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so you never ever use FB on the desktop ? You can still read messages there. I have quite a lot of international friends on FB of whom i don't have a phone numb

by kayoone 10y ago

so you never ever use FB on the desktop ? You can still read messages there. I have quite a lot of international friends on FB of whom i don't have a phone number but use Messenger to communicate. Of course, i could try to find out their skype/email but the endresult would be the same, just more hassle to get there. With WhatsApp and Messenger i can pretty much reach anyone i know right now, but i could remove the regular FB app from my phone though.

galdosdi 10y ago
I didn't even know that it still worked on desktop! This shows that although it's not true that I /never/ use FB on the desktop it's very rare. This is because I never go to FB just to check out FB; I go to FB because a notification email piqued my interest. And I do read my emails almost exclusively on the phone.
- erelde 10y ago
  The trick is to keep only "facebook.com/messages" in your history (or bookmarks if you use that). That way the browser autocomplete from your history and you get directly to the messages.
  - wahnfrieden 10y ago
    Just use http://messenger.com http://messenger.com then
    - tamana 10y ago
      Wow, sure is ashamed of themselves, hiding their name from the messenger homepage
      - SerLava 10y ago
        >know when people have seen your messages Oh cool, they brought over the thing that made me completely stop using Facebook!
    - bhaile 10y ago
      Also https://m.me https://m.me
  - galdosdi 10y ago
    I don't want to know a trick. My point was that FB has unwittingly added a "feature" that helps me do something I want, which is minimize FB usage. Think of say, HN's noprocrast option. It would be crazy for FB to introduce such a thing, but that's what they've done for me here! No way am I going to try to disable it!
- mr_luc 10y ago
  All of the emails Facebook sends are in a folder called "SpammySaaS," together with all of sales reps trying to cut me sweet deals on their company's CI/CD.

by kayoone 10y ago

galdosdi 10y ago

I didn't even know that it still worked on desktop! This shows that although it's not true that I /never/ use FB on the desktop it's very rare. This is because I never go to FB just to check out FB; I go to FB because a notification email piqued my interest. And I do read my emails almost exclusively on the phone.

erelde 10y ago
The trick is to keep only "facebook.com/messages" in your history (or bookmarks if you use that). That way the browser autocomplete from your history and you get directly to the messages.
- wahnfrieden 10y ago
  Just use http://messenger.com http://messenger.com then
  - tamana 10y ago
    Wow, sure is ashamed of themselves, hiding their name from the messenger homepage
    - SerLava 10y ago
      >know when people have seen your messages Oh cool, they brought over the thing that made me completely stop using Facebook!
  - bhaile 10y ago
    Also https://m.me https://m.me
- galdosdi 10y ago
  I don't want to know a trick. My point was that FB has unwittingly added a "feature" that helps me do something I want, which is minimize FB usage. Think of say, HN's noprocrast option. It would be crazy for FB to introduce such a thing, but that's what they've done for me here! No way am I going to try to disable it!
mr_luc 10y ago
All of the emails Facebook sends are in a folder called "SpammySaaS," together with all of sales reps trying to cut me sweet deals on their company's CI/CD.