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Went through the same process about 3 or 4 months ago. I was uninstalling from an android phone (so not exactly the same experience) but I was pleasantly surpri
by kough 11y ago
Went through the same process about 3 or 4 months ago. I was uninstalling from an android phone (so not exactly the same experience) but I was pleasantly surprised by how usable the mobile web app was. Also, how much happier I became when I wasn't killing time looking at inane "content".
If you're at all curious, try uninstalling Facebook from your phone and doing your best not to visit it on your computer for a a few days, maybe a week. It started out (embarassingly, still is) harder than I thought it would be, even though I don't maintain much of a profile on there – it's made me realize exactly how addicting that behavior can be. I do keep the messenger app on my phone so that I can stay in touch with my friends, but in my mind Facebook vs. Messenger are two totally separate products and experiences.
- karlshea 11y agoWhen you do this Facebook starts emailing you more trying to get you to come back: "See what you've missed while you were away!"
- bnj 11y agoThis actually has the effect of encouraging me to stay away
- antsar 11y agoThis. Also, the emails taper off after you ignore a few.
- martian 11y agoIt's easy enough to disable all these emails in FB's notification preferences.
- gherkin0 11y ago> It's easy enough to disable all these emails in FB's notification preferences. Actually no, I don't think that's even possible. In the notification preferences, it appears you don't get a list of all notifications that you can disable, you only get a list of notifications you've already disabled, so they don't let you be proactive about disabling things. I just tried clicking the "unsubscribe" link from one of Facebook's "So and so has updated their status. Please, come back, our algorithm misses you!" emails, and that added "Recent friend activity on Facebook" to my list of disabled notifications. Let's hope I still get emails for event invites and tagging notifications. They change stuff all the time, and I remember the last time I looked into this I was afraid I was disabling more than I wanted to, so I went with email filters instead.
- crystalclaw 11y agoI somehow managed to disable all of them before that change happened. I receive no Facebook notifications anymore, and happily look at Facebook ~once every 3 months.
- TTPrograms 11y agoNews Feed Eradicator: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicator-for/fjcldmjmjhkklehbacihaiopjklihlgg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat... So you can use messenger without getting sucked into the feed. It's fantastic.
- ariabuckles 11y agohttps://www.messenger.com https://www.messenger.com also gives a messenger-app like experience on web, with no non-messenger notifications :D.
- Mikho 11y agoBTW, the same author wrote that on Android it saves 20% of battery life: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/uninstalling-facebook-app-saves-up-to-20-of-android-battery-life http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/uninstalli...