Yes but I still have my Instagram account. Deleting my account was a cross between protest and lack of use.
Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
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Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#22Yes. I deleted everything except LinkedIn this year. I will delete that soon. I wish I could delete everything including this site...
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#23yes, and i blocked all of their ips in my /etc/host file also. i still use whatapp to talk to people in other parts of the world, but not too often.
my advice to people that say they need it to keep in contact with family - try something like groupme, you do not need facebook
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#24I did not, but I most certainly do not "use" it anymore, aside from the very occasional checkup on old friends (who still use Facebook and no other platforms), and the occasional laugh when an older relative posts "Happy birthay!" on their own wall unintentionally.
I have also made sure that I no longer use Facebook authentication on any other sites.
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#25No, but further reduced my use of it, Instagram and Whatsapp. It's not like deleting is likely to actually do very much anyway...
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#26No, but I stopped opening the webpage/app about 2 months ago.
Interestingly, the first couple of weeks FB started emailing me whenever someone acted in my feed.. posts, comments, likes, etc. FB is mostly a ghost town for me now so it was interesting to see how desperate it looks when I got an email that someone I hadn't talked to in years "liked a post."
In the past week or so, FB has started texted me these updates. I assume they have some data that says it only takes one time opening the app to get someone re-engaged.
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#27Yes. I deleted everything except LinkedIn this year. I will delete that soon. I wish I could delete everything including this site...
Why this site ?
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#28YES. I disabled it, and no longer use it. I did not delete it altogether, because all of my contacts are on Facebook Messenger. Honestly, my general happiness rose about 10% after leaving FB. It's trash for the brain, and hurts more than it helps. Get rid of it.
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#29Deleted it years ago, been actively pushing the people I’m close with on to Signal, and setting up new chat groups there.
Signal is great, easy, private with no data mining, and we all have messages set to self delete after a week.
Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
#30In the midwest ( a place before people have had a mass exodus ), Facebook still serves a purpose as somewhat of the white pages, in that everyone you have ever known at least has an account. It is a single place to find everyone.
If you delete your account, which I did in about 2006 and maybe again in 2008 or so, people thought I specifically unfriended only them, and were mad at me.
I would love to see the network (list of people), and connections (friends) to be separated from facebook itself.. so that you could use different websites to still find the full list of people and friends, but didn't need to go through facebook for everything.