Poll: Do you have a Facebook account?

For example, my church's young adults group uses a Facebook group and events to track RSVPs for our twice monthly prayer nights, allowing an appropriate amount of food to be planned for in advance. The connections formed through the FB group have in turn led to a large number of other invitations and get-togethers involving movies, dancing, Bible study, etc. The group has grown significantly in the past couple of years, and though I don't think it's all attributable to social media, Facebook has certainly been instrumental in its growth and coordination.

Interestingly, I have very few Facebook friends related to my professional life. Instead, I generally interact with my software development and business peers by way of Twitter and LinkedIn.

Carrying this on further - I have a MySpace account as well. I haven't logged on in 5 years, but I do have one.

To all the people that don't have an account (I'm serious): why don't you? It seems like something that you can easily regulate. I have a super small number of friends. Almost no pictures. I haven't updated my info or approved any wall requests in a while. Even after the whole, "everyone is now searchable" most people who try and friend me say they can't find me to friend. I do use it to chat/look up people whose cell numbers I don't have and I don't think I spend too much time on the site (there just isn't enough interesting content). Reddit/hn is another story though.

Am I really that naive to think that my digital footprint is still pretty low key even with a facebook account? I mean sure, facebook/nsa can figure out who I am easily enough but that isn't going to change if I "delete" (aka hide) my account. As for employers, I'm pretty sure even if I gave them my username and password (which I would obviously never do) they wouldn't find anything interesting.

Bob is an employee of a business. That business has an account. Bob's job is to run the account. Does Bob have an account?

It's a little bit (but not much) hazier than a simple yes no.

Unfortunately, I have friends that use the platform for announcements and events. Without Facebook I wouldn't know what's going on. You'd think people would still communicate in other ways, but I have to find out about events through Facebook because I know people will forget to call or text me otherwise.

In my group, there's an unspoken expectation that you use Facebook. If you don't log in or keep an eye on what's going on, you just miss out.

If I hear one more "...well I sent you a FB invite!" when explaining why I missed an event, I think I'll go crazy.