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Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by coldtea »

zimpenfish wrote: post #53
coldtea wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, because "human connections" can only be achieved on a web platform, with people you merely chat with on a casual BS basis for casual BS topics, and consider "friends" besides seldom meeting or having much in common with most of them.

> Yeah, because "human connections" can only be achieved on a web platform Who said that? Not me.

Well, you substituted "social media" for "human connections" as if those are one and the same, or you can't have one without the other.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by eradicatethots »

harry8 wrote: post #5

"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…

I hope you reply to lloeki. Othersise this looks ridiculously obnoxious of you.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by harry8 »

lloeki wrote: post #46
harry8 wrote: post #5

"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 throwed away their cigarette packs, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get that one last cig with a friend then do it. Others never started to smoke. Life is fine without smoking, if you feel you want to stop smoking, do it. Footage at 11. > 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 ta…

Yup and Facebook would like you to believe it's hard. Cigarette companies encouraged the "I can't quit..." Idea too. If you fail once, twice, eleven times. Try again, keep trying, quitting cigs is really worth the effort. Each failed attempt to quit cigs you learn something you can use to succeed in the future.

I don't care for Facebook, I doubt they cause you heart disease etc. Not sure how empathetic it is to those who've watched people they love die in a cancer ward to suggest a website is equivalent. But hey, make the case if you want to...

After all a couple of thousand bucks of Russian advertising on Facebook decided the election. Facebook admit it with no ulterior motive at all.

Think of it a small thing and it probably is. Maybe it will be as big as MySpace one day...

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by KGIII »

seanwilson wrote: post #48
T-zex wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Are people that can't be bothered to mail you a letter really your friend? Facebook is an efficient form of communication that the vast majority of people use. I'd expect close friends to go out of their way to contact me but you have to accept that by not using Facebook you're going to miss out on things and creating an inconvenience for people. SMS and email aren't as efficient for arranging group events.

2 billion monthly users, as of mid-2017 and according to Google. Maybe there's something to the idea that it is losing popularity? That doesn't seem like a vast majority and I seem to recall higher reported numbers in the past. I haven't paid too much attention, however.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by exergy »

avip wrote: post #18

Please change the title. yet-another-random-dude-closes-his-fb-account. He did not close his medium account though, so he can blog about his amazing journey clicking few buttons on a webform.

Plus, it seems like he deactivated it instead of deleting it. Which basically is the equivalent of logging out, from the user's perspective. So all the pomp and circumstance and the quoting of Trump and Snowden seems even more ridiculous to me. Like, have the balls to fucking do it properly.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by seanwilson »

exergy wrote: post #55
seanwilson wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are people that can't be bothered to mail you a letter really your friend? Facebook is an efficient form of communication that the vast majority of people use. I'd expect close friends to go out of their way to contact me but you have to accept that by not using Facebook you're going to miss out on things and creating an inconvenience for people. SMS and email aren't as efficient for arranging group events.

> by not using Facebook you're going to miss out on things This is the beginning and the end of all the thought that should be put into this matter. Missing things is not the end of the world, since there is so much to do in life anyway. More importantly, I think the benefits of fb are greatly exaggerated. In Europe at least, it seems the de facto standard are whatsapp groups of close friends, and that's where things…

> > by not using Facebook you're going to miss out on things

> This is the beginning and the end of all the thought that should be put into this matter. Missing things is not the end of the world, since there is so much to do in life anyway.

Missing out on things isn't the end of the world but what's the big deal of keeping up with what's going on? It's minimal effort to be signed up to Facebook so you can receive messages and event invites.

> More importantly, I think the benefits of fb are greatly exaggerated. In Europe at least, it seems the de facto standard are whatsapp groups of close friends, and that's where things get arranged. Even wedding invites are generally sent out over emails nowadays.

So if Facebook was the de facto standard for communication where you live you'd be OK with it? My point is just use what your friends are using to keep in touch and don't make a big deal about it. If Facebook, WhatsApp or whatever is having a large unhealthy influence on your life that's something you should fix about yourself.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by fraqed »

Chris2048 wrote: post #51
lloeki wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Many people have throwed away their cigarette packs, it's not a big deal, you just announce you're going to do it, get that one last cig with a friend then do it. Others never started to smoke. Life is fine without smoking, if you feel you want to stop smoking, do it. Footage at 11. > 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 ta…

Are you saying FB is as addictive as nicotine?

CBC radio had an interesting interview with Franklin Foer this past weekend. He makes that argument during the interview and presumably in his book World Without Mind.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-...

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by topmonk »

__BrianDGLS__ wrote: post #32

"I Quit Facebook", do you want a gold star?

Man quits social media site and brags about it on social media.

Too bad he couldn't find a way to post his medium page on Facebook. He would have gotten more attention that way.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by MaddAgent »

commenter1 wrote: post #31

I never joined any social media site, but you don't see me making useless blog posts about it.

Me neither - I resisted joining Facebook from day one. I never felt the need nor do I feel like I'm missing anything! At the end of the day its just a personal choice and I also don't feel the need to tell everyone about it (current post excepted of course! but this is literally the first time I have ever mentioned it in any kind of forum/post)
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