Early Modern Notes

Does refusing to Facebook make me some kind of Luddite?

(Apart from anything else, unless there’s a good security reason, I hate things that you have to sign up and log in to use. I have enough passwords to remember already.)

Posted by Sharon on 1 August 2007 at 9:19 pm in Also Noted

9 comments on “Just say no”

Another Damned Medievalist says:

I have no desire to use Facebook, and will only get and account under my own name if my uni requires it of faculty.

2nd August 2007 at 12:56 pm

Gavin says:

And (staying with Art Brut) it’s a cliche…

I’ve got one but I only use it for band related stuff. I don’t have any academic use for it. Some of us formed a military history group but it’s not very popular so far. It seems that the main use of Facebook is communicating with people you already know. It’s not a way to make new contacts whereas blogging has introduced me to lots of new people in lots of different fields. Academic history is cliquey enough as it is, and Facebook is only likely to reinforce that.

2nd August 2007 at 1:12 pm

Demmy says:

If it does, I’m one too, and proudly so.

2nd August 2007 at 4:12 pm

Ancarett says:

I got onto facebook years ago when a young cousin of mine started university and wanted to maximize his “friends list”. I’ve since used it to get back in touch with a few friends from my own university days but I don’t see anything worth obsessing about in there. On the other hand, it’s interesting to see what our own students are up to in facebook!

2nd August 2007 at 5:17 pm

Cardinal Wolsey says:

I am not on facebook but have registered at BlogCatalog which seems to be trying to be a networking site as well as a blog directory. It’s slightly creepy when strangers announce that you are now their “friend”…they could be axe murderers for all I know.

3rd August 2007 at 11:48 am

Cardinal Wolsey says:

PS forgot to say thanks for adding me to your Blogpicks list!

3rd August 2007 at 11:50 am