Careful, if you've bought any Facebook VR equipment recently it will stop working if you do this.
Deleting Facebook permanently
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#92I have deleted my facebook account about like 3 years ago, I still have a fake account around tho with a fake name, fake image, fake background etc. Just to be able to read and post in local groups to my community. I use a special browser for it with facebook container installed.
When you have to sanitize your environment like your are in a Level 4 Biohazard research facility, then maybe the thing you are trying to use just isn't worth it.
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#93I 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 quit it about a year ago and I cannot even remember what it was like having an account, it just seems so strange that this would be such an important part of their online life.
Everybody I know is on Whatsapp/Signal, so I really don't feel like I'm missing anything.
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#94 I actually like Facebook. It used to be a fantastic place to hang out online and be open from the comfort of my home, without having to drive somewhere, or be in the public sphere. I'm also somewhat of an oddity because my friend list never went above dunbar's number. Then when when the tide turned against Facebook with events like Cambridge Analytica, it turned into a ghost town. Everyone I know just stopped using it, and stopped sharing, because no one trusted it anymore. So if you still think of quitting Facebook as a choice, chances are you're friends with too many people. How could people here honestly suspect their friends of being bots, unless they needed the self-esteem boost of having 5,000 "friends"? Fact is, the platform was ruined by too many people using it for the wrong reasons and that's what the app makers and the bad policies exploited. The Facebook that friend judicious people like me had had is gone and I don't think there's going to be anything to replace it.
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#96I've never had a FB account, never thought I missed anything. But, there's a Buy-Nothing group I want to join, and they are on FB. I admire the concept of Buy-Nothing, but I abhor FB and am not going to make an account to join Buy-Nothing. Even if I were to start a new Buy-Nothing group, FB provides the most reach because it's pervasive and probably easiest to use, and one can be tagged with one's location. Mailing lists don't thread well, GoogleGroup is a dumpster fire. What other tools can I use to build a like-minded community for good?
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#97I’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…
If I were an angel I'd be piling money into personal servers and open sourced self hosted software following the "commoditize the complement" strategy.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're all just on other facebook platforms like IG / WhatsApp anyway.
I find nothing more dumbfounding than people who talk about quitting facebook, but are on insta daily.
I use instagram because several of my friends are amazing photographers and I like their photo diary uploads, others are graphic artists who often release their work in progress on the platform. I quit facebook because it stopped serving any useful purpose to how I consume content from actual friends and in general became rather boring.
Is this an equally dumbfounding use?
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#99I 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?
Pretty much everyone under 25 seems to be on Discord
Re: Deleting Facebook permanently
#100I 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'm 23 and I use it for memes, groups (photography, cars), local events, and keeping up with some of my less 'close' family members (as in, it's the only reasonable means I have of contacting them). I occasionally post some of my photography projects so my grandparents can see them. FB Marketplace is leagues better than Craigslist and I have sold several items on it. Don't get me wrong, I hate facebook, but if used moderately/correctly, it isn't terrible. It's definitely not my preferred social network, nor is it by any of my peers the same age as me.