Oh God, my Facebook feed is way more interesting than the comments section on HN of a post about leaving Facebook. Are you all wearing your "I left Facebook" badge?
Forgive my obtuseness but I'm not understanding your comment.
Why I deleted my Facebook account
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Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#202I still have my account but disabled all notifications and effectively stopped visiting it except for rare occasions. I did this about 4 months after the election, when I realized how toxic Facebook had become, watching my friends and family deride each other for their voting choices. It wasn't healthy. I am actually glad that I stopped visiting it because in retrospect I don't miss it at all, and can't even estimate how much productive time I probably wasted on it.
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What does that even mean? Do you even know what you're talking about? I don't pay for a lot of things of which I'm certainly not the product. FYI resorting to such banalities is rather pathetic
Let me rephrase: if you are not paying for it, you are the product, but you probably don't know it, and even if you did know it, you probably don't care. If I was to go one step farther, I'd say the entire powerbase of companies like Facebook and Google is founded on a large mass of people not caring about their privacy. Maybe a step too far, but I'm not so sure.
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#205The one thing keeping me on Facebook are events / RSVP. I don't know any good alternative. For example it's still missing in Diaspora: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1359
This is a big one. Meetup is good for group events, and personal invitations are good for close friends, but I haven't really seen anything for the middle.
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#206The one thing keeping me on Facebook are events / RSVP. I don't know any good alternative. For example it's still missing in Diaspora: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1359
Even though I deleted my Facebook account earlier this month, I totally agree. Events on Facebook were easily the fullest set of local happenings that I could browse through. Luckily, my girlfriend keeps me updated using her Facebook account, so I don't feel like I'm missing out.
I feel there's significant opportunity for an events dedicated app to really take over. I'll be waiting.
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#207Oh God, my Facebook feed is way more interesting than the comments section on HN of a post about leaving Facebook. Are you all wearing your "I left Facebook" badge?
Forgive my obtuseness but I'm not understanding your comment.
People talking about leaving facebook are more boring than the feeds that were so boring that they has to leave.
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#208While I certainly get why you’d get off Facebook for privacy reasons, I feel like a lot of the “addiction” comments here and in similar posts as OP’s are a bit of a weird thing to me. Are people nowadays not capable of moderation? Purely anecdotally, but I mostly see older generations being the ones that hop off. Is it because they didn’t grow up with this kinda of social media and can’t seem to balance what is a per…
Are people nowadays not capable of moderation? Purely anecdotally, but I mostly see older generations being the ones that hop off. Is it because they didn’t grow up with this kinda of social media and can’t seem to balance what is a perfectly fine way to interact with friends and stay updated without pulling a cold turkey on it? 95% of the people I see on the subway every day are glued to their smartphones without in…
>95% of the people I see on the subway every day are glued to their smartphones without interruption....80% of the time I get a glimpse of the screen of those it's facebook/instagram/snapchat/...
Is there anything inherently bad in that? You have to do something on the boring commute. This is honestly the worst example as a counter-point, literally in a situation where you have little else to do, and even then, that something definitely also depends on where you are.
For instance, in Japan I mostly see people playing games, IM’ing or reading pocket books. In South Korea I honestly don’t see phones that often in public transportation, and in Denmark it is maybe half social networks and half just reading online or listening to music.
Re: Why I deleted my Facebook account
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are people nowadays not capable of moderation? Purely anecdotally, but I mostly see older generations being the ones that hop off. Is it because they didn’t grow up with this kinda of social media and can’t seem to balance what is a perfectly fine way to interact with friends and stay updated without pulling a cold turkey on it? 95% of the people I see on the subway every day are glued to their smartphones without in…
I think the grandparent author is simply not possessed by the same personality traits that generally define the type of person who gets a lot of value out of HN. I tend towards OCD, which caused getting off Facebook to take about 8 tries. It wasn't until I found a "last straw" that I finally managed it permanently, and that was the runup to the recent US election. I simply did not want to find myself at odds, politic…
>...simply not possessed by the same personality traits that generally define the type of person who gets a lot of value out of HN
I’m not sure I follow what is implied here? I’m an avid consumer of HN, mostly out of boredom or in my brain breaks.
>It wasn't until I found a "last straw" that I finally managed it permanently, and that was the runup to the recent US election
Or you could a) not be afraid of having political discussions (although that honestly sometimes probably isn’t possible in the way the US handles their discourse), or b) just not comment on those posts. But alas, to each their own, not like I gain anything from people either leaving or staying.
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LinkedIn is perhaps the worst of the bunch though. I see people in "people you may know" that I've already tried to add but LinkedIn will show them to me because I assume they're not the ones spamming if it happens due to me clicking a button. All for a blip in user engagement.
The thing is, with Facebook, we all knew it was mostly public information and that you'd be a dolt to reveal everything sensitive about yourself in your profile. Most people instinctively know to leave certain tidbits about themselves off of their FB profile. Whereas with LinkedIn, we are willing to give up much more sensitive and accurate profile data, such as all of our past employers, addresses, phone, email, birt…
In my experience, people do not always "instinctively leave certain tidbits" off of Facebook - in fact, people often feel like Facebook is in many ways a private space. Like "it's just my friends," even though the friends and friends of friends circles are massive, not to mention privacy controls that make many things public by default. Also, FB prompts for things like employment history and educational history in the same way as LinkedIn, but goes further to ask for personal info, geographic history (where all have you lived), etc.
Combine all this with the fact that there are so many FB users and many of them are children who wouldn't otherwise have a LinkedIn account (and are more comfortable with sharing personal info online).
So, while I agree that LinkedIn is in the group of data collectors, I don't think they're quite on the scale of FB.