There should be another option for "Yes, but it's pseudonymous"
Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
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Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#32Not to be uncool, but I enjoy Facebook. I find it to be a fun way to stay in touch with connections, discuss, share, chat, etc. Sure I want data portability, but I believe that will come in time from competitive and user forces, and my life is not a protest. My online social activity is inane anyway - I don't care that much who stores it. If you are worried about your activities being tracked and sold, stop using you…
I use FB for what it is - a way to keep in touch with people I don't see often.
From my point of view, most people are on FB, some are on Twitter, and almost nobody is on G+.
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#33Sorry, the 32 of you (as of this moment, out of 152) who claim to never have had a facebook account. I call shenanigans. I don't believe for one second that 20% of a sample of hacker news readers never, ever had a facebook account.
I'm one of them. I asked this same question in my team a few weeks ago: I got very similar sampling. The team is composed of 7 hackers (native code, embedded speech-related software). In other words, I tend to believe the results we're getting so far.
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#34I know it’s cool to make fun of Facebook, but you can’t doubt that they focus a heckuva lot on the user. Unlike Google, the advertiser is not the customer per se. Evidence of this: constant design changes to features (read: Pages) without pandering to a business’ request. Facebook’s message: adapt, or die.
Certainly not a bad company to invest in, regardless of perceived value.
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#35I voted "I used to, but I deleted it.", but actually I have a personal account with no details and no friends, which I only log into on the rare occasions I need to edit a company facebook page, and the login details to a friend's account, for when I want to check up on how Facebook works for the sake of a marketing campaign. edit: I deleted my account three years ago because it annoyed me and I rarely found myself u…
Sample bias?
I don't follow - you're saying this poll is biased because of HN readers? I'd argue (though it isn't my poll) that it's purpose is not to find how many people in the world use Facebook, but to find out how many HN-type people use Facebook, meaning that hosting the poll on HN gets it answered by the exact target audience.
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#36I have it still but never login. Deleting is pointless because they delete nothing from their DB, and also some times its nice to have thing. Like login to stupid website which only accepts social networks login or identical "tons of info" registration. Or to "connect" facebook with Steam or some other platform for whatever reason (why they want it in the first place I wonder?).
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#37I have one and I love it.
I find an enormous amount of hostility on HN towards facebook, even going so far as a lot of people proudly mentioning that they will never touch it. I don't see why it gets such scorn, I think its a wonderful site.
Some notes on my usage, though:
All of my privacy options are on the lowest possible setting. I treat anything that occurs on the site as if it were public. I don't see why not, I'm not going to pretend that photos of myself or my wall postings are anywhere near interesting enough to hide. In fact I'm not sure why people who put things on facebook want privacy at all. I never worry that something I say might be picked up on by the wrong person because I'd never say anything that I wouldn't want the world to hear.
To a shy person, the usefulness of the site is astronomical.
Among others I am friends with my boss, my mother, my little cousins. Facebook lets shy people like me keep in touch with a massive amount of people where I can write them the modern equivalent of letters very quickly and easily, as well as let them broadcast their life's updates to me. I can keep in touch with all manner of people. I love writing letters, people love getting letters. Facebook is not far off.
Without facebook, I'd have no idea cousin X is having a baby, or that Y is having apartment trouble that I can help them with, or that Z got a new game we can play together, or person A is considering selling their car, and so on.
If I meet someone at an event and really hit it off (romantically or not), I can go on facebook the next day and look them up by name and add them. No exchanging phone numbers or emails or anything like that. I just search for them and find them. In college it was enormously useful for making friends and I still find it useful now that I've graduated.
I made a page for my hometown (90K population city in NH). I broadcast events going on around the city (fireworks, beer festival, city meetings). In this way I help my community learn about the goings-on of the town. It's a surprisingly popular page (more popular than the local newspaper's facebook page).
I could go on, but this is probably enough to give those who don't use it an idea of why I enjoy it so much.
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#38What is the rationale behind deleting LinkedIn?
I did not find it to be of value. I spent most of my time on LinkedIn dealing with recruiters and other undesirables who wanted to contact me.
why and how do you deal with "other undesirables" ?
I find linkedin connections number to be a key when talking to recruiter. they dont really care who I connect to, but rather a number of connections seems to impress them. for that reason, I would add anyone to my network. Also - one person that you may not know on LinkedIn may be linked to someone you would love to know!
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#39I recently had to reactivate my long-dead account so I could develop apps on the Facebook platform. Otherwise, I prefer Twitter.
Re: Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?
#40I had one many years ago but deleted it when they hit the fan regarding privacy. However, after the last update by Mark Zuckerberg about the improvements in Facebook privacy and the decision by FTC to regulate privacy made me change my mind.