When will we stop using Facebook?

Post by sp332 » Thu, May 28, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

Thriptic wrote: post #80

junto wrote: post #34

I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…

I have trouble leaving Facebook because for better or worse it is how many of my friends and acquaintances communicate. I ended up finding a nice compromise: I installed an extension which hides all the content on news feed but still allows FB chat. When I couple this extension with ublock, the only thing I see when I go to Facebook is the chat interface, which is perfect for how I use the service.

Post by JonCox » Thu, May 28, 2015, 2:10 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #131

Thriptic wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have trouble leaving Facebook because for better or worse it is how many of my friends and acquaintances communicate. I ended up finding a nice compromise: I installed an extension which hides all the content on news feed but still allows FB chat. When I couple this extension with ublock, the only thing I see when I go to Facebook is the chat interface, which is perfect for how I use the service.

Or just use https://www.facebook.com/messages/ ?

Post by jhildings » Thu, May 28, 2015, 2:18 PM UTC

UUMMUU wrote: post #123

I'm sorry but this article reads like a narcissistic wet dream. The author continues to quote himself and even misquotes himself several times (look up "facebook has tried tried to remedy" and "facebook has tried to repair"). The rest of the article slams Facebook for its success and tries to say users don't want to use Facebook. I personally love what Facebook developers are doing in terms of React and Jest. In term…

Post by pmlnr » Thu, May 28, 2015, 2:22 PM UTC

tim333 wrote: post #96

pjc50 wrote: post #23

I really should flesh out my "why you can't have a good distributed social network" post some time. What does FB provide that you don't get with a combination of email/USENET/blogs/chat? Branding, janitors, and indexing. Branding is useful because these things are so scale-driven that you want to be on the one that everyone else is using. It's easier for the uninvolved to figure this out if it's the one with huge adv…

> Why should you post life updates? Because it's the "done thing". No - it's because you've done something you think your friends would be interested in and it's a lot easier to take a photo and click 'post to Facebook' than to write to 30 people. That's really the fundamental function of Facebook and any successor will probably succeed by doing it better in some way. eg. Snapchat enabling you to send naughty pics wi…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 28, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

JonCox wrote: post #133

sp332 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just use https://www.facebook.com/messages/ ?

Or even just https://www.messenger.com