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Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

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Re: Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

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Post by salesguy222 »

coldtea wrote: post #203
richardwardza wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A pretty dick move on her part for wanting to be included in a complete strangers personal circle? I think that questioning the motive was justified.

> A pretty dick move on her part for wanting to be included in a complete strangers personal circle? No, a pretty dick move to piss on her for asking to reconnect with an old schoolmate with a rude response. FB is not some "personal circle". People connect to wide circles of accountancies they barely meet once in a decade and old schoolmates from way beyond and such all the time. And if one doesn't, it's still perfec…

Could not have said it better myself.

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Post by coldtea »

pavlov wrote: post #214
coldtea wrote: post #204

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> I like reading the newspaper -- print, rather than online -- specifically because it comes out only once a day. It's not an endless stream of pretend-immediate attention-grabbers, but a curated collection of the important stuff that happened yesterday. If that was true, newspapers would have variable length. But they don't. They fill in the same BS arbitrary number of pages day-in, day-out. Edit: Downvoting as if t…

Newspapers do vary the number of pages on a daily basis, so I don't really know what you mean. (If they were set to a fixed number of pages, they wouldn't have the flexibility to sell more ads when there's a busy occasion such as an election...)

>Newspapers do vary the number of pages on a daily basis

That have quotas that they fill day-in, day-out, and they add some additional pages based on special occasions (elections, some huge crime, attack, holidays, and such). But they will never give you e.g. a 12 page newspaper even if there is nothing happening. They'll use any BS story to fill pages.

Re: Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

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Post by julioneander »

rublev wrote: post #62
AlexMuir wrote: post #3

I'm not sure where I read this suggestion, but a couple of months ago I unfollowed everyone on FB. Now my newsfeed is basically empty - and my Facebook experience is much improved. I highly recommend it.

I did that before as well. Then Facebook re-followed most of my list. I then manually unfollowed them again, and slowly every day posts pop up and people get re-followed. Fuck Facebook.

I also noticed that behavior with my account. I would unfollow all my friends, so my news feed was only posts of the pages I liked. After a couple of days, posts of my friends would start creeping up again in the news feed.

That was when I decided to deactivate my account, and it's been the best thing so far. The account deactivation form is scary, Facebook practically begs for you to stay. I don't miss it at all.

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Post by mpwoz »

wutbrodo wrote: post #87
AlexMuir wrote: post #3

I'm not sure where I read this suggestion, but a couple of months ago I unfollowed everyone on FB. Now my newsfeed is basically empty - and my Facebook experience is much improved. I highly recommend it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat... This works pretty well for me (though only on desktop, unfortunately).

Second this, it gets rid of the most toxic/addictive part of facebook (the feed) and leaves all the good stuff. Great extension!

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Post by ziikutv »

bigbugbag wrote: post #216
ziikutv wrote: post #109

Totally unrelated to the article, so I understand this might be down voted... If I used a bot to delete all of my posts (and literally everything else) after which, I deleted my account... is that actually deleted? Edit: It's been a year or more since doing this. It was such a time waster, and I felt that... if I remove some of my data, it might be a good idea. It is a bit tinfoil-y, I admit but the less data that is…

Chances are that none of this is actually ever deleted but simply made unavaible, in the realm of the shadow profiles facebook is reported to have on people that are not yet registered. Even if you probably can't achieve actual deletion, what you did probably didn't hurt and removed information for other public or API access.

That sucks. I have said too many silly things on Facebook. oh well.

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Post by aws_ls »

thewhitetulip wrote: post #160

I cut facebook out of my life three momths ago when I realized a pattern of my activities. Something hapened and I ranted there about my thoughts, others were offended ao they commented & we would fight not understanding each other. Then I used to ignore them and continue. Then one fine day, I sat on a bus, there was something going on about Kashmir and Indian military and I found that the guy next to me was also pos…

Whatsapp is useful, if you manage to stay out of groups. I quit most groups, except two which are very low frequency. And Whatsapp is useful for me now.

Edit: And I am (proudly) Facebook free, for over 1.5 years now.

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Post by nindalf »

RobSim wrote: post #129
nindalf wrote: post #115

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I read an app that updates once a day with 6 short news items. Takes less than 5 minutes to read when I'm on the pot and I'm done with news for the rest of the day. Works pretty well, I don't think I'm less informed than other people I interact with.

Economist Espresso?

Yes

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Post by rangibaby »

trevyn wrote: post #147
nihonde wrote: post #49

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I like to waste time on YouTube and Wikipedia. They're good idle browsing for autodidacts.

What's your process for finding good autodidactical content on YouTube? (I am building something very related to this space; I'm super curious about people's "workflows" for this.)

How to (whatever)

Works for me :-)

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