Deleting Facebook permanently • Hacker News Board

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by Shared404 » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:15 PM UTC

Cmortoc wrote: post #22

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

What are you all using instead?

I don't use it, but most of my peers would use Snapchat instead. It doesn't fill the exact same role, but it's the closest I can think of.

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by paxys » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:15 PM UTC

Cmortoc wrote: post #22

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

What are you all using instead?

Group texts became the preferred social media platform a few years ago, which is why Facebook bought WhatsApp.

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:15 PM UTC

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

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Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by sitzkrieg » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

deleted mine many years ago, only thing I feel like im missing out on is marketplace. had a much easier time selling random stuff there vs all other alternatives, but good riddance

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by lhorie » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

Cmortoc wrote: post #22

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

What are you all using instead?

Same boat. I mostly use WhatsApp (though, honestly, I don't use it regularly). My wife also uses WeChat.

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by 101008 » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

Almost same for me. People on my network are all relatives +40 years old who share news, political images/memes, and lost dog announcements. Young people dont use it anymore, maybe only for events (not one this year).

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by rubyn00bie » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

Kind of a tangent...

But, with all the people I know who don't have a Facebook at this point, I'm gonna just say I have zero confidence most of their users aren't bots. I would be surprised if FB had a billion real users at this point. It should literally be close to impossible to find folks without them in western countries, statistically, but it's not. It's becoming easier and more common... or folks just lie about not having facebook for some reason (which is plausible though very weird).

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by Shared404 » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

rasengan wrote: post #26

Deleting Facebook/Instagram/etc will give you your life back.

How does one delete HN? :P

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

ChicagoDave wrote: post #24

I suspect most people If you want to get out of the FB world, you need to delete FB and IG.

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Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by paxys » Wed, Jan 06, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #15

I’ve become throughly convinced that the only way to dethrone Facebook is by creating the Next Big Thing and being crazy (and well-funded) enough to reject any acquisitions on the way up. “Delete your Facebook” social movements are doomed from the start. Social trends seem to come in waves, and people get bored quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised if the world tires of today’s brand of social media in a decade or two. Th…

Snapchat and TikTok both did exactly that.