I stopped using Facebook by deleting the app and only using the messenger app and messenger.com
There a GDPR notification pending every time I login to Facebook. I don’t really care to deal with it, so now I can’t use Facebook or Messenger.
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
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
>when cool things happen I share them with the people I’m around I really expect the next generation (I guess, kids born in the last 8 years) to launch a major backlash against over-sharing and pretty go back to the roots of relationships: exactly how you said it.
That that would also be a generation who had their baby and childhood pictures unwittingly shared and now owned by social media companies. This is something I find really strange and unsettling.
I don't know why you've been downvoted, when you make a good point.
I do think that for young people, "the people who is around" will not be necessarily people near in the physical world. Teenagers mainly communicate through chat groups, and work trends don't seem to go towards encouraging more physical presence.
Thus a reaction against current social networks would take the form of using more private, ephemeral channels (think Snapchat), and reduced, more controlled usage of public-facing ones (Tweeter, Facebook, Instagram).
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likewise. I'm still on Instagram and Whatsapp... But in terms of controlling the content you see, Instagram and Whatsapp are a lot more manageable compared to Facebook - especially considering the state my FB was in. I'm trying to win my friends over to use Telegram instead. It's miles ahead of Whatsapp in my opinion.
What is the long-term expectation of Telegram, once the current funding promise runs out?
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/telegram-open-network
Probably this. It makes sense considering all the other stuff they have done.
Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos
#104This doesn't actually answer the issue posed in the title, "How not to lose your friends". I was expecting at least a little discussion on how to replace Facebook friends, how to stay connected, alternatives etc.
Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos
#105This doesn't actually answer the issue posed in the title, "How not to lose your friends". I was expecting at least a little discussion on how to replace Facebook friends, how to stay connected, alternatives etc.
Text message. Just text them. You can send funny pictures. You can have group chats. You get all of this as part of your unlimited texting plan that's probably laying fallow.
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#106Why do people care about the photos? There's a Lewis Black joke where he opines on this exact same thing: "I didn't even like looking at my family photo album". Why not close the account and never look back without regard to the photos?
There seems to be a belief that holding someone in your list of contacts is equivalent to being their friend. You're not. You're an entry in a really small Rolodex. If you haven't actually personally spoken with them in a few months, you are dusty card in that Rolodex. Burn the pile and let those relationships that matter emerge from the ash.
Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
>when cool things happen I share them with the people I’m around I really expect the next generation (I guess, kids born in the last 8 years) to launch a major backlash against over-sharing and pretty go back to the roots of relationships: exactly how you said it.
That that would also be a generation who had their baby and childhood pictures unwittingly shared and now owned by social media companies. This is something I find really strange and unsettling.
Yes it's so unsettling that their parents privately shared photos and videos of then with family members and friends. They will be horrified of this, I'm sure.
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#108I 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 didn't need to do that - the updates from my friends are boring/annoying enough that I avoid FB and mute virtually everyone.
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#109I just have a single strike policy for most of my friends. I unfollow anyone as soon as they post something I don't want to see. I don't tell them, obviously. It works quite well. Scrolled down just now and saw one post of someone running a 10k, a complaint about not having a holiday on Monday (haha), an ad from Triplebyte, a photo of the SpaceX rocket launch visible from the city, pictures from Yosemite, a birthday,…
Wow, I’m getting some odd vibes off of you. Would hate to be your friend.
> I'm interested in bioinformatics and medicine.
"vibes"
Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos
#110Walking away from social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram was one best things I could do to reduce the negativity in my life.