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Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

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Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

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Post by gandutraveler »

solatic wrote: post #312

No. And it's a completely laughable idea. 1) Friends in California who keep the social group messaging on Messenger despite pleading with them to migrate so that I can at least uninstall Messenger from my phone. If you have lived in a variety of places, made friends in those places, and it's important to you to keep in touch with them, then they're on Facebook. The End. 2) Facebook properties are huge locally (Tel Av…

I travel a lot , make hundreds of connections per year and I don't have a FB account. I quit in 2016. I do use WhatsApp and occasionally Instagram. Quitting FB improved my life and reduced lot of noise. I call my friends more often now rather than just expressing the friendship over a like or comment.

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Post by dvcrn »

No, see no need to delete it. I don't post anything anymore, but use messenger a lot to keep in contact with a very broad friendcircle, like people I travelled with.

Events are also very important to me. My calendar is synced with Facebook so if I click somewhere on "interested" or "going", it syncs into my schedule.

Lastly, the selling community is big and I sell more on Facebook than on Craigslist.

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Post by john61 »

krn wrote: post #238
bigiain wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure - but it just enables the behaviour of selling out your entire social circle to Zuckerburg. I know we've lost that fight - but it doesn't mean it's not worth resisting.

> but it just enables the behaviour of selling out your entire social circle to Zuckerburg. If that's the main reason to quit Facebook, the question should have been: "Did you delete your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts in 2018?". Yet, somehow nobody asks that question.

"Did you delete your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts in 2018?"

Not possible, because I did not have any of these accounts in the first place. And I have a pretty normal social life with lots of technology, friends and activity.

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Post by bootlooped »

seppin wrote: post #199
frereubu wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I missed my friend's 50th birthday party because I wasn't on Facebook (haven't been for around 3-4 years), and he assumed that everyone he wanted there was. That stung enough for me to think about it, but whenever I see people scrolling through their feeds there's so much drivel that I immediately go off the idea again.

> I missed my friend's 50th birthday party because I wasn't on Facebook Hate to break it to you, but he's not really your friend. You would have known about it directly or through someone else if so. Facebook is for finding out about events / people who aren't close to you, but you're still interested in. That's its value.

> Facebook is for finding out about events / people who aren't close to you, but you're still interested in.

That's one use case, I don't think it's the only one though.

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Post by sahaskatta »

zenexer wrote: post #7

Almost. I started the process—downloaded all my data, etc. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go through with it for reasons I’m embarrassed to admit: 1. One entire side of my extended family relies on it for all familial communications. I was forced to use Facebook Messenger recently to help with wedding planning, for example. These people are addicted to it an have invested everything in it—Facebook knows their entire lives…

You can use Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account. (I haven't tried it, but I know quite a few people that do this.)

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Post by rohan1024 »

Carpetsmoker wrote: post #141

No. I actually created a Facebook account in 2018. The problem is that without Facebook you will miss out. Sure, close friends and family will invite you to their social events, but more distant acquaintances will not; you know, the bloke you met at the pub last week and had a 20 minute chat with, or that cute girl you talked to but then she suddenly she was dragged off to a birthday party by her friends. By missing…

how about https://www.openbook.social/

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Post by austincheney »

frereubu wrote: post #198
Carpetsmoker wrote: post #141

No. I actually created a Facebook account in 2018. The problem is that without Facebook you will miss out. Sure, close friends and family will invite you to their social events, but more distant acquaintances will not; you know, the bloke you met at the pub last week and had a 20 minute chat with, or that cute girl you talked to but then she suddenly she was dragged off to a birthday party by her friends. By missing…

I missed my friend's 50th birthday party because I wasn't on Facebook (haven't been for around 3-4 years), and he assumed that everyone he wanted there was. That stung enough for me to think about it, but whenever I see people scrolling through their feeds there's so much drivel that I immediately go off the idea again.

I am currently on my fourth military deployment. I have just learned to get used to living in a pseudo-isolated vacuum from life. I have missed many important life events. Facebook would really help where it doesn't matter and not where it does.

I just learn to focus on what is actually important and fortunately I have people that keep me in mind so that I don't get completely lost. Simply being married solves for much of this.

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