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Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by georgemcbay »

ldd wrote: post #35
mrchess wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used this for a while but noticed it greatly slowed down my Facebook in general. Ended up uninstalling it after a few days. Wish they had a lighter weight one.

I know this might sound like a really non-efficient thing to do, but you can individually unfollow every single one of your contacts. I only have around ~200 friends so unfollowing them wasn't that hard. Nowadays, I love going to Facebook. My news feed is completely empty.

I don't go to that extreme, but I did find Facebook was much more manageable when I started just unfollowing anyone whose posts/reshares annoyed me more than a couple of times.

I've probably only unfollowed about 10% of my total friends list, but the difference is immense, a lot of the noise tends to come from a small subset of the people, in my experience.

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by lfam »

untog wrote: post #25

Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…

> Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book

Before disappearing into outer space (leaving Facebook) I found that Facebook had become my address book.

I think that is Facebook's greatest use: a self-updating address book. Instead of all my friends having to update their address books when I make a change, I should update my contact info and the changes should automatically be available to them. It's a great idea. Now, we just have to make it happen outside of a closed system.

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by mixmastamyk »

seanwilson wrote: post #58
untog wrote: post #25

Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…

Yeah, I'm not sure why some people make such a huge deal about avoiding Facebook personally. Some of my friends use different apps like Whatsapp, Facebook, Skype etc. more than others so I use multiple apps to keep in touch with friends. I can keep in touch far better compared to when we only had phone calls, emails and txts, and don't see what detriments Facebook is causing me at all. Is it really that difficult to…

Well said, unfortunately it doesn't provide the satisfaction of saying you don't use it.

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by voltagex_ »

untog wrote: post #25

Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…

I mean, how much better are we really, sitting on HN?

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by hliyan »

nommm-nommm wrote: post #11

The big reason why Facebook depresses me is extreme narcissism.

For me, it was the extreme stupidity -- anti-vaccination activism, anti-science/pro-pseudo-science, serial sharing of hoaxes, intolerance and blithe support for indefensible political positions in general.

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by rottyguy »

brickmort wrote: post #2

I deleted my Facebook account after realizing that every time I would go on it, the clickbait and mindless minutia would irritate me more than entertain me. between the advertisements, there would be 'you'll never guess what happens next!' posts, then political propaganda, then children/marriage updates on people I hadn't interacted with in years. At a certain point, I realized that it wasn't even fun to me anymore,…

What's the best way to delete everything from your fb wall these days? I know they keep crippling the tools.

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by maskedinvader »

sotojuan wrote: post #47
untog wrote: post #25

Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you. Personally, I find that Facebook has become my address book - while I still text people I see every day, Messenger group chats are often used instead. Plus the voice and video calls have been a great way to keep up with people further afield.…

http://messenger.com/ The best thing Facebook ever did was separate the useful messenger from the terrible main site.

I am not so sure that was the most useful, I sure liked the main site chat to work on mobile even if I didn't want another app (messenger to be installed). Yeah i'm one of those few who prefer simple single app experience. I prefer if companies could try keep things a little more backward compatible. /rant

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by sridca »

By making Facebook a scapegoat humans have once again conveniently avoided talking about an uncomfortable truth about themselves. People give off inauthentic expressions all the time -- take women putting on makeup for example -- and this tells us more about human nature than Facebook or corporations.

Re: Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

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Post by sridca »

untog wrote: post #36
cortesoft wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously. My lack of desire for lots of social interaction is just a feature of my personality, it isn't something to be proud of or brag about.

(This is off topic but) there's probably something fascinating to be studied about it. The assumption I've heard a number of people make is that their anti-socialness means that they read more, code more, and as such it's actually a positive quality that elevates them above others. Even as someone who can be antisocial themselves, I think it's a load of bunk, and it's sort of interesting to see human interaction bein…

> [...] their anti-socialness means [...]

To be fair he said "lack of desire for lots of social interaction" -- with emphasis on the word "lots" -- and not "lack of desire for social interaction".

cortesoft may very well be needing social interaction (inasmuch as Maslow's hierarchy of needs is fulfilled), just not lots.

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