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What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by herval »

afandian wrote: post #37

This is an excellent blog post, though it made me sick reading it. I recently made the switch. I went from trying to limit how much I log in (to once or twice a week), to actually not logging in. I've been cold-turkey for two months (except for a couple of times when I had a very specific reason to check something). I thought it would be difficult. Turns out it's not so hard, and it's the fear of reduced social conta…

Personal anecdote: I concluded it was making me slightly depressed, so manually unfollowed everyone (but kept them as friends) and un-liked every single page. Use it basically to reply when someone comments on a post (effectively trying to make it a "write-only" log)

Turns out you apparently cannot do that, as every time I log in, I find myself re-following a few people (2-10) - some of which I had unfollowed long, long before my "isolationist" move...

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by germinalphrase »

alanfalcon wrote: post #198
rak00n wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the service?

Chatbooks[1] - they're not glossy or high quality, but then a lot of the time the photos aren't either beyond the associated memories. And they're cheap so you don't have to stress over whether to hit the favorite button. [1] https://chatbooks.com/favorite-photo-books/

That service is pretty close.

It's also where I feel my otherness. My father was a professional photographer, I grew up playing around in the darkroom, so I do recognize that I have a bias toward high quality photo prints. One of those 'ignorance is bliss' things maybe.

The photos wouldn't need to be large, but the quality would need to be there or else I won't value them long term as distinct from digital files (which still command many advantages over physical media).

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by TIMALAUS »

Nice Post! Learned a lot. Thank you!

I've removed my Facebook account 3 years ago and never looked back. Everyone who should be in touch with me have my e-mail address and mobile phone number, other's who actually want to take a sniff into my life try to trick me creating one, but hey - I've been there, f*ck off. Nonetheless I relocated to the US, Boston, 7 months ago and haven't acquired any meaningful friendship with anyone, I still don't care. I better off read Literature and Philosophy rather than infinite stream of non-sense.

GJ

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by james_niro »

Going on two years without Facebook. At first I thought it will be hard to stay in touch with friend but it is the opposite, I get to hangout more often with my friends, our conversations are more intimate, we genuinely want to know what happened since we last saw each other. As far as news goes I subscribed to news paper, have dozen email subscriptions which delivers it to my inbox every morning.

I started making photo albums again and putting my pictures in there whenever friends come over I get to show it to them.

As far as cat videos goes I get to watch them on YouTube

To be honest it has been the most productive time of my life since I deactivated Facebook and my friendship has become stronger

Moral of the story yes you an live without Facebook

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by goooorhio »

debt wrote: post #176
yellow_viper wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this delete your data too? I spent about 2 days the other day running a script to delete all my data way back to 2010.

I'm pretty sure it's a genuine delete button.

No way do they actually delete your information

It's replicated all over the planet many times over and they share it with other businesses and agencies

Even if they did, your friends and family talk about you and they're not going to censor all that information too

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by Nugem_ »

afandian wrote: post #37

This is an excellent blog post, though it made me sick reading it. I recently made the switch. I went from trying to limit how much I log in (to once or twice a week), to actually not logging in. I've been cold-turkey for two months (except for a couple of times when I had a very specific reason to check something). I thought it would be difficult. Turns out it's not so hard, and it's the fear of reduced social conta…

It has taken me almost 8 years to cut Facebook from my life, mainly because I used to log on to tend to my business page. However, like you, I decided enough was enough and went cold turkey 2 weeks ago.

Now 2 weeks later, when FB crosses my mind I am actually happy and sometimes grin thinking of how much I've benefited from quitting it!

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by koko775 »

goooorhio wrote: post #216
debt wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure it's a genuine delete button.

No way do they actually delete your information It's replicated all over the planet many times over and they share it with other businesses and agencies Even if they did, your friends and family talk about you and they're not going to censor all that information too

It gets deleted. Facebook Ireland Audit Report.

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by robattila128 »

frebord wrote: post #63

Permanently Delete it here: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account If you are considering getting off of it for any of these reasons then why haven't you already done it? You feel you might somehow need it, just like a heroin addict has trouble imagining a life without drugs. It is horrible for your privacy. They collect EVERYTHING about you! It is in their best interest to manipulate your attention, which to m…

I de-activate and re-activate every few months, probably for emotional reasons since I read a lot about online privacy. I didn't know we can permanently delete it, glad to see fighters out there forcing them to make this option cause we all know they wouldn't give the option otherwise.

Thanks for sharing the link.

Re: What should you think about when using Facebook?

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Post by robattila128 »

astanway wrote: post #33

"A similarly-sized company of 15,000 might have 5 data scientists" - this is so far off the mark I don't even have a response.

The definition of data scientist is really skewed. It's a buzz word every hot shot identifies themselves with.
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