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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 gfo »

doon123 wrote: post #8

There is a IPCC report out today about climate change and how it would destroy the world as we know it. Yet, people are more worried about Facebook! Amazing!!!

Facebook is a great place to get that message out, but it's only an echo chamber for ideologies. I guarantee those who don't believe in climate change are only seeing articles about why the IPCC report is wrong (note: this is an example, NOT my personal feeling).

I would argue Facebook is making the problem worse by making it very easy spread misinformation.

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

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Post by hhjinks »

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…

Isn't that done sufficiently by just adding all your acquaintances as friends? There are probably a dozen or so people on Facebook whose posts I actually care about. Everything else I could hardly give a shit about.

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

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Post by eeZah7Ux »

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #65
TomMarius wrote: post #61

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Many interesting events in my area are propagated on FB exclusively, including meetups of my friends :-/

Be the change. People are lazy in general and will use whatever is easy and others use not giving too much thought to consequences. In my circles I always openly say "I'd love to, but I don't use Facebook" - so if someone wants to have me included, they need to think about a more democratic way to include others. It's not egoistic - many other people don't use FB either. Excluding them just because a group of people…

> Be the change. [...] > I always openly say "I'd love to, but I don't use Facebook"

It's called network effect and works by majority.

If most of your peers keeps using $foo you can only choose between using it or being left out - both are options that one dislikes.

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

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Post by jvagner »

CPLX wrote: post #112
SequoiaHope wrote: post #46

I just wanted to say that I walked away from Facebook about a year and a half ago now. I didn’t delete it, I just logged out and uninstalled the mobile app. It’s all been totally fine. The most social social media I use now is reddit, where I’m more just talking to people. I don’t post status updates anywhere, and often amazing things happen to me that I never tell anyone about. I eat great meals and don’t share. I b…

Interesting. I've experimented with deleting or going cold turkey from various social platforms over the past year or so to see how it affected my life. After a fair bit of experimentation it seems that deleting Twitter, and blocking Reddit, have been the two things that have most improved my mental state. Just a guess but I feel like the combination of endlessness (you can literally just scroll/browse forever) and t…

i generally don't have social on my iPhone, but i left it on my iPad. even that distance has been helpful.. i can move around in the world with a phone in my pocket without being triggered/tempted all the time. then when i'm home and feel like being social-media-ish, i do. but the ipad is big enough that it's a more deliberate action to grab it and open the social apps. and since i'm not feeding social from my iPhone -- my engagement potential is quite a bit lower. i'm less invested in it, so i can open, scan and close in ways that were less likely just a while ago.

to the point of younger generations not wanting it: my 14 year old son refuses a phone, and has declared he'll never have a social media account. not sure if that's likely to last forever, but whatever social is these days .. he's highly averse.

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

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Post by PascLeRasc »

bogomipz wrote: post #85
telesilla wrote: post #78

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>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 really admire what a family friend did after she had a baby. She isn't posting any photos of him on social media, and says it's because he can't consent to have his photos shared publicly. Lots of her friends keep pestering her saying "I want to see the baby!" and she says they're welcome to come over, and suddenly they don't want to see him that much. They just want something they can click like on.

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

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Post by samat »

bunderbunder wrote: post #130
jameskegel wrote: post #128

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A closed and self hosted family social network without the marketing momentum would be great. Self hosting removes the need for marketing and data sharing shenanigans that most companies require for growth.

My family accomplishes this with a good old-fashioned email distribution list. For the purpose, it works really well, much better than anything else I've seen. It's also not something most people are going to find out about, because, yeah, probably more-or-less impossible to monetize, and therefore ain't gonna be advertised. I've also been involved in some experimentation with private Slack groups, but I can't say it…

We use telegram group chats for that. I guess it would work with WhatsApp too, but sharing pictures and videos on telegram is so quick.

I have 3 separate group chats I share stuff with: 1. Family 2. friends from uni and 3. colleagues from old work.

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

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Post by dorchadas »

cntlzw wrote: post #74

FB is really great about making you feel guilty if you delete the app, don't use the app. You miss your friends, they miss you, you don't get all the news, you feel out of the loop, you are lonely again. Deactivated (not deleted) my account a couple weeks ago. Guess what? Life goes on. Nothing happened. I am still in the loop and I spare a couple minutes per day. Gained a bit more freedom, at least it does feel like…

I got kinda lucky and can now avoid all this. When I first signed up, I used an email address I had in 2007. I now no longer have that one, so can't check it there. The only other email address I ever used with it was my university one, which I needed to join their network. Never added any of the other ones I have, and that one is now deleted. So I never see their endless emails or anything of the such; it's great.

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

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Post by Fnoord »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #46

I just wanted to say that I walked away from Facebook about a year and a half ago now. I didn’t delete it, I just logged out and uninstalled the mobile app. It’s all been totally fine. The most social social media I use now is reddit, where I’m more just talking to people. I don’t post status updates anywhere, and often amazing things happen to me that I never tell anyone about. I eat great meals and don’t share. I b…

If you're new to vegetarianism and veganism I can recommend the Facebook group "Friendly and pragmatic vegans and vegetarians" which is a group where you can find support without the judgemental and elitist attitudes being tolerated. I'm not aware of any such group outside of Facebook.
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