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How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

Sadly deleting Facebook isn't an option for me, as it has become _the_ place to get notified about social events around here. Twitter/Reddit/whatever doesn't have as strong a presence here, and the traditional websites have all be replaced by facebook pages.

I've cut out all the services from my life that siphons my "metadata", and while my daily Facebook usage was around 15 minutes/day, i still can't completely delete it. Instead i've banned the Facebook app from my phone/tablet and only check facebook when i'm at home during the evenings, and even then i use Firefox with Facebook Container.

As for (Facebook) messenger, i'm trying hard to teach people that i don't use it, or telegram, and instead they can reach me on Signal, or just plain old iMessages/SMS. It takes a few weeks, but usually people "get it" when i don't reply to their messages.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #73

I quit Facebook for about 2 years back in 2015. It was a good time to self reflect and focus on myself. However I realised I was missing out on birthday/wedding/social invites. I reactivated it and have a policy of only checking it 2-3 times a week. I dont have either apps on my phone. My profile is tidied up and has contact information that my friends can use to reach out to me (hardly anyone has). Reddit is the nex…

The "problem" with Reddit is that (depending on your selections) most information there is actually relevant.

After Google killed Reader, i found myself using Reddit and HN far more than i had previously, as these are good aggregators of stuff i find interesting.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by dmos62 »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #91

Sadly deleting Facebook isn't an option for me, as it has become _the_ place to get notified about social events around here. Twitter/Reddit/whatever doesn't have as strong a presence here, and the traditional websites have all be replaced by facebook pages. I've cut out all the services from my life that siphons my "metadata", and while my daily Facebook usage was around 15 minutes/day, i still can't completely dele…

Is deleting your account and creating an anonymous one to just check local events a viable option?

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

#95

Post by Jaruzel »

sdeepak wrote: post #38
Jaruzel wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I applaud this idea, but once you've joined how do you get your friends to follow you? Every so often I get emails like: "Bob invites you to join AwesomeSocialNetwork, click here to join!" and I totally ignore them. I also wonder if the age of The Social Network is over. If a new better Facebook did come along, people wouldn't join it because deep down they all know that social networking is massive waste of time and…

Social networking was never a waste of time. The fact that both of us don't know each other still exchanging ideas is a proof of that. Online social networking gave us the power to find people we might not find otherwise in an all offline world. It all got screwed up when the business models came into play and we became 'products' instead of 'users'. We made https://pden.xyz because we felt a stripped down version of…

I saw your link elsewhere in this thread.

Pden is a decentralized microblogging app

What does that mean exactly? Without any screen-shots or detailed information I'm none the wiser as to why I should try your service. I'm certainly not handing over my email address without more information. Just a bit of UI feedback there.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by foldr »

rubatuga wrote: post #52
scarejunba wrote: post #41

I just have a single strike policy for most of my friends. I unfollow anyone as soon as they post something I don't want to see. I don't tell them, obviously. It works quite well. Scrolled down just now and saw one post of someone running a 10k, a complaint about not having a holiday on Monday (haha), an ad from Triplebyte, a photo of the SpaceX rocket launch visible from the city, pictures from Yosemite, a birthday,…

Wow, I’m getting some odd vibes off of you. Would hate to be your friend.

I do the same thing. It's nothing personal. In fact, I find that there's very little correlation between people I get on with well in real life and people whose Facebook posts I don't hate.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by kinleyd »

I left my Facebook account idle for about 6 years now, and didn't miss it at all.

Now I'm trying to delete it and I can't find the link to "Your Facebook Information" no matter where I look. This is where the delete option is according to Facebook's help section.

Anyone having the same problem or is Facebook deliberately burying that link?

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

#98

Post by davchana »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #46

I just wanted to say that I walked away from Facebook about a year and a half ago now. I didn’t delete it, I just logged out and uninstalled the mobile app. It’s all been totally fine. The most social social media I use now is reddit, where I’m more just talking to people. I don’t post status updates anywhere, and often amazing things happen to me that I never tell anyone about. I eat great meals and don’t share. I b…

I too, about 1.5 years agi, realised that facebook & orkut is consuming too much time of mine, kind of addictive. I coldly uninstalled app, logged out everywhere. Felt so free. Then found reddit & hackernews, & now again whenever I feel i am spending too much time, I just delete the shortcuts of these from my most-recent-tabs.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by sdeepak »

Jaruzel wrote: post #95
sdeepak wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Social networking was never a waste of time. The fact that both of us don't know each other still exchanging ideas is a proof of that. Online social networking gave us the power to find people we might not find otherwise in an all offline world. It all got screwed up when the business models came into play and we became 'products' instead of 'users'. We made https://pden.xyz because we felt a stripped down version of…

I saw your link elsewhere in this thread. Pden is a decentralized microblogging app What does that mean exactly? Without any screen-shots or detailed information I'm none the wiser as to why I should try your service. I'm certainly not handing over my email address without more information. Just a bit of UI feedback there.

I understand your point. Decentralized in the sense that we don't own your data or identity. It is owned and controlled by the user. Identities are verified by blockchain and all your data is stored in the cloud storage of your choice. As far as more information is concerned we have listed all the important points in the landing page which we felt was necessary. If you have any specific questions you can ask and we'll try best to answer that.

Re: How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

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Post by hycaria »

justin_oaks wrote: post #3

"Anything from Upworthy" Good for a laugh, but it's pretty easy to get rid of that stuff in particular. Anytime anyone reshares something, I go to the 3-dot menu and select "Hide all from xxxxx". It makes most of the crap go away... except for the one "friend" who somehow manages to reshare everything under the sun. Somehow that guy keeps finding new sources for me to "Hide all" from. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It is by no means a so…

You can unfollow someone if you "show more".
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