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Less and less people can write with the energy of Erik Naggum. Its not rewarded. Searching that great article from 6 months ago is a PITA. Almost no one reads longform articles anymore. Thanks Obama.
I stopped two years ago. As far as I am aware I'm not missing much. I did have a lot of old friends on FB, but I didn't stay in contact with them in real life. I was just lazily snooping on their lives, without giving anything in return. To be completely honest, I don't have space or time for them in my real life. It isn't because I didn't like them anymore, it was simply that I didn't have the time or energy to stay…
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Similar situation here. Frustrating as it is, it's The Right Thing to do. It's a shame that some people assume you're disinterested, but then don't return emails/calls. I heard about an old Norwegian guy who had always made short calls to friends and family throughout his life and that those people appreciated that. That's more the direction I'd rather go in over the passive friend-surveillance that has crept in. I'd…
I would like to follow your lead, but in some ways it feels selfish of me and thats why I stick around on FB. I live quite some distance from my family and it is the easiest way to share photos of my family with all of them without requiring them to all get a new account somewhere else. Are there better more private solutions that are still very convenient for everyone from my 15 year old niece to my 80 year old gran…
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Eh, I remember the days of trying to keep in touch via email, and not getting replies, or feeling bad that I wasn't sending a reply. Just to keep in general contact, with no specific goal in mind. I don't look forward to going back to them.
if people don't reply to your emails, maybe that says a lot about how much they care about you.
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I don't disagree, but the definition of "everybody" has gotten bigger and that counts too. AOL may have been the place to be in the 90s, but it was still a sharp subset of my friends and acquaintances that were there, vs. the almost complete set on Facebook. And USENET/dialup/etc were even more selective. It's only been very recently (relatively speaking) that a majority of people were online at all, never mind align…
I've seen way too many "too big to fail" services fail, to believe Facebook is that much harder to displace. BTW: IBM just announced it's offering Apple computers to its employees.
Though to that point, interoperability between social networks would certainly be a nail in Facebook's coffin. As soon as the service commoditizes to a simple portal all bets are off.
Facebook, like everything, will disappear some day, but it will be because people decide to start using some other way of keeping in touch -- not because they decide that they're bored of keeping in touch. Many people just stop using Facebook, don't replace it with anything else, and are happy with that decision -- but that will not be the norm.
Nothing I have heard about them since I quit has made me regret my decision to leave.
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I have trouble leaving Facebook because for better or worse it is how many of my friends and acquaintances communicate. I ended up finding a nice compromise: I installed an extension which hides all the content on news feed but still allows FB chat. When I couple this extension with ublock, the only thing I see when I go to Facebook is the chat interface, which is perfect for how I use the service.
Facebook have done that themselves! No extensions required! www.messenger.com is literally just FB chat, nothing else.
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I would like to follow your lead, but in some ways it feels selfish of me and thats why I stick around on FB. I live quite some distance from my family and it is the easiest way to share photos of my family with all of them without requiring them to all get a new account somewhere else. Are there better more private solutions that are still very convenient for everyone from my 15 year old niece to my 80 year old gran…
Maybe a bit out of left field, but I'm using Telegram (that open source messenger app) to share pictures with family. It was on a whim; once when I was at my parents place, I just set up Telegram desktop on both their PC's, the app on their tablet and on my mother's smartphone (dad has this thing with big buttons). Now we have a group chat together with my partner (would've also added siblings if I had them) and shar…