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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 NeedMoreTea »

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…

There was an IPCC story in the top 5 about an hour ago which I can only assume was moderator filtered as it had disappeared entirely a minute or two later when I clicked back to homepage. It wasn't flagged, or further down the pages. Didn't even have chance to attract much in the way of controversy or deniers.

So it may not be that reflective of user sentiment. Very disappointing to see though.

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

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Post by mesarvagya »

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…

Well you can create just a fake account with all fake information and no friends, so you use it just for getting out some information from FB.

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

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Post by Jaruzel »

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.

I applaud this idea, but once you've joined how do you get your friends to follow you? Every so often I get emails like: "Bob invites you to join AwesomeSocialNetwork, click here to join!" and I totally ignore them.

I also wonder if the age of The Social Network is over. If a new better Facebook did come along, people wouldn't join it because deep down they all know that social networking is massive waste of time and will always end up being an endless stream of garbage. The only reason they've not all left Facebook yet, is fear of missing out.

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

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Post by sdeepak »

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.

That's what I felt while leaving facebook. Then we built this because we were frustrated. Just check if this suits you https://pden.xyz

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

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Post by 8note »

greglindahl wrote: post #23
ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

they broke my main use of Facebook for it, which also helps a lot

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

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Post by sdeepak »

Jaruzel wrote: post #33
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.

I applaud this idea, but once you've joined how do you get your friends to follow you? Every so often I get emails like: "Bob invites you to join AwesomeSocialNetwork, click here to join!" and I totally ignore them. I also wonder if the age of The Social Network is over. If a new better Facebook did come along, people wouldn't join it because deep down they all know that social networking is massive waste of time and…

Social networking was never a waste of time. The fact that both of us don't know each other still exchanging ideas is a proof of that. Online social networking gave us the power to find people we might not find otherwise in an all offline world. It all got screwed up when the business models came into play and we became 'products' instead of 'users'. We made https://pden.xyz because we felt a stripped down version of a social network with no like, share counts would work better for us.

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

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Post by sdrothrock »

twblalock wrote: post #29
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…

I don't think this is related to what bfred_it is saying.

To me, he's saying "if you have 1500 friends, use Facebook's follow/unfollow feature to improve your S/N ratio while still being friends with those people." That is, rather than privacy (controlling outgoing information), he's discussing the ability to filter incoming information.

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