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Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier
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#72I wonder, how many people shared it on Facebook?
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Finally someone brave enough to stand up and break this hype about "stop using Facebook." > I'm not sure what the answer to that is. Some say Snapchat is a much better place for people to be their true selves - I can believe it. I am in my t…
Sending Snaps to other people is often pretty genuine. It's a great way to build a connection with someone you don't quite know just yet, as you get a lot of face time with that person. And of course, drawing lets you express your creativity. You can manipulate your looks, or the environment around you. It's a lot of fun. Conversely, Snap Stories can indeed get very Vine-like. They can be quite fun, but if you're mak…
I guess it is really about having "friends" to do that with you, which I don't have any to do snapchat with. But yeah, I probably can relate it back then with tumblr, using mustache in google hangout etc..
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#74Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…
http://messenger.com/ The best thing Facebook ever did was separate the useful messenger from the terrible main site.
Wow. How did I miss this?
I still keep Facebook around 10% for looking people's contact information and 90% because everyone has migrated to using Facebook's messenger. Cutting it just down to the messenger is a godsend.
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#75Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…
> you're browsing through a catalogue of amazing experiences while you sit at home feeling a little fat.
No, I think it's more than that. I have no evidence for this, but I suspect that spending excessive time on the internet will make you feel more isolated (and therefore worse overall), regardless of whether you spend that time on social sites or not. It's the withdrawal from genuine face-to-face contact that is important, not the particular mechanics of such-and-such an app or website.
I think we're still missing something important about human interaction in the way we embody it in computers. Even video does not solve it completely. Telepresence is and will continue to be a major open problem for the forseeable future.
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#76Browsing Facebook, or for that matter any other similar network (including HN :)), is like anti-meditation. They rattle your mind with so much information in such quick succession that it becomes almost impossible to think through or about any one particular thing. Like alcohol, it is simultaneously addictive – the mind craves information – and depressing – numbs the mind preventing it from engaging in deep rational thought.
I think we can have the best of both worlds – enjoy our whiskey and discuss philosophy too :) I think there is a future for a social network that can slow things down a little, maybe also summarize, organize and filter an apparently disparate group of things, allowing the user enough time to digest and process the information before moving ahead in leisure.
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#77Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…
As a tangent, I've found that phone + email are the truly general options across what is anecdotally to me the Balkan social networks. I've also come to realize that everyone views their social network as obvious, and everyone also loathes to download anyone else's social network app.
But email + phone is international, nobody feels like you burdened them by asking them to get a Google account, and nowadays email and phone is all managed through a synced solution on your phone / devices. As a "workflow", contacting someone via phone or email can feel as fluid as any other app.
Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier
#78Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…
The reason why I'm still on Facebook is for similar reasons. I wouldn't talk to my sisters much without it.
I use the News Feed Eradicator [1] to deal with the humblebragging stuff. I don't want to see updates and posts, AT ALL. I just want messages and event invites.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
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#79Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…
You are addicted to a fad website that collects all your private data...Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you.
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#80I deleted my Facebook account after realizing that every time I would go on it, the clickbait and mindless minutia would irritate me more than entertain me. between the advertisements, there would be 'you'll never guess what happens next!' posts, then political propaganda, then children/marriage updates on people I hadn't interacted with in years. At a certain point, I realized that it wasn't even fun to me anymore,…
The simple solution for me has been to unfollow everyone in my friend list. You then have an empty news feed, apart from the birthdays which apparently are really important on fb, for some reason. And, of course, a good ad blocker. That still doesn't make fb enjoyable from my POV, but it's still an improvement.
Thanks, just did this! Great solution.