Where do I meet potential dates??

[Kelt]

Originally Posted by Gemme

*lifts your rock*

Nope. No 'proof' needed. No one will come to your house for fingerprints or a head shot.

FB is just like any other site. Go to it and pick a 'screen name'. You control the information you put out there. Some people use their legal names and some do not. I would highly recommend you set your security features high if you have concerns of people you don't want to find you, finding you.

Prepare yourself for a LOT of game requests once you are 'noticed' though.

No matter how many times I block people.....they keep coming back with those damn requests. No doesn't mean no when it comes to that stuff.

Other than that, FB is decent. I don't go on it often though. I can't handle the time suck for two online 'homes'.

Well wadda ya know.

I always just assumed that it was tied to your IP addy or some such. I'd 'heard' that it was part of their cache`, that it was real names only and some web crawler would sort out if you were fibbing.

Now of course the other part of that equation comes into play. As you mention, can I have another time machine going on?

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Kelt

Well wadda ya know.

I always just assumed that it was tied to your IP addy or some such. I'd 'heard' that it was part of their cache`, that it was real names only and some web crawler would sort out if you were fibbing.

Now of course the other part of that equation comes into play. As you mention, can I have another time machine going on?

I too am feeling the pressure to join because I am missing out on some groups I think I would enjoy. I heard early on too that you had to use your real name, but learned otherwise, at some point along the way. For me I just don't want to have to deal with people from high school and such. I know for you it slides over into your government paranoia crap ( or something along those lines).

[Kelt]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

I too am feeling the pressure to join because I am missing out on some groups I think I would enjoy. I heard early on too that you had to use your real name, but learned otherwise, at some point along the way. For me I just don't want to have to deal with people from high school and such. I know for you it slides over into your government paranoia crap ( or something along those lines).

I don't have government paranoia (yet) but have been a proud victim of both the Target and Anthem Blue Cross hacks. No more thank you. Also, just say no to personalized advertising. Sheesh!

I suspect you and I are eyeballing at least one of the same groups for participation and it's true, that without a Facebook presence on some level you/we are simply excluded.

I did a little poking around and found some information about how sometimes they do ask for specific ID and if it isn't produced, you get shut down. There was a dust up last fall involving drag queens and other performers which resulted in some turnaround, at least temporarily.

I won't upload any official ID to any source until protocols improve significantly (read:not in my lifetime), but may consider seeing what happens if I just wing it with an alias.

[imperfect_cupcake]

If you call yourself purple turnip rider, someone may "report" you for a fake name if you are publicly antagonistic in a group as a passive agressive way to bother you. *then* you have to provide proof. One of my friends recently got reported for their fake name because they have a) an obviously fake name and b) very politically voiciferous about feminism, veganism and socialism. So a list they were ranting on pissed off someone and they reported their fake name.

If your name is William Boddleton and you choose the name Bill Featherjob as an alias, seriously, no one is going to know that it's fake. So no one will report you for it.

I turned off all my games notifications so I never get any. I stopped notifications from anyone I find annoying. No one that I don't want can see my posts from my alias account.
I hate getting feeds that post insipid meme after insipid "inspiring" meme, so I just click on "never get notified from this person again"

I have a fabulous core group of people I love to talk to and love it. I just had five people help me edit my homework lol. It's great. None of my family are on it, no one from anything to do with business and only my two closest classmates/lab partners that I trust ( I can see their shizzle too).

I personally find facebook great for keeping in touch with my friends who are smeared across the planet. Without it my social life would be crippled and Id miss people horribly.

So, I personally love it.

[Kelt]

Thank you Cupcake, I rather thought this might be the case. Not being much on shit stirring I figure a reasonably normal sounding name backed up with a matching email would probably be enough.

My uses would be similar to yours, no games or endless drivel accepted, a handful of friends who are already there, and a few groups of interest.

Useful information, I may give it a go.

[randrum]

I was on Facebook for a long while. About 10 years. It started my freshman year of college, and I joined right away.

Anyway, I've been off FB for about a year now.

As Gemme said, I found it to be a time suck. Please as more and more people joined and my "friend" list grew, I realized how much I tend to dislike people. And mostly the people I couldn't "de-friend" without blacklash (i.e. family).

Plus I found it all to be fake.

This year was the first year I was not on FB for my birthday. It was amazing how many of my "friends" didn't bother to wish me happy birthday. Family too. So how real were the connections to begin with that they considered themselves my "friends"?

I don't feel like there is a real connection with people on FB.

Anyway, that's just my opinion. Maybe I'm a little jaded about it.

Enter if you dare. But I can honestly say, I don't miss it.

[DapperButch]

Is it possible to be on FB and never use it, but only to get onto group pages?

Not knowing FB, I don't know if that makes sense.

Like if I wanted to go to a all "Yellow bellied pig farmers club of America" FB page and talk with people, does that come up on my page as well?