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Suspicious not to be on Facebook
Suspicious not to be on Facebook
Employers and psychologists believe Facebook has become so much a part of society that they consider it suspicious not to be a member of an online community.
When Mark Zuckerberg & co. Facebook launched in 2004, was regarded as cool if you were a member of the social network.
Now that Facebook has over 900 million active users worldwide expect more as suspicious if they are not members.
Finance Website Forbes writes that employers are checking on their job applicants are active on social media. Mashable think job seekers without Facebook profile can be suspected of hiding something.
Another suspicion is that Facebook account for a potential employee is so full of drunk pictures and other nonsense that he or she was forced to drop it before the job search was initiated.
The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel has even gone so far as to point out that James Holmes of cinema massacre in Colorado and Anders Behring Breivik both lacked an active Facebook account.
- The Internet has become a natural part of life, says psychologist Christopher Mills to Der Tagesspiegel.
Find the golden mean
Teknofil.no refers to a swiss study from 2011 in which it appears that "adolescents who use the Internet very little at higher risk of depression than those who are there regularly for up to two hours a day."
According to the study, it is important to find the golden mean on the internet. For high activity on social media is just as worrisome as extremely low activity.
Socialbackers.com shows that over half of the population has a Facebook account. Facebook says that more than 8 percent of the accounts are either fake, counterfeit, or doble.
It should be noted that this weighs heavily in the younger part of society. Facebook is most popular for people aged 18 - 34 years.
First Facebook, then sex
Also in the love life is lacking in Facebook account a bad sign. Slate.com s journalist Emily Yoffee think one should watch out for bed buddies without account on the popular network.
- (...) If you are of a certain age and have met someone you would go to bed with, and the person does not have Facebook, you may have been given a false name. It can be a kind of red flag, says Yoffee.
In a discussion on this topic summarizes she and technology commentator Farhad Majoo that you should check out the Facebook profile of a person before you go to bed with him or her.
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