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Re: 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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I deleted my account in April this year. At the point of deletion I had created some Facebook pages and had been a very active user for many years. I tried downloading my data through Facebook's built-in account download feature. And I was quite happy with the download. I then wrote up a post about my motivation for leaving which I shared on my Facebook: https://nilsnh.no/2018/04/04/leaving-facebook/ I figured it wou…

Dude thank you for the blog post. Its short and straight to the point, you nailed it. When I was reading it (mobile) I was hoping you would mention Signal.

Do you mind if I quote your post (and link to it) if I decide to leave facebook?

How did it go? It might be pointless, but I'm curious of the outcome/reactions

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily enough I can categorically say that's not true. He's one of my closest friends, was extremely upset that I wasn't there, and was kicking himself for months afterwards for the lazy assumption. The almost total ubiquity of Facebook leads to an assumption that everyone is on there. Hopefully that's going to change over the next few years, but there are hard lessons along the way.

Do you ever talk with him directly, via sms or whatsapp? How often? Was the party really never brought up?

We go long-ish periods without speaking. We have that kind of lifelong friendship where we just pick up wherever we left off. He lives in London, I live on the south coast, so we only really speak when I'm in London for work and I stay over at his place. That's usually relatively frequent, but I wasn't going up much at that specific time. I should also say that he's not particularly good at organising these things and usually totally ignores his birthday, so it wasn't a huge party. Still stung though!

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

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No. As an introvert with a rich inner life, it’s one of the only ways for me to share that life with friends. People who have known me for years find they don’t really know me unless they’ve read my writing or seen my experiences through pictures. (I almost never share third party links; all my Facebook content is self-created and is a form of self expression — I suspect I’m in the minority of Facebook users) There a…

Indeed, I also find value in Facebook.

The data scandal was serious and to be honest, needed. It brought data and privacy awareness, countries and even entire continents are now trying to convey regulations on the subject.

Facebook was already superfluous, if you can afford to delete it.

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

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I just unfollowed all my friends (back in 2015). They still see me as a friend, I can read their posts individually, I can use FB to communicate with my family — but there is nothing interesting now in my feed, so I am free from addiction. Highly recommended. I don't care much about ethics, Facebook is free to topple governments or play with the very fabric or democracy or whatever — cool stuff to do, I'd join them i…

Same, the very problem with Facebook is people themselves.

I was on Orkut for years, then everyone migrated to Facebook, guess what... different tool + same people = poop³.

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

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Deleted my account permanently two months ago. In the beginning it was interesting too see how it had become a habit to write the url almost without thinking, and for three weeks I found myself opening a new tab and writing the Facebook.com address every time my mind started wandering. Also deleted my Instagram account at the same time and currently in the process of deleting WhatsApp as well, as soon as some project…

I understand the desire to delete FB and IG (I did the same in 2018) but why get rid of WhatsApp? Isn't it just a communication tool rather than a social-media site?
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