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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 dang »

rubatuga wrote: post #52
scarejunba wrote: post #41

I 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.

Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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Post by chambo622 »

gammateam wrote: post #56
chambo622 wrote: post #55

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If I could keep Messenger + Events and get rid of the rest, I'd do so immediately.

You can use Messenger with just a phone number, like whatsapp There is/was a Facebook Group app, where its just the groups

The former, yes. But afaik the Facebook Groups or Local (Events) apps require a full account.

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

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

rippeltippel wrote: post #21
ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #15

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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...

I do enjoy cooking but when someone wants to deliver a delicious breakfast to my door on a Sunday morning then I want to know about it :D

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

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

mesarvagya wrote: post #32
ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #15

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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.

I could do, my big issue though was the time I was wasting on there rather than concerns over personal info.

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

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

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

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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.

That is a fantastic idea

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

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Post by danburzo »

ilikehurdles wrote: post #138
danburzo wrote: post #76

I quit Facebook before GDPR came into effect, so it's heartening to see FB now has better export tools. At the beginning of the year I had to write my own: https://github.com/danburzo/fb-export

Facebook had this a year ago as well. I quit and exported my data at the beginning of 2017. I actually only just looked at the export after reading this hn post. Up until now I just kept it zipped as a backup "just in case". Looking back at all the things I used to share and participate in on social media just reconfirms my decision to ditch it.

I may be wrong, but I think up to GDPR compliance, you'd only get a meager HTML file that was not machine-readable, and some (but not all) of the images?

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

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Post by welly »

gaius wrote: post #59
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…

I wrote up my own quitting FB approach here https://gaius.tech/2017/12/29/less-facebook-more-faces-and-b... I still use Insta and WhatsApp tho’ so I am not entirely free but FB is the biggest time sink for sure.

Please don't take this the wrong way but writing a blog explaining to people how to quit Facebook is surely much like teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?

Surely it is nothing more than "Delete facebook account"?

That's what I did two years ago. No fanfare, just "Delete facebook account". A number of friends have since asked "Have you quit facebook?" "Yes" but that's been about the only repercussion.

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

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Post by oska »

eeZah7Ux wrote: post #153
dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #65

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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.

Intolerant minorities have a lot of power to effect change.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

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

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

Fnoord wrote: post #159
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.

Hah. Odd comment since I specifically explained how I don’t use Facebook, but thanks for the recommendation! I’ve found reddit’s /r/vegan to be good. They have a regular discussion post and I’ve had some nice conversations there.

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

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Post by davchana »

jameskegel wrote: post #129
davchana wrote: post #98

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I too, about 1.5 years agi, realised that facebook & orkut is consuming too much time of mine, kind of addictive. I coldly uninstalled app, logged out everywhere. Felt so free. Then found reddit & hackernews, & now again whenever I feel i am spending too much time, I just delete the shortcuts of these from my most-recent-tabs.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard someone say Orkut was a time monopolizer. Can you share a bit about your background and use for this network?

Orkut was a massive hit in my college from about 2002 (? I think), till facebook arrived in 2008. Everything was in communities, similar to facebook groups, & personal profile pages were great too. You could even see who visited your profile page, so people used to control themselves from visiting their crush's profile too often. Obviously no smartphones then, so most of the time it was on computers only.

Communities were for favorite quotes, singers, feelings, persons, subjects etc.

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