Why is everything forcing us into using facebook?

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#1 pspdseagle
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These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

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#2 zenogandia
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Meh, I like facebook. Basically it's my way to communicate with my friends without having to call them. I hate talking on the phone. 

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#3 br0kenrabbit
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I don't use facebook and I've never felt forced into it. Some sites I use do allow you to sign in with an FB account, but they all have the option to sign in without FB as well.

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#4 MrPraline
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These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

pspdseagle
Because there's a lot of money to be made in the personal information business. FB is a marketing corporation first, social fad second.
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#5 Allicrombie
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I never go on my FB.
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#6 Candy-Star
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These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

pspdseagle
Not a fad man
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#7 Fightingfan
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I don't use facebook and I've never felt forced into it. Some sites I use do allow you to sign in with an FB account, but they all have the option to sign in without FB as well.

br0kenrabbit
SAme. I never made one, and never will.
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#8 MrPraline
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[QUOTE="pspdseagle"]

These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

Candy-Star
Not a fad man

that's what they said about myspace in 2004
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#9 osirisx3
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steal your information to sell to people android apps are the worst for it.

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#10 Hallenbeck77  Moderator
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I never go on my FB.Allicrombie
Deleted my account a few years ago.
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#11 Retro_Future
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So they can sell you sh*t you don't need based on your likes.
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#12 gamerguru100
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I don't have a FB account, and don't feel forced to make one.

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#13 curono
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Companies bandwagon with the big boys. Same happens with banks.
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#14 k2theswiss
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or sorta nice for junk accounts on junk websites.
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#15 KiIIyou
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Faces are da future! :o
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Money.
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Money.WSGRandomPerson
Honey
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#18 lahdeeduh
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Usually there's some other option... But I agree it's annoying when they try to make you register using your facebook account. Facebook's trying to get all the information about you they can get so they can sell those damn ads. Soon Facebook will know you better than you know yourself... #paranoia
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#19 Rockman999
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Pretty much for advertisement reasons.

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#20 CursedChamp
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I am not that big on Facebook.
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#21 whiskeystrike
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Don't know and don't care anymore. Deactivated my Facebook a few days ago and it's set to delete within a couple of weeks.

Good riddance.

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#22 TheHighWind
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These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

pspdseagle

 

No, myspace was a fad.

 

Poor myspace.

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#23 deactivated-60e799a72eb68
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Perhaps facebook wants you to say the word facebook out loud, and realize that you were always slamming that face into the book, but not reading it.

The more you slammed your face into it, the more you began to believe that you were reading it.

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#25 deactivated-60e799a72eb68
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Is anyone else turned on?

InEMplease

My tongue alone can flood a village, but they never ask me to do this until they notice that they were always on fire.

Now is neither the time nor the place to turn that snake of gold into a serpent of silver, but soon, you shall see me slither.

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#26 konvikt_17
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I don't use facebook and I've never felt forced into it. Some sites I use do allow you to sign in with an FB account, but they all have the option to sign in without FB as well.

br0kenrabbit

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#28 deactivated-60e799a72eb68
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One fish, two fish

Red fish, blue fish

I want what you're smoking.

InEMplease

Want is a child's game; to bleed is to show me what you need.

I plead that you only open those eyes, and remember how you once learned to read.

And remember that you already bled...and yet, you're not dead.

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Apparently if you don't use Facebook, you are suspicious. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/
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#31 solidruss
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Use it or dont it's your choice

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#32 deactivated-60e799a72eb68
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A plea from thee I doth not need

Matters not what declares ye

very silly I should be

yet very very

naughty.

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An exorcist will always believe that he is pulling a demon out of someone's body, but he does not realize that it is the "demon" who pulls the real demon out of his body.


What you understand as demons, are the real angels, and they hate it when you speak because all they can hear are white lies.

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#33 VanDammFan
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could not imagine NOT having a facebook act..i stay on it even at work. AND if it wasnt facebook it would still be myspace..Ive connected with so many old friends and met some really cool people..and chat with family..DAILY..share pics,videos,thoughts,ask questions,ect..LOVE IT

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#35 TAMKFan
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I barely use Facebook. I never been a fan of social networking sites.

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#36 TacticalDesire
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[QUOTE="Candy-Star"][QUOTE="pspdseagle"]

These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

MrPraline

Not a fad man

that's what they said about myspace in 2004

Well, Myspace never had a billion users.  Also, Facebook is a similar concept to Myspace, so the idea was not a fad, or at least not as shortlived as Myspace itself.  I'm not a big fan of facebook, but I think people who don't use it call it a fad as a way to justify their lack of facebook account.  

I see social networking sites such as facebook and others continuing to stick around for many years to come as the internet becomes a more and more popular place.  How they are treated, and what they do may vary, but I don't think we're going back to a world without this sort of interconnectedness.

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#37 soulless4now
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Because it's a clever way for the government to spy on us.

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#38 deactivated-60e799a72eb68
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I do prefer black underwear.

InEMplease

And nothing turns me on more than a lump of coal for Christmas.

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#39 sukraj
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These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

pspdseagle

i dont use facebook

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#40 Blueresident87
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I haven't used facebook in years...

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#41 no-scope-AK47
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I never saw a gun at anybody's head with a note FB or else

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#42 Iceozo
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These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

pspdseagle



I do believe I read somewhere if Facebook were a country it would be the sixth largest in the world. So you are in fact wrong.

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#43 ad1x2
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[QUOTE="br0kenrabbit"]

I don't use facebook and I've never felt forced into it. Some sites I use do allow you to sign in with an FB account, but they all have the option to sign in without FB as well.

konvikt_17

Vevo requires to to log in with a Facebook account, there is no non-Facebook login option anymore. Iheartradio used to be the same. Some websites don't require Facebook to login but they require you to submit all comments through Facebook.

 

 

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#44 shadowkiller11
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[QUOTE="Murderstyle75"]Apparently if you don't use Facebook, you are suspicious. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/

Not surprised. I don't care though because I got Facebook, though it's annoying when it shares stuff I didn't want it to.
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#45 Necrifer
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Many employers require that you have a Facebook account now.

Pretty stupid.

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#46 comp_atkins
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[QUOTE="pspdseagle"]

These days seems like so many sites want us to just use facebook. I wouldn't be surprised if gamespot accounts were replaced by facebook accounts. Don't people realise facebook is a fad and a lot of people don't use it?

MrPraline
Because there's a lot of money to be made in the personal information business. FB is a marketing corporation first, social fad second.

you win the cookie
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#47 Canuck3000
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Somehow I'm not surprised that most people on this site don't use FB
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#48 Diablo-B
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I had the same experience. I once had a professor who forced the class to sign into facebook to get the homework assignments for his page. I never respected that professor from that day.
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#49 Dogswithguns
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The way of making more money.. that's why.