Just send them all an email or a last FB message with your contact information. Seriously... you are not that important for 90% of the people in your FB contacts to care about. Go outside and get some fresh air and enjoy life. the people who you really matter to will either email or call you.
Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?
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#42I 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.
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#43Mastodon? It is decentralized. So, you can create your own instance and get everyone you know added to that instance.
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#44https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi...
YOU are the next Zuck.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
WhatsApp You know that's still Facebook, rrriiiight?
True, but it does have end-to-end encryption so their ability to leak or abuse your data is a lot more limited.
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#48While 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…
> [I unfollowed all my friends] [...] I still get to use it as a address book. I'm not understanding something here. Is that an empty address book, or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to? I was under the impression that the default information visible to folks not on your "Friends" list was pretty limited, which is why [Cambridge Analytica/Kogan] needed to use an…
Unfollowing removes someone's posts from your wall but they remain connected as friends. (You can also like a page and unfollow it)
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#50While 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…
> [I unfollowed all my friends] [...] I still get to use it as a address book. I'm not understanding something here. Is that an empty address book, or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to? I was under the impression that the default information visible to folks not on your "Friends" list was pretty limited, which is why [Cambridge Analytica/Kogan] needed to use an…