Deleted it years ago... disgusting.
Deleting Facebook permanently
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are tacitly voting that Facebook should be viewed as an arbiter of identity by taking this point of view.
When society views Facebook as part of your identity you're forced to also keep it. It's not always possible for individuals to reject it. You end up with this self-feeding cycle of people keeping facebook around because they have to. Eventually what ends up happening is an alternative comes along and people essentially forget about the platform that it just shuts down and collapses on itself. We're slowly inching to…
Hard disagree. Facebook only has legitimacy if you personally agree it does. The minute you walk away, it loses all legitimacy. Same for LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. etc. There is no sense in which society at large using the product creates any degree of legitimacy for important functions like identity management. Precisely zero.
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#103I'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 l…
Reddit.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
No, your scenario suggests you migrated platforms because one stopped being useful and one was more useful, which is just a clear example of network effects, and sensible.
It would be silly if your reason for quitting FB was because you were opposed to them, and then you ran onto IG anyway. Sort of silly when that happens.
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#105Kind 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…
Maybe you're thinking of the Facebook dating app?
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#106Second that, and I'd like to add google too with the following alternatives:
1. search: duckduckgo
2. email: proton
I know google is more pervasive in services, these two can be a good start.
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#107I’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 don't see how any of the problems with facebook are due to any specific aspect of how they operate. It's the nature of any social network. Is there actually less garbage on Insta or Twitter or YouTube? The problem we people feeling compelled to post nonsense, to obsess over status, to be anxious about social inclusion and the free flow of disinformation. Happens everywhere.
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#108I 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 dead to me. Nobody in my friendlist post anything anymore.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
No, your scenario suggests you migrated platforms because one stopped being useful and one was more useful, which is just a clear example of network effects, and sensible. It would be silly if your reason for quitting FB was because you were opposed to them, and then you ran onto IG anyway. Sort of silly when that happens.
Fair enough. I was just wondering where the lines of nuance were being drawn.
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#11014 years ago everyone wanted to move off MySpace to Facebook. We're coming around full circle.