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Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by nhangen »

He's mostly right, but I also get the sense that he misses it a bit and is trying to justify not using it - to himself.

I agree with him in that FB communication is generally shallow - the less meaningful your status updates are, the more people seem to like them.

I also tire of inspirational quotes and Internet Marketing pitches - MLM too.

I continue to use it though because I'm not really bothered enough to ditch my account.

On a side note - did anyone notice that the picture of SP in his sidebar looks like Julian Assange?

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by zmitri »

I quit using Facebook about 3-4 years ago while I was still in university. Extremely interesting experience.. people I used to be "friends" with got angry at me, people who I had friendly relationships with stopped communicating with me almost immediately, and I no longer received any invitations to any type of social events (http://www.thewrongbox.ca/videos/iamfacebook). At first it was a little lonely, but it made me realize who my real friends were, and we interacted in more meaningful ways-- I also had more time to pursue other hobbies. I still do not have Facebook and I think my life is better for it.

I like this article, and not with a "like" button.

PS. I still use IM, and twitter like a notepad/thoughtstream (although I don't really promote it to friends).

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by tygorius »

Zolomon wrote: post #2

Why the hell does he use the "Like" button if he's quit Facebook? (I know it's for others to share, but still. Double messages much?)

If he'd written that Facebook was evil and the following are reasons no one should use it, I'd see your point. The closest he got to that it seems to me was pointing out the quantity/quality tradeoff.

What he wrote were observations after quitting and several of the points he acknowledged were related to higher volume -- points that might not apply to readers with lower public profiles.

Actually, there was a GTD aspect of it (inbox, Tweet usage, LinkedIn) that seemed right at home for HN.

Re: Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook

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Post by zalew »

rw wrote: post #6

If he could learn to care less (for comparison, he should not try to read all of Twitter), then Facebook would not present such a problem.

7 screens of text about quitting using facebook? He seems kind of obsessed by the idea.

> My Facebook page was maxed out at 5K friends and was very active.

5000 friends??? No wonder he got tired of it. Before I passed 100 I rarely used the 'hide' button, now I use it more, and I think hiding people and blocking apps (and sometimes turning chat off) is a good way to make fb experience less annoying.

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