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Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
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Re: Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
#2Quit in 2012.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
#3Uninstalled it many years ago. Check about once a month and stay signed out. I totally avoid it otherwise, too intrusive.
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#4I quit facebook and smoking together. I used to smoke 4-5 cigarettes a day and once i started being mindful about why i do and what i get, i took a stance to quit. I convinced myself to quit and also out of curiosity picked up a book about quitting smoking.After doing all this, I felt facebook and smoking are similar in so many ways. Trying to fill the non existent void in everyday life. And even though we are so much aware of our physical health , we hardly try to resolve our mental health issues. And then i quit facebook. Even though i used facebook for may be all together 45 mins a day. It feels so much better to not consume that insensible, utterly useless content.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
#5Using it about 10 mins per day. Hacker News is taking much more time.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
#6Never really used it, closed 3 accounts over time. Main use is to peek at pages, and I've advertised my business on it at one point, with really bad results. I deeply hate everything about FB, from the fakeness of it as a distant relationship maintenance tool, to its core business model, to the fact it is highjacking a big chunk of the web. To me, FB is a trap, tailor made to attract the Internet illiterate, as I-products does with hardware and music files.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
#7I never made an account because I could never grasp what value it really had for me. It seemed to me that it was better suited for the "reality show" crowd that liked following other peoples drama.
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#8I hardly use facebook now-a-days.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
#9I stopped using it entirely a few years back. It got to be an unhealthy obsession which I realised was making me quite unhappy.
While I read Hacker News and some technical subreddits, I don't think these are entirely benign, but they are an interest rather than an obsession. They do both have an element of gamification--your comment upvotes/karma etc., but they aren't actively sucking you in with a never-ending stream of status updates from the site members either.
Re: Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
#10I doodled with it a bit.
Added a few friends and relatives, then realized that most people that I know are either not on it, or not very active. And I couldn't figure out what to do with it. I posted a bit but that fizzled out.
Right now it seems such a primitive and restricted system and not of much use at all unless you are addicted to it or you have no idea of what is available on the Internet.
I get the feeling that it only appeals to those who like to get into a rut and stay there.