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Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by akvadrako » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:35 AM UTC

john_minsk wrote: post #16

gfiorav wrote: post #14

Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and frivolous if your think about it. My other social media (Twitter, Instagram) have notifications turned off, and are silently — and non instrusively — waiting for me when I decide to glance at them (usually once every 2-3 days). You end up forgetting about them and…

Nice one. But how do you look at Twitter only once in a couple of days? Twitter is useless this way if you ask me.

You have to prune your network until there is enough time to read everything.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by staticelf » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:37 AM UTC

fredsted wrote: post #15

I'm honestly a little amazed at all the thought put in to quitting Facebook. It seems like such a big deal for people. I think it's very sad that we've gotten to this point. It's just a Web site.

Technically it is, but it is much more than that in reality. All my friends use Facebook to create parties and announce sudden gatherings. I don't use facebook to much more than to know when these things occur so I can participate but if I were to deactivate my account it would mean that I would probably miss out on some of these gatherings.

I'd rather just keep my account and post as little as possible in order to just recieve that information. Even if I personally do not like facebook, pretty much everyone else does. What can you do?

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by akvadrako » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:38 AM UTC

fredsted wrote: post #15

I'm honestly a little amazed at all the thought put in to quitting Facebook. It seems like such a big deal for people. I think it's very sad that we've gotten to this point. It's just a Web site.

"It's just a web site" is such an empty statement. A web site could be anything, from a meeting point to harass others until they kill themselves or a trove of all knowledge in the history of humanity.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by zimpenfish » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:39 AM UTC

fredsted wrote: post #15

I'm honestly a little amazed at all the thought put in to quitting Facebook. It seems like such a big deal for people. I think it's very sad that we've gotten to this point. It's just a Web site.

> It's just a Web site

...full of human connections. Which people tend to enjoy.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by zimpenfish » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:40 AM UTC

gfiorav wrote: post #14

Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and frivolous if your think about it. My other social media (Twitter, Instagram) have notifications turned off, and are silently — and non instrusively — waiting for me when I decide to glance at them (usually once every 2-3 days). You end up forgetting about them and…

> I believe we’ll look back in 10 years and realize that this generation was ridiculously over attached to [human connections]

Fixed that for you.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by gfiorav » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:43 AM UTC

zimpenfish wrote: post #25

gfiorav wrote: post #14

Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and frivolous if your think about it. My other social media (Twitter, Instagram) have notifications turned off, and are silently — and non instrusively — waiting for me when I decide to glance at them (usually once every 2-3 days). You end up forgetting about them and…

> I believe we’ll look back in 10 years and realize that this generation was ridiculously over attached to [human connections] Fixed that for you.

Haha, well not too sure.

For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years.

On the other hand, we’ve been attached to human connections since the begging of civilization. Not sold that would end in 10 years time.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by dazc » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:48 AM UTC

yodsanklai wrote: post #6

There are less drastic options. I'm still on facebook but unsubscribed from all feeds. As a result there's almost nothing but ads on my news feed so I'm not really tempted to go there anymore. I also don't post anything there. Still, I keep my account "just in case" and I do use messenger a lot though. I have the feeling facebook is slowly dying, but I'm probably wrongly generalizing my own experience (is this called…

Just from witnessing what people are looking at on their smartphones (in Spain), couple of years ago it was all facebook now it's all whatsapp - even older age groups (60+).

Only people I know ever mentioning facebook are (as mentioned in the other reply) middle-aged upwards.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by have_faith » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:48 AM UTC

mrslave wrote: post #2

Virtue signaling heavily laden with Trump derangement syndrome. Thinks Twitter failing to discipline President Trump because he violated the don't-threaten-people policy over North Korean missile launches is a grave double standard. Not a quality article.

Sometimes signalling your virtues is what you want to achieve. In the twitter example, Twitter decides that Trump hasn't technically broken a rule (debatable), so you signal that your virtues are more important than Twitters rules by leaving, a perfectly valid response.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by leereeves » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:54 AM UTC

dazc wrote: post #27

yodsanklai wrote: post #6

There are less drastic options. I'm still on facebook but unsubscribed from all feeds. As a result there's almost nothing but ads on my news feed so I'm not really tempted to go there anymore. I also don't post anything there. Still, I keep my account "just in case" and I do use messenger a lot though. I have the feeling facebook is slowly dying, but I'm probably wrongly generalizing my own experience (is this called…

Just from witnessing what people are looking at on their smartphones (in Spain), couple of years ago it was all facebook now it's all whatsapp - even older age groups (60+). Only people I know ever mentioning facebook are (as mentioned in the other reply) middle-aged upwards.

Doesn't Facebook own whatsapp?

They're not leaving Facebook, just switching from one Facebook property to another.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by s_kilk » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:58 AM UTC

leereeves wrote: post #29

dazc wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just from witnessing what people are looking at on their smartphones (in Spain), couple of years ago it was all facebook now it's all whatsapp - even older age groups (60+). Only people I know ever mentioning facebook are (as mentioned in the other reply) middle-aged upwards.

Doesn't Facebook own whatsapp? They're not leaving Facebook, just switching from one Facebook property to another.

Facebook do own Whatsapp, but if people are staying in Whatsapp then they're never engaging on the Facebook platform, and thus never generating ad revenue.

It's strictly a loss for Facebook, unless they can figure out how to monetize Whatsapp to the same extent as their main platform.