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I have stopped using Facebook (Twitter and everything social) half a decade ago. I don't use messaging apps and turn on my phone only when I really need to. Re

I have stopped using Facebook (Twitter and everything social) half a decade ago. I don't use messaging apps and turn on my phone only when I really need to. Result: more free time to do interesting and productive things and people aren't bothering me as much. I have taken control of my life and I'm not being pushed around to do things based on notifications or desire for artificial status(likes, retweet, stars). Stop using these services that sell your privacy, control your communication, make hostile changes and in the end do not care about you.

davidbwire 10y ago
I concur with you. I realized that social apps were taking too much of my time an uninstalled them from my phone. I only use my laptop to access fb and Twitter and I'm very happy with the move.
askafriend 10y ago
Try doing that as a mobile developer.
dump121 10y ago
free time which now you are spending discussing about FB.
e12e 10y ago
How is HN not a social network? (I'm not being snarky, I'm just curious on your line of thinking here)
- shawn-butler 10y ago
  There is no network or linkage between users? And people are not allowed to post inane topics or messages. Pretty basic.
  - e12e 10y ago
    How do you think the voting ring detection works? Some users post contact info in their profile, so there is the possibility for messaging (email). Yes, there are policies, and structure and many good things - I'm not sure that means that HN isn't a social network of sorts? I suppose it might boil down to a technicality, but I always read "social network" as a graph that describes how a group is connected - not as some strict technological definition. So a bunch of people that informally meet at a cafe to discuss politics, art and other topics can be described as a social network.
    - shawn-butler 10y ago
      That is an implementation detail not a feature.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y ago
  each human can have multiple identities as well.
tyfon 10y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I deleted my facebook account several years ago and I still have contact with my real friends via phone and email and a thing called meeting up in real life. All I lost were the friends I never wanted anyway. As a side note, my company recently had a meeting with execs of our national branch of facebook, and after that meeting about 50% of our execs went and deleted their account...
- r2dnb 10y ago
  >As a side note, my company recently had a meeting with execs of our national branch of facebook, and after that meeting about 50% of our execs went and deleted their account... I am interested, can you please elaborate ? (Feel free to email me - see my profile - if it is sensitive)
  - tyfon 10y ago
    I'd rather not, it is sensitive, but I can tell you that the whole management at our company came out shocked at how FB operated, and not to the positive. The issue was the "product"s (i.e regular people) privacy and the attitude towards them by the local FB management.
    - r2dnb 10y ago
      Thanks that makes sense to me, it is the level of insight I was after :)

davidbwire 10y ago

I concur with you. I realized that social apps were taking too much of my time an uninstalled them from my phone. I only use my laptop to access fb and Twitter and I'm very happy with the move.

askafriend 10y ago

Try doing that as a mobile developer.

dump121 10y ago

free time which now you are spending discussing about FB.

e12e 10y ago

How is HN not a social network? (I'm not being snarky, I'm just curious on your line of thinking here)

shawn-butler 10y ago
There is no network or linkage between users? And people are not allowed to post inane topics or messages. Pretty basic.
- e12e 10y ago
  How do you think the voting ring detection works? Some users post contact info in their profile, so there is the possibility for messaging (email). Yes, there are policies, and structure and many good things - I'm not sure that means that HN isn't a social network of sorts? I suppose it might boil down to a technicality, but I always read "social network" as a graph that describes how a group is connected - not as some strict technological definition. So a bunch of people that informally meet at a cafe to discuss politics, art and other topics can be described as a social network.
  - shawn-butler 10y ago
    That is an implementation detail not a feature.
em3rgent0rdr 10y ago
each human can have multiple identities as well.

tyfon 10y ago

I wholeheartedly agree with this. I deleted my facebook account several years ago and I still have contact with my real friends via phone and email and a thing called meeting up in real life. All I lost were the friends I never wanted anyway. As a side note, my company recently had a meeting with execs of our national branch of facebook, and after that meeting about 50% of our execs went and deleted their account...

r2dnb 10y ago
>As a side note, my company recently had a meeting with execs of our national branch of facebook, and after that meeting about 50% of our execs went and deleted their account... I am interested, can you please elaborate ? (Feel free to email me - see my profile - if it is sensitive)
- tyfon 10y ago
  I'd rather not, it is sensitive, but I can tell you that the whole management at our company came out shocked at how FB operated, and not to the positive. The issue was the "product"s (i.e regular people) privacy and the attitude towards them by the local FB management.
  - r2dnb 10y ago
    Thanks that makes sense to me, it is the level of insight I was after :)