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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: kingu

I used to play several of the role-playing games, and then one day I just went cold turkey and didn’t go back to FB for nearly a year. I’ve gone back recently, but I don’t miss the games. After all, I have Shockwave. :)


81 posted on 03/26/2011 12:32:34 PM PDT by Politicalmom ("We are an 'entitlement' society and we need to move towards being an 'empowerment' society"-H. Cain)
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To: BobL
...and I don’t even know how to use it.

The telephone?

82 posted on 03/26/2011 12:33:12 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

“The telephone? “

Don’t call me an IDIOT!! I certainly know what to do when it rings. My only problem if figuring out what else it does...but who cares, I have Facebook.


83 posted on 03/26/2011 12:37:23 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: napscoordinator

My name for Facebook.

It is just a vast repository for the Gubment to tap.

They’ve instructed school districts to use it for uncovering dissent and other matters based on student postings.


84 posted on 03/26/2011 12:38:13 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: decimon

NO! My business is MY business!


85 posted on 03/26/2011 12:41:05 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: decimon

Facebook is a great place for those who want to cheat on their spouse!


86 posted on 03/26/2011 12:43:41 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (What, if not a bagel and coffee, confirms the existence of a just and loving God?)
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To: BobL
...but who cares, I have Facebook.

There ya go. ;-)

87 posted on 03/26/2011 12:43:41 PM PDT by decimon
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To: kingu

Where’s the ‘like’ button??? :D


88 posted on 03/26/2011 12:45:35 PM PDT by iceskater (11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
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To: Artemis Webb
Facebook is a great place for those who want to cheat on their spouse!

Haven't there been stories of cheating spouses being discovered on Facebook?

89 posted on 03/26/2011 12:46:49 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

“There ya go. ;-) “

Thanks, but I can almost promise you that the next time I come out against toll roads (or Social Security) my postings here will be used to discredit me.


90 posted on 03/26/2011 12:50:23 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 had someone ‘ask’ me to join and like you didn’t like it, (probably don’t really understand it - but IMNSHO it is just a waste of time).
About deleting, I had a ‘solicitation’ today, and clicked on where it says you can opt out, then opened my ‘account’ box and found another block that says you can ‘quit’.. I hit it and received a msg that in 10-14 days it would be gone. Also had another box saying you could leave it dormant but I opted for complete erasure.
Guess my junk mail will quadruple for awhile...I am cynical and (paranoid?) enough to believe when you opt out of these things they really SELL your name....oh well..


91 posted on 03/26/2011 12:50:36 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits")
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To: mnehring
..and trash bag photos.. don’t forget the trash bag photos (folks, I’m not kidding on this).

Trash bag photos from 'round the world.

After a few more cities, my sister and I are thinking of publishing a coffee-table book...

London...

New York City...

Baghdad...


92 posted on 03/26/2011 12:51:42 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: decimon

I use Facebook, but actually KNOW all my “friends”, and have very limited restrictions on visibility of content.


93 posted on 03/26/2011 2:04:05 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: decimon

No.


94 posted on 03/26/2011 2:26:09 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: TheZMan
I have a LinkedIn profile, but don’t use it for anything. No facebook, twitter, myspace, etc profiles.

Ditto, except I do use Linkedin in for work.

95 posted on 03/26/2011 2:46:38 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: truth_seeker

Besides too much personal information and being a conduit for “borrowing” access to your home computer, it can also provide links to your office computer.


96 posted on 03/26/2011 3:26:18 PM PDT by G Larry
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To: G Larry

I work for a national company and it advises us to use LinkedIn and Facebook.

I have multiple business websites, because customers expect it.

I am an officer of a non-profit organization, and we put our contact information there, too.

I have had genealogy information on the web for over ten years.

I own a house with numbers on the curb. All that is public, including who I make payments to.

I am fascinated about why people are worried about privacy, when there is so little to begin with.

Sure some bad guys might try to harm me, but they often get caught pretty quick. Somebody recently charged a few tanks of gas on our credit card number. The plastic cards never left our possession, bills were not paid online. We don’t know how it took place.

The oil company cleared it up quickly and completely. If they had not, we would not have paid, and would have cut up the cards; which were 1960s technology and business practice, I must add.


97 posted on 03/26/2011 4:20:26 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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