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I'm in college right now and oscillate between having one and not having one, but most of the social life is organized through Facebook and I end up looking ver
by jolux 10y ago
I'm in college right now and oscillate between having one and not having one, but most of the social life is organized through Facebook and I end up looking very odd for ritualistically avoiding it (well and Google Docs but that's a different kettle of fish).
- et-al 10y agoI got on Facebook for the exact same reason when I was in university, and it was necessary as a way to know about events and art openings from acquaintances. The key is just limiting how much time you spend on there. Not installing the mobile app or Messenger helps.
- bigger_cheese 10y agoI've had a Facebook account for 9 years now. When I first joined all my friends were on there if you wanted to go out for drinks you'd create an event. Party this weekend? Create an event. Sometime around when I turned 30 people just stopped posting anything. Nowadays my feed is people I once knew in high school posting photos of their kids and my teenage cousin posting memes. I can go weeks without checking the feed and miss nothing. I'm not going to shut down my account, a huge part of my 20's are stored there (holiday photos from multiple overseas trips etc) but I'm a very infrequent user nowadays.
- buzzy_hacker 10y agoCould you elaborate on avoiding Google Docs?
- jolux 10y agoI don't really trust Google not to index stuff I put in Docs, there's no canonical open format for them the way there is with MS Office these days, and as an extension of not trusting Google, I try to avoid depending on their services more generally.
- bigbugbag 10y agoEasy one: actively avoid anything and everything google is the basics of having some chances at online privacy.