Please check in here if you have neither Facebook nor Twitter accounts.

[Zavulon]

I just want to make sure I'm not alone.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Checking the hell in. Our club now has two members.

I read that Facebook collects and sells all sorts of data, I've got not use for that, no time either.

It reminds me of instant messaging, after a week of using that I couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

Now I use texting and my iPhone extensively, I don't need to fucking Twitter or Facebook.

:hi:

[Zavulon]

3. Welcome, refined and honorable charter member.

It is a pleasure to refrain from FB and tweets with you. :)

[BlueJazz]

2. My "handlers" won't let me join more than one Club. I chose DU.

I do get to go to the bathroom all by myself though...

[Zavulon]

8. I'm in two, actually.

I have a MySpace page, assuming that there's no expiration after not logging in for a while. I do nothing with it, but it's there. My girlfriend is on Facebook, though, and the shit I see there (passing each other virtual drinks, virtual stuffed animals, etc) just makes me want to throw up.

The thing I really don't get about Twitter is that Facebook has the same function. What's the point of both?

[NYC_SKP]

11. With twitter you can tweet. You can't tweet with facebook.

so far as I know.

[Zavulon]

17. What's the difference?

(That was a serious question, not a facetious or snotty one)

If you post what's on your mind on FB, all of your friends can see it, so isn't that the same thing as tweeting? "So and so is ready for the weekend!" "This asshole just finished a sausage breakfast!" and so on? If not, how is tweeting different?

[NYC_SKP]

43. I have no idea, but I do like the verb, "tweet"!

I think your question was answered downthread, that it's like texting a bunch of people at once.

I spend enough time checking three email accounts and any texts on my iphone, I just don't need one more thing.

Unless it made my life or my job easier, that is.

:P

[fujiyama]

74. A lot of the facebook apps are stupid

but I've found facebook to be a great way to get in touch with old friends and keep in touch with folks too.

I find it convenient because it's basically a communications tool to efficiently broadcast info to a bunch of friends at once. For example, I was staying in SF and another friend was heading there for a week. I found out because she noted that in facebook and we met up for some drinks when she was there. Another friend found me on facebook and I'm likely going to meet him for lunch tomorrow. I think the last time I saw him was back in middle school!

But beyond sharing info and occasionally photos, some of the stuff is sort of silly.

[flvegan]

4. I honestly don't even understand Twitter.

And I don't care who knows it. Facebook is, I guess, a good way to get in touch with old friends or something at least.

[Zavulon]

10. From my limited understanding of Facebook, one of its functions is

a "what's on your mind" thing that serves the same function as the only one Twitter offers. It's like buying a movie on DVD and then b uying a VHS backup, if I'm getting this correctly.

[flvegan]

16. So Facebook is now just like Twitter?

I'm so behind on the times.

[Zavulon]

19. Stand by on that.

See my above exchange with NYC. I might be under the wrong impression, I'm waiting for his reply.

[NYC_SKP]

13. Get in touch with the kinds of old friends that are into facebook, you mean.

I'm not sure I want to hear from them. :P

[flvegan]

20. Heh, yeah.

I got an e-mail (like the Fred Flintstone I am) from one of the only folks from high school I'm still friends with that told me there was a 20th year high school reunion group on Facebook and I should join. I think he and I differ on the meaning of the word "should"

[LeftyMom]

27. 20th high school reunion? Jesus Christ, you are old.

/me is off to write a tweet about deciding to get my boyfriend a nose and ear hair trimmer for his birthday, because old men need them.

[Zavulon]

29. An intruder!

Tweeter alert!

[flvegan]

32. Fetchez le vache!

[Zavulon]

34. Speaking of that,

Did you see this picture? An offering of shrubberies in frone of the sacred word!

[flvegan]

35. Ha! Best thing ever!!!

Engrish...that figures. Awesome.

[Zavulon]

21. LOL (NT)

[LeftyMom]

26. Twitter is for very short blog posts which can be done from a mobile phone or computer

You can set it up so that you get updates via text when people do a new post (aka "tweet.")

I can set this up for you, because I understand that it's hard to adapt to new things when you are teh old.

[flvegan]

30. So I'd post something on Twitter and they send a text to a bunch of people?

Jesus, I am just not that vain. Nobody gives a shit what I say or do and I'd rather not pretend that wasn't the case.

[BlueJazz]

36. Jesus Christ and Amen..I've had the whole thing explained to me and the the only answer I...

...can give is Why?
Who the fucks cares what I think every minute of the day and Why would anybody think that I would give a shit what THEY think every minute of the day.

There's almost something Macabre about it all... :) :)

[LeftyMom]

39. I just use it for shit I don't want to have to retell ten people.

My huge Twitter entourage consists of nine friends and my mother. :eyes:

It's also cool for general shit like "hey, this link is awesome, you should take a look" "look at this picture" or "event X is canceled, don't bother driving out" or whatever so you don't have to call, email, whoever is participating, you can just send a short announcement from your phone.

You should look into doing one for notifying people of activist shit, that makes way more sense than announcing that one of your dogs had a room clearing fart or that I sent you yummy cookies.

[flvegan]

44. I have e-mail for that though.

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones...I know.

:eyes:

[LeftyMom]

45. People actually check their text messages.

Well, not you.

Seriously though, there is something of a generational divide between email and text message users. I covered that in my award winning research. Which you read, right? ;)

[flvegan]

46. I check them. Responding is different, unless its vital.

Frankly because, I'm really poor at it.

I tried to read it but my reading glasses kept slipping off my nose and I had to get up and get a sweater a few times, and then there were the 4 naps I needed in between Geritol inductions.

[LeftyMom]

47. You do kill me about responses though.

I know you check them, I have read receipts. Bow before my nosy girlfriend skills. :evilgrin:

[flvegan]

49. Wait...text messages have "Read Receipts"????

Handbasket to hell, I swear.

[LeftyMom]

51. Yep.

:rofl:

[mentalsolstice]

5. Just read my sig line. It 'slpains most of it. nt

[Zavulon]

9. LOL.

Someone here posted a picture a while ago about three young guys talking to an astronaut who explains to them about FB and Twitter. Wish I knew where it was.

LOVE the sig line.

[Duer 157099]

6. Checking in

I have no desire for either of those.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. somewhere in my past I had a myspace account, but I never used it. Facebook and Twitter

NOPE

[Zavulon]

12. I'm in the same boat.

If MySpace accounts last indefinitely, I still have one. No use for it, but I did sign up.

I'll move to Florida to vote for Jeb Bush before I sign up for Fabebook. Twitter would probably be less annoying, but I have no interest in that one, either.

[SeattleGirl]

14. Not alone.

I do have a seldom-used MySpace account, but no Facebook and no Twitter.

[Zavulon]

22. Welcome aboard.

As our army grows, we see the need for the MySpace exemption, as I also have a seldom-used account. Nice to have you join our ranks. :hi:

[NV Whino]

15. Yo!

Present. What is this Twitter of which you speak? Facebook... mmmmm, no.

[Zavulon]

25. Glad to see representation out west.

We need soldiers and agents everywhere in this resistance. ;)

[Dinger]

18. Right Here

Don't even know how, or want to know how to get one either.

[Zavulon]

28. You are one of the lucky ones.

My girlfriend has both and I've had to seriously press her about keeping me out of her updates. If I wanted people to know what movie I was watching or what sort of beer I was drinking, I'd inform the people myself.

The worst fight we ever had was when I learned that she was tweeting about me for two weeks before a friend of mine clued me in on what she was posting. The fight was long and loud, with me doing most of the ranting and her doing a lot of crying, but the upside is that she knows she was wrong and was actually sorry, so she no longer presses me to join. FB and Twitter are forbidden subjects in my house.

[Richardo]

23. Yo.

:hi:

Tried FB for awhile, could not see the point. I'm sure Twitter is even more useless.

[Zavulon]

31. Yo back at you.

Glad to have you among the ranks of our growing army. :)

[Awsi Dooger]

24. I've also never sent a text message

Whatever that is.

I don't even like the idea of owning a cell phone, but I travel quite a bit. Last thing I want is to be on call at all hours.

[Zavulon]

33. I bow to you.

I would love to be able to make the same claim, but an old school buddy keeps on texting me and sometimes I have to answer back. Pisses me off, because texts aren't free for me.

[NV Whino]

42. I've disabled texting on my cell phone

It's a phone, dagnabit! I kept getting wrong numbers or wrong texting as it were. I ain't paying extra for some idiot who can't even punch in the right numbers to text his or her mom. And I ain't no mom. Dagnabit!

[MADem]

57. HA! Neither have I!!!!!!!!!

And my cell phone is a throw away, like the drug dealers use!! No pesky contracts for me!

I use it for dire emergencies at home (a dire emergency could be "I'm at the store, do we need butt wipe?" but it could also be a "Bring the jumper cables--the battery is dead,"--you get the idea) and to stay in contact when I am away from home ("Hello, I'm in Such-n-such hellhole, here's the number of the hotel").

If I'm not on the road, the thing is turned off. You can't reach me on it, by and large!

I'm glad we're not the only family of Luddites around!

[question everything]

37. Neither one

and, for a proof, read my take on twitting:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=108x134762#134770

[Zavulon]

40. Bona fides established.

You have the makings of a senior officer in this army ;)

[ismnotwasm]

38. You're not alone

I have no need or desire for either, although people try to talk me into it. Don't think so.

[Zavulon]

41. The worst is when friends use the invited function

to get Facebook to spam you. Pisses me off; fortunately, filtering incoming messages from Facebook into the trash is quite easy.

[sohndrsmith]

48. facebook was an immediate turn off for me because having

more than one account violates their policy. Personally, I think that's awfully short sighted - if I were free to have a personal page and the ability to also have a completely separate professional, hobbyist, etc. page I might have bothered with it. I've never had a myspace or facebook page. I did create a twitter account which I've never used, simply because I assumed my teenage daughter might end up using it and since we live in different states I have to communicate by whatever means she uses most - if I don't, we don't have enough contact. I HATE texting, but it's what she uses so I used it ad nauseum.

I don't get twitter and I have few friends since I work alone and live far from family/past friends, so even though I've created the account I've never used it and probably never will - unless my daughter does. : )

[elshiva]

50. I don't have either.

All I know is this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__v16ajx69Mw/ScJ2SajApfI/AAAAAAAAEqE/0yMR2JDPRU0/s400/Doctor+Who+-+The+Stolen+Earth+subwave+network.JPG

[Richard Steele]

52. I have a FaceBook account, but I've only ever used it once....

...to send a message to someone who had a VERY
serious impact on my life a long time ago.

I set up the account, sent the message, and then went back to
a little thing I like to call "real Life".

(Just for the record: she never responded. :()

[BlueIris]

53. 'Sup. I hate Facebook and especially Twitter with a passion.

Hands off, marketing pimps.

[Spider Jerusalem]

54. No Facebook, no Twitter. No desire for either.

A Myspace account I haven't looked at or logged into in years. I'm probably not enough of an extrovert for the whole 'social networking' thing (not to mention that I find most of what I've seen on people's Twitter, Facebook, etc to be inane and pointless; who the fuck is going to care if I'm having a latte and a panini, anyway?)

[MADem]

55. You are most assuredly not alone! I can't be bothered with that crap! nt

[kedrys]

56. I don't have either, nor

do I have any desire to get involved. I waste plenty of time online as it is.

[tabbycat31]

58. checking in

I don't know that much about twitter, and I refuse to join Facebook until they have better ways to protect their user's privacy (AKA do not display last names).
I am on myspace though

[MissMillie]

59. count me into this group

no facebook, no myspace, no twitter

[sammythecat]

60. Can't be bothered. I'm a militant luddite.

I have yet to even see a Facebook page. I tried once for some reason and IIRC I had to set up my own page before viewing any others. Something like that, hoops to jump through. Whatever, it looked like a hassle I wasn't in the mood for and haven't bothered since. I don't know if it's anything like MySpace, but if it is, I know I won't like it. All I remember from viewing MySpace pages are: Obtrusive, annoying as hell, suck-ass music. S-L-O-W page loading, and when it finally does load it's usually a garish and tacky mess.

Twitter just seems insane to me. That, and the now totally ubiquitous cell phone, make me wonder what the fuck it is with this seemingly, to me anyway, pathological obsession to be in constant communication with anyone and everyone other than the one's we're with.

[In_The_Wind]

61. You are not alone.

[Iggo]

62. You're not alone. (n/t)

[HERVEPA]

63. Another neo-Luddite here, even though I'm a programmer.

(Mainframe Programmer), so that hardly counts as technology.

[PRETZEL]

64. No Facebook, myspace, twitter or whatever

new or latest fad is.

[Inchworm]

65. Check

I think I made a facebook acct when it first got popular and logged in that day but never again.

:hi:

[Auggie]

66. Here

[MrCoffee]

67. Check

[Zavulon]

68. This is now my favorite thread of all time. LOVE the fact that I'm not the only one. (NT)

[Common Sense Party]

69. I broke down and started Facebooking about a month or so ago.

A couple of high school friends told me I needed to get on there. I resisted for a long time. I finally broke down. It's mildly amusing. The irony is the two friends who urged me to sign up hardly ever post anything.

I've re-established some friendships that sort of drifted away, mostly as a result of my moving around a great deal.

I don't understand Twitter at all.

[sarge43]

70. You're not.

Frankly, I don't understand the appeal.

[ACTION BASTARD]

71. I have none and if any one where to try to "twitter-twatter" me...

they better take me to dinner first. The AB don't roll like that.

[TreasonousBastard]

72. I absolutely refuse to tweet, but do have...

a Facebook account somewhere. I set it up a while ago and forgot about it.

And I don't IM, blackberries are for putting on cereal and making jam, and "texting" sounds like an obscene act.

[Eyerish]

73. *raises hand*

I have no use for either...

[Dystopian]

75. You are not alone. I am alone.

I have a MySpace account, which I started as a distraction when I burned out on activism...Alas, there were all the activist groups and anarchists....so there I was at the computer, not on the streets...and now I don't use it at all....it sucks.
Hence, no Facebook, no Twitter...it's all a big clusterfuck to me.
I don't care. All my friends are four years old anyway.
Gee, I'm in a bitchy mood tonight...x(


:hi:

peace~

[texanwitch]

76. Me, me.

I have no interest in either one.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

77. Yo. But I do have a blog!!

Please visit and comment:

http://lavidacountry.wordpress.com


THANX!!!

[PBS Poll-435]

78. I don't even "MyStalk"

I like the old fashioned internets.

[cwydro]

79. Neither.

You are not alone.

[Mad_Dem_X]

80. Right here. I have a LiveJournal, nothing more.

I have no interest in Facebook or Twitter.

[BeachBaby]

81. I have neither - although many of my friends are trying to get me to go on Facebook.

[hippywife]

82. No MySpace, no Facebook, no Twitter.

I have a cell phone that's about 8 years old and I don't use it often at all. I also do not have caller ID or voicemail on it. I keep it for emergencies and to make long distance calls home. That is it.

:hi:

[Roon]

83. I don't do facebook or twitter

My Uncle had a horror story with facebook. All these people from his past contacted him. I don't want to have anything to do with the people from my past.

As for twitter,if what your doing warrants a post,then you can email,text,IM me,why dedicate a website of your daily activities?

[Pool Hall Ace]

84. I have neither. I'm not knocking either one, but, truth be told,

there are not that many people from my past that I care to reconnect with! I also lost my photobucket password, and I have no way to upload photos using my laptop.

So, hiya!! :hi: Love your sig pic, btw.

[Zavulon]

85. Thanks.

If my MySpace account still exists, the sigpic is my background there.

As for Photobucket: I lost my password too, I just created a new account.

:hi:

[Name removed]

95. Deleted message

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[Pharlo]

86. No My Space, No Facebook, No Twitter,

No cellphone. No Blog.

Still have dialup.

It's bad enough having to check the answering machine and e-mail everyday.

[azmouse]

87. I've never gone to either website to even just look around.

I don't give a shit about any of that stuff.

[femmocrat]

88. None of the above.

Nor do I feel the need to open an account in any of them. In fact, just the name "Twitter" annoys the hell out of me.

[frogmarch]

89. No Facebook, no Twitter

no anything similar, even.

[TK421]

90. I don't have them n/t

[KG]

91. no facebook, no twitter, my cell phone only gets calls, not email.

i mostly wish to be left alone.

i dont care about other peoples miserable little lives, mine's miserable enuff.

my life simply does not require much technology.

[RebelOne]

92. Nope, neither one and not interested. n/t

[latebloomer]

93. Nope, neither

I already burnt out on my high school graduating class through a Yahoo group that came and went. Mostly the people from my past that I want in my life are still there to some degree.

As for the "Twitter" thing, it seems completely inane. The terminology annoys me- "tweeting", "followers", and I don't give a shit that someone I know just took one.

[SOteric]

94. No facebook, no twitter.

I barely have time for DU. I've been urged by several friends I know to join, but seriously, I don't have the time to further divide.

[AwakeAtLast]

96. I don't have either one

but my sister and a friend from college have both said I should be on Facebook.

I don't know - it seems to be one more thing to do. x(

[WinkyDink]

97. Nor MySpace nor i-Pod nor Blog. As it is, I don't read books much any more.