Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath?

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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.'

The German magazine Der Taggspiegel went so far as to point out that accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles.

On a more tangible level, Forbes.com reports that human resources departments across the country are becoming more wary of young job candidates who don't use the site.

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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.

Slate.com tech reporter Farhad Manjoo wrote in an advice column that young people shouldn't date anyone who isn't on Facebook.

'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. It could be some kind of red flag,' 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 Slashdot summed up Der Taggspiegel's story about social networking as 'not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.'

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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.

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No, it isn't. At all. It could well be that most psychopaths don't have a Facebook account, but not having a Facebook account isn't any indication one is a psychopath :rolleyes:

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What a load of sh*t.

You hear about a lot of crime and people posting about it on Facebook.Were people planning to raid places during the London Riots via Facebook?

I don't use Facebook for one reason. All my friends and family are contactable by phone or instant messenger. I have no interest using it to "friend" people i don't know or will never meet.

I see why people use it and like it. Just for me, i prefer speaking to people face to face.

If anyone disagrees with me... i'll cut them :laugh:

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No, it isn't. At all. It could well be that most psychopaths don't have a Facebook account, but not having a Facebook account isn't any indication one is a psychopath :rolleyes:

100 % agree with that!

Today I learned I'm a psychopath!

Me too! We should get together and do something! :D

What a load of sh*t.

You hear about a lot of crime and people posting about it on Facebook.Were people planning to raid places during the London Riots via Facebook?

I don't use Facebook for one reason. All my friends and family are contactable by phone or instant messenger. I have no interest using it to "friend" people i don't know or will never meet.

I see why people use it and like it. Just for me, i prefer speaking to people face to face.

If anyone disagrees with me... i'll cut them :laugh:

I have never seen the need to use Facebook, despite my wife telling me that I should get on because all the rest of my family uses it, I have still somehow managed to do just fine with out it. Also all of my 'friends' can just as easily be reached by phone or email, I do not need Facebook to help me find someone that I might have gone to school with 20 years ago and completely forgot about!

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"and even some psychologists"

The ones in the nuthouse who belive they are but actually aren't? What kind of bull**** is this? :huh:

I'd say revoke their license and send them to get some treatment. :rolleyes:

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What's most disturbing is the employer's attitudes about FB, imagine not getting a job because like me there's practically no personal information about me on FB, and I don't plan on adding any, just use it to keep tabs on the kids

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