Carrie Bickmore has over 240,000 followers on Instagram, 220,000 on Twitter, but she doesn’t have a Facebook page. She’s shirked the world’s largest social media platform, and on last night’s episode of The Project the popular host revealed one of the reasons why.
It’s birthdays. Apparently Carrie finds being inundated with well-wishes rather irritating. “It just annoys me when you get heaps of birthday messages,” she said. “And you know no one has remembered, they just saw it pop up on Facebook, and I don’t think it means the same.”
Perhaps Carrie was feeling particularly tense at that moment, and who could blame her. The Facebook-themed segment she was commenting on came off the back of “massive technical issues” for the programme that meant no pre-prepared footage could be aired.
It was therefore up to hosts Waleed Ali, Peter Helliar and Fitzy to act out Carrie’s news broadcast, bad birthday-party-charades style.
It must have been horrible for the folks at The Project, but it was horribly entertaining for us. Well done guys.
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The thing I can't be bothered with is that so many Facebook people are like evangelists, when they find out you aren't on Facebook they hassle the life out of you to join, no matter how politely you say no they can't seem to take no for an answer. Good for you if you have found God/Facebook, but some of us can exist without it and we shouldn't have to explain why.
As for twitter that is for abrupt people with short attention spans who don't want to think too long or too deeply about a subject. You know they think the Middle East problems/solutions can be summed up in 150 characters.
So I'm going anon for this considering I've insulted about 75% of the world :)
Yeah, I got out of Facebook 25 months ago. The unilateral security and advertising changes forced down from above drove me mad.
One day, March 1 2014, I just quit after giving 'friends' a week's notice that I was leaving.
The other thing that p155ed me off was businesses and others saying, "please like me/us on FaceBook". Like, in such cases, can be a dubious term. I might like some aspects of the business/staff but not others. "Like" is too wide an approval for me.