Every month, there are over a billion active Facebook users, making it seem almost impossible for someone not to have a Facebook account.
However, for Hospitality major John Bolton, this is just the case.
He has been without a Facebook account for about a year and a half.
“I didn’t like the social media idea behind it and how everybody always had to be posting. Like, whether they’re going to the grocery store or they’re going to pick up something dumb. I don’t really need to know that,” Bolton said. “On top of that, it created drama with relationships.”
He said he created a Facebook account his junior year of high school and stayed active for a few years, then deleted it for six months, only to become an active user again, just to later delete his account for good.
“That’s kind of the reason why I got rid of it,” he said. “I didn’t like creating the drama.”
Bolton said he knows enough people in person and doesn’t feel the need to have a lot of friends on Facebook.
“Why do I have to have a competition in having so many friends [on Facebook], when I don’t even talk to them? When I have my closest friends right here in my pocket, in my cell phone,” he said. “All I have is a cell phone that calls and texts. I don’t have the internet on it or anything.”
With over a billion monthly active Facebook users, it may seem far-fetched that someone doesn’t partake in “Facebooking,” so the Clarion asks, “who else doesn’t have a Facebook account and why not?”
Please send your response to clarion@sinclair.edu.