Goodbye Facebook.
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Goodbye Facebook.
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#3It seems more and more people are realising it: if you value your friendships, get off Facebook.
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#4The solution is peer-to-peer. We should all have direct connections to our friends. Facebook as a means of communication is weird. It's like sharing your private conversations with your friends with a bunch of strangers... Facebook employees, Facebook advertisers, and who knows who else. The latest email maneuver is yet another slap in the face. Facebook are snoops!
Imagine if Facebook allowed you see who was accessing your profile. Some early social sites had that feature. It was useful and fun. But those sites were not like Facebook. Why do you think Facebook never will have this feature? Maybe because the people accessing your profile for information about you are not necessarily your friends or people you know? Lots going on behind the scenes that they do not want you to see. It all starts with Zuckerberg and his attitude. He's sociopathic at heart and as such he really has no business being in charge of so much personal information.
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#5Aside from the fact that this post is mostly pointless, it's also totally misinformed.
The OP started off by stating his reasons for dropping FB in this "experiment".. namely losing touch with the people for which he originally signed up under.
But he clearly doesn't engage with them if he's not seeing their updates.
Your social graph needs fine tuning. It's like any good bayesian filter, it learns over time what interests you. You can of course give it a push in the right direction by putting people in acquaintances, or hiding specific people from your timeline. (People in your acquaintances don't show up as often in your newsfeed).
This post just shows that you most likely don't understand the full feature set of Facebook and how to best optimize your social graph (not that this is your fault). Facebook has some of the best machine learning for figuring out what is relevant to me. I'd probably argue that you click on too many memes and don't interact with your friends as much if this is what it is serving you.
Don't drop Facebook, just learn how to use it. I personally don't use Facebook for interacting with that many friends. I have about 96% of my friends as acquantiances. I have a small set of about 10 people as friends, and I subscribe to about 100~ people. My newsfeed is so rich with really good content.
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#6Aside from the fact that this post is mostly pointless, it's also totally misinformed. The OP started off by stating his reasons for dropping FB in this "experiment".. namely losing touch with the people for which he originally signed up under. But he clearly doesn't engage with them if he's not seeing their updates. Your social graph needs fine tuning. It's like any good bayesian filter, it learns over time what int…
I don't want to 'optimise my social graph'. Especially given it used to work properly and feed me the relevant content that I wanted about a year ago.
You can try defend the social graph, how much Facebook has done to improve it and so on, but for a lot of people it doesn't actually achieve what it used to, and that's an issue.
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#7Aside from the fact that this post is mostly pointless, it's also totally misinformed. The OP started off by stating his reasons for dropping FB in this "experiment".. namely losing touch with the people for which he originally signed up under. But he clearly doesn't engage with them if he's not seeing their updates. Your social graph needs fine tuning. It's like any good bayesian filter, it learns over time what int…
Yes you can dePend on a soulless money making machine to optimize your relationships... And hope they get it right
Or you can just take control of your relationships and nourish them the old fashioned way: calling, email, face to face, etc.
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#8Aside from the fact that this post is mostly pointless, it's also totally misinformed. The OP started off by stating his reasons for dropping FB in this "experiment".. namely losing touch with the people for which he originally signed up under. But he clearly doesn't engage with them if he's not seeing their updates. Your social graph needs fine tuning. It's like any good bayesian filter, it learns over time what int…
Yes you can dePend on a soulless money making machine to optimize your relationships... And hope they get it right Or you can just take control of your relationships and nourish them the old fashioned way: calling, email, face to face, etc.
This argument could be applied to any technical progress.
Email for example: "Sure you could dePend on a soulless money making machine to optimize your communications... And hope it does it right. Or you can just take control of the situation and do it the old fashioned way: letters and stamps."
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#9Aside from the fact that this post is mostly pointless, it's also totally misinformed. The OP started off by stating his reasons for dropping FB in this "experiment".. namely losing touch with the people for which he originally signed up under. But he clearly doesn't engage with them if he's not seeing their updates. Your social graph needs fine tuning. It's like any good bayesian filter, it learns over time what int…
Why do I need to invest time in "fine tuning my social graph"? What's in it for me? And is it even my social graph?
Facebook is not about "helping you connect to your friends", it's about buying eyeball-time and pumping commercials into your brain.
Any person that has not been completely brainwashed can see the fallacy in this kind of system.
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#10It seems more and more people are realising it: if you value your friendships, get off Facebook.
I wrote something about this several years ago, when I got tired of repeating the reasons I wasn't on Facebook. Here it is if you're interested: http://everything2.com/title/Facebook+destroys+real+relation...