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Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by jack9 » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:20 AM UTC

matthewmacleod wrote: post #7

mrslave wrote: post #2

Virtue signaling heavily laden with Trump derangement syndrome. Thinks Twitter failing to discipline President Trump because he violated the don't-threaten-people policy over North Korean missile launches is a grave double standard. Not a quality article.

Trump derangement syndrome. I'm keen to understand what you mean by this, in context.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trump%20Deran...

In all fairness, this is a reactionary "definition". It's not useful when looking at this behavior as an actual condition and discerning the causal elements.

There's a segment of the population that seems to amplify their own disgust with a celebrity's manners/message/actions/writing/etc, to the point that they see every facet of a personality as caustic. Bibi, Linus, Trump, Mencia, and probably countless others. It's only brought to light when an individual from this population happens to have a media pedestal, so the locus is usually some conservative.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by sus_007 » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:23 AM UTC

I haven't deleted mine yet, but it's been a long time. Often I think I'll regret doing so, lots of memories with my closed ones, but again I feel like none of that matters at the present. A tragic dilemma.:/ I can't think of any other social mediums for reaching out my people in the state of emergency or during such times.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by hellofunk » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:25 AM UTC

aaronaarzelbart wrote: post #8

Meh. You'll be back on soon enough.

This is an insult to addicts of every kind, everywhere.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by gfiorav » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:27 AM UTC

Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and frivolous if your think about it.

My other social media (Twitter, Instagram) have notifications turned off, and are silently — and non instrusively — waiting for me when I decide to glance at them (usually once every 2-3 days). You end up forgetting about them and only remember when you're bored, it works wonders.

I believe we’ll look back in 10 years and realize that this generation (like most generations that are first to adopt something new) was ridiculously over attached to social media.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by fredsted » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:29 AM UTC

I'm honestly a little amazed at all the thought put in to quitting Facebook. It seems like such a big deal for people. I think it's very sad that we've gotten to this point.

It's just a Web site.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by john_minsk » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:31 AM UTC

gfiorav wrote: post #14

Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and frivolous if your think about it. My other social media (Twitter, Instagram) have notifications turned off, and are silently — and non instrusively — waiting for me when I decide to glance at them (usually once every 2-3 days). You end up forgetting about them and…

Nice one. But how do you look at Twitter only once in a couple of days? Twitter is useless this way if you ask me.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by jimjimjim » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:31 AM UTC

mrslave wrote: post #2

Virtue signaling heavily laden with Trump derangement syndrome. Thinks Twitter failing to discipline President Trump because he violated the don't-threaten-people policy over North Korean missile launches is a grave double standard. Not a quality article.

Not a quality comment.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by avip » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:34 AM UTC

Please change the title. yet-another-random-dude-closes-his-fb-account. He did not close his medium account though, so he can blog about his amazing journey clicking few buttons on a webform.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by stevewillows » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:34 AM UTC

yodsanklai wrote: post #6

There are less drastic options. I'm still on facebook but unsubscribed from all feeds. As a result there's almost nothing but ads on my news feed so I'm not really tempted to go there anymore. I also don't post anything there. Still, I keep my account "just in case" and I do use messenger a lot though. I have the feeling facebook is slowly dying, but I'm probably wrongly generalizing my own experience (is this called…

Its funny. Most people I know (~37 and under) only really use it for events and, at times, messenger. Its sort of a modern phonebook.

My sister (early 40s) and her peers are still using it on a regular basis, but the content could easily be on twitter or instagram.

The real demographic that is in love with it is my parents' generation, ~67+. They follow a lot of the '%city% then and now' and other nostalgic groups. Along with those, their feeds are filled with goofy videos that were going around a while ago.

I don't see Facebook going the way of myspace in the near future, but I do think they'll have to shift their focus a little if they want to draw us back in.

What I don't understand is why facebook isn't going head first into online dating. They already have a lot of information on everybody -- where a lot of us like to eat, locations we frequent, events we like, etc. For a lot of us the data would be slightly outdated, but I bet they could give some solid suggestions.

Re: I Quit Facebook

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Post by gfiorav » Mon, Oct 16, 2017, 9:35 AM UTC

john_minsk wrote: post #16

gfiorav wrote: post #14

Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and frivolous if your think about it. My other social media (Twitter, Instagram) have notifications turned off, and are silently — and non instrusively — waiting for me when I decide to glance at them (usually once every 2-3 days). You end up forgetting about them and…

Nice one. But how do you look at Twitter only once in a couple of days? Twitter is useless this way if you ask me.

Well I really like the “in case you missed it” section. Brings up the important and funny stuff condensed.

If I hear something’s going on, I’ll open un the TT section and get some instant insights from it. They way I see it, Twitter is useless most of the time, it comes in handy only when some event is taking place.