends I never would have talked to again. Then again there's just not enough content to burn more than about 15 minutes a day there, so I can hardly say it has swallowed much of my time.
 
I stopped myself back then and I've been happy without it ever since.
 
No, I didn't even go on facebook much for the first year or so of my membership.
 
Facebook is great for keeping in touch with people who you can't really be bothered keeping in touch with. I do need to un-friend a bunch of people though.
 
No, I have a laugh on there and have re-connected with some old school friends.
 
Yes, I would not make an account, I hate it. If I ever get on there it's just people that say, "I'm bored", "I'm tired", and my personal favorite "I'm gonna go party and get drunk".
 
Does this so called Myspace count? :lol:
 
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