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Is Facebook at the center of your online experience?

For me myself the answer is an emphatic no. I have an account with like 25 friends. Ignore requests from the people I did not like in HS. Play 0 games there, & upload nothing but a few basic pictures there. Sign in nowhere online with my Facebook account except Facebook. I mean why the hell do I want anyone to know what I am doing when i am online? It is none of their business. What I say at a site about politics, or cooking, or winning high score on a stupid video game. Why do I want people to know this? I don't.. It's not important & none of their business unless I share it with them. If I do I can create a blog as fast as a flash & share a simple link. I especially don't want anyone business related to know anything. People are evil-spirited & self-centered by nature & will use any edge to make you look bad so that they will prosper. On top of this I am just donating my time & clicks as revenue for a stupid facebook referrer. I would rather support a site that needs the hits & clicks & not Facebook There are 3 big reasons for me NOT to have FB at the center of my online experience. 1. Security. No Thanks for this http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887 Or This http://www.pcworld.com/article/205295/gang_uses_facebook_to_rob_houses.html 2. The internet is for exploration isn't it? This is dumbed down by just sitting on a facebook page & doing everything from that page. 3. What Facebook does offer are just weak imitations of what is better. Linkedin for real social contacts that can actually matter. I mean just about any photo sharing site... Smugmug, Flickr, Webshots from the top of my head. About 20-30 gaming communities, with everything from flash games & casual games to full blown mmorpg communities. If I really want to know how my real friends are doing I pick up a phone. Facebook is GOOD for one thing only. Finding people from the past that you want to find. That about ends any of the usefulness of it for me.

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1. I don't like facebook at all. The social experience was okay, but I didn't like when others were adding people they didn't know and judging them by their pictures, without really knowing who they were. Furthermore, it would also depress me to see others posting about how great their weekends were and what they were planning on doing for the day. Facebook stems a lot of drama, so it's better to have facebook friends that you actually know and talk to, rather than just anybody. A facebook friend doesn't mean a real friend. I also don't like that automatically people want to facebook each other. I don't use it anymore and it has really been a big relief. But that is just me, I can't speak for others.