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Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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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…

I would love in some alternate timeline for someone to create a website called deletefacebook.com or something similar that allows people to create a profile and make posts about why they don't use facebook that becomes so large it replaces facebook itself. (obviously using facebook in the domain is ripe for getting it taken down, but you get the idea)

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#62

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…

They tried. It was called gab.ai but it was deplatformed on mobile for wrongthink.

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#64
I deleted the facebook app from my phone years ago (use the mobile/desktop website instead), but don't want to delete my facebook account altogether. I still actively use it to share ideas, opinions with my friends, talking to them, getting updates of their lives, talking on interesting groups and so on.

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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post #30

Alternative : For those who are too much invested and tied into FB ecosystem with IG, Facebook Groups, Fan Page etc --> just limit your use of FB, consider deleting the app or blocking the website so you are limited to check it on only one platform and it will also be a reminder to limit social media.

I've considered joining Facebook but only to run it on one laptop inside a Facebook container, and never install their mobile app.

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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…

I would love in some alternate timeline for someone to create a website called deletefacebook.com or something similar that allows people to create a profile and make posts about why they don't use facebook that becomes so large it replaces facebook itself. (obviously using facebook in the domain is ripe for getting it taken down, but you get the idea)

Sounds like the beginning of a JL Borges story.

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

#68

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?

My take is that FB lost its value when it started to become taken over by content that wasn't part of its initial offerings. Instead of photos and personal posts, we mostly see news, political posts, ads, pages, groups, etc. It starts to become more like an aggregator of things we did not initially intend to follow, but we've chosen to follow bit-by-bit - maybe that speaks to the design of Facebook leading us down that road.

Instagram was better for the longest time. I noticed a trend of friends using Facebook for events and nothing else, but they were still posting personal content on Instagram. But during this presidency, with everyone being politically charged and angry all the time, I noticed people were posting political content to leverage their Instagram followers, and now that too is overwhelmed by it.

All that said, Twitter comes off to me as the biggest cesspool. Its entire format is built around short hot takes, sniping at others, "virality", and other societal dark patterns. Reddit is almost at the same degree of cesspoolery with their new designs. Both are also a lot more of an echo chamber than Facebook for me, although I do like that you can use them anonymously (without a real name). Personally, I really can't see why all this hatred is directed at Facebook when Twitter and Reddit are around.

But this isn't a binary choice either. I do get the sense that society would be better off if everyone disengaged and de-escalated from social media in general. It's just hard because it's an effective way to spread one's (political) ideas and gain exposure, and so it's a bit like asking for mutual disarmament.

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post #40

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.

They're fundamentally different, though. Tiktok is much more viable as a read-only, addictive content thing; but I never added people I knew on there during my month-long soujourn to discover what it was all about, nor did I feel any need to comment.

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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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?

I have one friend whose wife posts pictures of their infant son on Facebook, other than that yeah, my Facebook account is basically just there so I can use Messenger to talk to mom, sister, and a couple friends who are only there b/c of their friends.
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