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Comment by sillysaurus3 | Hacker News Reader

Is anyone else in the strange position of never using Facebook, and not really knowing anyone else who uses it?

Neither my dad nor my mom use it, nor the rest of my family. I've never used it. I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one so thoroughly insulated from Facebook addiction.

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I wouldn't say i'm insulated, but some of my friends and i dont have a facebook account. Sometimes there are funny reactions when you apply for a new Job and they cant find a single piece of my private information online. when i meet new people some react as if i wouldn't exist without a facebook account. makes for some funny conversations :D

I've never made a Facebook account. I don't even know what it looks like beyond the login page.

Whenever it comes up in conversation I get a lot of people who reply with "I wish I could stop using Facebook", or "wow, you're lucky".

My mom posts. Some cousins and close friends do (but just a handful, and 2/3 of the posts come from about 5 people). My wife doesn't have an account at all. Among the people that don't post often, most of them do reply to messages if I send them something.

I had the Facebook app for a brief period when it was first released and decided that it was poison. So I'm maybe not as thoroughly insulated as you, but it sounds odd to hear everyone talking about how much of a necessity Facebook is for them.

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