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I recently quit Facebook, but I get the impression that I'm the exception.
by grigjd3 10y ago
I recently quit Facebook, but I get the impression that I'm the exception.
- pacomerh 10y agoI quite FB in around 2009 with the plan of being more productive and it worked really well. I was being constantly distracted by unimportant events from other people. The one interesting thing that happened after that is that some of my "friends" actually contacted me to see if everything was ok with me, when in reality they where validating their egos making sure I didn't block them.
- grigjd3 10y agoI didn't find my productivity went up. Evidently, I can find enumerable things to distract myself with. I just got fed up with all the political hate flying around. Seems this year things went from people ironically commenting on the things our government does to claiming that anyone in disagreement belongs in a death camp. I just didn't want to see that shit anymore.
- rconti 10y agoI cannot enumerate the things I can distract myself with; I can therefore find innumerable things to distract myself with.
- rconti 10y agoMore productive Attending fewer events Misreading others' intentions Yeah, I think I'm gonna stick with Facebook. I don't need even MORE reasons to be a hermit -- it's already my natural tendency!
- pacomerh 10y agoThats fine if it works for you. To me its just noise that pollutes all the things I want to do. You don't have to be a hermit. If avoiding Facebook makes you a hermit, than I think we failed and we're depending too much on a single technology to be social, that doesn't sound right to me.
- padmabushan 10y agoI chose not to sign up immediately after witnessing what it did to my friends. I feel I did right thing. a month ago, my grandma who lives in a very remote place (in rural India) was dissapointed to not find my profile or pic in fb app.