I will not join Facebook. I will not join Facebook. I will not join Facebook.

[MrCoffee]

Even though there's a MLS fantasy game that I really really want to play, I will not join Facebook.

Why are so many sites becoming so dependent on Facebook, anyway?

[Bucky]

1. I have no problem joining facebook.

On the other hand, fantasy leagues are kinda meh.

[MrCoffee]

2. I just don't get why I must have a FB account to play

There's literally no other option. It's either sign in with your FB account or set up a FB account. That bothers me.

[Maine-ah]

8. make a fake one

easy to do, use it only for the game. Hubby has a couple of them :hi:

[snagglepuss]

19. I feel the same way about FB so I used a fake name.

[kentauros]

3. Neither will I.

I may join diaspora, though.

I would guess the reason sites are dependent upon FacePlant is that they think we are all lemmings instead of Dev-O :P

[ohiosmith]

4. Nor will I. My high school class alumni committee tied their site to FB. I didn't like most of those

fuckers anyway.

[MilesColtrane]

5. Companies want to know everything about you.

Every site you visit and the amount of time you spend there, every online purchase made, every "like" and "dislike".

You are a specifically quantifiable consuming unit that needs pinpoint marketing to enhance their revenue stream.

I'm pissed that I keep getting nagging prompts to link my Google and YouTube accounts.

[NightWatcher]

6. join fb but use a sockpuppett, disposable email, and play the game

ya gotta love aliases

[we can do it]

7. Me Either Fuck Facecrook

[bikebloke]

9. Join under a nom de guerre.

That's what I did. I tell people I know who I am on Facebook if they want to befriend me.

[MrCoffee]

12. That's still joining Facebook, though, isn't it?

[bikebloke]

31. Not according to the Treaty of Laussane of 1898.

Using the Milano Protocols, a person could join a social group covertly and be considered not to have joined. Perfectly copacetic.

[ceile]

10. What? Are you scared?

;)

[MrCoffee]

11. Mostly. Who knows what kind of crazy shit people will post there for MrsCoffee to read?

If I wanted a self-inflicted headache, I'd go get a mallet.

[ceile]

13. ha! n/t

[TZ]

14. Coward.

I think you are just afraid of having to friend a certain FReeper from Virginia, Trebek

[MrCoffee]

15. I may have to rethink my whole anti-Facebook stance...one question, though

Can you personalize a friend request rejection with "DTM!"

If so, where do I sign up?

[TZ]

16. HAHAHAHA!

As a charter member of the DTM Facebook list let me assure you thats easily accomplished!

[DebJ]

17. I got an email the other day in my spam folder that said Join

F&*^book. (I didn't open it.)

[MrCoffee]

18. I got that one too!

I opened it. Was disappointed.

[flvegan]

20. Your mother and I "join Facebook" all the time, Trebek.

[Dr. Strange]

21. Did she phrase it in the form of a question?

Hahahahaha. Yeah, I have no idea what that means either.

[SOteric]

23. All your Facebook are joined with us.

[SOteric]

24. .

Or something.

[flvegan]

26. That was an odd question to ask of yourself.

:rofl:

:hi:

[SOteric]

28. It would be much odder

If I answered it.

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[SOteric]

25. Why don't you like fun?

:P

[Swede]

27. Make a new gmail acount to join up.

Keep your private stuff out of it.

[Yavin4]

29. Facebook Has Roughly 2 or 3 Years Left

until it's replace by something else.

[csziggy]

30. But what if your MOTHER invited you to join?

Mom sent me a Facebook invitation today. It probably was not actually Mom, it was probably one of the grandkids visiting her that signed her up for Facebook last year.

But Mom would not understand why I will not join Facebook just to "friend" her.

I don't want to join Facebook. I don't want to interact with people just because THEY want me to interact with them. I don't want to have to worry about what new privacy invading change Facebook has made this week.

Not even if Mom wants me to join and be her friend.

[Dr. Strange]

32. If you join, Zuckerberg gives you a bowl of macaroni and cheese.

[MrScorpio]

33. I have TWO accounts now

A year before I joined, I said the same thing as you… So good luck with that.

[femmocrat]

34. I joined with an alias.... got bored... don't go there anymore.

Too confusing. Too much trouble. Or something.