Post: #26

I haven't used facebook in years. Once I left college, I stopped using it.

Post: #27

People need to get with the times. I'm on team Facebook.

I have no idea why many of you have no Facebook or any form of social media accounts. Is there a reason for this? Is it a matter of principle? What is it?

There is no reason why you shouldn't have some form of Facebook or social media account. It's useful for so many things. It keeps you updated with the news of the day. Many things. Hell, even Roosh has a Twitter account.

Whenever a girl tells me she has no Facebook I start to get suspect and look at her sideways like she's trying to hide something. I just find it weird.

Post: #28

(10-07-2017 11:57 AM)Cortez Wrote:  I have no idea why many of you have no Facebook or any form of social media accounts. Is there a reason for this?

"Anything you say may be used against you..."

Post: #29

(10-07-2017 11:57 AM)Cortez Wrote:  People need to get with the times. I'm on team Facebook.

I have no idea why many of you have no Facebook or any form of social media accounts. Is there a reason for this? Is it a matter of principle? What is it?

There is no reason why you shouldn't have some form of Facebook or social media account. It's useful for so many things. It keeps you updated with the news of the day. Many things. Hell, even Roosh has a Twitter account.

Whenever a girl tells me she has no Facebook I start to get suspect and look at her sideways like she's trying to hide something. I just find it weird.

One of the main reasons I got rid of Facebook(under my real name) is people were taking photos of me without my knowledge and tagging me. For example-I was at a rave shirtless making out with a girl and her friend took a picture and tagged me, I was at a South Beach mansion party and someone took a picture and there was a table in the background with illegal shit on it and tagged me, another time I was on a boat and someone took a video and there were topless girls in the background. In my profession this kind of shit can get you fired or worse. People now days film and take photos of too much shit and you can inadvertently end up in these photos and get fucked over, even if you catch them and demand they delete it it is automatically saved in the cloud. I do not like this society where people record everything , including themselves committing felonies (that shit blows my mind, "hey lets commit a violent felony, make sure you film it on your phone!"), when I am out having fun in my private time I like to keep it private. Thank god they did not have this shit in the 90's, I would be unemployable.

Post: #30

All of social media is the devil. Barring anonymous forums like here, I avoid all else like the plague.

Post: #31

Facebook made me hate many people I know and who I once liked. Yet another good reason not to use it.

Post: #32

I bring this up a lot when meeting bitches from online game (so in other words, 100% of the time), especially SA whores. The scene is: we are making small chat and all of the sudden I bring up attention whoring, most agree (virtue signaling) that it's rude to be on the phone all the time. Then I mention how I'm not on social media (SM) to maintain my privacy on purpose. This makes them ask me why not. I reply with a variation of these lines:

- Anyone worth my time has my number
- Why would I want to keep in touch with people who don't add value to my life?
- Living life is much more fun than watching people live theirs
- I value my privacy. People in my circle (net worth circle) have been conned, kidnapped, or robbed; someone was watching their SM.
- I haven't made money or deals off FB, but have made plenty at *insert 3-5 nice places* along with my phone contacts.'
- Would you rather watch a game or workout?
- Traveling to the Cayman's for the weekend is more fun than staring at a phone. (This instantly makes the girl talk about traveling or the beach...or going there with you)

The table is flipped, they see that I value my time because I'm rich and my time is worth money...and spend my spare time making more money *pussy tingles*. Now they are the weird ones because they're average...they are "low value" and now must prove to me they are worth my time.

It's all about frame. If your Normie McCuck, you will be seen as a weirdo for not being on Social Media. If you're Chad ThunderBucks...free pass homie.

Also, my online persona is a well traveled self-made millionaire who is well versed with the arts, likes nice things and used to them, knows about female brands. The pussy is already on the platter, most of the time...

Post: #33

Yeah its not so hard to turn it around these girls. One girl I dated not too long ago was bugging me about not being on snapchat so I actually pretended to not even know what Snapchat was. When she showed me, with those stupid dog ear posts, I said to her "this looks like something meant for 12 year old girls, I'm an adult". Pretty much embarrassed her and she never asked me again. Didn't stop me from continuing to tease her about it though as she was on it all the time. Another girl that I was trying to date asked me why I don't have Instagram and I told her I value my privacy and don't want the whole world knowing my life story.

It's actually fun making these girls feel foolish for engaging in social media because on a certain level, a lot of them know how stupid it is but they just can't help themselves.

Post: #34

(10-05-2017 11:59 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  There was the generation that lived prior to the internet & isn't consumed by the internet.

There is the generation of today that never knew of a world without the internet.

Then there'll be the generation that won't know a world without highly functional sex robots...

God Damnit haha.

Post: #35

(10-06-2017 05:49 PM)Samseau Wrote:  ^ Speaking of which - I feel more comfortable with my bangs adding me on LinkedIn than Facebook.

When are you going to write that Gaming on LinkedIn Datasheet we've been hearing about? We're waiting!

Post: #36

The line for conformity has been intruding more and more into our lives with technology. Most people don't notice it, but if you have awareness it's alarming how zombie-fied everyone is. I increasingly find it harder to relate to normal "asleep" people without going into 4chan-type rants. A lot of my social skills are superficial because I genuinely have little in common with my generation of millennial suckers, it's only a basic level of social skills that keeps me from being completely alienated from them / society.

Remember, one day it wont' be "you don't have facebook so I can't rent this apartment to you", it will be "you don't have a chip implant so we can't take your business".
And most of society will look at you as strange for not having said chip implant.

Post: #37

I have two Facebook accounts, neither of which I reveal much about myself. I've had people ask me personal questions about my "official" account during job interviews, which I found to be creepy. I was also the victim of an attempted doxing once, so I'm careful about what I put up on the Internet. In my opinion, if "they" want you, "they" can find you, but no reason to make it easy for every Poindexter with a grudge.

Post: #38

In absolute honesty I am too pro gun to be on Facebook considering the mindset of my colleagues.

Post: #39

(10-07-2017 01:59 PM)Icarus Wrote:  Facebook made me hate many people I know and who I once liked. Yet another good reason not to use it.

Same here. People who I thought were rational and sensible, losing their marbles over the "migrant crisis" and Trump is what did it for me. Emotional meltdowns, abusive outbursts, malicious namecalling, shouting at clouds, etc. - against people who were supposed to be their friends. And wrecking other people's friendships, as well, by jumping into conversations and attacking strangers in similar fashion. And this was before the campaigns heated up last year. I can only guess how childish and contemptible it got over the summer and after the election.

It was a huge relief to delete my Facebook account for good. But even doing that doesn't completely fix the problem - my real-world social circle has fragmented into a Venn diagram of ever-more-numerous and ever-less-populous cliques over this crap. Hardly any of them do anything nowadays because they've excommunicated everybody they know.

Ironic, how "social" media reinforces and amplifies unsocial (and antisocial) behavior.

ETA: I would not hesitate to dig up a prospective employee's social media presence prior to interviewing or hiring them. Not only is this person freely giving you deeper insights into their character than an interview will provide (through the details of what they choose to display to the whole world about their thoughts and actions), but the mere fact that they do so and the degree to which they do so tell you a good bit about them. Exactly like a director making a film or an author composing a novel, every piece of information they make publicly available about themselves on social media is done so by choice and for a (conscious or subconscious) reason.

Post: #40

(10-07-2017 10:00 AM)Aurini Wrote:  This is reminiscent of what Kaczinski pointed out; that once a technology becomes widespread enough, it's no longer optional if you want to participate normally in society.

(10-07-2017 09:20 AM)Ski pro Wrote:  That's not quite accurate. My social media is basically one big advert for my companies and the work that I do. In the market place that I operate in, it's simply not an option not to be on some social media and would significantly harm revenues and marketing for what I do.

That said, if I didn't have to do all this, and one day I won't, I'll be deleting all of it for many of the reasons already stated by others here.

These basically sum it up. You don't have to play the game, but when everyone else is, if you don't, you will be at a real, tangible, disadvantage. You don't need to get a cell phone or even a car if you don't want. You can just use a home phone and pay phones and your horse when you're out. That said, as the world expects everyone to be available 24/7, and 99% of pay phones/horse posts are being taken away, society is actively making it more difficult regardless of your actions or wishes.

I forget the book I read it in, but it was talking about how despite being constantly online, a mass disconnectedness permeates us, and they mentioned a prof from MIT by the name of Alan Lightman.

His web page is http://cmsw.mit.edu/alan-lightman/ and on it he writes (emphasis mine):

Quote:Welcome to my web site, which is maintained by MIT. Following is a brief biography, a list of books published (with detailed descriptions), some selected interviews, selected recent publications, and some scientific publications. I do not use e-mail, but you can reach me at my MIT office: Alan Lightman, Room 14E-303, MIT, Cambridge MA 02139, telephone: (617) 253-2308. [last revised 2 October 2017]

In a sense it boils down to frame control, but if you're accomplished in your field, you can dictate your terms. If you're an "up and coming" anything, you probably don't have the luxury of being able to tell 95% of people who would otherwise contact you to fuck off and do it the slow way.

Post: #41

About 5 years ago, I had hit rock bottom and because i had moved to a new city, i had no social circle. I wasn't happy with the way I looked (physically and style wise) and never took pictures. With each day that passed, it felt like I was going to have to climb a mountain to get myself rolling.

I eventually engineered a method that took me 2 months to get an online presence rolling.

-First thing in the morning when there weren't too many people I'd go to department stores - Macy's, Nordstrom, H&M etc. Would tell the sales girls I was getting some pictures taken and needed help finding a "cool outfit". They'd help me browse, and upon check out I'd exchange social media information, so they could see how the pictures turned out.

-I found a good photographer, and set up a deal where for a certain amount she'd take pics everyday.

- To reduce my costs, I'd return the clothes back to the stores during the nightshift.

-i also setup some dummy accts to inflate my profile with comments. Simply jacked some pictures of girls from random cities that were far away. Bought 6 TracFones to number verify each account. Set the "share" settings on the dummy accounts so a friend request would have to be sent to access the full profile. The funny thing is, whenever i give girls in real life my FB, inevitably they'll send requests to some of the dummy accounts in an attempt to mine for more information. I sometimes call girls out on it, and it's funny to watch them fumble their words and explain how they've "met" this girl that doesn't actually exist.

So to summarize, with about 20 hours a month you can set up a presence that will fool most people, and after you get things rolling you only need about 5 hours per month to maintain it, you're on cruise control

Besides FB, video content from YouTube/Vimeo automatically pops up first on a Google search. One of my friends had a film student from the local college shoot and edit a 2 minute interview video basically embellishing his career - since it looks so professional he can get away with claiming all sorts of stuff.

Post: #42

I am in my 40s however never had facebook for protection concerns. I belatedly bounced on LinkedIn and wish I had been on sooner because of openings for work that have come my direction.

Post: #43

You’re still here Lucy?!

Tits or GTFO.

We have already been through this. Post pics of your non-fat titties, Lucy.

Post: #44

(10-08-2017 11:13 PM)CincinnatiKid Wrote:  About 5 years ago, I had hit rock bottom and because i had moved to a new city, i had no social circle. I wasn't happy with the way I looked (physically and style wise) and never took pictures. With each day that passed, it felt like I was going to have to climb a mountain to get myself rolling.

I eventually engineered a method that took me 2 months to get an online presence rolling.

-First thing in the morning when there weren't too many people I'd go to department stores - Macy's, Nordstrom, H&M etc. Would tell the sales girls I was getting some pictures taken and needed help finding a "cool outfit". They'd help me browse, and upon check out I'd exchange social media information, so they could see how the pictures turned out.

-I found a good photographer, and set up a deal where for a certain amount she'd take pics everyday.

- To reduce my costs, I'd return the clothes back to the stores during the nightshift.

-i also setup some dummy accts to inflate my profile with comments. Simply jacked some pictures of girls from random cities that were far away. Bought 6 TracFones to number verify each account. Set the "share" settings on the dummy accounts so a friend request would have to be sent to access the full profile. The funny thing is, whenever i give girls in real life my FB, inevitably they'll send requests to some of the dummy accounts in an attempt to mine for more information. I sometimes call girls out on it, and it's funny to watch them fumble their words and explain how they've "met" this girl that doesn't actually exist.

So to summarize, with about 20 hours a month you can set up a presence that will fool most people, and after you get things rolling you only need about 5 hours per month to maintain it, you're on cruise control

Besides FB, video content from YouTube/Vimeo automatically pops up first on a Google search. One of my friends had a film student from the local college shoot and edit a 2 minute interview video basically embellishing his career - since it looks so professional he can get away with claiming all sorts of stuff.

This sounds like an idea for a business providing fake facebook accounts or alternatively facebook consulting for rapidly building up a semi-fake facebook account.

I think a guy could spend perhaps a couple of hours making multiple fake facebook accounts that have generic facebook posts, and then sell them or rent them on an as needed basis, simply updating the profile pic when the clients come on board. Keep the facebook names as generic as possible like 'Mark', 'John' or 'Coolguy72'.

Just a random thought.

Post: #45

I don’t have any social media accounts anymore. At the end of the day, I want to live life on my own terms.


I want a life of simplicity, privacy, as well as the ability to think independently about things. These things are inevitably compromised when using social media.

Post: #46

I'm in a dilemma. As someone who just transferred to a large state uni and is semi "off-the-grid" social media-wise, I think not having a presence especially on IG -- kills my game. Especially considering I'm hanging around Greek circles now.

I hate taking pictures of myself like a little soy boy or always looking for that "perfect moment" to take a selfie or asking for photos. That shit's all estrogen

Post: #47

(10-09-2017 12:48 AM)Thomas the Rhymer Wrote:  This sounds like an idea for a business providing fake facebook accounts or alternatively facebook consulting for rapidly building up a semi-fake facebook account.

Doesn't that exist already? There are companies that sell Facebook "likes" and Facebook "friends". Other companies sell Twitter followers. They all sell social proof.

Post: #48

Personally, don't think it's worth it unless using a false name at this point. Especially given how catty society is now. A lot of apps do require facebook specifically so there's probably more dummy accounts than ever just to use certain apps.

Someone with a common name has real advantages at this point in society & it's very rarely discussed. Anyone can say anything they want about someone else on facebook (or blog or any forum), tag the person with an uncommon name, and it will show up in a google search right away. Same goes for a yelp review. I know a guy who was denied a bartender job because a customer complained on yelp about a mistake he made on a bar tab several years ago (only like $1 difference as well, it happens especially when busy & you can barely hear the customer), but since he has a strange Polish last name & somewhat uncommon first name, it showed up right away when the prospective employed googled him.

A person with a common name, it will not.

At this point, given everyone knows they're being snooped on in some capacity (whether government, employment, neighbors), not having a social media presence is more accepted than it was a few years ago.

Post: #49

I'm going to nuke my old posts, no one likes or sees my shit anyway so fuck it.

https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledg...all-posts/

Post: #50

I do interviewing and hiring where I work and I do Google search the full names of applicants and usually check about 5 or so pages of results. We also have a recruiting facebook account for the company we use to review the facebook pages of applicants. This is almost entirely to search for reasons to NOT hire them.

I consider lack of Facebook a plus when considering an applicant. Not only does it show they value privacy and personal security (which is important in what we do), facebook is a huge time/productivity sink in the modern workplace. Seriously, if you work in an office building get up and quietly stroll around looking at the monitors or browser tabs of your co-workers, especially women. I would conservatively estimate the average female office worker spends about 60% of her paid hours on some form of social media or texting.