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More than half of US adults use Facebook: study (Do you?)
AFP ^ | March 25, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 03/26/2011 11:07:09 AM PDT by decimon

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – More than half of US adults use online social networking service Facebook, according to an upcoming study.

A report by Edison Research and Arbitron Inc. to be released on April 5 includes the finding that 51 percent of US residents age 12 or older have profiles set up at Facebook.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: facebook; facebooksucks; internet; trends
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To: Jim 0216

Me to.


61 posted on 03/26/2011 12:06:16 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (This is a tagline! A long tagline. A so very very very very very long tagline. It is teh awesome!)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Nor I.

Once I signed up using a fictitious name to see what it was all about. The first thing they ask is for your email password so they can check out your contacts.

I can’t imagine giving that information away.

And it was not east to get out unless you clear all cookies and browser cache.


62 posted on 03/26/2011 12:06:18 PM PDT by zeebee
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

Nor I.

Once I signed up using a fictitious name to see what it was all about. The first thing they ask is for your email password so they can check out your contacts.

I can’t imagine giving that information away.

And it was not east to get out unless you clear all cookies and browser cache.


63 posted on 03/26/2011 12:07:03 PM PDT by zeebee
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To: Twinkie

The worst thing about facebook is having my so-called friends post tons of pictures of their babies. (As a 27 years old male, I don’t care) So I have them on “ignore” so I don’t see baby pictures on News Feed.


64 posted on 03/26/2011 12:07:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: arderkrag

Kinda what I use my FB page for, and also to promote our band, The Graham Crackers (although I’ve created a separate FB page for the band...gots to keep my politics out of it). Gotten into many a heated debate with my lib friends after posting articles detrimental to the ‘one’. I figure if even one person has a paradigm shift when it comes to Obama, it’s worth it.


65 posted on 03/26/2011 12:09:09 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: zeebee
Wow. Definitely compromising too much data.
66 posted on 03/26/2011 12:13:30 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (This is a tagline! A long tagline. A so very very very very very long tagline. It is teh awesome!)
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To: Mama Shawna
Pretty much my experience, too. But it's mostly with my sister, who is a flaming lib. Mostly what happens is that I post an article, she whines, I completely own her in a debate, and then she deletes all of her entries. Lately she doesn't bother responding at all, and her rationale is that she shouldn't have to defend her viewpoints - she should just be able to put them out there. Seems I've heard that whiny line of reasoning from her idols.
67 posted on 03/26/2011 12:14:00 PM PDT by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
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To: decimon

Hell no and wouldn’t consider it opr anything like it, it’s stupid!


68 posted on 03/26/2011 12:15:36 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: decimon; All

I think this statistic is like current unemployment figures.....its a figment of someones imagination.

I’ve been on the INTERNET since 1994....and Facebook and Twitter and offshoots have no appeal for me.


69 posted on 03/26/2011 12:17:37 PM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: mikrofon; decimon
So many Luddite Neanderthals here on FR. ;)

Don't think I am a Luddite Neanderthal :) But I have managed to stay off Facebook so far.

70 posted on 03/26/2011 12:17:58 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: decimon

Interesting comments, especially comments from people who never use FB but they still know it is the worst of the worse. Who would have thought? No one is better or worse based on their FB use. Goodness!


71 posted on 03/26/2011 12:19:35 PM PDT by LuvFreeRepublic (Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
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To: decimon

72 posted on 03/26/2011 12:19:45 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: decimon

I suspect there are a lot of people similar to me - set up a profile and tried it a bit. I didn’t find it compelling and after adding casual friends and acquaintances, didn’t like it at all. Too noisy, too trivial and too much trouble to delete my account.


73 posted on 03/26/2011 12:19:48 PM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: decimon

No.


74 posted on 03/26/2011 12:24:39 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: decimon

I have a telephone.


75 posted on 03/26/2011 12:24:51 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: Ol' Sox
I suspect there are a lot of people similar to me - set up a profile and tried it a bit. I didn’t find it compelling and after adding casual friends and acquaintances, didn’t like it at all. Too noisy, too trivial and too much trouble to delete my account.

I thought the same. Probably many dormant accounts. The Facebook people likely don't care as they can still claim those members in their numbers.

76 posted on 03/26/2011 12:25:29 PM PDT by decimon
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To: BobL
I have a telephone.

Won't believe you until you show it on your Facebook page. ;-)

77 posted on 03/26/2011 12:28:37 PM PDT by decimon
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To: My hearts in London - Everett

I’m hoping that one of these days FR will move from 90’s software to something more current. :-)


78 posted on 03/26/2011 12:29:03 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: ataDude
I’m hoping that one of these days FR will move from 90’s software to something more current. :-)

Then it can be like some car forums where every post has some dancing peppers or bananas.

79 posted on 03/26/2011 12:31:22 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

“Won’t believe you until you show it on your Facebook page.”

Good point...it would be tough to prove...and I don’t even know how to use it.


80 posted on 03/26/2011 12:31:31 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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