I personally rarely use facebook.com but messenger.com instead. I can't afford to delete my facebook account because this is how I keep in touch with most of my friends. People who can delete their facebook accounts probably all have their friends in the same city?
Why I deleted my Facebook account
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Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#262I use Facebook as a Google Reader replacement. I don't care what my contacts share. Twitter was my go-to site for this use case (news consumption). But that platform is too polluted now. Feedly was another site I used regularly. Is there any good news reader alternative to the platforms mentioned?
I use NetVibes - I jumped to it when iGoogle shut down: https://www.netvibes.com
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
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google calendar?
No good discussion/update flow, groups aren't really dynamic enough, and getting a google account isn't going to appeal to the kind of people who dislike facebook. (FWIW Meetup does completely replicate this use case, but they charge money)
exactly. Even with meetup, its not perfect for 'I want this specific group to come over.'
In a lot of ways, mid-2000s evite would be perfect -- but there's the spam / nagging side of their business that spoils it.
To be fair, I have no idea how one would monetize my dream events platform.
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#264Where/How do you get daily news after quitting Facebook?
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
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Would you really be surprised to learn that others use technology differently than you? Why do you need Messenger on your phone at all? Snapchat/iMessage/etc is enough.
What's with the sarcasm? I asked why somebody keeps a purely entertaining app while trying not to get distracted by it. The Messenger argument is completely unrelated because it's a useful app to stay in touch.
Not the other poster, but something that might explain their reaction is that you mentioned keeping an entire separate computer. It is easy to see why this would cause an extreme reaction. (Not saying it's not a good idea.)
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#266Oh God, my Facebook feed is way more interesting than the comments section on HN of a post about leaving Facebook. Are you all wearing your "I left Facebook" badge?
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Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#267Oh God, my Facebook feed is way more interesting than the comments section on HN of a post about leaving Facebook. Are you all wearing your "I left Facebook" badge?
"I don't have a Facebook Account" is the 90's equivalent of "I don't have a TV".
Here's the trope for people who who may not remember: http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#268I quit Facebook right around the time my son was born. It wasn't for privacy reasons (and frankly, it never bothered me), but rather for the enormous energy and time sink it had become. Truly, it was as if I was a dopamine junkie and Facebook was the pusher of those sweet, sweet red circles with a number in them that meant someone, somewhere vaguely agreed with something you posted. I noticed I was not present in the…
> those sweet, sweet red circles with a number in them that meant someone, somewhere vaguely agreed with something you posted
Now, you get those whenever you join a group, save an event, have a friend like a post from someone you don't even know, etc etc etc.
I've seen several of my "friends" leave Facebook over the last year simply because the platform isn't a "face book" anymore, but a rough media consumption platform susceptible to manipulation by advertisers, political opponents, nation states, and [dank memes]. It's basically become internet middle school in terms of post quality, and people are noticing.
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
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I refuse to install Messenger, so I'm actually annoyed by FB's lack of notifications (by email) when I receive a FB message. It used to be the case that FB would email you the message text. They switched that to "you have a message, click here to see it," but now it seems to be completely random whether I'm ever notified. The immediate effect on my behavior is that I find myself logging in to FB frequently just in ca…
Used to happen to me all the time. Wondering if I got any Facebook messages, log on, spend half an hour wandering through the news feed. Big time suck.
I'd guess this is why they're sending message notifications only sporadically? I've been thinking of setting up a little service for myself to monitor the FB web interface messages and then forward their content by email so I never have to look at the damn thing.
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#270Where/How do you get daily news after quitting Facebook?
I deleted my FB nearly three years ago and it forces you to actually go to news sites. I'm much more informed this way.
I get my local newspapers (the Chronicle and the East Bay Times) delivered and I go online throughout the day to read NYT, LA Times, WaPo, BBC. I've never felt the need for the instant spam news that you get on FB or Twitter. There's only been one time where I've had to use Twitter for realtime news and that was during the fire in Oakland last fall.