Until you talk to a teenager. "Facebook is for old people..."
... which is why I use Whatsapp and Instagram, which are totally not Facebook.
Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet
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#22Until you talk to a teenager. "Facebook is for old people..."
And then the teenager grows up and becomes an "old person", at which point we'll see them on Facebook.
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#23I've never used Facebook or LinkedIn and I'm someone who doesn't feel the urge to sign up. Should I be concerned?
I am "on Facebook", but it's for four specific reasons: 1) So I don't get questions about why I'm not on Facebook. 2) To let friends tag me in pictures (and see what pictures are being posted of me). 3) To let friends invite me to parties through Facebook. 4) See pictures of friends' babies. I think it's good to have a Facebook account. It lets people push stuff to you, and more often I'm seeing invitations coming ex…
Every time I'm asked why I'm not on facebook I just say I don't need it. They usually never ask again and I have no problem keeping in touch with friends by text message even if they are heavy facebook users.
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#24ever since i enabled 2 factor i'm too lazy to log in so that did the trick. When I do log in once in a while, it just looks like a tumblr feed of people posting funny videos with occasional personal photo, I can get that on reddit already. so i'm just keeping my account alive in case i have anything to announce in the future..
You can control what you see from individual people and what things they share. It's very granular and it works well. You can also follow really interesting people, pages and groups. It's all about using the tool properly.
I find following interesting people on twitter to be a better signal to noise ratio. That way I get exactly what they put out and nothing more, instead of some complicated algorithm designed to keep me "engaged".
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#25I've never used Facebook or LinkedIn and I'm someone who doesn't feel the urge to sign up. Should I be concerned?
If you have friends or family on Facebook then you may already be part of its social graph, even if you haven't explicitly joined . Ditto if you are an email contact of a LinkedIn user who is careless with app permissions.
But personally I don't think that you are missing out.
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#26I'm really ashamed to admit it, but I am addicted to Facebook. As much as I despise the lack of depth in the average content, I feel confident that Facebook has stumbled on something in our animal behavior that draws us closer to it. I've always explained the phenomenon of gossip rags as a surrogate for our innate need to be social. Rather than engaging in actual social scenarios (which can carry social risks), many…
Just sign out. Facebook's response is hilarious -- they send you "please come back" emails for a few weeks.
I stopped using it a few months ago, don't really miss it at all. If you find you're missing someone whom you normally interacted with on Facebook, give them a call.
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#27I've never used Facebook or LinkedIn and I'm someone who doesn't feel the urge to sign up. Should I be concerned?
I am "on Facebook", but it's for four specific reasons: 1) So I don't get questions about why I'm not on Facebook. 2) To let friends tag me in pictures (and see what pictures are being posted of me). 3) To let friends invite me to parties through Facebook. 4) See pictures of friends' babies. I think it's good to have a Facebook account. It lets people push stuff to you, and more often I'm seeing invitations coming ex…
For me, having an FB account and not actively using it daily (hourly?) was similar to a crack-addict not using free crack that is put in their face.
It was like removing the carrot-dangling-from-a-stick when I left Facebook.
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#28I've never used Facebook or LinkedIn and I'm someone who doesn't feel the urge to sign up. Should I be concerned?
Facebook: Not really. If you feel no peer pressure to sign up, great! For me, I was missing out on events when classmates and even teachers started communicating via Facebook. These days it has died down again in favor of Telegram so I could technically deactivate the account, but I'm keeping it for convenience. Recently saw someone's wedding being announced there, not something I want to be missing out on. I'd have…
But without a formal invitation how can you just show up? I doubt the formal invitation would require facebook.
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#29Not sure if it's an Israeli thing, but Facebook groups are probably the biggest value I get out of Facebook (excluding messanger/whatsapp).
We have very active programming groups (Israeli IOS/Android devs, Javascript Israel), neighborhood and city groups (Secret Tel Aviv), social groups (Burning man Israel) and even a large discussion group about politics and economics.
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#30I'm really ashamed to admit it, but I am addicted to Facebook. As much as I despise the lack of depth in the average content, I feel confident that Facebook has stumbled on something in our animal behavior that draws us closer to it. I've always explained the phenomenon of gossip rags as a surrogate for our innate need to be social. Rather than engaging in actual social scenarios (which can carry social risks), many…
Facebook has a large disincentive to connecting people in the real world. If you're at a watching movies, camping in the woods, or just hanging out then you're not online. Worse, the more you connect in the real world the less interesting passive browsing becomes. Sure, you can still use FB to IM, but that's far less profitable for them. ...
Another issue I've found since leaving the 'Facebook family' a few years back; there's a large disincentive for members you leave behind to contact you. You fall out of their habitual communication methods.
The onus is on you to call them, which is already hard enough when both people could initiate the call. It becomes a much rarer event unless concerted effort is made.
So until 'the next big social thing' comes along, I'm essentially out in the cold in many respects. But it's a price I'm willing to pay. I simply can't bring myself to support them in any way. The veneer of goodwill is very easy to see through with their constant manipulation tactics. And besides, it's not all bad; it hasn't stopped me from being invited to major events in my social circle. It's nice not to feel beholden to a website, which was the case when I was a member.
The psychological effects are yet to be studied in depth, I'm sure.