Do you have a Facebook account?

[Seen the light]

Poll question: Do you have a Facebook account?

Curious minds want to know.

[Left Is Write]

1. Yes.

[ThomCat]

2. Yes.

:)

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

3. I do indeed.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Yep

[sniffa]

20. And I finally caved

It's now a new vice.

[JenaLaw]

5. yes...

add me!

Jenna Lawrence

[NanceGreggs]

6. Yes. And it will be the death of me ...

... my virtual (and RL) undoing ...

[yewberry]

7. Nah.

I've sort of sidestepped the whole thing.

I managed to avoid hearing that "macarena" song until last year, too. I think I'm either gifted or some kind of cavedweller.

Dunno which.

[no name no slogan]

18. or didn't attend a wedding reception from 1996-1998

because you would've heard it then.

[mcctatas]

8. Yep

[Sultana]

9. Oui

[PaddyBlueEyes]

10. affirm

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Absolutely!

[Haole Girl]

12. No

Don't have time for it & don't need to spend anymore time on the computer than I already do.

[taterguy]

13. I have it but only use it for people that I've actually met in so-called real life

I've really enjoyed catching up with people that I haven't seen or heard from in years.

[TheMightyFavog]

14. Yes.

Been a member since the days when you had to be a college student to get on.

[azmouse]

15. Nope and I've never even visited that website.

[harmonicon]

16. not just "no", but "hello no"

[Lyric]

17. Yep. It's useful, but it's not something I'm addicted to.

I like reading other peoples' updates, but I hate the IM format. Give me Yahoo anyday. :)

[Lex]

19. yes, and it's fun . . .

nt

[LeftyMom]

21. No. I am over 21 and am not in a band. I do not see the point.

[Left Is Write]

24. MySpace is for bands.

:P

[LeftyMom]

27. I'm not really up on the finer points of social networking.

I don't do social networking. I just have friends. Dated, I know. :shrug:

[Left Is Write]

29. Well...

if not for Facebook, I wouldn't have reconnected with several people from my past whom I missed very much.

I don't have much patience for MySpace, though. Too much spam, too graphics-heavy, takes forever to load even on a fast connection.

[LeftyMom]

30. See, I'd rather avoid that kind of thing.

The people I'm not in touch with anymore that's usually intentional.

[Left Is Write]

33. I can understand that.

These are people I didn't mean to lose touch with.

[Left Is Write]

34. dupe

[driver8]

42. You don't have to be in a band to be on Face Book. It is a great

way to find and keep in touch with old friends.

I opened my account about two months ago and recently got in touch with a friend from 6th grade who I went to school with on Adak, Alaska. We have been having a blast catching up.

Last night, I had dinner with a good friend of mine from high school as he was in town on business -- we re-connected through Facebook.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

55. I thought you did

[Lavender Brown]

22. Yes

[bigwillq]

23. Yes

I love facebook. I can proudly say that I am addicted to it. :)

[Left Is Write]

26. I am hopelessly addicted to Scramble.

I keep telling myself that such word games will keep my brain sharp well into old age. :D

[KitchenWitch]

48. I hate you for Scramble!

I totally suck at that game, but cannot get enough.

[davidinalameda]

25. yep

and my favorite feature is the Pet Society

I love my little critter

[Bertha Venation]

41. Pet Society? I'm new to Facebook . . .

. . . where do I find this?

[auntAgonist]

28. yes. I do.

[GOPisEvil]

31. Yep.

[krispos42]

32. Nope

You want to know intimate details about me, come splash around in the Hot Tub! ;-)

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. Yes, but I don't really do anything with it

[SPKrazy]

36. yuppers

:hi:

[Rhythm]

37. I do indeed...

Funny and frightening how many of my old friends from 20 years ago have now crawled out from under their rocks to say hello!

[T_i_B]

38. Yes

And here's the DU Facebook group if you are even more curious

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2426871461

[GoneOffShore]

72. Just looked - Kind of like the Lounge but quieter.

Lots of links in the discussions to past lounge threads.

[fujiyama]

39. I do.

I've found it to be a great way to get back in touch with people I knew in high school, mostly old friends I had just lost touch with. I recently met with some people I hadn't seen for ten years or so. Overall I like some aspects but hate a lot of the stupid applications. I use it as another communication tool.

[Crabby Appleton]

40. No - witness protection program rules - nt

[Drunken Girlfriend]

43. Facebook

Yes,I've had a Facebook account for about 2 yrs now,
which is about the same amount of yrs I have had the Internet,
as well as a computer.

It's a guilty pleasure,and I am on it everyday.lol

[motely36]

44. Yes I do

and I think I am addicted!

[MrCoffee]

45. Hell no...there are people I've spent years avoiding, why give them a golden ticket?

No way.

[Phillycat]

67. Ha.

I basically got to that point too, which is why I deleted mine.

[qb]

46. Not yet... Thinking about signing up. nt

[SacredCow]

47. No way!!!!

There are too many people from my past that I want to STAY in my past....

[no name no slogan]

49. Yeah! Everybody friend me!

my email is [e-mail]

[tinymontgomery]

50. Yes

but it has nothing on it and I made it only to like to my son's site. So it is kind of useless.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

51. yes, i have friends across the world. it helps to keep in touch. I think a lot of people

who think facebook or social networking sites are stupid, dont have friends in several different time zones...i have found social networking sites to really help keep you updated and in touch when you do.

[Missy Vixen]

52. Yes. n/t

[Lucian]

53. I do have a facebook account.

[nickinSTL]

54. no...but I might soon...

more and more people I know have accounts...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

56. Yes

[mvd]

57. No, but I have a MySpace one

I only use it for discovering artists - I never send requests to other people unless I know them. In fact, I only have a few non music-artist friends.

I got a request from Oh, Alexis! tonight, and I accepted of course - VERY talented and pretty:

http://www.youtube.com/OhAlexisMusic

[sakabatou]

58. Nope

[Zavulon]

59. No. I've suffered through the horrors of MySpace and don't want to step on the rake twice.

My girlfriend has a Facebook account and is being driven nuts by all of the stupid virtual gifts / drinks she receives (when sie ignores them, the sender sends another one and keeps it up until a gift / drink gets sent back), and lately there are a ton of stupid surveys she is being "tagged" (I believe that's the proper word) for - "25 random things about me," "48 one-word answers," and so on.

I'd sooner vote for John McCain than sign up with Facebook.

[FloridaJudy]

64. You can block those applications

If they get annoying. I doubt anyone will get super resentful if you don't send something back, and some of them are a hoot. I'm addicted to the "Magical Trunk" and "Douchebag" gifts myself.

eta: I don't drink and I don't gamble, so I ignore those requests. Nobody's cursed me out yet.

[GoneOffShore]

68. I'm very fond of 19th Century Celebrities myself

And Mrs GoS does Word Twist.

But we do use Facebook for business.

[rrneck]

60. Yes. Wanted to

just check it out, and you have to sign up for an account just to see how it works. I did and forgot about until about three weeks ago when I started getting emails about people all over town wanting me to be a "Facebook friend" or whatever. Now it looks like I'm stuck with it.

[Starry Messenger]

61. Yes.

I like it. I've gotten in touch with people I had lost track of.

[MrSlayer]

62. I have a myspace but I never use it.

I set it up and then promptly ignored it. Barack Obama is my friend.

[brettdale]

63. use to use it

But it was too much, people poking you here and there, it was just too full on.

[annonymous]

65. No. I value my privacy.

I don't want prospective employers looking at a Myspace or Facebook page and deciding not to hire me based on something I do in my personal life. There are also people in my past I do not wish to reconnect with, especially former boyfriends. I also think social network sites take up way too much time.

[Phillycat]

69. Agree; this is why I deleted my Facebook account.

It was a giant time suck in addition to my feeling too publicly exposed online. Of course I had my profile set to private but prospective employers and others can still see that I have a profile and glean certain information from that.

[Phillycat]

66. Not anymore.

I deleted my Facebook, Myspace, and public blogs, and made my Flickr friends-only. I wanted a smaller internet presence under my real name. I'm glad I did it.

[GoneOffShore]

70. Yes and we just got a job from it this morning.

It's starting to take up more time than DU. And I have to say that's almost a good thing. Keeps my blood pressure lower.

[SOteric]

71. I have enough trouble finding time to post to DU.

I've started an assortment of social pages over the years, - LiveJournal, MySpace, etc... I have almost no time to post to the internet, and I find when I do, I really only remember to check on things at DU. The rest of it all just falls right out of my awareness.