Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

391–400 of 408 posts

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

#391

Post by cortesoft »

anonu wrote: post #359
cortesoft wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Sure, close friends and family will invite you to their social events, but more distant acquaintances will not; you know, the bloke you met at the pub last week and had a 20 minute chat with, or that cute girl you talked to but then she suddenly she was dragged off to a birthday party by her friends. By missing out on the social opportunities you lose the chance to upgrade these people from acquaintances to friends…

From your comment and the one right above, it seems that you two are at very different life junctures. If you're married with kids, Facebook is probably the last thing you need to bother with. If you're single and looking to socialize, Facebook is probably a great enabler.

Yeah, I understand that needs vary widely based on life stage. I realize many people want those things, I just was hoping to point out that for some of us, those things sound horrible.

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

#392

Post by frereubu »

ishan_chhabra wrote: post #386
frereubu wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of interesting, but then what's the point of Facebook? Asides from invitations - which, perhaps naively, this friend did through a post in his feed - the only thing that I'd be interested by is maintaining a light-touch connection with friends who are overseas by looking at their posts in the news feed.

Biggest use cases for me has been events and groups. 1. Events: Facebook's provides a streamlined experience for hosting events and all my friends use it for birthday parties, house warming and so on. 2. Groups: Facebook's group experience is quite good and I am a part of 4 groups of like minded people that I get to have conversations with quite frequently.

Makes sense in terms of network effects I guess. I wonder where the tipping point is when enough people aren't on Facebook so people go back to other services and / or email.

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

#394

Post by iKevinShah »

Late to the party but yes, not only did I delete Facebook (which provided me updates about my friends' lives [mostly superficial]) but also deleted instagram, twitter and LinkedIN.

Just coz I did not think they provided value compared to the effort I had to put in, at least on LinkedIN.

It was weird initially just unlocking the cellphone and not having that now-learned-pattern of unlock->facebook subconsciously and then do whatever I was going to do.

Do I miss it? No. Do I miss updates? Yes.

A lot of times my friends msg me (SMS / Whatsapp mostly) that so and so has happened so get in touch with the person to congratulate / condolences. I fear the that once my friends stop informing me and I'll be uninformed of anything major regarding any of the acquaintances, for real.

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

#396

Post by LifeQuestioner »

twodave wrote: post #286

I quit using Facebook in early 2014. I asked them to delete my account. Later, in 2017, I logged into Spotify for the first time ever, using the same email I had registered with Facebook in the past. Magically my account was restored and linked to Spotify. After that I was sort of at a loss, but I did delete my account again this year after seeing a link on a thread here that claimed it would “really” allow me to del…

i had this issue.

I just asked spotify to remove the link to my bf and for me to use another email. Now fb is no longer connected to my spotify

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

#397

Post by seppin »

frereubu wrote: post #370
seppin wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I missed my friend's 50th birthday party because I wasn't on Facebook Hate to break it to you, but he's not really your friend. You would have known about it directly or through someone else if so. Facebook is for finding out about events / people who aren't close to you, but you're still interested in. That's its value.

Funnily enough I can categorically say that's not true. He's one of my closest friends, was extremely upset that I wasn't there, and was kicking himself for months afterwards for the lazy assumption. The almost total ubiquity of Facebook leads to an assumption that everyone is on there. Hopefully that's going to change over the next few years, but there are hard lessons along the way.

Do you ever talk with him directly, via sms or whatsapp? How often? Was the party really never brought up?

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

#399

Post by subpixel »

zapzupnz wrote: post #263
subpixel wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Putting myself on radio silence is not an option. You're (deeply) conflating disconnecting from FB with disconnecting from communication. These are not remotely the same thing. My family and friends know I'm not on FB and so they call me, they text me, they even email me. In 3+ years the fact that I'm not in FB has presented zero difficulty for me or the people and groups I want to communicate with.

> You're (deeply) conflating disconnecting from FB with disconnecting from communication. These are not remotely the same thing. Nobody I know uses email for actual communication, and no amount of me sending them emails is likely to change that. Further, I don't pay for therefore don't use text messages, and the majority of people I know don't use Apple devices so can't use a free service like iMessage to contact me.…

Paraphrased as: "I can't disconnect from FB or I wont' be able to communicate with anyone. No options exist!"

If everyone thought that way we'd be in sorry shape. Oh, wait...

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

#400

Post by jeff8754445 »

hello guys am Bob,i hired a professional hacker,when i suspect my wife was cheating on me.it all started when she changed her phone code,i tried talking to her about it this but she won’t accept the fact that she was cheating on me. all thanks to {spylordhack at gmail dot com} who helped by hacking my wife mobile,i get to know she was cheating for so long,though i was so sad but everything because i love her so much but am also happy am over it. if you need help you should contact spylord OR text +1(502) 353-0457 i referred you in..
Post reply on HN