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Deactivating Facebook for a lifetime improves; mental wellbeing, personal satisfaction, the development of quality relationships, reduces anxiety, reduces depression and improves ones belief in oneself and humanity.
I deleted my Facebook in 2015 simply because I kept getting in arguments with people, and spending a not-insignificant amount of time every day fighting with people I barely knew. I figured that that was probably not healthy so I deleted it. I missed it for about a day, and then I pretty actively didn't want to ever use it again. I'm a little burnt out entirely on social media; the closest thing to a social media tha…
The nice thing about HN is that if you know how to behave and if you care to listen, you're most likely just having a conversation, it's not even arguing.
It's nice to know that meaningful conversations can still happen somewhere on the internet nowadays.
[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-diary-claims/
You can technically use messenger.com but need to request desktop site, login each time and then zoom out to make it useable.
For instagram they don’t allow to control pic visibility from web so I’ve stopped posting entirely.
Added friction basically destroyed usefulness. My next step would be using incognito mode for each session to eliminate tracking and removing password from password manager.
Facebook is easily more harmful than TikTok and should get the same treatment.
The "treatment" TikTok is receiving is a requirement that its US presence should be sold to a US company. Facebook is already a US company, so I'm not sure what you mean. TikTok is not actually getting banned, unless it fails to achieve that sale, which is highly unlikely.
> Before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, more than 35,000 Facebook and Instagram users agreed to participate in an experiment. Do people still get any sort of news from Facebook? I only see very harmless content. People posting pics about their lives, some hiking groups... very few comments overall. I thought all the toxicity has moved to X formerly Twitter. > the work of more than 30 academics from U.S. univers…
Random question: how does one even make a Facebook account nowadays? My wife has a client whom needed her to manage a campaign on Facebook so she attempted to make an account. It instantly got banned as spam. Like, instantly, before even being able to login. I then tried to make one on her behalf to the same result. Me being me, I thought “I’ll use a different email”. Nope. Phone number, nope. Different phone number,…
I deleted my Facebook in 2015 simply because I kept getting in arguments with people, and spending a not-insignificant amount of time every day fighting with people I barely knew. I figured that that was probably not healthy so I deleted it. I missed it for about a day, and then I pretty actively didn't want to ever use it again. I'm a little burnt out entirely on social media; the closest thing to a social media tha…
> I do argue on here a bit but not nearly as much The nice thing about HN is that if you know how to behave and if you care to listen, you're most likely just having a conversation, it's not even arguing. It's nice to know that meaningful conversations can still happen somewhere on the internet nowadays.
I still argue with people here occasionally but I generally actually feel like the person arguing is actually willing to change their mind, not score points for some pithy remark on Twitter.
Random question: how does one even make a Facebook account nowadays? My wife has a client whom needed her to manage a campaign on Facebook so she attempted to make an account. It instantly got banned as spam. Like, instantly, before even being able to login. I then tried to make one on her behalf to the same result. Me being me, I thought “I’ll use a different email”. Nope. Phone number, nope. Different phone number,…
Twitter has been doing that too. Or was. Not sure about x
Deactivating Facebook for a lifetime improves; mental wellbeing, personal satisfaction, the development of quality relationships, reduces anxiety, reduces depression and improves ones belief in oneself and humanity.