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How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by rippeltippel »

ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #15
amirathi wrote: post #7

I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal. How? I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in…

I found just deleting the app on my phone was a great way to cut the habit of opening it every time I looked at my phone. I thought I was about ready to delete it after a few days but then suddenly realised that without it I would lose touch with a heap of businesses around town, food trucks, nice takeaways etc, that I wouldn't otherwise know about. Deleting the app has easily cut 90% of the time I was spending on fa…

Why don't you learn to cook? I've heard of a nice cooking enthusiasts group on FB... oh, wait...

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by greglindahl »

doon123 wrote: post #19
saagarjha wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t we be worried about both?

Well, considering that the IPCC story is nowhere to be seen on the front page and this being at the top, shows how much general HN crowd worries about Climate change as compared to Facebook. Such Myopia is what has landed us in this crisis in the first place. But you should not bother. Go worry about the useless photos that you first upload to facebook and then wonder what a for profit company is going to do with all…

The IPCC report is currently # 29.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by greglindahl »

ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #15
amirathi wrote: post #7

I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal. How? I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in…

I found just deleting the app on my phone was a great way to cut the habit of opening it every time I looked at my phone. I thought I was about ready to delete it after a few days but then suddenly realised that without it I would lose touch with a heap of businesses around town, food trucks, nice takeaways etc, that I wouldn't otherwise know about. Deleting the app has easily cut 90% of the time I was spending on fa…

I made myself only use FB via mbasic.facebook.com, it's an awkward enough interface that it helps me minimize using it.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by bfred_it »

Accepting 1500 friends and then complaining they’re too many. Who’s to blame here?

Facebook is what you make of it. It offers relatively granular control over who you want to see so if even you must be friends with someone, you can still unfollow them.

Surely the default is a bit annoying, especially when joining groups, but those can be unfollowed too.

The only thing I can complain about is “your friend reacted to or commented on some post” I don’t care about. That’s Facebook’s fault but your friends are your fault. Most of the time I add friends and promptly unfollow them because they share memes.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by clusmore »

philliphaydon wrote: post #10

I’d love to make a dumb social network which could import friends/photos/videos from a Facebook export. Which just shows photos videos and comments/posts. Ditched the shares, likes, and all the other crap. And was just a place where we can keep in touch with people. And leave it at that.

Serious question: How would such a platform be significantly better than email? I'm genuinely curious as to what features of social networks people think can't be fulfilled by email. The only issue I have with email is convincing other people to use it for sharing their life, rather than/as well as on Facebook, but I would have exactly the same problem with a brand new social network.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by jypepin »

amirathi wrote: post #7

I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal. How? I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in…

That's an interesting strategy and I can't doubt that it works 100%, because, although I used to spend a lot of time on facebook, I find my feed more and more irrelevant now while not liking much irrelevant things.

What has been told in Snapchat's leaked memo really resonates to me despite me not using Snapchat - Facebook has become to impersonal to me. I have too many friends, most of them I don't want to loose, because they are family, old friend, (former) coworkers, etc. but that also mean that I use facebook as an address book more than anything else. I don't browse it and I don't post on it.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by twblalock »

philliphaydon wrote: post #10

I’d love to make a dumb social network which could import friends/photos/videos from a Facebook export. Which just shows photos videos and comments/posts. Ditched the shares, likes, and all the other crap. And was just a place where we can keep in touch with people. And leave it at that.

Wasn't that MySpace? Facebook superseded that model because the general public prefers Facebook.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by ronaldl93 »

philliphaydon wrote: post #10

I’d love to make a dumb social network which could import friends/photos/videos from a Facebook export. Which just shows photos videos and comments/posts. Ditched the shares, likes, and all the other crap. And was just a place where we can keep in touch with people. And leave it at that.

Exactly.. Kinda go back to the basics of what facebook was back in the day.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by twblalock »

bfred_it wrote: post #24

Accepting 1500 friends and then complaining they’re too many. Who’s to blame here? Facebook is what you make of it. It offers relatively granular control over who you want to see so if even you must be friends with someone, you can still unfollow them. Surely the default is a bit annoying, especially when joining groups, but those can be unfollowed too. The only thing I can complain about is “your friend reacted to o…

> Facebook is what you make of it. It offers relatively granular control over who you want to see so if even you must be friends with someone, you can still unfollow them.

Recent events have demonstrated that the privacy controls are not what people think they are. Cambridge Analytica was able to access data belonging to the friends of people who granted certain permissions, and there was a recent data breach caused by a bug in an impersonation feature. Advertisers are able to see quite a lot of information too.

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