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Kershner: Why I Didn’t Join Facebook

People have started dropping out of Facebook, according to the New York Times, for a variety of reasons: 1. Privacy issues. 2. Monotony over the “my-feelings-about-omelets” musings of their 3,000 friends. 3. Free-floating anxiety over corporate tyranny. 4. I guess people are worried that Facebook might target their own omelet musings for EggBeaters ads or something. 5. The “creepiness” factor, as in: Do I really want to know that Ralph G. is “really into spandex bicycle-wear”? I, however, am not dropping out of Facebook, because I have never joined Facebook. Not for any of the reasons listed above. I have resisted Facebook for the even better reason that I would find it compulsively addictive/ Jim Kershner , SR. More here .

Question: Are you starting to have second thoughts about Facebook?

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