Forbes: Young Adults Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious': Agree?

by Fef Posted 2012/08/08 20:00:00

Related Topics: Facebook, Young Adult, Social Media, Tech

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Emily Yoffe of Slate.com said, "I’m fine with people not having a Facebook page if they don’t want one. However, I think you’re right. If you’re of a certain age and you meet someone who you are about to go to bed with, and that person doesn’t have a Facebook page, you may be getting a false name. It could be some kind of red flag."

FORBES.COM reports:
I used to say that if you’re not on Facebook, it’s possible you don’t actually exist. I think it's time to update that: Facebook abstainers will be labeled suspicious.

forbes reports facebook exist update facebook abstainers labeled suspicious

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Transquesta 2012/08/07 22:40:45

No

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Third option! WTF?!?!

Since when did it become 'suspicious' not to join in with the rest of the herd? I had a FB account for TWELVE HOURS before I ran screaming into the sunset. Their back-end software is SOME kind of scary shi'ite! Think the civilian equivalent of Carnivore.

That's right sports fans, Facebook's backbone is essentially the same software used by the government to track terrorists and drug kingpins!

And my failure to capitulate to that madness is 'suspicious'?! Three words: SCREW YOU FORBES!
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Eliot 2012/08/09 19:44:36

No

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I don't really use my Facebook for much, and why would it make you suspicious, when surely on any of these social networking sites you an reinvent yourself to display to others. S that not suspicious

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Mark DeBarbieri 2012/08/09 19:26:34

No

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I deleted my facebook account about 3 months ago, when I found out that lawyers are using facebook to profile people for juries. And we are quite sure that the NSA has been spying on us at least since 2007, when they installed a specific super computer connected to Quest to monitor all communications.

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RicksterBear 2012/08/09 19:25:51

No

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Not everyone wants to be stalked or have their private business all over the net for all to see.

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Witch.Nikki.Jo 2012/08/09 19:13:29
Mikado Hikyuu 2012/08/09 19:01:34

No

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After the big scare in the news where we were all warned NOT to have facebook accounts because businesses now use them to judge potential employees, it is now supposedly suspicious NOT to be on facebook?

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Sperry23 2012/08/09 18:42:18

No

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I think the word your looking for is "smart". Facebook is one of the largest, most useless timesucks on the planet. I've skimmed mine down to absolute minimum and will probably drop it in the next year or so.

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Rebecca 2012/08/09 18:31:08

No

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i don't have one. it's stupid and causes un needed drama. I'm soo happy without one.

. to be honest, I had one once but it was only to creep on hot guys' pages with my friends xP

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Frank 2012/08/09 18:28:55

No

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Rediculous....

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Kigan 2012/08/09 18:27:10

No

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Since when is not wanting Facebook a standard by which to judge people as suspicious?

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Flojo 2012/08/09 18:20:31

No

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The report can't be based in reality.

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alexis 2012/08/09 18:17:31

No

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That's completely stupid. If one does not want there privacy taken away and does not want to follow the heard then let them! Just because someone doesn't have a Facebook doesn't mean a thing it only means that they have better things to do. I have a Facebook but it's only to talk to family since they live far away.

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swp 2012/08/09 18:10:05

No

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Facebook is finally starting to die. Good riddance.

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politricks 2012/08/09 18:06:40

No

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I only have a facebook account because I moved country and can't text my friends. Not a fan.

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ART 2012/08/09 18:02:47

No

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THE OTHERS WANT EVERYONE TO PUKE OUT THEIR MISERABLE LIVES ON FACEBOOK

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smitty 2012/08/09 17:56:09

No

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Huh? Now I know why I cancelled my Forbes sub. I am glad I am not on facebook. It is the state of our country actually. I prefer my privacy. Besides... What fool would allow another person to get rich off of them without compensation? Not this one.

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John Rottenberger 2012/08/09 17:49:21

No

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What????? Does the CIA own Forbes too?

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Eric 2012/08/09 17:46:15

No

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Facebook takes a lot of time, and there is a lot of expectation to adhere to certain social norms on it. What if you don't want to? What if you are different? What if - you're more into focusing on what you do rather than marketing yourself?

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overdog001 2012/08/09 17:45:13

No

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No, I don't agree, but that won't stop companies from using it against us.

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RichQ 2012/08/09 17:44:35

No

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Not just no, but f-No!

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Tennessee3501 2012/08/09 17:24:56

No

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What a ridiculous statement!

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CAPISCE 2012/08/09 16:52:40

No

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Facebook is lame

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~Here Comes The Sun~ 2012/08/09 16:44:27

No

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no......

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Aleksandr 2012/08/09 16:37:08
emmy 2012/08/09 16:32:06

No

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some people dont have time to spend on facebook. It's dumb to be suspicious! When i meet someone who does not have a facebook I think "good for them they have something better to do with their time."

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Dan 2012/08/09 16:21:45

No

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If you're a teacher or anyone who deals with children under the age of 18 in a business, it's often required NOT to be a member of Facebook. Schools and business often require that you don't have a Facebook account.

Personally, I quit my Facebook account because THEY are shady!

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JoeDamico 2012/08/09 16:14:20 (edited)

No

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Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries - and then sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway. Futhermore, have you Facebook users ever actually read the privacy policy? It tells you that you don't have much privacy. Facebook pretends to be about freedom, but isn't it really more like an ideologically motivated virtual totalitarian regime? http://www.guardian.co.uk/tec...

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FlyGalsMom to JoeDamico 2012/08/10 04:20:15

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FB OWNS all of your photos and remarks that you post and can use them in any ad as they see fit~~

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L1Z2 2012/08/09 16:11:35

No

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Some people just don't care for it. What's suspicious about that?

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Sarahbelle 2012/08/09 16:05:37

No

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How about no

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FunnyLittleNightmare 2012/08/09 16:01:26

No

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That's ridiculous. lol I know loads of people who aren't on Facebook. I am on Facebook but I don't go on it. I should delete it really. It's been sat dormant since I uploaded my prom photo's... Prom was 3 years ago. lol

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beachbum 2012/08/09 16:01:04

No

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Maybe they are learning privacy is a good thing.

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pig soda 2012/08/09 15:49:38

No

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I'm not on fb and I don't consider myself dodgy...

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Joe Blow 2012/08/09 15:43:24

No

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Young adults (or ANY adult) without a Facebook account, are usually more inclined to join Internet forums that require more intellectual depth, as opposed to the superficial, and sometimes grammatically inept drivel, commonly seen on Facebook and Myspace pages.

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Badgerbumface 2012/08/09 15:40:53

No

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First everyone was expected to drive cars, then everyone was expected to have phones, then internet and now facebook! This basically says a billions of people who don't have a facebook account are 'suspicious'. It's not a crime to not have facebook, it took 3 months of coaxing for me to make a facebook account, and I hardly put any personal details on there anyway. Also, a majority of facebook accounts are fake, renewed accounts or for pets, and that's why facebook shares are failing dismally!

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Elaine Magliacane 2012/08/09 15:40:22

No

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Probably SMART not to be on Facebook.

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Sarina 2012/08/09 15:36:11

No

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That's stupid. Everybody's acting like facebook is the best thing that has ever happen and that's not true. I have a facebook account and the stuff that some people post dont make any sense. And I hate to cancel, because that is how I keep in touch with my sister and brother on my biological father side.

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+Harmonious Love+ 2012/08/09 15:34:10

No

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I don't have one, but I'm also on here so that isn't saying much.

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Racefish 2012/08/09 15:32:29

No

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"If you’re of a certain age and you meet someone who you are about to go to bed with, and that person doesn’t have a Facebook page, you may be getting a false name. It could be some kind of red flag."

That's probably about one of the stupidest statements I've ever heard. Is this idiot saying a person can't put a false profile on Facebook? She must be that bimbo doing the State Farm commercial. If she seen it on the internet, it had to be true.

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alexis to Racefish 2012/08/09 18:13:25

Lol that made my day.

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Mark Penick 2012/08/09 15:32:20

No

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It is most definitely not.

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