Whilst living in Melbourne I came acroos a number of cafes that had signs up stating they were " facebook free". Meaning that the dicussion of facebook and anything else related was banned from the shop. Those caught endulging were asked to leave!

I'm a "hater", can't see the point. I laugh everytime some idiot posts something on it that gets them in trouble. An applicant for a job here missed out on an interview the other day based solely on her facebook. I'm not a particularly social person however. My girlfried uses it and it just seems like a popularity contest/real-time womans' weekly to me. Waste of time.

Yeah, I've known people who simply won't use things like facebook. I've found it pretty useful and touching base with old friends is great.

I must admit to not liking twitter, but thats not because I have anything against these sorts of things, obviously as an avid facebook user, but rather it's simply not useful to me at this very moment.

I like Facebook... but i never use it, the only time i will is if someone i 'know' adds pictures i want to see an have no other method..

i would be in the middle while not using it ;)

I have tried facebook and appreciate its usefulness. For me however its a social dilemma I could do without, past aquaintances coming out of the woodwork wanting to know what I am up to?, I have lost contact with some people for a reason, don't want to add them but then its rude to snub them? Should everybody know what i am up to all of the time, what happened to privacy? I, like a lot of people have plenty of skeletons that are safely locked away ion the closet..........for the meantime....... Personally not for me.

"I couldn't help but wonder, had he even tried it to know he didn't like it?"

I love this line you sound like Carrie from S*x and the City...

Facebook is awesome. It is so easy to keep up with your friends overseas and look through all their awesome photos.

Facebook's OK I guess, somewhat over-rated and the signal-to-noise ratio gets unacceptably high at times, but it is a good way of staying in touch with people when you're busy.

While waiting for a meeting to start I can use the idle 2 or 3 mins to jump on, see some post from a friend and reply - it just lets people know you're thinking of them. For that it's good.

Anyways good luck with the new blog - hope you've got plenty of ideas to write about (-:

Facebooks great, if it wasnt for that then we wouldnt have Lamebook (www.lamebook.com) So many laughs

"I couldn't help but wonder, had he even tried it to know he didn't like it?"

- Do you like eating horse poo? What do you mean you've never tried it... how can you be sure you don't like it then?

"It would seem that many just don't want to indulge a trend, regardless of how interesting or useful it could be, or how much they might like it."

- To me, that sounds like a postive thing rather than a negative. God forbid people sticking to their guns rather then following some trend.

It is completely acceptable not to be on facebook or other social networking sites. I used to have FB but cancelled it. Like bulger said, I have lost contact with old "friends" for a reason.

If I want to contact someone I will send them a personal email or ring them.