Reasons to Stay Away From Facebook
With over 600 million "active" accounts at the time of this writing, it may seem like everyone is flocking to Facebook.
Maybe you have an account or maybe your friends are pressuring you into getting one.
With so many people on board are there valid reasons to stay away from it? It turns out there are, so let's look at the top reasons to avoid Facebook altogether: No Privacy - The name of the game for Facebook is personal information.
From the moment you register that's all they're after.
Disguised as a friendly way to share your world with your friends, Facebook quietly stores all of your information and uses these demographics to show you targeted advertisements.
Once you get an account your friends will bug you if you don't give occasional updates.
You can try to set the privacy setting so that your information doesn't get indexed in the search engines, or the wrong people don't get your status updates, but it's all stored on their servers indefinitely so there's not a lot of protection in place.
Time Waster - The other thing that Facebook loves is to keep you on their site.
The longer they keep you there the more ad impressions they can serve you.
Thousands of games and other senseless applications beckon you to kill some time reading things other people like, or building imaginary farms or cities.
These games entice you to check in at regular intervals to feed the cows and collect rent checks.
At the end of the day though you don't own any more cows and don't have any more rental income than when you started.
Annoying Ads - Even though the ads are targeted according to your likes and interests, you'll see the same ads again and again.
They've even got a box where you can delete an ad and select repetitive as the reason why you're deleting it, but it will still show up again.
Not Really Networking - Even though Facebook is billed as a social networking site, much of what goes on is individualistic self-aggrandizing.
There's not much socializing going on in the truest sense of the word.
You only post your status updates and look at other people's status updates.
These are typically people you already know, and probably didn't want to know where they ate lunch.
Try making friends with your friends of a friend and you'll look strange, or like a stalker.
In this way, it's not really networking at all.
In the real world if you meet friends of friends there's a good chance of becoming friends with them as well.
So you still have to keep your real world efforts going, leading one to wonder why there's a need for Facebook at all.
Maybe you have an account or maybe your friends are pressuring you into getting one.
With so many people on board are there valid reasons to stay away from it? It turns out there are, so let's look at the top reasons to avoid Facebook altogether: No Privacy - The name of the game for Facebook is personal information.
From the moment you register that's all they're after.
Disguised as a friendly way to share your world with your friends, Facebook quietly stores all of your information and uses these demographics to show you targeted advertisements.
Once you get an account your friends will bug you if you don't give occasional updates.
You can try to set the privacy setting so that your information doesn't get indexed in the search engines, or the wrong people don't get your status updates, but it's all stored on their servers indefinitely so there's not a lot of protection in place.
Time Waster - The other thing that Facebook loves is to keep you on their site.
The longer they keep you there the more ad impressions they can serve you.
Thousands of games and other senseless applications beckon you to kill some time reading things other people like, or building imaginary farms or cities.
These games entice you to check in at regular intervals to feed the cows and collect rent checks.
At the end of the day though you don't own any more cows and don't have any more rental income than when you started.
Annoying Ads - Even though the ads are targeted according to your likes and interests, you'll see the same ads again and again.
They've even got a box where you can delete an ad and select repetitive as the reason why you're deleting it, but it will still show up again.
Not Really Networking - Even though Facebook is billed as a social networking site, much of what goes on is individualistic self-aggrandizing.
There's not much socializing going on in the truest sense of the word.
You only post your status updates and look at other people's status updates.
These are typically people you already know, and probably didn't want to know where they ate lunch.
Try making friends with your friends of a friend and you'll look strange, or like a stalker.
In this way, it's not really networking at all.
In the real world if you meet friends of friends there's a good chance of becoming friends with them as well.
So you still have to keep your real world efforts going, leading one to wonder why there's a need for Facebook at all.
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