No facebook? You're a mass murderer

Quast said:

ok

And with 955 million people logging into Facebook each month compared to seven billion people in the world, it seems unlikely that more than 85 per cent of the planet will turn out to be psychopath.

This from the article seems to completely negate your subject point, along with everything else in the article really. Most of it seemed to be pretty scathing of stupid opinions appearing in the wake of terrible events. So what was the point of this thread again? That you didn't actually read the article you linked? Why do that?

Yeah that observation was a really weird way to conclude the article too. Also lol at all the posts in this thread from all the people that didnt read the article.

I use decoybook to throw them off.

No, facebook, you are the mass murderers.
And then facebook was the psychopaths.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1137/

We did something like that in D&D. Army commander wanted us to bring him the heads of a bunch of bandits. Heads are heavy, so I suggested faces. then we kept thinking of disgusting uses for the faces. Slapping people with them seemed hilarious.

Anyway, it's stupid to compare the number of FB users against the population of the world. A huge number of those people can't get the net at all and lots of the rest live in FB-unfriendly places.

I still haven't got a livejournal or myspace account. Heck, I've yet to setup a geocities homepage. They need to slow the fuck down already, cause I sure can't keep up with all this new-fangled shit. I mean damn, I setup a gopher site, that's gotta count for something!?? ;-)

Too autistic for Facebook. I suppose lacking empathy makes me a semi-psychopath.

Well, not all psychopaths are mass murderers. Probably not a big shocker to an educated group like you guys, but the way some in the media bandy the term about, you'd think psychopath was a synonym for Hitleresque.

I used to have a Facebook account from February 2006 up until April 2012. I deactivated it in April of this year because I realized that it only damages my chances of forming a successful relationship and exposes me to awkwardness and humiliation.
The vast majority of the people who sent friend requests to me were actually mean trolls and cyberbullies with no intention of understanding and accepting me. They were only out to exploit me and set me up for trouble and make me look like a fool.
Ironically enough, completely contradictory to this article, assholes were calling me "crazy rapist" because I WAS present on Facebook. Heh.
So I just called it quits.
Maybe I'll return to Facebook after several long years when/if I've hopefully already formed a successful relationship without relying on it.
Hmph.

DarkJedi188 said:

I used to have a Facebook account from February 2006 up until April 2012. I deactivated it in April of this year because I realized that it only damages my chances of forming a successful relationship and exposes me to awkwardness and humiliation.
The vast majority of the people who sent friend requests to me were actually mean trolls and cyberbullies with no intention of understanding and accepting me. They were only out to exploit me and set me up for trouble and make me look like a fool.
Ironically enough, completely contradictory to this article, assholes were calling me "crazy rapist" because I WAS present on Facebook. Heh.
So I just called it quits.

i can't shake the feeling there's some context to this you're not letting us in on.

Liam said:

i can't shake the feeling there's some context to this you're not letting us in on.

Twitter is your window.

The combination of Facebook, Twitter, and internet forums (especially if you use a common username) has opened up more closets than ever before. You don't even need to be clever to dig up dirt, just Google search.

I don't have a Facebook, there's no purpose to it.

If a company doesn't hire me because I lack a Facebook then that is their problem and their loss.

Also, someone must be forgetting about the stories of the Facebook serial killers/rapists that were on the news in the past.

hex11 said:

I still haven't got a livejournal or myspace account. Heck, I've yet to setup a geocities homepage. They need to slow the fuck down already, cause I sure can't keep up with all this new-fangled shit. I mean damn, I setup a gopher site, that's gotta count for something!?? ;-)

Too late! Geocities is dead! Yahoo killed it off!

Yeah, these online communities are all ephemeral; popular one day, then soon forgotten and then ancient history that only some cyber-archeologists care about.

Btw, some geocities content survived here:
http://www.oocities.org/
There might even be some Doom-related stuff in there somewhere...

Liam said:

i can't shake the feeling there's some context to this you're not letting us in on.

*sigh* People found it amusing that I showed feelings for someone who lived far away and was younger than me. It's as simple as that really. Nasty pranks and stuff sprang from there.

Technician said:

Twitter is your window.

I ended up quitting that too. The account is still on their server but I haven't been on it in 3 months and trashed 95% of my tweets cause they were just unnecessary drama of arguments which went nowhere and solved nothing.

Anyways, speaking of Facebook's impact on life, things would've been much better off for me if this technology existed back in 1995 and 1996 when I was at middleschool. I would've been able to keep in touch with some great guys who could've helped me out.
But no, back then there was no FB and I never got to see some people ever again. I tried to search for them once FB finally arrived but I kept getting like 5 different accounts with matching names in the search results, and neither one seemed the right one.
So everything just went wrong, and i ended up befriending unfriendly wolves who i shouldn't have ever befriended. And the rest is history.

Sometimes I wonder if my prospective employers are looking me up on Facebook and seeing me post pony stuff and internet memes and share leftist articles with my mom. Then I realize that I don't care if they do. If they don't want to hire me for those reasons, I don't want to work for them.

Danarchy said:

If they don't want to hire me for those reasons, I don't want to work for them.

After the Civil War in Greece, in the 50s, you needed a "pistopoiitiko fronimaton" (beliefs' certificate), a piece of paper which you signed, officially declaring that you were not a leftist/communist/other unwanted person, and was released only after the police did some thorough background checks on you and your family/friends.

Without that, you simply couldn't find ANY work, for the state or elsewhere, as no employer would risk hiring you (they had to check your ideological status, too). You couldn't even emigrate legally, without it. All you could do is stay and be beaten/harassed by the police everyday.

My point is that if a certain type of background check of "beliefs' certificate" becomes and acceptable and even enforceable social norm, there's no escaping it unless you work illegally or emigrate (also illegally).

If I'm not mistaken the USA had introduced something similar about that time with that whole McCarthyism craze and the Committee for Unamerican activities, no?

Are you now or have you ever been a member of facebook?

Maes said:

If I'm not mistaken the USA had introduced something similar about that time with that whole McCarthyism craze and the Committee for Unamerican activities, no?

Not exactly. No one had forms to fill out or papers to carry around. There were hundreds of actors, authors and intellectuals that were accused of soviet ties or even simply being 'commies' and got kicked out of hollywood or faced some other forms of repercussions.

DarkJedi188 said:

*sigh* People found it amusing that I showed feelings for someone who lived far away and was younger than me. It's as simple as that really. Nasty pranks and stuff sprang from there.

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

Liam said:

Spending warm summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

Errr.. Jokes aside, I've been doing a fair share of hiking and swimming this summer, and it really helps to calm down my stress about the social matters.
And I prefer to come online during evening time when the sun sets. When the sun is out I like the fresh air, thanks.

That's bloody sad. Pretty much saying that if you dont have a facebook you dont socialise and are mentally insane lol? I quit facebook ages ago because it was pretty boring, just seeing all the statuses of "i'm eatting a strawberry" or "i'm on the toilet right now heres a picture". The only good thing I've seen come out of facebook is event planning, creating events for people to go to, even then half the people who say they will dont turn up anyway...

Ugh, I am so sick of hearing about facebook and its "greater social implications," or what have you. It's dumb to suggest that someone without facebook is a sociopath or something, but it's also dumb to suggest that people who use facebook are self-obsessed addicts who do nothing but post photos and trivial status updates.

The way I see it, facebook is just a way to bring all of one's contacts into one place. I don't have to worry about memorizing phone numbers or email addresses, I don't have to have five IM clients running, if I ever need to contact someone, I can either message them directly on facebook or use facebook to look up the contact information I need. I don't see why that aspect of facebook is so often blown off and ignored. I especially don't get why the detractors are so bitter against that concept. What's wrong with having a simple online address book?

That's bloody sad. Pretty much saying that if you dont have a facebook you dont socialise and are mentally insane lol? I quit facebook ages ago because it was pretty boring, just seeing all the statuses of "i'm eatting a strawberry" or "i'm on the toilet right now heres a picture"

Sounds like you're lucky. Mostly my friends just post unbelievably stupid "philosophical" bullshit they came up with.

You know, I reckon if you search Facebook hard enough, you could re-write the entire Harry Potter series perfectly with just the names of the fan-pages. That's why I don't bother much with it, sick of looking at all that shit.

I use facebook because I am not above my friends or their statuses or the games they play on there (and that I sometimes play, too). The study's flawed, tho. I haven't killed anyone in a long time and I never killed more than a couple of people at a time.

geekmarine said:

I don't have to worry about memorizing phone numbers or email addresses, I don't have to have five IM clients running, if I ever need to contact someone,

The IM thing can be a problem, but there's other options like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitlBee

Unlike FB, you don't need any special "compatible" web browser, or for that matter any web browser at all. And for email, well I just use gmail which does a good job of keeping an email addressbook that I can access from anywhere. And again, it doesn't force you to use certain web browsers, even Lynx in a vt100 console will do the job, or you can use POP3 and IMAP. That was one of the selling point for me, because I want to do things my way, not some arbitrary way decided by a web designer team who doesn't know me or my needs.

Okay, so now, after reading this, all mass-murderers out there will make a Facebook to not look suspicious. And then what?

IMO, this article is bullshit. Having or not a Facebook, your chances of being identified by the police are the same, assuming you haven't been posting weird shit.

[PROTOTYPE] said:
Having or not a Facebook, your chances of being identified by the police are the same, assuming you haven't been posting weird shit.

Like, for example, constantly talking about a pocket knife fetish and heated arguments with your parents that lead to stupid decisions?

Snakes said:

Like, for example, constantly talking about a pocket knife fetish and heated arguments with your parents that lead to stupid decisions?

Hey, but at least I didn't kill anyone, like for example that fucking psycho at the Batman movie.

Running away from home after a fight with the parent doesn't make me a mass-murderer, so please don't throw this shit on me.

And P.S. I meant posting on Facebook. I doubt the police will search your DW posts at any extent. :)

hex11 said:

Yeah, these online communities are all ephemeral; popular one day, then soon forgotten and then ancient history that only some cyber-archeologists care about.

Btw, some geocities content survived here:
http://www.oocities.org/
There might even be some Doom-related stuff in there somewhere...

Yes:
http://www.oocities.org/e6y/

Pff, in germany the authorities may think you're going to a conspirative meeting with a terrorist group because you're not taking your mobil phone with you.