Yes. It is worth the sacrifice. Tell your friends to send you an SMS invite to birthdays.

Hah. Like that would ever happen.

I have a friend who refuses to use Facebook. About twice a year I remember to send her updates.

Then when I see her I have to go over all the updates everyone else already saw on Facebook. I literally pull out my phone and show her my feed.

It’s really frustrating and inefficient. I only do it because she’s a really good friend.

> It’s really frustrating and inefficient. I only do it because she’s a really good friend.

Yeesh. I'm glad my friends don't regard me this way. IMHO, your comment is a perfect example of why one should quit Facebook.

They said they are willing to put effort in for their friend. What is wrong with that?

The fact that they regard their friend's lack of Facebook use as a frustrating chore that requires effort.

You can internally think doing something is frustrating, but the more frustrating things you are willing to do for the friendship the more it shows you value that friendship. And it does require effort, there is no argument about that.

Oh no. You have to talk to your friends and give them personal accounts of your experiences! What a travesty.

/S

Well the argument was whether one can do reasonably as well without Facebook. So the point is there are quite many inconveniences caused by that. This is why it would be preferable that Facebook was regulated properly.

It is not as simple as asking to send an SMS. I will be missing out on a lot of information, bonding opportunities, picture sharing and I will be that annoying dude making others jump through extra hoops as well.

I am personally not going to make that sacrifice.

I could also live in complete isolation in the woods and without friends. I just do not want to live like that being constantly paranoid.

Incoveninece is the price of change.

> It is not as simple as asking to send an SMS

It is. Inform your friends that you don't use Facebook and ask them to treat you the same way they would treat any other friend that doesn't use Facebook: reach out and communicate through any of the other myriad ways available to everyone.

> I am personally not going to make that sacrifice.

That's fine, but any objections you have to Facebook's behavior ring hollow since you recognize the problem but are unwilling to do anything about it. You are thus part of the problem.

> I could also live in complete isolation in the woods and without friends

Silly hyperbole. This is not the end result of not using Facebook.

I can still object and demand government to do something about that. This is my legal right. If I quit Facebook it is not going to solve the problem on a higher level except alienate me from other people.

This is not a silly hyperbole. It would be a solution to avoid sharing your data with anyone. There are also other entities that could abuse your data.

SMS might not be the safest thing either.