Not So Much

How Addicted to Facebook Are You?

I’m surprised it’s that high, actually. It’s probably because I have a lot of friends, and I check several times a day. I almost never manually update my status, and the answers to most of the other questions were “no.”

By the way, vanilla friend requests from people I don’t know are generally ignored. If you want to be my Facebook friend, tell me who you are and why.

13 thoughts on “Not So Much”

  1. 11% for me. Guess I’m officially old and can say “In my day, we did fine with email and YahooGroups!”

    I actually liked answering the one question with “What’s that?”

  2. Because the “how long” question doesn’t have “never”, I chose “days”, and that’s probably how I ended up with 2%.

  3. 16%. I surmise because I had to answer the “Have you ever reconnected with friends or colleagues from it?” with yes. I joined so I could see what my teenagers were getting into — and then TWO former GFs tracked me down. A somewhat unsettling experience, I have to say. Not the women, I mean — they’re both nice — just the notion that folks from long ago and far away could find me so easily. Makes me stop and think: In the last several decades how many people have I pissed off enough to want to kill me after they find me? (Jim doesn’t count.)

    I think the answer is in the low 10s, so I’m probably OK. If I vary my daily route. Wear an artificial moustache in public, fake a limp, talk in a funny squeaky voice on the telephone when I don’t recognize the number.

  4. “I joined so I could see what my teenagers were getting into — and then TWO former GFs tracked me down.”

    A year after I joined FB, someone I went to grade school with contacted me. I hadn’t talked to him in nearly 30 years.

  5. I’m not on Facebook and the test doesn’t offer that option. I imagine that makes me 0% addicted to Facebook. I might be 100% addicted to LinkedIn though.

  6. Seems that 2% is the lowest possible score, thanks to the “How long have you been on Facebook” question.

    It’s a shame that the answers to the “Do you have Facebook on your cell phone” question didn’t have a “What cell phone?” choice.

    Guess I’ll get back to my flint knapping now.

  7. “If you want to be my Facebook friend, tell me who you are and why.”

    Let me know if anyone who tells you who they are also knows WHY they are…

  8. I don’t have nor want a Facebook (AKA Narcissists-R-Us) account, don’t go there and have no interest in going there. Since I didn’t even bother to go take the survey, my interest would register in the negative numbers were such a thing mathematically possible.

  9. Larry J:

    Hey, I don’t “do” Facebook either. Do you think we could, like, “friend” each other?

    Seriously, now, the reason I don’t do Facebook is that it is yet another one of these things that you have to register for and give out me e-mail to someone and remember yet another password. I have never thought of myself as an anti-Facebook snob, and I have had the suspicion that maybe I am a dinosaur for not signing up.

    For example, Toyota had this “Why you love your Toyota” campaign, I guess, to counteract all the bad publicity about stuck accelerators and all. I was going to tell that that I recently acquired a (used) Sienna minivan and how I avoided crunching it when someone turned left abruptly in front of me. I stood on the brakes, where the ABS system worked flawlessly with the barest hint of the ABS shudder. That is, until it was one of those deals where you had to register for Facebook and I thought, “Let Toyota find their own corporate shills.”

    So, am I missing out on an important online experience, or is Narcissists-R-Us closer to the Facebook experience?

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