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Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by sudont »

apotheon wrote: post #50
sudont wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Um, the close friends (people I knew for four+ years) are the people who stopped talking to me after I dropped off of facebook. It was generally a "why aren't you back on facebook" for several months, and then they just stopped responding to texts and emails.

Wow. Seriously, you need a better class of friends. Are you seriously telling me that people won't talk to you in person because you aren't on Facebook? What the hell is wrong with people?

Yes: minus a former roommate, a girl who quit facebook herself, and somebody I worked with.

People at work are suspicious when they find out I'm not on facebook, and try to cajole me into joining.

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by cjeane »

dualboot wrote: post #29
cjeane wrote: post #26

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I agree that FB is dead simple to use; I just wish it was just dead simple to protect my data.

It is simple to protect your data. Don't put anything on Facebook that you want protected.

Yes the only way to be 100% safe is to not use FB. All I'm asking for is a little effort.

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by notyourwork »

nutanc wrote: post #25

Facebook or any other social network works on our egos. We all want to show off how witty we are and how happy we are.Thats why we always see only the happy side of a persons life on any social network. And thats the reason you see only a 'like' button on Facebook. Enable a 'dislike' button and you will see many more dropouts. Actually, we can try one more experiment. The next time we don't like something, we say 'di…

I already do: "I would dislike this if I could".

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by JanezStupar »

Well I guess its time that I start a blog and write a post about how I never started a FB account and how I never bought a TV either.

Damn, my life is completely filled with all the relationship I can muster. I get to get my work done and surf teh web a bit. I also get to exercise some.

In any case the days are still too short for me - why the hell would I want to join the worlds biggest privacy fraud?

Yes I have been smart enough to foresee all the negative sides of it 4 years ago. Ain't I cool?

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by kordless »

markkat wrote: post #27

I quit LinkedIn a couple of days ago. I got a status update of some contact or other, and thought: "What is this? Why do I have this?" I feel much better not having something that felt so obligatory, yet so unlike me. These networks seem to leverage social pressure as much as they solve problems.

I quit FB, but would never quit LinkedIn. It's key to my day to day business relationships.

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by nollidge »

sudont wrote: post #36
zmitri wrote: post #7

I quit using Facebook about 3-4 years ago while I was still in university. Extremely interesting experience.. people I used to be "friends" with got angry at me, people who I had friendly relationships with stopped communicating with me almost immediately, and I no longer received any invitations to any type of social events ( http://www.thewrongbox.ca/videos/iamfacebook ). At first it was a little lonely, but it mad…

Same experience here, as soon as I dropped out of facebook, I was immediately blacklisted in every social circle that used it, even if the primary mode of communication was texting/email. Some op-ed considered dropping out of facebook as a radically anti-social act, and I'd have to agree: you're not considering the group's views on communication, and you're forcing them into a personal world. When the entire social c…

> The hacker sees facebook as personal, and email/phone public. The average person sees facebook as a public place, and email/phone as a personal channel.

Upvoted just for this. Not sure if it's true or not, but it's a provocative thought.

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by markkat »

kordless wrote: post #56
markkat wrote: post #27

I quit LinkedIn a couple of days ago. I got a status update of some contact or other, and thought: "What is this? Why do I have this?" I feel much better not having something that felt so obligatory, yet so unlike me. These networks seem to leverage social pressure as much as they solve problems.

I quit FB, but would never quit LinkedIn. It's key to my day to day business relationships.

I'm in research. PubMed is my LinkedIn. :)
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