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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.
Trump derangement syndrome. I'm keen to understand what you mean by this, in context.
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.
I use Facebook to keep up with friends and arrange events. It's a useful communication tool and I don't get caught up in it any more than that.
You can do more and more with Facebook Account it's just just scary to lose control over my profile.
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> 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.
Now things are very different. You never have to wonder what's happening to those people you knew at school, or wait for the reunion.
"A facebook account was closed." Headline suggested to me someone resigning from the company. The latter is more interesting. Many people have closed their facebook accounts, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get whatever contact details you don't have from connections then do it. Others never opened one. Life is fine without facebook, if you feel you want to close your account, do it. Foo…
> Many people have stopped gambling, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get whatever money's left on the table then do it. Others never started gambling. Life is fine without gambling, if you feel you want to get out of gambling, do it. Footage at 11.
I am always shockingly impressed at the lack of empathy and open-mindedness some people or group thereof are reliably able to show, here failing to recognise that this mind trick minefield can have devastating effects and act at the very least as a dramatic catalyst in loss-of-balance situations. The underlying, untold, insulting judgement is basically "damn this guy is weak/an attention seeking whore".
I found the article articulated quite well the issues he faced, his reasons (which extend beyond Facebook's carefully engineered attention seeking madness) and both of his strategy and tactics to get out of the hole he found himself in (which extend beyond Facebook and social networks). Writing about one's problems help a lot in internally processing them. Making a public statement helps in committing oneself to improvement, and help others in a similar predicament to relate and hopefully even proceed to action.
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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.
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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 j…
Are people, who can't be bothered to send you an SMS, email or give a call to invite you into a party, actually, your friends?
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.