I don't think I have ever seen such overt/bullshit propaganda like this before.
The Daily mail out of the U.K. published a propaganda article saying this.
Is not joining Facebook a sign you're a psychopath? Some employers and psychologists say staying away from social media is 'suspicious'
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.
Advice Columnist, Emily Yoffee, wrote in an advice column that young people shouldn't date anyone who isn't on Facebook.
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.'
Psychologist Christopher Moeller told the magazine that using Facebook has become a sign of having a healthy social network.
And this is what the argument boils down to: It's the suspicion that not being on Facebook, which has become so normal among young adults, is a sign that you're abnormal and dysfunctional, or even dangerous, ways.
There are obviously two reasons which immediately come to mind for them to write and publish this outrageous propaganda.
One...
They want to make people join so they are "normal" and show the world they are not psychopaths or mass murders. This is so, people can be tracked easily and put their lives on the internet for the world to see. They want people to put their social circles and everything they do, online. People are much easier to track, when they volunteer all their information and what they are doing. It makes the lives of those at the "fusion" centers much easier.
Two....
The facebook IPO was a complete failure and the stock has been falling ever since. It has recently been found about
83 + - million accounts are fake and are of animals. They need people to join up for "investment and money" reasons.
So just like anything, those at the top want to create "peer" pressure and media pressure and you are a nut and not normal, besides don't trust anyone without a facebook account in people's minds.
Facebook is about tracking everything people do. It is about people willingly putting up every bit of their information and who they are and what they do for all those who are interested (besides friends).
I will say right now. I used to have a Facebook account, but I deleted it a couple of years ago.
I will NOT cave into peer pressure and I will Never let my child put all of her information online for her to be tracked! I don't care how much she asks/begs me to allow her to have an account (which she has) the answer will always be NO!
So..... think of me as you will... govt./media, etc. Try to put a label on me all you want. But I will not fall into your trap of wanting to know every detail about me!
How many people are going to fall for this propaganda of "You are a mass murderer/psychopath, if you don't join Facebook?"
I personally think it is abnormal to put on the internet every single thing you do and where you go and who you are friends with. Those who do so are the ones that need to have their "peers" okay everything they do and they try and keep up with the Joneses, compared to being confident within and not needing approval from others. It is so stupid to put out to the world all your information. Those facebook people are the ones who need to be looked at as being completely "asleep and unaware." They are the people who need to WAKE UP!
