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Oh, quit using the site, not quit working there. I would've been more interested in the latter.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-frie...
for notifications.
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I agree that FB is dead simple to use; I just wish it was just dead simple to protect my data.
It is simple to protect your data. Don't put anything on Facebook that you want protected.
Like your list of friends?
No corporation has a right to know who my friends are. And keeping off sites like Facebooks is one of the best ways to keep that information private.
There was a twitter meme going around yesterday: "not having facebook is the new not owning a TV." I think that this phenomenon is mostly a bandwagon of Guru's who want to have something new and 'revolutionary' to present to their followers. Pavlina's always telling people to quit something. First it was regular sleep, then monogamy, etc. While he purports to be anti-consumption, this really just makes us focus on ou…
Great analogy. Both are a complete waste of time.
All of this says nothing about e.g. the fact that Facebook is a corporation whose business model revolves around the acquisition of information about its users. I'm paranoid about information about myself. I left Facebook because I want explicit, direct control over what information about me is made available to whom. Yes, Facebook has privacy controls, but they are Facebook's privacy controls.
No corporation has a right to know who my friends are and who I associate with (much less exploit that information for advertising, or sell it to anyone who wants to pay for it).
I find it really disturbing that so many people in this world are so ready to give up their privacy and information about themselves for very dubious "services" like Facebook and other social media sites, not to mention things like online tax services, video/book recommendation services, etc..
All of these services that are collecting information about you, your friends, and your preferences are going to be datamined to figure out even more information about you.
For instance, there has been research done to figure out political affiliation and sexual preferences from the movies one watches on Netflix. It's really just a matter of time before information like that gets used to discriminate against people (or worse).
I quit facebook about a month ago. Most of what Steve Pavlina says is quite right and I'm probably better off without it, but there is one feature that I sorely miss: As a young un still at a university, facebook was extremely useful for getting in touch with girls who I meet around campus randomly. "I'll look you up on facebook" is a much lower commitment and casual line than "What's your phone number".
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Of course, they're less likely to get angry with you if they just think you've gotten off Facebook entirely than if they think you're ignoring them while still accessible to them.
They have no way of knowing you've hidden them.
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There's nothing antisocial about assessing your use of a service and deciding its benefits are less significant than its costs.
It is antisocial to forsake speaking with your friends. Speaking directly is a medium of communication, as is Facebook. You can argue about the cost/benefits of each, and claim your way is the better one, and this would constitute a lack of empathy, a lack of sympathy, or both. Now don't get me wrong, I don't claim to have been much better. And FWIW, I've observed the same effect for quitting WoW. Once I did, a whole…
> And FWIW, I've observed the same effect for quitting WoW. Once I did, a whole class of friends stopped talking to me.
They're jackasses if that's really the reason they stopped talking to you -- unless WoW is all you had in common with them, in which case I don't understand your problem. I find it difficult to believe you're honestly defending that kind of behavior, if they were supposedly real (not just gaming) friends.
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They have no way of knowing you've hidden them.
They know whether you respond.
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They know whether you respond.
Unless they tag you in a post (in which case, you'd get a notification), I really don't know how many people respond to EVERY SINGLE post of EVERY SINGLE friend on facebook.