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I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal. How? I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in…
I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal. How? I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in…
I did the same thing, but using a different technique.
Steps:
1) Taper off - Unfollow everyone who isn't a close friend or family
2) Destroy feed - Unfollow everyone
x) Optional step - Delete all your posts and untag all photos. It took me an hour or two but I deleted everything, one by one. A greasemonkey script managed to clear some of it, but the rest I did by hand.
I still keep my account, just with nothing on it.
I’d love to make a dumb social network which could import friends/photos/videos from a Facebook export. Which just shows photos videos and comments/posts. Ditched the shares, likes, and all the other crap. And was just a place where we can keep in touch with people. And leave it at that.
There is a IPCC report out today about climate change and how it would destroy the world as we know it. Yet, people are more worried about Facebook! Amazing!!!
I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal. How? I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in…
I’d love to make a dumb social network which could import friends/photos/videos from a Facebook export. Which just shows photos videos and comments/posts. Ditched the shares, likes, and all the other crap. And was just a place where we can keep in touch with people. And leave it at that.
A lot of people like this idea, but it seems that no one really wants to implement it.
I’d love to make a dumb social network which could import friends/photos/videos from a Facebook export. Which just shows photos videos and comments/posts. Ditched the shares, likes, and all the other crap. And was just a place where we can keep in touch with people. And leave it at that.
A lot of people like this idea, but it seems that no one really wants to implement it.
http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/how-i-erased-5000-facebook-comme...
There is a IPCC report out today about climate change and how it would destroy the world as we know it. Yet, people are more worried about Facebook! Amazing!!!
Can’t we be worried about both?
But you should not bother. Go worry about the useless photos that you first upload to facebook and then wonder what a for profit company is going to do with all that data.
I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying / making my feed non-personal. How? I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in…
A while back, I did a big clean up of all my groups, likes and (most of my) friends, which greatly improved the signal to noise. Before that, I hardly ever checked FB because there just wasn't anything I really cared about, and if there was it was too well buried.
Now, though I find myself checking it, just in case there is something worth seeing. I particularly started doing this after happening on two big surprise stories on there from small businesses that made me think "Lucky I was scrolling through FB, otherwise I wouldn't have known about that".
The signal to noise is better, but the problem remains the signal isn't worth receiving most of the time.