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I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since

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Re: I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since

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Post by ccktlmazeltov »

bigbugbag wrote: post #105
ccktlmazeltov wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would anyone want to get rid of Whastapp.

Because facebook. Also security issues, lack of privacy, lack of proper encryption, censorship, etc. among a long trail of reasons. Also whatsapp founder quitting and leaving 850millions dollars on the table doing so over the way facebook makes money out of whatsapp and for th way facebook made him mislead the european commission to have them green light the sale of whatsapp to facebook. He also called repeatedly for…

whatsApp is end-to-end encrypted and has better encryption than most secure messaging (cough telegram). So stop spreading FUD.

It's also not related to the Facebook app so it makes no sense.

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Scarbutt wrote: post #68
ccktlmazeltov wrote: post #51

Recently I went to Milan and remembered that I had a good friend there. I tried to reach out to him on Facebook and it turns out that he had deleted his account. I couldn't reach out to him again because I never knew his email, or really had much friends in common. It was pretty sad when I think about it. I'm happy that with Facebook I can still keep in touch with most of my friends that I made around the world trave…

Why didn't you ask him for his email?

Because no one uses email anymore? How old are you?

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Post by ccktlmazeltov »

andrewzah wrote: post #59
ccktlmazeltov wrote: post #51

Recently I went to Milan and remembered that I had a good friend there. I tried to reach out to him on Facebook and it turns out that he had deleted his account. I couldn't reach out to him again because I never knew his email, or really had much friends in common. It was pretty sad when I think about it. I'm happy that with Facebook I can still keep in touch with most of my friends that I made around the world trave…

Wechat/Line/Kakaotalk handle this without the damages of Facebook and the like. At least for KakaoTalk, it's not a "social network" in the same way your contacts list isn't one, but since everyone [in Korea] is on Kakaotalk it makes adding and maintaining friends easy. You don't have to worry about people deleting their accounts because there's nothing -to- delete an account over; it's just a chat app that everyone u…

> Wechat/Line/Kakaotalk

not really, nobody use these apps outside of their respective countries

Re: I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since

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Post by ccktlmazeltov »

bigbugbag wrote: post #88
ccktlmazeltov wrote: post #51

Recently I went to Milan and remembered that I had a good friend there. I tried to reach out to him on Facebook and it turns out that he had deleted his account. I couldn't reach out to him again because I never knew his email, or really had much friends in common. It was pretty sad when I think about it. I'm happy that with Facebook I can still keep in touch with most of my friends that I made around the world trave…

As someone who clearly saw the shortcomings of facebook from the get go and as a consequence never bother to register, I wonder what are the upsides you mention. Facebook is mostly a birthday reminder feature hidden in a glorified walled garden email, its whole point is vacuuming personal data and find ways to make as much profit as possible with it. IMHO email is vastly superior to facebook as it is open and offers…

I guess you need friends to understand this

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

One evening, I deleted my Reddit account when I realized I was angry responding to some insignificant comment.

I also realized that the hundred thousands points I had mean exactly nothing.

It was a relief beyond what I expected.

I created a new account for the only sake to ask questions on the tech subreds which are of interest. I do not read r/all and other similar trash subreds

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Post by andrewzah »

ccktlmazeltov wrote: post #243
andrewzah wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wechat/Line/Kakaotalk handle this without the damages of Facebook and the like. At least for KakaoTalk, it's not a "social network" in the same way your contacts list isn't one, but since everyone [in Korea] is on Kakaotalk it makes adding and maintaining friends easy. You don't have to worry about people deleting their accounts because there's nothing -to- delete an account over; it's just a chat app that everyone u…

> Wechat/Line/Kakaotalk not really, nobody use these apps outside of their respective countries

Well, yes. But -inside- those countries, everyone uses them. Obviously it only really applies if you live there.
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