It will probably get to a point where employers think you are lying because "everyone" has a facebook account.

Yup. Pretty soon a Facebook account (with a semblance of some activity) will be required to get a job.

Yup, just like every developer must have Twitter, GitHub, an open suorce code repo, StackOverflow profile, professional blog, tumblr account etc etc.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3669568

Personally, I like to have a real life off the computer sometimes.

Of course i'm exaggerating, I've worked in software for 10 years and never had any of those. Until about 3 months ago I didn't have a twitter account. I've never been out of work.

BUT, the amount of people that look at me funny because I didn't, and the article that i linked to just reinforces that.

Thats not true. I've had several employers tell me that not having a LinkedIn account was amateurish.

I can't wait for a service to pop up where for $500 they will make you an amazing, sterling Facebook account you can "share" with people. It will be populated with believable postings from other people you know, yet all of these other people will be cardboard cut-outs.

My cousin and I came up with a similar idea; we called it Fakebook, and then promptly went on to forget about it. There's gold in them there hills, though!

Sounds familiar: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html

I'd consider that a plus. (No account here either)

Well you won't be friend-ed by me.

But you can always create a phony one.

We are to be burned at the stake for social crimes.