Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#11

Post by drukenemo » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

Call a good friend for a coffee face to face.

I quit Facebook months ago, and guess what, no one cared. I keep contact with REAL friends far away via email or Whatsapp. For local friends I use Whatsapp and meet in person. There is no NEED for a true Facebook replacement.

But to be honest, I created a new account, with a fake name and won't add anyone to it. The goal is to track some events and key communities I like to interact with. But I've added no personal data to this account and only log on to it on a less used web browser and don't use it in my mobile. I also use the following add-ons to prevent any Facebook tracking: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and uMatrix. Probably overkilling it.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#12

Post by theCricketer » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

While I am not a fan of Facebook myself for the all reasons recently talked about and the addicting nature of it, yes the self updating address book part is nice. Here's what I did: I got a Chrome extention[1] that unfollows all my friends. I've also unliked every Facebook Page that I used to like. This means my feed is now totally empty. When I login from anywhere there is nothing in my feed. Also I rarely ever get notifications, except when someone adds me as a friend. This way the feed is gone, there's nothing to be addicted to (feed was my main addiction), its very hard to get back because it involves re-following 100s of people which my lazy mind won't do and Facebook doesn't make any money off me (no feed, no ads). So I still get to use it as a address book.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#13

Post by TeeWEE » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

I wanted to remove facebook, but i can't I will lose connections to friends I met outside my home country. Its kind of the internal person-service that i can't live without currently.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#14

Post by hprotagonist » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

Freenode's nice!

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#15

Post by glitcher » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

For a walk.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#16

Post by woweeeee » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

drukenemo wrote: post #11

Call a good friend for a coffee face to face. I quit Facebook months ago, and guess what, no one cared. I keep contact with REAL friends far away via email or Whatsapp. For local friends I use Whatsapp and meet in person. There is no NEED for a true Facebook replacement. But to be honest, I created a new account, with a fake name and won't add anyone to it. The goal is to track some events and key communities I like…

  WhatsApp

You know that's still Facebook, rrriiiight?

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#17

Post by shortoncash » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

Strava became my FB substitute, oddly enough. It's the only social network I really like and wish I could spend more time on.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#18

Post by icebraining » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

TeeWEE wrote: post #13

I wanted to remove facebook, but i can't I will lose connections to friends I met outside my home country. Its kind of the internal person-service that i can't live without currently.

Can't you ask them for alternative contacts?

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#19

Post by excalibur » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

HN of course.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

#20

Post by Treegarden » Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 4:04 PM UTC

post_break wrote: post #10

I use email and text message to keep in touch now. Or Telegram (funny how that has double meaning).

There is nothing I hate more then writing on my phone. In general I much prefer meeting someone face to face, but at least on my pc my keyboard it is much easier and faster to write a message.