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Society kinda does. If all your peers use it to communicate, you would be a hermit if you did not participate.

• michael_h 11y ago
  I don't participate and am not a hermit. When I want to communicate, I use the phone or SMS. If my peers want to contact me, they use the same. My wife has an account. Sometimes I'll scroll through it for a bit, just to see. It seems like people mostly use it as a semi-broadcast medium, rather than a communication mechanism amongst a tight group of peers. The less armchair punditry in my life the better. If people like it, that's great for them, but I can't do it. My wife attempted to use the messenger thing for a while, but it was such an unreliable software disaster-pile that she had to drop it.
  • aw3c2 11y ago
    Of course it depends, that's why I explicitly said "if all your peers use it".
    • michael_h 11y ago
      All my peers use it. Maybe if all your peers use it exclusively, then you'd be out of the loop, but I suspect that is very rarely the case.
• Nadya 11y ago
  Still not forced to. I get along fine with the people I stay in touch with, and I've never had a FB.
  • wahsd 11y ago
    Ok, what happens when everyone is like "hell, facebook does it. We will also all do the same thing." Your point is simply not valid and should not be a choice someone has to make because one social network's goal is to dominate all of society.