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Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and friv

Did this 5 years ago and never looked back. The fact that people write about it is probably showing how serious Facebook has become to them. Pretty sad and frivolous if your think about it. My other social media (Twitter, Instagram) have notifications turned off, and are silently — and non instrusively — waiting for me when I decide to glance at them (usually once every 2-3 days). You end up forgetting about them and only remember when you're bored, it works wonders. I believe we’ll look back in 10 years and realize that this generation (like most generations that are first to adopt something new) was ridiculously over attached to social media.

john_minsk 9y ago
Nice one. But how do you look at Twitter only once in a couple of days? Twitter is useless this way if you ask me.
- gfiorav 9y ago
  Well I really like the “in case you missed it” section. Brings up the important and funny stuff condensed. If I hear something’s going on, I’ll open un the TT section and get some instant insights from it. They way I see it, Twitter is useless most of the time, it comes in handy only when some event is taking place.
- akvadrako 9y ago
  You have to prune your network until there is enough time to read everything.
zimpenfish 9y ago
> I believe we’ll look back in 10 years and realize that this generation was ridiculously over attached to [human connections] Fixed that for you.
- gfiorav 9y ago
  Haha, well not too sure. For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years. On the other hand, we’ve been attached to human connections since the begging of civilization. Not sold that would end in 10 years time.
  - pjc50 9y ago
    Before Facebook, there was an entire genre of "friends reunited" stories, where people had lost contact with someone they used to be close to and recovered it after decades. That was back in the old pre-connection days where you could just lose someone's contact details, or they could move and if they didn't update you (or you were both moving) that was it forever. Now things are very different. You never have to wonder what's happening to those people you knew at school, or wait for the reunion.
    - coldtea 9y ago
      >Before Facebook, there was an entire genre of "friends reunited" stories, where people had lost contact with someone they used to be close to and recovered it after decades. Those were more "once friends, then estranged/lost touch for decades on end, meet again, might or might not keep contact" stories than "friends re-united" stories.
  - zimpenfish 9y ago
    > For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. It is, it really is. > You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years. Well, yeah, that's a truism.
    - nextlevelwizard 9y ago
      >It is, it really is. Maybe we have extremely different feeds, but I mostly just see junk updates like: "walking the dogs", "just had breakfast", "just got home from work", "yay friday", "look we are at bar/party/gathering", "argh! mondays suck" Then there are some random quiz/ad/lottery things. And random pictures of people's kids/pets. I get much more human interaction out of IRC and Discord, places where you can actually talk and not just like and comment.
- coldtea 9y ago
  Yeah, because "human connections" can only be achieved on a web platform, with people you merely chat with on a casual BS basis for casual BS topics, and consider "friends" besides seldom meeting or having much in common with most of them.
  - zimpenfish 9y ago
    > Yeah, because "human connections" can only be achieved on a web platform Who said that? Not me.
    - coldtea 9y ago
      Well, you substituted "social media" for "human connections" as if those are one and the same, or you can't have one without the other.
      - zimpenfish 9y ago
        Or "social media" can cover "human connections" adequately as a better description without being one and the same or inextricably tied.
        coldtea 9y ago
        Note for the purposes of the parent's comment "this generation was ridiculously over attached to social media". It's not that humans have developed some bizarro attachment to human connections in general. If anything, human connections have suffered a lot in our age (see all the relevant studies about the rise of loneliness and its impact). What we do have developed is a bizarro attachment to social media -- spending 1-3 hours per day checking them.
        zimpenfish 9y ago
        > see all the relevant studies about the rise of loneliness and its impact I've seen a bunch of those studies and in the absence of historical studies, there's nothing to show that it isn't just that people are more open about being lonely now compared with, say, even just 50 years ago. Also there's nothing to show this is due to the rise in "social media" as opposed to changing dynamics in family structures or the general fuckheadery of politics etc. > What we do have developed is a bizarro attachment to social media There are people in there - it's not "bizarro" in the slightest.

john_minsk 9y ago

Nice one. But how do you look at Twitter only once in a couple of days? Twitter is useless this way if you ask me.

gfiorav 9y ago
Well I really like the “in case you missed it” section. Brings up the important and funny stuff condensed. If I hear something’s going on, I’ll open un the TT section and get some instant insights from it. They way I see it, Twitter is useless most of the time, it comes in handy only when some event is taking place.
akvadrako 9y ago
You have to prune your network until there is enough time to read everything.

zimpenfish 9y ago

> I believe we’ll look back in 10 years and realize that this generation was ridiculously over attached to [human connections] Fixed that for you.

gfiorav 9y ago
Haha, well not too sure. For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years. On the other hand, we’ve been attached to human connections since the begging of civilization. Not sold that would end in 10 years time.
- pjc50 9y ago
  Before Facebook, there was an entire genre of "friends reunited" stories, where people had lost contact with someone they used to be close to and recovered it after decades. That was back in the old pre-connection days where you could just lose someone's contact details, or they could move and if they didn't update you (or you were both moving) that was it forever. Now things are very different. You never have to wonder what's happening to those people you knew at school, or wait for the reunion.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    >Before Facebook, there was an entire genre of "friends reunited" stories, where people had lost contact with someone they used to be close to and recovered it after decades. Those were more "once friends, then estranged/lost touch for decades on end, meet again, might or might not keep contact" stories than "friends re-united" stories.
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  > For one, Facebook isn’t a human connection, it’s really not. It is, it really is. > You’re not really friends with someone you haven’t spoken to in 5 years. Well, yeah, that's a truism.
  - nextlevelwizard 9y ago
    >It is, it really is. Maybe we have extremely different feeds, but I mostly just see junk updates like: "walking the dogs", "just had breakfast", "just got home from work", "yay friday", "look we are at bar/party/gathering", "argh! mondays suck" Then there are some random quiz/ad/lottery things. And random pictures of people's kids/pets. I get much more human interaction out of IRC and Discord, places where you can actually talk and not just like and comment.
coldtea 9y ago
Yeah, because "human connections" can only be achieved on a web platform, with people you merely chat with on a casual BS basis for casual BS topics, and consider "friends" besides seldom meeting or having much in common with most of them.
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  > Yeah, because "human connections" can only be achieved on a web platform Who said that? Not me.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    Well, you substituted "social media" for "human connections" as if those are one and the same, or you can't have one without the other.
    - zimpenfish 9y ago
      Or "social media" can cover "human connections" adequately as a better description without being one and the same or inextricably tied.
      - coldtea 9y ago
        Note for the purposes of the parent's comment "this generation was ridiculously over attached to social media". It's not that humans have developed some bizarro attachment to human connections in general. If anything, human connections have suffered a lot in our age (see all the relevant studies about the rise of loneliness and its impact). What we do have developed is a bizarro attachment to social media -- spending 1-3 hours per day checking them.
        zimpenfish 9y ago
        > see all the relevant studies about the rise of loneliness and its impact I've seen a bunch of those studies and in the absence of historical studies, there's nothing to show that it isn't just that people are more open about being lonely now compared with, say, even just 50 years ago. Also there's nothing to show this is due to the rise in "social media" as opposed to changing dynamics in family structures or the general fuckheadery of politics etc. > What we do have developed is a bizarro attachment to social media There are people in there - it's not "bizarro" in the slightest.