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Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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

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Post by iamjaredwalters »

woweeeee wrote: post #16
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?

The data may ultimately belong to Facebook but Whatsapp is not the same as Facebook.

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

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Post by pera »

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.

You can always send them a message asking for their email addresses or phone numbers before deleting your account.

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

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Post by Treegarden »

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…

I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.

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

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Post by salmonfamine »

theCricketer wrote: post #12

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…

You cited the extension but did not link it. I'm interested in it. Could you provide the link?

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

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Post by Treegarden »

pera wrote: post #23
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.

You can always send them a message asking for their email addresses or phone numbers before deleting your account.

That's too inconvenient. The nice part about facebook is that you can forget about people, but then they post a status update that they are currently somewhere in your country and you can meet them.
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