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I honestly can't answer that but I cold-turkey'd my fb account about 2 years ago and I will never look back. You have to be a god damned fool to keep them poste

I honestly can't answer that but I cold-turkey'd my fb account about 2 years ago and I will never look back. You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life.

pc86 11y ago
> You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life. Absolutely the biggest form of hyperbole I've ever seen in my entire life, bar none. Seriously though, some people use FB sparingly once or twice a day. Some people actually make money from FB or use it for marketing. There are a lot of people that get more out of it than making snarky election posts.
- coderdude 11y ago
  Cool story. I use fb for marketing too. Who can't? Stop giving them your life story. It's not smart.
  - joshmanders 11y ago
    We get it, you don't use Facebook. I personally love Facebook. I keep in touch with family I can't see often. They get to see my daughter as if they live near us. I've engaged with people I would have never engaged with all because we have mutual friends, and end up growing friendships out of it. I get to share things I find interesting, my thoughts, my feelings. I get to see a deeper side of my family and friends whom also do the same. Look if your family and friends suck and all you see is "I had a bologna sandwich today" repeatedly, or that's all you can contribute, than take a look at your life and choice of peers, because using Facebook or not doesn't make or break them.
    - coderdude 11y ago
      I came off as a jerk. Was cranky as all hell last night. Fb is actually a great way to keep in contact with your family and friends.
nkrisc 11y ago
I use Facebook as a read-only service. I think for the last five years I probably have averaged a post a year.
- pferde 11y ago
  Not to worry, your "friends" and/or "groups" are valuable to them as well, probably even more so than any "posts" or "updates" from you would be - those exist solely to trick users into seeing there is value in being on FB, but are otherwise just cluttering up FB's data stores.
  - nkrisc 11y ago
    Yup, I'm under no illusion I've somehow "beaten" Facebook. They certainly like showing me "Sponsored" posts and loads of ads.
vowelless 11y ago
> You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life. That's a little much. There is one important usecase that I have: messenger. A lot of people (even the ones that I regularly meet) prefer to use messenger and that's the only reason I am sticking with it for now.

I honestly can't answer that but I cold-turkey'd my fb account about 2 years ago and I will never look back. You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life.

pc86 11y ago

> You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life. Absolutely the biggest form of hyperbole I've ever seen in my entire life, bar none. Seriously though, some people use FB sparingly once or twice a day. Some people actually make money from FB or use it for marketing. There are a lot of people that get more out of it than making snarky election posts.

coderdude 11y ago
Cool story. I use fb for marketing too. Who can't? Stop giving them your life story. It's not smart.
- joshmanders 11y ago
  We get it, you don't use Facebook. I personally love Facebook. I keep in touch with family I can't see often. They get to see my daughter as if they live near us. I've engaged with people I would have never engaged with all because we have mutual friends, and end up growing friendships out of it. I get to share things I find interesting, my thoughts, my feelings. I get to see a deeper side of my family and friends whom also do the same. Look if your family and friends suck and all you see is "I had a bologna sandwich today" repeatedly, or that's all you can contribute, than take a look at your life and choice of peers, because using Facebook or not doesn't make or break them.
  - coderdude 11y ago
    I came off as a jerk. Was cranky as all hell last night. Fb is actually a great way to keep in contact with your family and friends.

nkrisc 11y ago

I use Facebook as a read-only service. I think for the last five years I probably have averaged a post a year.

pferde 11y ago
Not to worry, your "friends" and/or "groups" are valuable to them as well, probably even more so than any "posts" or "updates" from you would be - those exist solely to trick users into seeing there is value in being on FB, but are otherwise just cluttering up FB's data stores.
- nkrisc 11y ago
  Yup, I'm under no illusion I've somehow "beaten" Facebook. They certainly like showing me "Sponsored" posts and loads of ads.

vowelless 11y ago

> You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life. That's a little much. There is one important usecase that I have: messenger. A lot of people (even the ones that I regularly meet) prefer to use messenger and that's the only reason I am sticking with it for now.