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Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?

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Re: Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?

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1 real, 1 fake for testing, 2 kids under 13 = 4

I have one account for myself.

I also manage one for my baby boy, so that I can keep baby pictures all tagged and organized in one place. I don't consider this to be my account, I consider it his.

This points out an ambiguity in voting. If you register an account for your kids, should you count it?

Re: Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?

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post #36

I have one real, and one fake. The fake one is to find out what applications do before they can do it to my friends.

Do you find Facebook applications have enough value to warrant this? I just don't use them. But maybe I'm missing out.

Day to day, I'm not even sure that Facebook has enough value, much less the applications.

Re: Poll: How many Facebook accounts do you have?

#53
I have a pretty vast personal list of reasons why I do not, and shall not ever, have a facebook account.

Other than the most blatantly obvious and mundane reasons to have a facebook account - I would like to seriously hear why one should have one. The obvious being "I keep in touch with my friends" -- well, I keep in touch with my friends - most of whom have an account. Our relationships have never suffered from my not having an account.

I find the more insidious motives behind facebook and its founder to be hands down a showstopper from my perspective.

So, other than the ambiguous "keeping in touch/sharing photos" with friends, what would be a compelling reason to have an account.

The "everybody else has one" is rather flimsy.

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