Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath? Some employers and psychologists say it's 'suspicious' | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184658/Is-joining-Facebook-sign-youre-psychopath-Some-employers-psychologists-say-suspicious.html)

OK, just lock me up. My experience is that people who rely on this medium for contact and communication are a very sick bunch.

That will open a hornets nest :eek:

http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/449628-malignant-facebook.html#post7346504

Under discussion on this thread.

Remind me, which company has recently had a disastrous share issue?

Fred.

Not on Farcebook and perfectly happy thanks.

Just how many of these people on facebook with thousands of "Friends" can genuinely call all of these people a friend?

Yes I do have a Facebook account, though my friend numbers are limited to those that I actually know, and can call a friend.

I do not link up with all that I work with, why would I when I see them all day at work.

My posts are not about what I had for breakfast, or 'did you see what happened on Eastenders / Corrie / Emmerdale.

Nor do I play Farmville or any of the other thousand games, and thankfully all but a few of my friends all feel the same about these games.

I use my Facebook account to keep in touch with friends that I have lost touch with, and are now scattered around this planet. For that I find it useful, though I probably do not use it enough to bolster the share price.

How much did Zuckerberg pay that DM idiot to write such bullshit?

I've NEVER used Facefcuk. Never will neither. :*

I'm happily out of touch with what apparently passes for reality these days; so content to not be on facebook.

Couldn't be bothered. I'm no longer 12 years old.


SRT, 14 and 3/4.

There's a reason why I'm not in touch any more with some people I have known, why on earth would I want to give them an opportunity to associate themselves with me again..?!

wait a minute! I am on facebook and I know for certain that I AM a psy..err no, forget I said that! only joking honest!

Yes, God forbid you should have enough intelligence to understand the overwhelming privacy issues surrounding social media, or not be narcissistic enough to need constant validation from people you never talk to. I can see how being an intelligent and well adjusted person would make you a horrible employee... or a murdering psychopath. :*

I can't be the only one that has met people from all over the world and would like to stay in touch with a few of them. Facebook is an easy way to do that. I will agree though that the "just having a bacon roll" post's and the pregnant contingent who feel it's necessary to update you at every stage of their pregnancy should be banned from sites like this. My mrs is currently pregnant and I don't feel the need to broadcast it all over the intern.......:oh:

Was briefly on FleeceBook. Didn't like the way it kept introducing 'features' in an underhand manner, so I gave it up. Never looked back, and feel much better for it.

I'd argue that it's the people who are interacting with virtual 'friends', through a screen, bypassing all the social norms, and believing that this equates to popularity, who are the real psychopaths.

Facebook is just a way to keep in touch with people. If most of the people that one has chosen to keep in touch with are idiots, maybe it says more about oneself than it does about facebook...

Facebook is a nice tool for keeping in touch with others... so is email and a host of other methods. But, you must aware of the privacy and information you are giving up to the public realm.

If you are in a job where having an accident might land you in the press, the first place the press goes looking for a picture of you is... Facebook. If you think it is secure because you have settings that tell you so... guess again. Not only your picture but all the information you put on Facebook can become public very quickly.

On the other side, there are the people with hundreds and even thousands of 'friends'... it has become a rather dangerous competition for some people to gather 'friends' like they are a commodity.

Then, there is all the time one must dedicate to updating and maintaining their profiles.. I have been in places where people are on their phones checking their Facebook instead of interacting with the people sitting in the same room with them. When challenged, they say they are 'social people' all while being isolated in a small area filled with people. It becomes dangerous when you just can't wait that 10 or 15 minutes to update/check your Facebook. It becomes an obsession to many. I watch it cause more social isolation than it fixes because face to face social skills and manners are lost to it all. Facebook is not alone here... the biggest offender is texting. How many have watched a group of people texting and none of them talking to each other?

It isn't about Facebook or any other social media, it's about whether you are in control of it or it is in control of you.

But, to make a statement like 'you may be a psychopath if you don't use Facebook' is dubious at best and downright harmful at it's core.

I use conventional methods to stay in touch with friends - be they letter, telephone and now email.

This whole Bookface thing is just not for me and I have several girfriends from the old days who I absolutely do not want to be contacted by.

Also I dont want the ugly pock marked yank teen to have my details.

Nothing wrong with faceplant.

I'm a bit confused by some of the posts, though. What's this "real life" that occasionally gets referred to, and then not responded to nor explained much? It's like some kind of elephant in the room.

Joined Facebook simply because the kids were on it and didn't usually bother to check emails regularly.

Fine until a few weeks ago, when 'chat' vanished completely and the mail
system became extremely capricious.

Just about ready to bin it altogether, since it's failings are turning me into a psychopath!

Darndest thing. I was looking through some of my posts today, a just came across malignant facebook. A thread I stated some time ago.

I really felt that at the time - seeking its way through this-an-that net sites, until it finds a place to sew its malignant seeds.

May it rot, and its shares descend to a negative number.

















:suspect: Buggah orf edit thing.

May it rot, and its shares descend to a negative number.

Wow LR, your curses are really potent -it's half-way there ! ( Now if only you could fix that mini-van ;) )

Not a member of Facebook and never have been.

Does this make me a psychopath? I doubt it!

I have always been suspicious of anybody who claims to have "electronic friends"! I mean, really, who can have more than 100 close friends? ;)

Friend Face - YouTube

Caco

The owner of a local taverna here now spends half his working day on Facebook. Some idiot introduced him to computers two years ago. I was not to know at the time that it would result in my having to serve myself. He links up with every young girl who visits his establishment on holiday and continues numerous relationships at the same time through this medium. I am sure that his wife is not in his address book or whatever one has there.

I'm afraid that until an even easier way of staying in touch is invented I will stay on Fastbuck.

We have relatives all over the place, and they have been breeding, as have thier children. There are lots of young and/or baby rellies and I can't afford to go to Aus/College Station/Newcastle and etc to see the little so and sos. However, I can see them via fastbuck, so that's fine.

So, it is certain now there is another Earth inside the Earth, and bigger than the one around it, at that.

....took a leave of absence from his job as a correctional officer to grieve after his mother passed away. When he returned, his employer forced him to reapply for his position and demanded the username and password to his Facebook account.
Maryland and Illinois have passed legislation banning employers from asking for social media login information during interviews, a practice that has been growing across the US.
BBC News - US employers banned from asking for social media logins (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19251616)

Meaning it goes without saying everyone has the account. An account? 90% of my friends don't. We must move to outer space soon (or are there already?) :uhoh:

The future is not being glimpsed anymore - life is imitating art, viz Ben Elton's "Blind Faith" ....:eek:

I've NEVER used Facefcuk. Never will neither.

Slasher; Likewise.:ok: