Facebook or no Facebook, a poll to see the pro- and con-factions on earth

Europe and Arctica - Pro Facebook

Europe and Arctica - Contra-Facebook

Asia and Oceania - Pro Facebook

Asia and Oceania - Contra Facebook

Africa and Middle East - Pro Facebook

Africa and Middle East - Contra Facebook

North and Middle America - Pro Facebook

North and Middle America - Contra Facebook

South America and Antarctica - Pro Facebook

South America and Antarctica - Contra Facebook

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MODNosferatiel

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Jun 18, 2012, 10:01:05 AM

Hm. If the poll were representative, we'd have less than 10% facebook-lovers in North and Middle America, but a whole third in Europe & Arctica? o_O

I always got quite the reverse impression. Maybe 4x-gamers in America are recruited out of contra-facebook people, only.

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Aug 7, 2012, 11:19:03 PM

I don't use Facebook but using Twitter.

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Aug 7, 2012, 5:31:23 PM

I use facebook, but not very often due to the fact I just don't post anything, I mainly use it to chat with family.

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Aug 7, 2012, 10:30:56 AM

UK, anti-Facebook; but I am on it. I use it to keep in touch with all of my old Uni friends who are now spread far and wide (I was at Uni nearly 20 years ago).

As far as Facetube is concerned there is nothing contained therein that can identify who I am and IMO people who do include personal information are only asking for trouble later on. Bookface is not trustworthy, it is not your ‘friend’ and it only sees you as being an exploitable resource/consumer.

The number of real friends that I have number no more than the people I would ask to help me hide a body - and I wouldn’t ask them via Faceache!

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Aug 7, 2012, 12:27:21 AM

I use facebook to get material for my studies, that's where all the students from my university share their scripts

and so on. aside from that i dont use it and would like not to do so^^

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Aug 5, 2012, 10:17:29 PM

Interesting webpage: http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com/ and quite related to the topic.

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Jul 7, 2012, 9:28:29 AM

Well,I was addicted for 10 minutes,then disgusted,never used the account for a few months,then deleted it

(This was some time ago,I was young(er))

Edit:Europe,Contra

Edit 2:Bomb the server with an EMP

Edit 3:I deleted the account after a few months because I didn't know it could be deleted,there are more important things in life,like Space,I am addicted to space.Oh and cats and computers,and dogs and....

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Jul 7, 2012, 2:37:09 AM

Haha that's very true, I often find myself joining fb groups with lecturers and tutors, something I would never dream of 5 years back. Still for more serious things nothing beats a physical 1-2-1 discussion in person :P but it's still so convenient.

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Jul 6, 2012, 2:04:11 PM

I voted for "Contra-Facebook" although I have a facebook-account, since my fellow students, lecturers, professors and even our examination office communicates way faster through facebook than by email, so I just had to adapt to that sadly.

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Jul 6, 2012, 1:52:30 PM

My years through the education system and my earlier beginnings of my career path have been with a very tight-nit group of friends (entire groups or grades knew each other well). That said, I use facebook for the sole purpose of connecting with people that I know personally around the world, and use the near strictest of privacy settings. :P

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Jun 22, 2012, 8:11:14 AM

Calico wrote:
But well, that's just a story. Not representative at all. Social-Networking is just a mondern thing that everyone does. With a few exceptions.

The interesting thing is, that at least here, the majority of voters doesn't seem to do social networking or at least facebook.

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Jun 22, 2012, 7:37:03 AM

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Facebook friends are no real friends.

You could as well write names on a piece of paper, and call those your friends..

I get that. The thing is, my sister, a "normal" FB user does not. She thinks that many of them are real friends (not even my sister is that naive and believes that all of them are)... until she really needs a friend and realizes that 99% of them can't be counted on when things get serious. And then she grabs the phone and calls the one guy that isn't on FB. Me.

But well, that's just a story. Not representative at all. Social-Networking is just a mondern thing that everyone does. With a few exceptions.

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Jun 22, 2012, 7:26:13 AM

Facebook friends are no real friends.

You could as well write names on a piece of paper, and call those your friends..

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Jun 22, 2012, 7:19:35 AM

Europe - contra facebook.

I'm hanging around in the internet for almost 20 years now, i'm too old for this "social-networking" stuff. Wait, i'm only 31. ok, not to old, i just hate it. Don't own a single FB, Twitter and co Account. And if the gods of the internet allow it, i will never make one.

My Sister has hundreds of FB Friends.... but when she had trouble, guess who she couldn't count on? right, her hundreds FB friends.

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Jun 20, 2012, 12:26:30 PM

I use it for communication and the occasional FB game, but i never have people i wouldn't like to talk to.

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Jun 20, 2012, 9:20:23 AM

I had a Facebook account a few years ago. Never was a fan of it, and I ended up deleting my account after 8-9 months. (For those who may be wondering, I'm a Yank living in Minnesota.)

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Jun 14, 2012, 9:21:06 AM

Many people here in germany have facebook, but also a really big portion doesn't have it. Me included.

Now what I'd like to know is very simple: Which region of the world is represented by the most pro-facebook people, in this forum, and which one by the most contra-facebook people?

I tried to cut the world into 5 regions each, just select if you're pro or contra facebook and your region.

Comments on usefulness and uselessness of facebook are encouraged.

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Jun 16, 2012, 7:28:27 PM

Nosferatiel wrote:
So I tried to make it a complete list of options (on earth, aboveground) for once.

Besides, It is very important to have the penguin's feedback on this on!

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Jun 16, 2012, 7:26:46 PM

Campana wrote:
I like the way you carefully included Arctica and Antarctica in the poll. Very thoughtful!

I've seen a few "where are you from"-threads, so far. They were always lacking some parts of the earth or someone complained that they weren't represented. So I tried to make it a complete list of options (on earth, aboveground) for once.

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Jun 16, 2012, 7:24:41 PM

I like the way you carefully included Arctica and Antarctica in the poll. Very thoughtful!

I actually have two facebook accounts, one private for friends and family, and one using my online name to follow games I like, and accept random people I've never heard of as my friends. Neither account has a great deal of personal information on it. I've found fb useful for keeping in touch with people or finding people I wouldn't otherwise keep in touch with, but other than that I don't have much use for it.

If any employer was so crazy as to demand my fb password, I'd just make another fake account. Not that they would dream of doing that in a million years, but anyway.

I do have a policy of not having anyone from the workplace as fb friends.

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