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The one thing keeping me on Facebook are events / RSVP. I don't know any good alternative. For example it's still missing in Diaspora: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1359
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Different activities provide differing reward for differing efforts. Water cooler chat, which requires active social engagement and is time bounded, is not as addicting as an endless stream of content accessed with a twitch of the finger. You might not use Facebook in that way, and I similarly don't find it that engaging, but I've certainly experienced it with reddit and HN. And I don't think this is some intractable…
If you're talking about dopamine you're already /inside/ what makes up someone's personality. "Dopamine hits" are called being happy .
The one thing keeping me on Facebook are events / RSVP. I don't know any good alternative. For example it's still missing in Diaspora: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1359
Same here. I'm on Facebook because of events. Years ago, a club I was in was using Yahoo Groups, and over time more and more events were posted to Facebook. People complained, and eventually the organizer wrote back "I've been using Facebook because it lets me schedule an event, track RVSP's, link to the location/map, add members, post pics, and help advertise/recruit for more members. Anybody that wants to help or t…
I agree. And Meetup in general is starting to go downhill here in Seattle. More and more, I'm seeing more "meetups" that are actually more on the lines of suburban "mortgage seminars" but for tech.
Example: Company XYZ launches a new API, so they host a "meetup" with free beer at their HQ where 2/3 of the time is spent by a "developer relations manager" advertising the new API. In the other 1/3 of the meetup, the atmosphere is noticeably awkward and nobody really talks to anyone beyond a friendly hello.
I regret deleting my original Facebook account. I made it around the time they opened to every college in the US and there was a lot of history there, photos and videos and text. Sure most of it was worthless and maybe even embarrassing but that data is gone now.
For anyone worried about this, Facebook gives you an option to download all of your data in a single zip file before deleting your account. https://www.facebook.com/help/131112897028467
Just because you don't value the data FB has now doesn't mean you won't in the future.
Look at all you facebook haters lol, its just a tool, its YOUR problem if you cant control it. Its like swearing never to use a hammer again because you missed a nail once.
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Is there a good browser extension that measures how much time one actively spends on various sites?
I use RescueTime (primarily because it integrates with a bunch of other services I use for life-logging) in Firefox - can monitor all sites or just a whitelist. Also supports Chrome, I believe. https://www.rescuetime.com/
The crucial argument for me was that I have to trust Facebook forever . Facebook intends to keep your data forever, so you have to trust them for just as long. I don't think Facebook will go forever without some major data leak. I don't like to count on the competence of corporations in handling secret information. Similarly, I don't think any human ever looks at Facebook's statistical models for any individual. Face…
Usually I don't like these "why I left [company]" post. However, for this one it struck a nerve. I am not even on Facebook and since about a week ago receive emails along the line "Jan see what [real friend of mine]" has posted. I flagged is as Spam in this is where the emails now land. But WTF is going on ? This is a severe intrusion of my privacy. What's next. Install camera's wherever I physically go ? Is that the…
It's just a trap. One of your real friends uploaded all their contacts to Facebook, and when Facebook found you weren't on it, I guess it decided to send you an email in the hope that you'd be enticed to join in and see what your real friends are up to...on Facebook, of course! I wonder if Facebook does this even for any company/organization addresses that get uploaded or if it has some sort of intelligence not to do that (imagine a "payroll@company.com" or "legal@company.com" or "abuse@company.com" getting an email to check out what friends are up to).
As for the severe intrusion of your privacy, Facebook's privacy policy says what applies to its users. You're just a shadow profile who can be monetized in the future or in other ways. You're like an outlaw/alien who doesn't have rights as far as Facebook is concerned.
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There are a variety of RSS readers for each platform, is there something specific you're looking for?
Do people still use RSS readers? Honestly curious. I thought that was a thing from the past.