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the common counter to this feeling is that if facebook makes you miserable, then your friends are probably just not good ones. of course, this ignores that we
by tabeth 9y ago
the common counter to this feeling is that if facebook makes you miserable, then your friends are probably just not good ones.
of course, this ignores that we all have friends who do things we don't like, and they're friends in spite of that. so the question is, given that facebook is used mainly for
1. communication
2. event planning
3. keeping the relationship alive.
how do you get those things without all of the bloat, both cognitively and as a matter of tech?
I feel that facebook is overkill if that's indeed true. what we (or at least I) need is just something that will sift through my calendar and all forms of communication and just let me know if I haven't contacted a friend in so often.
such a thing would eliminate the need for facebook for 99% of people, I suspect.
- cylinder 9y agoUnfollow everyone
- tabeth 9y agoI don't use facebook, but that seems like silly advice. if you're going to unfollow everyone, then the primary value prop is gone. each time you bother to manually check on someone, you could've just called/emailed/messaged them. at that point you might as well delete your account imo.
- jpttsn 9y agoPeople assume you have Facebook. Still having my account keeps things smooth.
- rzzzt 9y agoUnfollowing someone is different from unfriending them; in the former case, you just stop seeing the person's posts in your news feed: https://www.facebook.com/help/190078864497547 https://www.facebook.com/help/190078864497547