Pocket Ninja: Meh. I quit Facebook before quitting Facebook became mainstream. I've even found a way better site, but you probably haven't heard of it.

Finding way better sites is so over. I've moved on to retro-useless sites, but even before it started to catch on with trendy folk.

Does being somewhere that used to be cool but is now completely uncool and abandoned count the same as being somewhere before it's cool? Does it work like a cycle? If so, they should go back to MySpace.

I never signed up for Facebook. I saw everyone jumping on Facebook like it was the coolest thing evar so naturally it was destined to be teh ghey. I have always been more unique, edgier, and cooler than everyone else apparently- especially hipsters. Stupid amateurs. Skinny jeans and crying yourself to sleep are for girls... and thoroughly emasculated males.



_{/no myspace, livejournal, or twitter, etc ad nauseam either
//dang i am super cooler than you}

GreenAdder: xl5150: Does being somewhere that used to be cool but is now completely uncool and abandoned count the same as being somewhere before it's cool? Does it work like a cycle? If so, they should go back to MySpace.

Fark it, man. I'm going to back to my AOL 56K account.




/Rookies.

I'll be back in the morning expecting lots of captioned photos. Do not disappoint me.

Abandoning products because they are mainstream doesn't explain why they persist with using iProducts though.

I don't even have an internet connection. I send my posts via smoke signal to a group of worshippers at the base of my mountain.

I recently signed up for Facebook. I figured with all the other hipsters leaving, it'd be ironic.

Dunit: Abandoning products because they are mainstream doesn't explain why they persist with using iProducts though.

That'd be the 'douchebag' part of 'hipster douchebag'.

CitizenTed: The rest of us will be too busy for you because we're all posting updates and humorous quips in the .soc hierarchy.

I guess if you're into that like everyone else it's okay. I log into Unix mainframes and use the write command to message people online.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: GreenAdder: xl5150: Does being somewhere that used to be cool but is now completely uncool and abandoned count the same as being somewhere before it's cool? Does it work like a cycle? If so, they should go back to MySpace.

Fark it, man. I'm going to back to my AOL 56K account.


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/Rookies.

I'll be outside, restringing my telegraph wires. Anybody got a supply of creosote-soaked wood and cool glass insulators?

MayoSlather: Pocket Ninja: Meh. I quit Facebook before quitting Facebook became mainstream. I've even found a way better site, but you probably haven't heard of it.

Finding way better sites is so over. I've moved on to retro-useless sites, but even before it started to catch on with trendy folk.

AOL Married not dead rooms? Oooh....you came back!!

Japanese hipster. Probably abandoning mixi.

The only product Facebook has to sell is your personal information. That is all.

I went over to Orkut, ironically.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: /Rookies.

I still have my Atari 800XL in the basement somewhere! It, and more importantly, the 5.25" DD, worked fine the last time I hooked it up. In 1999.

How come hippsters all wear beanies? Even in the damn summer of Arizona. I always hope their brain fries.

So the chick on the side of the article won't use Facebook but she'll use Twitter and Spotify. I'm normally a pacifist, but I want to murder her as brutally as possible.

Pfft. I'm headed back to GeoCities.

Meh. Whatever works to keep my family in touch. We're all spread out, so let me know when the next hipster trend or anti trend becomes a mom-friendly way to show her pictures of my kids and I'll gladly make you feel cooler than I am while you cancel your account just as I create mine.

neaorin: miss diminutive: I don't even have an internet connection. I send my posts via smoke signal to a group of worshippers at the base of my mountain.

I tried that for a while, but found it to be a bit tedious. Got myself a megaphone instead and now I just wait for a good thunderstorm.

That's cool I guess, I send my status updates to my friends via bottled messages that I throw into the Pacific Ocean.

Well, since they're finally leaving, now I will actually start using Fb. Maybe.

I've met some awesome people through Facebook. The intended use seems to be to connect with people you already know, but I found it worked well to connect with random people with whom I share common interests.

BBSing, IMing, or using something like MySpace/ Facebook can be a large boon for people that may be socially awkward in the flesh, but enjoy social interaction with other folk. The networking is a useful tool that not everyone needs- it don't feel its use (or lack thereof) is inherently cool or uncool.
Personally I found it to be eating too much of my time and energy so I parked my account. Maybe when I my life finds its stride I'll pick it up again.

Though I must say I feel a bit of trepidation when the phrase "novelty is wearing off" comes up. That usually is followed by dramatic and often unintelligent changes to whatever it was referring to.

miss diminutive: I don't even have an internet connection. I send my posts via smoke signal to a group of worshippers at the base of my mountain.

What's the internet?

http://www.myspace.com/justinbieber
General Info
Genre: Pop
Location Ontario, CA
Profile Views: 44263772
Last Login: 12/12/2011
Member Since 3/9/2008
Website www.youtube.com/kidrauhl
Record Label island records
Type of Label Major

[x] myspace
[x] steampunk

I'm so hip that I was never a member of Facebook to begin with... Or something.

I tend to regard Facebook the same way I regard contagious disease.

Diaspora is pretty good option for people fed up with Facebook. It's a cross between Twitter and Facebook - you write stuff on your wall and use hashtags to categorize it. You arrange people into groups and can talk just some of those groups or publicly if you wish. It has a far greater options for privacy too including running your own Diaspora server if you feel like it. On the down side it's still pretty slow and overwhelmed by #NewHere joiners at the moment.

Google+ is also pretty nice but if privacy is your worry then you're not exactly helping yourself by giving all your data to Google.

Facebook is okay I guess as long as you don't live your life there. Biggest issue with Facebook is the company deliberately sets things out in a way to maximize the amount of information they harvest. And options to lock down privacy are buried in different places, or otherwise made awkward to use, ambiguous or otherwise confusing to put people off from using them. Facebook clearly must employ psychologists and data miners to do all this and it is quite disturbing IMO.

randomjsa: I'm so hip that I was never a member of Facebook to begin with... Or something.

I tend to regard Facebook the same way I regard contagious disease.

Collect them all?

Good grief. Why was that woman even his Facebook friend if he doesn't know her? Or hadn't met her, whatever. Self control man, don't friend up every hooker that posts a flyer under your dorm room door.

Ed Finnerty: Hipsters aren't sentient beings like you and I. They are more like fish, with limited memory and operate only on base instinct.

/Fish wear horn rimmed glasses, right?

I started and stopped using Facebook in 2004. Now, I only communicate with friends using pigeon-delivered handwritten letters (written on locally-made artisan paper, of course) and my heliograph.

The ethernet packets travel on the wire until they hit bordertown. At the edge they're picked up by a group of child runners who deliver them where they need to go. Some get delivered to the tower, where they're sent on using reflective mirrors and sunlight to a bog witch who transmits out by waving her hands over a toilet filled with purple bubbling liquid. To get the packets into fairyland we have to insert them into reproductions after classical oil paintings. We're working on inserting them in original oils, but we haven't found anyone good enough that the barrier will accept their work.


/obscure paraphrasing is obscure?

Of course the picture would be a Portland State student.


/Place is infected with stupidity and hipsters
//Portland State student

Facebook is just Craigslist 2.0 with more pictures and regular status updates.. and gaming goodness. Don't forget the games.

Screw u subby! I'm not signing in or accepting cookies from NYT to RTFA.

For me? Screw social networking.

Most my friends use it, I just never got on board.

NutWrench: Bomb Head Mohammed: The only product Facebook has to sell is your personal information. That is all.

This is the reason you should really be quitting Facebook. If corporations want to data-mine you, they can do it the old-fashioned way, using spy-bots and info-squitos.

Because all your personal information goes away when you quit?

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.