I wrote about this a few years ago: https://herman.bearblog.dev/quitting-social-media/
It still holds up 3 years later.
Do you regret deleting FB or IG or any social media?
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#12I deleted FB nearly 10 years ago after a divorce left me unhappy and uninterested in sharing what I had gone through. Zero regrets, haven’t thought about it for years until reading this post.
It was annoying that some dating sites required it I recall though so do consider that.
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#13No regrets. (Deactivated in 2018.)
You're not wrong, there was a time when Facebook was an essential utility. I made heavy use of events, for example. That time has passed.
You should just deactivate it today. You can always reactivate if you regret it so there's no downside, but I think you'll be shocked how little you miss it.
I don't know about becoming more productive, but it's worth leaving because it's primary function these days is to waste your time and give you nothing in exchange.
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#14No
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#15I removed FB after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out. I still had WhatsApp messenger for a few years since I have a very active high school friends group on it. When WhatsApp started changing their privacy policies I just removed WhatsApp as well. We also have a Signal group. My friends and colleagues know how to reach me for anything important, so I don't think I have missed out on anything.
Google is the next big privacy ignorer that is in my radar. The only Google product I depend on is Chrome and I am considering options to de-google my life.
So, my advice is delete FB and don't look back. You will appreciate the time you get back on your hands.
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#16I deleted my FB account about 8 years ago. The only thing that is a minor inconvenience is when people organize events over FB. The events I'm talking about is never from family or friends and usually for local groups or businesses.
Keeping in touch with family is pretty easy through calls/texts.
By the time I got rid of facebook, my feed was just full of spam and hot takes from people I didn't really interact with IRL anymore.
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#17Didn't have to delete because I never signed up for one.
No regrets, however, other people using social media by the very fact that they have me as their contact had affected me adversley. Maybe there is a need for a privacy credit score thing to block people that allow anti-privacy apps to use their contacts and messaging history.
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#18No. All of the friends I had before social media are still my friends. We might only catch up a few times a year, because we live so far apart but the connections are more real. It's like removing a filter, you get to know who your real friends are. I have 0 regrets.
Maybe it's age though? FB wasn't a thing for me (or most of my close friends) until after college. We grew up with phones and face to face relationships. I imagine that could easily affect one's response towards cutting the cord.
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#19In college I proxied thru Indonesia so that I could remove my last name and simply go by my last name. 5 years ago Facebook decided that was unacceptable and disabled my account, and now the only way to reinstate it is to send a copy of my license which I think is silly.
For the most part, I think my life is better without it. On the other hand, it really sucks not having access to FB marketplace.
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#20Not in the slightest.