Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

Post by toastercat » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 4:47 AM UTC

DangitBobby wrote: post #194

toastercat wrote: post #174

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> Some events or even companies don't have a website, they just have a Facebook page that you have to be logged in to visit. I really have not experienced this, but the several times I've had to interact with a company without a website, phone works wonders and is often quicker. > Also, if your family uses Facebook, they will interact with each other on it whether you are there or not. I really don't see the issue he…

Why are you calling them, texting them, visiting them, or keeping in touch at all? Must be an unhealthy sense of FOMO!

Post by baby » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 7:44 AM UTC

yummypaint wrote: post #50

baby wrote: post #37

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My generation doesn’t use emails basically. I changed emails quite a lot through my younger years as did my friends so it wouldn’t have been useful. We used to ask for people’s facebook shortly after meeting them. It’s the best tool to create and maintain your social graph. I understand that not everybody use it this way, and that’s fine, but if you do please think about that. It’s really heart breaking how I lost co…

Locating and contacting old friends is entirely within your means in 2022. What is most striking to me as someone in my early thirties is how much learned helplessness is associated with these communication technologies that supposedly enhance our capabilities. Facebook makes it easy to curate the appearance of friendship, but meaningful relationships take time and effort in the real world to maintain. People have tr…

Post by HeavyStorm » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 10:25 AM UTC

LB232323 wrote: post #189

People are realizing that social media is draining, predatory, and entirely superfluous. Of course there are employees here of social media corporations who would want to stem the tide of this mass exodus, but it's useless. Social media corporations have overstepped their boundaries and become a net negative on human society. Deleting your social media accounts results in an immediate improvement of quality of life a…

Post by Forgeties79 » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

robonerd wrote: post #141

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> And commercial food producers make their products more addictive too... How about the tobacco industry? How about illicit drugs? Porn? How about them? They also designed their products to be addictive. “Personal Responsibility” is just the shield that powerful companies use to avoid being regulated. Shift the blame to the exploited and make it clear that their problems stem from their moral deficiency. Pretty conve…

> Personal responsibility cannot overcome AI designed to addict you. I agree with your general arguments but you're going too far here. Individuals can overcome addiction. That doesn't change the big picture of how additive substances and services effect society as a whole, and I agree corporations use personal responsibility rhetoric to stave off government regulation. But you're going too far by suggesting that ind…

Post by baby » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 10:03 PM UTC

yummypaint wrote: post #41

baby wrote: post #34

Please don’t do this. It’s really sad every time I want to reach out to an old friend and I can’t because they deleted their fb :( I mean, if you don’t have such connections then who cares, but if you do think about that

Calls, letters, and in-person visits are still a thing, and they are all vastly superior to facebook. Besides, the alternative to deletion is a bunch of zombie accounts that appear to be real people but will never respond to messages. Best to make it obvious and not leave an account around to cause confusion.