• Not being on Facebook is 'suspicious' - most likely insane or a mass murderer
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[B]Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren't on social networking sites are 'suspicious.'[/B] The German magazine [URL="http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/nach-dem-attentat-von-denver-kein-facebook-profil-kein-job-angebot/6911648-2.html"]Der Taggspiegel[/URL] went so far as to point out that [B]accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles[/B]. On a more tangible level, [URL="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/"]Forbes.com[/URL] reports that human resources departments across the country are becoming [B]more wary of young job candidates who don't use the site[/B]. The common concern among bosses is that a lack of Facebook could mean the applicant's account could be so full of red flags that it had to be deleted. [URL="http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/manners_for_the_digital_age/2012/03/transcript_facebook_stalker_should_i_tell_a_cheating_guy_s_girlfriend_that_we_hooked_up_.single.html"]Slate.com[/URL] tech reporter Farhad Manjoo wrote in an advice column that [B]young people shouldn't date anyone who isn't on Facebook[/B]. 'If you’re of a certain age and you meet someone who you are about to go to bed with, and that person doesn’t have a Facebook page, you may be getting a false name. [B]It could be some kind of red flag[/B],' he says. Manjoo points out that these judgements don't apply to older people who were already productive adults before social media became widespread. The tech news site [URL="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/29/1627203/facebook-abstainers-could-be-labeled-suspicious"]Slashdot[/URL]summed up Der Taggspiegel's story about social networking as '[B]not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.[/B]' It points out that Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and an unborn child and wounding 58 others at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and Breivik, who murdered 77 people with a car bomb and mass shooting, did not use Facebook and had small online footprints. Breivik used MySpace and Holmes was reportedly on the hookup site Adult Friend Finder. Psychologist Christopher Moeller told the magazine that using Facebook has become a sign of having a healthy social network. [B]Psychologists have noted that Holmes, along with several noted mass murderers, have lacked any real friends.[/B] And this is what the argument boils down to: [B]It's the suspicion that not being on Facebook, which has become so normal among young adults, is a sign that you're abnormal and dysfunctional, or even dangerous, ways[/B] [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184658/Is-joining-Facebook-sign-youre-psychopath-Some-employers-psychologists-say-suspicious.html?ICO=most_read_module[/URL]
if you don't use a social networking site you are more likely to kill i'm pretty sure that's not the major factor there
This is textbook "correlation is not causation."
In other news, living can get you all sorts of nasty diseases.
That's not true! I am very popular on Facebook [I]and[/I] have several corpses in my crawlspace.
breivik didnt have facebook that must mean everyone who doesnt have facebook is a neo-nazi that will bomb you good logic
I used to be an insane mass murdered but then I made a Facebook profile and now I'm normal.
The stupidity of this article It sears my eyeballs Please let this be a joke Please
My mum does not have facebook I should call the police for an investigation. Who knows how many she has killed already. Maybe I am next.
For the love of god let this be satire/trolling/joke. Anybody who seriously believes this is completely out of touch with reality.
I think it is more of a case that sociopaths don't use Facebook than none Facebook users are sociopaths. I bet Hitler didn't have a Facebook account.
I never would have thought Facebook should be so polarizing. I use it as an easy way to set up events and that's about it. HR departments considering people not being on Facebook a bad thing? What the fuck? Every school or workplace I've spent time in strictly banned Facebook access during the day.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;37123706]I think it is more of a case that sociopaths don't use Facebook than none Facebook users are sociopaths. I bet Hitler didn't have a Facebook account.[/QUOTE] Okay well Hitler also pooped on a regular basis, that doesn't mean everyone who poops is a mass murderer.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37123609]In other news, living can get you all sorts of nasty diseases.[/QUOTE] You hear that latest study? Cancer might give you cancer.
I'm not on Facebook and I'm not insane. No matter what this article or the voices in my head tell me!
[quote]Slate.com tech reporter Farhad Manjoo wrote in an advice column that young people shouldn't date anyone who isn't on Facebook.[/quote] What a fucking moron.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;37123706]I think it is more of a case that sociopaths don't use Facebook than none Facebook users are sociopaths. I bet Hitler didn't have a Facebook account.[/QUOTE] Hitler didn't have a Facebook account because Facebook didn't exist circa 1943.
What a load of bollocks. Anders Behring Breivik did actually have a Facebook profile, but apparently he got a friend to delete it or something.
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;37123815]What a load of bollocks. Anders Behring Breivik did actually have a Facebook profile, but apparently he got a friend to delete it or something.[/QUOTE] And the minute it was deleted he killed people. /article logic
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;37123684]Anybody who seriously believes this is completely out of touch with reality.[/QUOTE] It's the Daily Mail readers. Of course they are out of touch with reality. [video=youtube;5eBT6OSr1TI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/video]
I find vice versa: those that do commit crimes (most commonly hacking) are on Facebook. That's the trend I've noticed. But [B]NO. I WILL NOT BE A PART OF THAT CESSPOOL OF SHIT.[/B]
[QUOTE=Protocol7;37123729]Okay well Hitler also pooped on a regular basis, that doesn't mean everyone who poops is a mass murderer.[/QUOTE] Do you like dogs? Do you know who else liked dogs? [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5636656/hitler-with-dog.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5636656/hitler-dog.jpg[/t]
I don't have a facebook, so I spend my free time killing people.
[QUOTE=Rents;37123869]Do you like dogs? Do you know who else liked dogs? [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5636656/hitler-with-dog.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5636656/hitler-dog.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] I like dogs but own cats. My dog was put down in December and that's the day I stopped killing people.
Also, I find using Facebook for anything more than five minutes at a time makes me want to shoot people more, not less.
I don't have a Facebook should I turn myself into the authorities
[QUOTE=redhaven;37123839]It's the Daily Mail readers. Of course they are out of touch with reality. [video=youtube;5eBT6OSr1TI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/video][/QUOTE] I find Russell Howard's one just as good or even better: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZTeSxWdk1g[/media] Carry on people.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37123942]I have a Google+ account, what does that make me?[/QUOTE] A terrorist. Only with a Facebook account can you be redeemed.
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;37123958]A terrorist.[/QUOTE] Then what are those with Twitter accounts?
[quote][b]'not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.'[/b][/quote] That's some powerful stupid
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