Does it? This is the closest I can get:
> Facebook has been giving many people many reasons not to sign up over the years. But we’ve had to: everyone we knew was on Facebook. And eventually, this trickled up and our parents were on Facebook. Now the trickle down effects of this are the opposite: kids don’t want to be on Facebook because it’s what their parents are using.
That's not really the same as "impossible".
> Is this article more a reflection of the author's poor self control than of reality?
Is poor self control the only reason one would be on Facebook?
But the fact that everyone they know is on Facebook doesn't mean I have to be in Facebook. I never made an account for it.
Poor self control is what turns "many reasons to sign up" into "had to".
FB is how the event is marketed. Fb is how i find about different underground shows. And my use of Fb is limited for events, but for my friend, life without Fb is very much impossible.
It turns out that all those people I had shallow social connections to from some time in our past? I don't miss 'em.
All of human social relationships is "in people's minds", no?
I with my hobbies (Swing dancing) would dearly miss out. That's why I'm still evaluating whether it's feasible to delete my account, by getting other sources for events. So far, only very limited success.
So no e-mail, no contact form and 3/4 of those services belong to FB :/
0: Admittedly, NoScript helps a lot with this.
Not necessarily. Lots of social circles use Facebook Events to organize get togethers, and not having an active Facebook account leads to you being left out. The people leaving you out may only be acquaintances, but that doesn't mean it's ok.
This is the reason why I still have a Facebook account. It's obviously and explicitly inactive, and I only log in when I get an event invite.
I have many reasons to dislike Fb but at the top of that is how gated it makes communities.
If Facebook is such a problem then people could just stop being part of these social circles. It really isn't that difficult.
No, it actually is that difficult, or more precisely that undesirable. Very few people are such anti-Facebook activists that they're going to dump valued friends and acquaintances in order to dump Facebook. That's why Facebook is going to hold on to a lot of users, and why it'll end in a whimper and not a bang.
The only case where it "really isn't that difficult" is if you have no valued relationships that have a Facebook component.
Will you only decide which hobbies I may have, or do I have to submit planned meals and TV watching for your approval, as well?
"Just stop being part", my ass...