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yes, facebook used to be fun back in college when only college students were allowed. Now its becoming myspace all over the again, slowly people will be anti facebook then a new social network will pop up.

Facebook is too entrenched now for another to just pop up. The reason MySpace died was because it was really crap.

An open source community driven project cannot possibly compete with the existing network monopoly that is Facebook in order to develop the scale and power of software and architecture needed. Never mind security. Equally users have absolutely no reason to switch to another corporate overlord when Facebook does a good job of providing a free service.

The only alternative that stands a chance is one run as a business, employing the best full time staff, investing in the same advertising, business partnerships and hardware as Facebook, but with any profits going to charities chosen by the users so they are motivated to spread the word. This means users privacy can be balanced with money raised for charity and users have an incentive to open up more if they choose to.

Initial investors (Dragons Den?) could be promised a capped, say 300% ROI and a place on the board of trustees that are trusted to maximise profits for charity, not shareholders, while listening to the users. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would do some pro-bono work to help from developers to lawyers to ego driven businessmen to celebrities.

If Lady Gaga and co can go without social networking for a day in the name of one charity I’m sure they could be brought on board if they stand to help charities long term.

This is one internet business where people hold the ultimate power. Somebody just needs to get it going. I’ve not got the time and skills to do it but I’d happily join and promote it if someone gets it going.

Diaspora might even make a good starting point but it will need a heck of a lot more people behind it who have good business sense but aren’t just in it for themselves.

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Tell me, what have you accomplished with adding dozens of friends everyday? Do you even know any of these people? Or are you just doing it for the sake of whoring yourself out to people?

If you accept my friend request and I message you, not once, not twice, but THRICE within just about a week and you don’t respond AT ALL (while taking the time to “like” silly status updates and spamming random bullshit on your wall all day long) then this pretty much proves my point.

Social networking is the worst form of, well, socializing. I live my life outside of the computer, having fun with friends. Not sitting alone in my room, hoping that really cute girl I’m stalking “liked” the poem I wrote her.

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This is inspirational, as a 21 year old college student and fellow facebook hater, it is great to find others out there like me including a few of my favourite celebs. Deleting FB was the best thing I have done, and I actually have alot more social interaction and experiences that are NOT infront of a computer screen on an ANTI social network, which is exactly what FB is.

You forgot Manchester United legend Paul Scholes. He’s probably one of the few footballers who isn’t into social sites at all. No Twitter, no Facebook or anything like that.

I dislike Facebook, and I have my reasons for doing so.

I have used Facebook for 2 1/2 years, and have experienced a lot of self-promoting, narcissistic behavior on there. A lot of the people on it (whether you like it or not) like to use it as a platform for glamorizing their social lives (or lack thereof), whilst possessing a collection of thousands of faces they have never once exchanged messages with (and never will). For people who aren’t very “social,” looking at photos of other people showing them having a “good” time only wrecks one’s own self-esteem, and makes them feel utterly worthless in comparison. It’s those kinds of photos of people who look all “happy” and are shown meeting lots of people at an event, having crazy drinking parties, etc.

Many of the people I had added on Facebook in the past would usually ignore me, no matter how many times I would greet them. And instead they would turn around and keep spamming up their walls with stupid apps or TMI-quality posts that honestly no one cared about (unless you’re a stalker). (I know there are some people who would respond to you almost all of the time, but sadly they are in the minority, and with millions of people on Facebook it’s difficult to find the right person who actually gives a shit about you as a person first and foremost.)

On Facebook, the value of friendship seems to have been lost as it tends to lean more towards compiling a huge mass of random strangers rather than putting yourself out there to get to know each and every person you add a little better. This was my main gripe with MySpace, and since its demise Facebook is carrying the torch of social solitude onwards. To add more insult to the injury, people are getting out much less and they are spending more time trying to attract online attention (be it uploading a truckload of personal photos, embedding a thousand YouTube videos a day, or what have you).

Perhaps Facebook wouldn’t be such a bad site at all if more of its users posted things that were the least bit interesting, as opposed to downright stupid wall posts like “i think pee smells like cheerios.” And as for those who are saying it’s more the problem of the people on there as opposed to the site itself, I rather like to think of Facebook as another online forum: if the community sucks for the most part, I am less likely to stay on there, no matter what “nifty” features are there.

Good riddance of that shit. I don’t care if you still use Facebook, but regardless of what you try to convince me otherwise with I refuse to return to Facebook, out of disgust for that site. I don’t have time to worry about that crap because I have a life of my own to worry about, and that to me is the real deal of socializing.

If Jennifer Anniston jumped off a bridge would I follow her? No, but at the same time, if I knew and admired Jennifer, I would probably check out why she was doing what she was doing? I’m glad that Jennifer along with some other admired people are pointing out that facebook isn’t for them.

These celebrities are leaders to many, especially youth and are setting a very good example. Every person you are acquainted with doesn’t and shouldn’t need to know what you are doing from minute to minute and unfortunately, that is what a platform like facebook does.