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"I can't wait for Facebook to complete their AOL-ification, which will surely include its eventual death spiral."
Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#42> deleted account completely many years back.
Felt that living life is so better than recording all of it in facebook.
Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#43I stopped using it when I realized that 99% of what my "friends" were posting was total shit. The 1% interesting stuff I can get with a phone call or stuff like that.
I still have my account though, I just don't use it.
Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#44I hardly use it to keep up with friends anymore. I only find myself on facebook when I'm taking a shit.
Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The fastest way to fan out messages efficiently between a group is through one node that is always online. I am curious to know what you're basing this statement on --"Fast" and "efficient" are not necessarily related. (For instance, there seems to have been an explosion of decentralized message-queueing mechanisms available for coordinating distributed software systems. A centralized system can suffer from efficie…
Routing messages between peers in a decentralized system need to take into account that both senders and receivers could be online and offline at multiple times. This means the storage location of the messages you are supposed to receive could change often, making retrieving messages a two step process, looking up the current online location and then retrieving messages. The place to lookup messages is fixed in a cen…
Thank you for your detailed and informative response!
Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The fastest way to fan out messages efficiently between a group is through one node that is always online. I am curious to know what you're basing this statement on --"Fast" and "efficient" are not necessarily related. (For instance, there seems to have been an explosion of decentralized message-queueing mechanisms available for coordinating distributed software systems. A centralized system can suffer from efficie…
Routing messages between peers in a decentralized system need to take into account that both senders and receivers could be online and offline at multiple times. This means the storage location of the messages you are supposed to receive could change often, making retrieving messages a two step process, looking up the current online location and then retrieving messages. The place to lookup messages is fixed in a cen…
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Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#47As a Web developer and Internet Citizen (TM), I can't wait for Facebook to complete their AOL-ification, which will surely include its eventual death spiral. Rage-deleted my account after getting tired of being constantly presented with reminders of parts of my life that should have been moved-on-from, except Facebook decides what parts of your life you should be seeing. If Facebook hadn't steamrolled Evite due to th…
Invitations are the only reason I signed back up after deleting my account, several years back.
Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#48Reading my wall posts became a list of people essentially saying "my life is awesome and yours isn't, here's why", which was explained by photos, videos, and wall posts.
One of the girls in my social circle at the time I had an account made herself a "public figure", I'm not sure what the criteria is for that on Facebook, but her offline life is anything but that of a celebrity/public figure. The level of people "faking it" just gets annoying.
Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#49I pretty much only use it for messaging and the occasional event registration. Mostly because I find my friends' updates uninteresting. Would much rather browse strangers lives on IG or my own site.
Re: Ask HN: Why are you off Facebook?
#50The problem not only resides on Facebook but to me all mainstream networks are selling out to the "ad revenue model". I may be speaking for myself but let's be honest the internet is wayyyy outdated. Most people can agree that after surfing CNN TMZ stopping by Mashable and Twitter the day is pretty much done with an occasional rinse and repeat. Where is the fun and innovation that the internet first brought to us in the early 90s.