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I deleted my Facebook account today, how about you? #deletefacebook
- Thread starter Invisible Cities
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Can't do it. Even if I found another option for my personal account, to many blogs/non profits/businesses still use it (including those that I'm affiliated with)
Deactivated mine back in October as it wasn't something I cared for. One day I'll have to go in and retrieve the pictures I want to save so I can delete it for good.
Definitely not true in academia. 99% of my work-related communication is via e-mail. Everything from quick questions from colleagues/students, to article publication decisions, to e-mailing documents back and forth when co-authoring things, to grant application decision letters etc.
Though I will say I don't use much e-mail for personal correspondence anymore. That's mostly texts, FB Messenger or Signal. I hate talking on the phone so I hardly every call anyone.
Nope, not really possible for me.
I'm in several groups who conduct business and ask for convention advice on FB. If it weren't for being on Facebook, I wouldn't be able to talk to some of these people more than once or twice a year. Discord/Slack is too complicated for many, so FB is it.
I'm in several groups who conduct business and ask for convention advice on FB. If it weren't for being on Facebook, I wouldn't be able to talk to some of these people more than once or twice a year. Discord/Slack is too complicated for many, so FB is it.
Not gonna do it. I'm just using it as contact space, to make myself available for friends, to organize things with family and close friends, and to keep in touch with more distant friends. If anything I might delete the Smart Phone app, but I'm not gonna jump on this train.
Some seem to think that the purpose of FB is to document everything you do, but it's not, doesn't have to be. You don't have to be 110% in or completely out. There's a nice middle ground where Facebook serves a good purpose, if you want it.
Some seem to think that the purpose of FB is to document everything you do, but it's not, doesn't have to be. You don't have to be 110% in or completely out. There's a nice middle ground where Facebook serves a good purpose, if you want it.
In some senses I think forums are worse. They've definitely been bad for my mood/mental health in the past. So much cynicism and negativity, everyone having to have strong opinions about everything. I just took a 3+ month break from here and most forums and was better for it. Decided to venture back and see if I can enjoy them by just being much more selective about which threads I click on, posting less, not posting at all if it's something that annoys me etc.
Where as at least with social media you can just limit your list to your close friends and family and delete the people that post stupid shit. All those echo chamber issues really only apply if you're following news sources etc. on there instead of using it solely for true friends and family and as a tool to keep up with them. It gets to be "poison" when people have friends lists full of people they don't even know, media sources etc. IMO. But to each their own.
Deleted and waiting the 14 days to confirm.
Completely forgot that WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook so guess that has to go as well :(
What's a good alternative?
Completely forgot that WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook so guess that has to go as well :(
What's a good alternative?
That reminds me... last year Titanic did a bit on Twitter where if you sent him a screenshot of your facebook account deletion confirmation he would send you free Poppy merch.
I would like If some friends used other sites or app so i could talk with them. But Its WhatsApp or its Facebook, all of them. Sigh...
You can all turn off third-party data sharing completely here, by the way: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
I do not lie when I say that I enjoyed videogames a lot more before knowing GAF/ERA. I actually dislike them a bit now because of all the stuff I read here, tbh. Even made a thread about not having gaming friends, but with all due respect, communities in here are way too competitive, angry and goddamn serious for me.
Only reason I'm still here is because of the news, because I can't stand Kotaku and sites like that.
In Europe at least, the new Data Protection Regulation forbids Facebook and WhatsApp of sharing data without user consent.
I wish I could quit some of the social garbage but its part of being a freelancer.
Most jobs I get come through Social stuff / people seeing my work there.
Who visits personal websites anymore? Sadly no one.
Most jobs I get come through Social stuff / people seeing my work there.
Who visits personal websites anymore? Sadly no one.
Telegram is a nice alternative. I suggested it to a friend who broke up with his girlfriend and didn't want her to see him online in that app or Facebook and we use that to communicate all the time now. Never tried LINE, but I suppose another app is going to take advantage of this whole thing and come up as a different solution.
We couldn't imagine life without MSN Messenger or AIM, back then. I suppose that's gonna happen with this as well.
Too true, said friend is a photographer and he hasn't kept his Facebook updated, so he's kinda lucky to get hired even without that tool, because he keeps getting told "we couldn't find your Facebook profile" when clients are trying to reach him. He printed some cards and had a Wix site, but people still looked for his FB profile.
Couldn't do it. It's very useful for keeping up with music or game companies I like. It's also useful for work related things.
Oh, and also reading everyone else's drama. I rarely ever post myself, unless I go somewhere or do something impressive, then I share that so everyone can see how amazing and perfect my life is. ;)
Oh, and also reading everyone else's drama. I rarely ever post myself, unless I go somewhere or do something impressive, then I share that so everyone can see how amazing and perfect my life is. ;)
Oh come on. You can't honestly believe that. They had 2.2 billion active users last year. You might not use it but almost everyone else does.
Regardless, I deleted my Facebook account yesterday.
I actually use Facebook for it's intended purpose of looking at pictures of my family and friends. So no actually I'm not going to delete my Facebook.
I create a birthday party and scroll through my friends clicking invite. The event is private with some info like address on it. (You need to be logged in) I then post on the event page discussion wall some details.
Giving out all that information for everyone to see and an interface to invite everyone is something that can't be done well any other way
I love when people with nothing to lose, socially, announce deleting their Facebook accounts like they're making some incredible sacrifice for the greater good.
I wish I would have thought to back up some of my photos when I deleted my account two years ago. I have no idea where some photos are or how I originally got them.
I promise you can still go to events and be informed of them without requiring a website that has barely existed a decade. You can send a mass text informing your friends whom you would normally invite, scrolling through and selecting them just like Facebook. You don't need an interface where everyone can gleefully post "Can't wait!!!" in anticipation to said event.
Again, no website requires you, and you should never require a website to live normally.
People lived fine with out houses and no electricity, do you want to give those up? If not, then you do what you want to do and let other people do what they want to do. I like Facebook, have no reason to get rid of it and so I am keeping it.
Signal is one of the only trustworthy alternatives.
Riot/Matrix possibly, but Signal is a literal drop in replacement.
No intention to delete since I couldn't care less what they do with my data. It's an easy way to keep in touch with old friends, even if most of them post stupid crap lol
This is the best reply of all, some of the people act like closing their account is curing cancer and ending world hunger.
what's the difference between deactivating and deleting? I thought I deleted it like five years ago but I might have just deactivated it?
Deactivating means your account is still there exactly as it was, it just isn't visible to the public or you. If you can log in, then it's just deactivated.
Deleting completely removes the account.
Not seeing some of the reasons to keep it here convincing. There's LOTS of smaller, better apps with wide usage to continue keeping in touch and sharing photos (I know FB owns them too), but placing FB as a dependency to those features is bizzare.
WhatsApp for photos/contact, Google Gallery for photoshoots (so easy), and you've got your phone for everything else.
You can get on just fine and still stay in touch.
Uh, the previous methods were just as good as what FB provides, no housing or electricity are not alternatives, lol.
WhatsApp for photos/contact, Google Gallery for photoshoots (so easy), and you've got your phone for everything else.
You can get on just fine and still stay in touch.
Uh, the previous methods were just as good as what FB provides, no housing or electricity are not alternatives, lol.
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