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I have to say, I am glad no one in my social group cared when I left Facebook. We still talk and hang out. That said, I did not have any "miserable" problems w
by sotojuan 9y ago
I have to say, I am glad no one in my social group cared when I left Facebook. We still talk and hang out.
That said, I did not have any "miserable" problems with Facebook because I removed everyone from my wall except close friends and family, essentially making Facebook just Messenger. Maybe Facebook changed the rules by now or something, but I recommend to ruthlessly unfollow people you don't care for but might want to be able to talk to one day.
- austincheney 9y agoAgreed. I took it to another level... and deleted my Facebook account. If I need to be social I have a cell phone.
- exergy 9y agoMe too, and it was simultaneously the best thing I ever did, and also "meh". For one, very few people cared that I left Facebook, and those who did were fortunately the ones who actually cared about me. Also, I expected it to be this big, life-changing, zen-inducing move, but turns out, I replaced FB with Reddit, HN and youtube. On the other hand, every so often, whenever I come across other people's Facebook wall, I realise that I'm not really missing out on people sharing their life, but instead, on looking at long pages of the loud, angry venting, and I realise that, at some point over the past four years, I went from missing facebook to realising that I'd built up too much mental resistance against it to ever put myself through opening an account ever again. That, plus the feel-good factor I get from being "more privacy conscious".
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