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Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

antidoh wrote: post #39
crag wrote: post #32

Well the OP is right about one thing: Facebook has become less personal. I regret accepting old high school/college friends (who I haven't' seen in 25 years), army buds, and family members I didn't even know I had. Now I post, maybe once every 2 weeks. Usually something safe - like about the current game I'm playing. I don't dare get personal on FB now.

"I don't dare get personal on FB now." The irony.

Indeed - the more 'connected' we are, the more socialized we're forced to be. Facebook is not the third place simply because there are too many appearances we're have to maintain.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

pyre wrote: post #30
yuvadam wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do I need to invest time in "fine tuning my social graph"? What's in it for me? And is it even my social graph? Facebook is not about "helping you connect to your friends", it's about buying eyeball-time and pumping commercials into your brain. Any person that has not been completely brainwashed can see the fallacy in this kind of system.

> it's about buying eyeball-time and pumping > commercials into your brain. You've just defined television. I think that you need to broaden your definition of Facebook if you want people to listen to you point. Facebook is more than just the local television company.

Sorry, local television company + Reddit.

(Ouch, but FB is meme/funny picture city. Gross.)

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by Etab »

gooddaysir wrote: post #13

Facebook is the new television.

Related: "I don't have a Facebook" is the new "I don't have a TV." For some reason, those who either refused to sign up or chose to deactivate their accounts feel the need to share this with everyone everywhere.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by planetguy »

obituary_latte wrote: post #12

My problem with fb and the reason I don't use it is simple: principal. I understand the model, and oblige with google (though not g+ as it is pretty quiet in my neck of the woods). But to not only give them the value of my data but also have them go around changing things like registered email without so much as a heads up is a slap in the face. It's like a conceited bus monitor that just goes ahead and "does what's…

It took me a long time to figure out that you meant "principle" rather than "principal".

For school teachers, perhaps the reason might be principal.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by shmerl »

Facebook is defective by design as a social network. It's for profit driven, privacy abusing and etc. and etc. It's a pity that it became a virtual monopoly. Same bad as happened with Windows on the desktop.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by dbot »

tatsuke95 wrote: post #15

Facebook will struggle to make the next leap (IMHO, of course) because there's a disconnect between how users want to use it, and how Facebook wants/needs you to use it. Outside of the sub-group of individuals who thrive on sharing every aspect of their life, most people want Facebook to be a fancy email. There's all your friends; you can talk with them and literally see what they're up to . And to be honest, the pla…

Facebook's user model changed completely when it introduced the news feed. Before that, users spent a lot of time "curating" their profile pages with favorite books, movies, etc., while updating status only occasionally ("dbot is ..."). Visiting someone's page was more like going over and knocking on their door. You would learn a lot about that person and what they've been up to.

Enter the news feed - which was hugely unpopular at first - and is more like walking into a public square, with ads, vendors, and people on soapboxes. Some people don't like to be so public in the way they share, and other people's interesting stuff gets lost in the crowd.

The Facebook of today isn't the one I signed up for, which is fine, but also explains why I use it less now.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by moron »

Facebook has a feature specifically for this, so that you see every update posted by people on your "VIP" list. I only know this because they put the feature in my face, I didn't go looking for it. Come on.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

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Post by planetguy »

I'm considering leaving facebook for the first time, because of the Sponsored Stories thing, which is showing up with disturbing regularity, and frequently winds up as ads for things that make me angry.

Nowadays, if you "Like" something, then that something can pay for the privilege to insert whatever stories it likes into your friends' facebook feeds, under the heading "so-and-so likes such-and-such" followed by your own message. Interestingly the person whose name is being used for the advertisement has no idea what ads are going out under their name.

Two of these in particular show up in my facebook feed several times a week and raise my blood pressure every time they do. One is a particularly annoying evangelical preacher slash motivational speaker who fills up my newsfeed with god-stuff due to the fact that a vague acquaintance I've met a couple of times happens to "like" him. Another is a political thing which fills up my newsfeed with posts I find highly disagreeable under the name of another friend of mine.

What were they thinking? Facebook has designed a feature which makes me hate my friends.

Re: Goodbye Facebook.

#49

Post by superasn »

Yes, I too had the similar problem. I was missing out on updates from my brother while being bombarded with stupid gifs. But as pointed out in another comment it's just one day I had to sit for an hour and put everyone who I don't speak on phone regularly as acquaintances. Problem solved!

It was a bit hard for me to do this though, nearly took an hour.. so here are two suggestions

1) Brute force: option to mark everyone as acquaintances in one go and then de-select the people back to friends.

2) More automated: Facebook should make a module where if a person allows the app access to the phonebook, it somehow recommends a list of people who are important to me based on my frequency of calling/speaking them offline. I know privacy conscious people would absolutely scream in horror so this is why it should be opt-in only.

P.S. 3) Oh and timeline still sucks. It is just too hard to read, there ought to be a way to going back to the simple news feed.

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