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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?

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Post by bigiain »

LargeWu wrote: post #246
bigiain wrote: post #239

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I'm curious - would you be happy mentioning what type/area of business that is? I've heard _way_ more stories of five and six figure Facebook ad spends resulting in zero attributable transactions than success stories. The word on the street I'm hearing is that Instagram is where the conversions are coming from in B2C...

T-shirts. I have a few different niches - one for regional/state pride, one for the band Phish. Honestly I would have expected Instagram to deliver since it's such a visual medium, but it hasn't so far. It could definitely be my creative; it's possible Instagram requires a higher quality than I'm posting. But I would be surprised if there was an appreciable difference between that and FB

Thanks. Interesting to know...

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Post by 50656E6973 »

fooker wrote: post #227
ashelmire wrote: post #190

Deleted in 2017! Life’s been great since. I’ve taken a bunch of classes, read a bunch of books, and I’m no longer plagued by the political and social ideas of the uneducated on a regular basis.

> I’m no longer plagued by the political and social ideas of the uneducated on a regular basis. My condolences. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap."

-Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

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Post by nstart »

No. But I've

1. got it logged out on devices.

2. Wrote a script and used it to unfollow all the people and pages I follow.

3. Clicked not interested for a few days after on any ads or things that FB tried to still force into my news feed

1 month later I found I have no urge to visit the network anymore. I pop over there once a week or so when I want to check the FB page of a restaurant or to see events happening around me but I'm 100% in control of how I use the network.

I'd love to delete it for privacy reasons, but there's a lot of value to be had in the network which I can't truly be rid of.

Some other notes: FB's behaviour becomes pathologically "interesting" when it senses it's losing your engagement. You get to see just how many paths it tries to take to draw you back in. Right now it's down to what I believe is the last resort. My notifications are filled up whenever I choose to login to FB. And they are filled with "person X posted something". I never click them but I imagine that to someone still trying to wean themselves off FB, it'd be an effective way of trying to pull them back in.

Re: Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

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Post by u801e »

I thought about it, but I came across some interesting groups that shared the same interests I do and I now primarily log into facebook to check what has been posted in those groups, responding to comments on my comments and commenting on other discussions.

Before I came across those groups, I would occasionally log in and see what on the newsfeed. Now I don't really remember the last time I checked my news feed.

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Post by unknownkadath »

nradov wrote: post #259
IIAOPSW wrote: post #173

I got banned from facebook this year. So some background. I used facebook as a normal user from 2010 to 2012. I thought it was stupid on day 1 but was peer pressured into it (thanks high school) and by 2012 I still thought it was stupid and useless so I quit. At various intervals between 2012 and now I've had shitposting accounts. Fake names and fake pictures but most people in the friends list knew who was behind th…

You're not actually as cool and edgy as you think you are. No one is impressed.

You are wrong. The poster entertained me with their story of subversion, and I also quite enjoyed the "jiggling his willy" metaphor.

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Post by mcny »

Spooky23 wrote: post #257
frereubu wrote: post #198

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I missed my friend's 50th birthday party because I wasn't on Facebook (haven't been for around 3-4 years), and he assumed that everyone he wanted there was. That stung enough for me to think about it, but whenever I see people scrolling through their feeds there's so much drivel that I immediately go off the idea again.

I missed my good friend’s moms funeral because Facebook decided that 2016 election bullshit was more worthy of my attention. I’m sure he thinks that I’m a real heel as a result. Screw Facebook.

If he didn't message you or at least mention you, he has no right to be upset at you.

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Post by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC »

jolmg wrote: post #216
kaybe wrote: post #128

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It's not fair game in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy at least, unless you're a person of public interest. I'm not sure how Facebook handles that. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild (sorry, no English)

If I look in google for pictures of those places there are plenty of people in them. I'm talking pictures of streets full of people or cool looking buildings with lots of people sitting around in the grass. I don't imagine the photographer went to talk to each person all the way to the horizon to ask permission, and I imagine, in the time one sets up the camera, multiple people probably enter and leave the view. Ther…

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild_(Deutsch...

You don't have to worry about that legally.

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