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> Everyone's on Facebook after all

I know of several people who choose to not waste their time with Facebook. Seriously, why? Any time I need to nudge somebody, that I don't care enough to bother with in the real world, there is Linked In. Everybody else either has my phone number, email address, or they are people I don't know.

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>waste their time with Facebook That's a bold statement. People like me use it as a lightweight option to stay abreast with whats going on with friends and family without having to invest in a long call or email. You may think I don't care, but I do- but its hard and time consuming to call 50 people and ask 'Did you go somewhere this summer? How was it? What did you see?'. Instead I just 'like' when I see a cool picture they share and when I call them I can start by saying 'Wow- you had such a good time in Paris- why don't you visit us next year?'

Wasn't expecting to see someone promote LinkedIn as a better alternative to Facebook!

LinkedIn is a spammer paradise and a cancer for everybody else though. LinkedIn is designed decently but just as full of spam and overflow as Myspace was. Pretty much only worth using between jobs - but otherwise, I think there are much better platforms. They've become all about upselling: "Buy our premium membership and see the people who've seen your profile!" And they of course, sell your data and viewing habits without care.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/09/03/has-linked...

Absolutely agree!

I have a Facebook account and it waste's approximately 0% of my time. I check it for about 15 seconds every two days. I never post anything.

It seems very common to me for people to act like there's no middle ground between not having a Facebook account and scrolling up and down the feed for hours a day. Personally, I use it for chat and events and that's basically it. Those two features however are very useful tools for me.

I just checked and the last thing I posted on my wall was a year ago. The thing before that 6 months before. Hardly a time sink.

I don't use it either but a lot of people apparently do . It's like the iphone....never bought one but a lot of people have.

Yeah. Apple announced today they've sold 1 billion iPhones: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/07/27/apple-has-sold-1-billion...

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