27 Things You Can’t Do Without Facebook
The world’s largest social network isn’t for everyone, but it seems like every day there’s more stuff you just can’t do without Facebook. Sigh.
1. Prove you’re not a serial killer for Airbnb rentals
You can still rent places on Airbnb without a Facebook account, but having one makes it much easier, since it allows hosts to rent to mutual friends or scope profiles before opening their home to a stranger.
2. See what music your friends are listening to
As of September, Spotify is no longer a Facebook-only service, but it might as well be — the e-mail option is buried below LOGIN WITH FACEBOOK. It also provides a real-time feed of everything your friends are listening to on Spotify.
3. Have a simple alibi if you’re accused of a crime
“Wherer [sic] my IHOP” kept a Brooklyn, NY, teenager from being charged with robbery, since the Facebook status update provided a solid alibi: a time and a location.
4. Get a job at Facebook
You can’t work at Facebook without a Facebook account. Go figure.
5. Get a job at a public agency
Earlier this year reports surfaced of public agencies requiring applicants to submit their Facebook log-in and password. If you don’t have one at all, it could raise a few eyebrows.
6. See what videos your friends are watching
A VEVO redesign in May urged users to login with Facebook for personalized video playlists.
7. Crowdsource locating missing pets with zero effort
A Facebook ad for Zion helped track down the missing cat within 30 minutes of putting it up.
8. See exactly where your friends who have Facebook are
Let’s be honest, no one uses Apple’s Find My Friends. But Locate does the same thing — for Facebook users, of course.
9. Comment on your favorite website
TechCrunch is just one of many sites that have moved exclusively to Facebook comments in an attempt to silence the trolls. (Some trolls have proven fairly resistant to the harsh light of Facebook de-anonymizing, though.)
10. Share life’s biggest moments
Because it’s not a BIG moment if it’s not on Facebook.
11. Stay truly connected with your grandparents
Facebook is where grandparents and grandchildren are connecting like never before, says The Wall Street Journal.
12. Publicly prove you are smarter than your friends
Games like Scramble and Words with Friends don’t require you to log in with Facebook but they HIGHLY encourage it. (Plus, when you beat your friends, you can’t post it Facebook, so it basically doesn’t count.)
15. Find friends who will give you their organs
Facebook has made it way, way easier to see who will give you their kidneys.
17. Revisit old digital memories instantly
You can’t go back and revisit digital memories with apps like Timehop without a Facebook account.
20. Learn helpful new dating tips
Facebook Dating: 3 Ways To Get A Date With Your Crush Through Social Networking
22. Have an @facebook.com address and an open invitation to spam
23. See who voted with your same name!!!!
This is a really important thing you can’t do without Facebook.
24. Get your lost wallet returned
Because how else can people be expected to find you?
25. Find some cute babies to adopt
Instead of going through a traditional adoption agencies, more families are using Facebook to adopt children. Woo-hoo!
26. Say good-bye, digitally
“Current means to share notice of someone’s dying or add comments can make an awkward event even more uncomfortable.” Good thing there’s RIP App.
27. Win free swag
Obviously Facebook is not the only place to win free stuff, but without it, it’s harder to know when Safeway is practically throwing free turkeys your way.
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michaelteti 5 months agoInstagram has 200,000,000 users (getting close if not there today) Its a social network. All this crap about it being for X,Y,Z — whatever Kevin. Its a social network. That what everyone uses Instagram for. That’s what scared Zuck into pay a billion for it. It is shameful that the FTC/SEC allowed the Number #1 Social Network Facebook buy the #2 Social Network Instagram. That should have been blocked on anti-trust grounds. Instead our dumb government allowed Facebook to limit competition in Social Networking and what we get is MONOPOLY PRICING and PRIVACY VIOLATIONS.
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A.Leigh 5 months ago
I really hate websites that only use Facebook for commenting. I have a Facebook, but I have no desire to post my real name (especially since it’s not super common), picture, and other identifying information on random websites. Maybe because I had it drilled into my head as a kid that you never, ever, ever tell anyone online who you are or where you live?
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ttenchantr 6 months ago
27 wrong answers. You can do each and every one of these thing without Facebook.
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patrickb18 6 months agoNot have a government agency job? Come on buzzfeed, you can’t be that stupid.
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meggo85 6 months ago
28.) Have a birthday ( you don’t age because know one remembers as they weren’t reminded)
29.) let everyone know that you have permanently deleted your account (which is quite hard to accomplish)
30.) let everyone know you went to the gym, have a cold, made a lasagna or some other mundane fact about your day to day activity
31.) comment on news sites *So glad I don’t have a facebook, facespace or other time-suck (besides informative sites like buzzfeed) -
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ecochic 6 months agoWhen my father-in-law stupidly sent our Christmas parcel to our old address the new tenant looked up my husband on Facebook, friended him and sent a message saying she had our parcel. Thank you, Facebook (and honest lady)! Otherwise we’d have missed out on that Outback gift card…
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- Hannah Lawrence added Gangnam Style (강남스타일) to the mix about 6 months ago
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jeffb32 6 months agoAt least in CA, we have prohibited employers and potential employers from asking for someone’s social media login information. Some websites suggest telling the boss or interviewer to piss off when they ask for your password, but many people are so desperate for work they are willing to relinquish their rights in exchange for employment. It’s unfortunate and abusive, which is why I’m proud to live in the out West in the ‘Nanny State.’ Bear Republic!
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kiskanak 6 months ago4, 22 and probably 23 are the only things on this list that “you can’t do without Facebook”. (And 5, but that shit’s illegal and doesn’t happen in countries that aren’t the US. Sorry friends.) Wanna know where your friends are, what they’re listening to, or what they’re watching? Freaking call them. Heck, you can even text them if you’re that desperate for solitude.
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