Facebook is annoying and grabby? This guy obviously hasn't ever used ResearchGate. Facebook is the paragon of non-intrusive user experience compared to RG.
Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
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Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#232I have a facebook account, but I haven't even logged in in the mast few years. Recently (like a week ago), I started receiving text messages on the number i had setup, after constant nagging by fb about security, looking like this : Robin, get back on Facebook by clicking: https://fb.com/l/someIDhere I am OUTRAGED by this. My phone text messages is one of the only communication medium that has no spam, and i basicall…
I use Google Voice for 2FA. It kind of defeats the purpose of 2FA, but it ensures that all the spam stays in my inbox, and lets me change phone numbers when I change country without causing problems.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#233Something i've noticed recently is that my feed is flooded with the "x has become friends with y" type of notifications. I literally see 5-10 of them in a row, they make for a very monotonous feed experience. I think its supposed to be a nudge for me to add co-workers and acquaintances to facebook.
They're running out of things to notify you about. I've recently been getting a lot of "X updated their status", where X is someone who I've recently chatted with or whose status I've liked within the past month. It's silly, but I suppose it's worked on some people.
I got one notification like, a friend X posted to a group Y (which I'm part of).
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uninstalling the app and redirecting facebook.com to localhost are great ideas. I also sometimes logout of facebook.com on chrome on my phone so that it makes it even harder to get back on. Now if I could only do the same for reddit...
Since we are into personal anecdotes: the annoying giant red blinking popup they display all the time to force you to download the app instead of using the mobile website was all I needed to get entirely rid of my habit to visit Reddit, and I like the idea that I might not be the only one.
reddit is not far off from facebook to being a total time suck. i'd like to just be in a couple educational/technical subs or quit entirely but that /r/popular, it just calls out to people.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#235The best thing I ever did was delete the Facebook app from my phone. I had already disabled all the notifications, but that didn't change things like deleting the app. Not being able to get to Facebook wherever you are. As silly as it sounds it was liberating. I still access Facebook from my laptop - but now that it's off of my phone, I'm accessing Facebook less and less frequently and I'm find I'm happier as a resul…
I deleted it during the run-up to last year's elections, and I've been happier. Also, my phone battery lasts literally forever. The thing with optimizing for engagement is that the numbers will tell you to do things that eventually burn out your users. The more thoughtful people leave first, and the community becomes dominated by addicts, and the news feed increasingly dominated by oversharers who spend several hours…
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Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#236The appeal of getting likes, making numerous amounts of friends, sharing awesome posts, etc. is lost within the pile of nonsense that fills up the feed every single day. it's simply not cool any more. At least on other platforms I can follow a catered list of people that I find worthwhile. And the number of followers mean much more. Facebook is just a jumbled mess right now. The only thing it's good for is making it easier to keep in contact with others that phone numbers can't do. Notifications are facebooks way of trying to encourage engagement I think
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#237I haven't used Facebook for anything other than _chatting with family_ in more than a year. I still get "notifications" about things that I literally could not care any less about. Someone posted something on _their_ wall? I don't fucking care! Someone said something and it got a lot of attention? I literally hate that person, why are you telling me this? And... you might tell me that I could just unsubscribe. Yeah.…
If you don't want to get exposed to the crap part, then just use messenger.com instead. I haven't been to Facebook.com in a while
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#238I wonder when the majority of the people will get fed up and leave, like, when have they pushed everyone over the edge and the last person on earth has gotten the hint that Facebook is just a massive timesink with some social sprinkled on...
I, for one, have just logged out and never logged in for a solid 3 months now and haven't looked back.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit's system has its issues too. Early comments always get more votes and have more sway than later ones, and the "reality bubble" effect is worse because the general consenses upvotes posts that agree with their opinion and downvotes ones that disagree - effectively hiding them whether they're factually correct or not. Hacker News is much better than Reddit in general for allowing comments on both sides of an iss…
> I'd like to see a modern forum site where anyone can create a subforum and moderate it themselves the way anyone can create a subreddit on Reddit. Isn't that...Reddit?
Reddit is very geared towards short-term discussion. Top comments on a post are usually from the first couple of hours and posts last less than a day. For long-term discussion traditional forums with chronological posts and threads that get re-bumped to the top are still king.
Re: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
#240The best thing I ever did was delete the Facebook app from my phone. I had already disabled all the notifications, but that didn't change things like deleting the app. Not being able to get to Facebook wherever you are. As silly as it sounds it was liberating. I still access Facebook from my laptop - but now that it's off of my phone, I'm accessing Facebook less and less frequently and I'm find I'm happier as a resul…
Same. I initially only uninstalled messenger (which intolerably presented me with a popup asking me to enable notifications EVERY TIME I OPENED THE APP ), then got rid of the FB app. Now even on my laptop facebook.com is pointing at localhost in /etc/hosts, which makes me edit a root file to look at it. I'm much, much happier. If it works for you, cool, but if you're dissatisfied and considering abandoning it anyway,…
I am honestly wondering if there is an inside joke for tech companies attempting to make the worst possible messaging app. Facebook messenger is god awful ugly, same with snapchat. Google Hangouts is ok at best (I personally have not used Google's other dozen or so messaging apps they have)