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Re: I miss Facebook

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This article reminded me of what Facebook was and the fact that I did actually like it when I first joined. The major complaint I see is usually centered around politics. But for me, I never saw any of that. The main reason I've stopped using it is simple: I used Facebook as a tool to see what people were doing in a passive way that I wouldn't have otherwise. But now the feeds are geared towards the advertisers, not…

Aside from the stuff mentioned everywhere else, my biggest complain was ephemeral nature of the feed. If I saw something interesting I had to act on it at that percise moment or never ever see it again. No scrolling, no page reloads, no "I'll do it in a sec". Once something was out of my sight the Facebook fold seemed to devour it forever ;p If I recall correctly the feed wasn't always like this, but once it became l…

This too. There was no finding that post again, or catching up. And it because even worse on the app because sometimes hitting "back" from one link would refresh the feed and it'd be gone. After it happening 1-3 times in a session, I closed the app and uninstalled it (for a long while).

Re: I miss Facebook

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I don’t miss Facebook. I just weaned myself off Facebook about a week or two ago. I realised that I needed to get off Facebook because it made me feel depressed. When I was on Facebook, I would look at the feed and become poignantly aware of how boring my life is. (I don’t travel. I don’t do any “fun” thing. I don’t go to parties.) So one day I decide that I have had enough and I just uninstalled Facebook from my pho…

I don't miss facebook, either. I deactivated/closed my account some 6 years ago (if not longer ago) and never missed it, ever. It was a good decision. :)

Re: I miss Facebook

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a 6 digit ICQ number and I'm about the same age... someone deleted my account using my unlocked computer and I was never able to get it back...

>someone deleted my account using my unlocked computer Strikes me as insane that they'd allow account deletion without entering password for confirmation. Also, what an asshole, whoever did that to you.

She did worst... but I got her back, somewhat. I just wish that ICQ would have been willing to undelete my account.

BTW, at that time, almost noone required passwords to make major changes to your account if you were logged in.

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