A lot of the HN readers come here to comment "I left FB". Well, good for you. I didn't - if I did so, due to a variety of factors, I'd have lost the option cont

A lot of the HN readers come here to comment "I left FB". Well, good for you. I didn't - if I did so, due to a variety of factors, I'd have lost the option contact a few people. I'm not talking about friends, I'm talking about the option of connection, should it ever be needed, much like a rolodex. I did, however, started using the HTML only version of Facebook ( https://mbasic.facebook.com https://mbasic.facebook.com ). Since you manually have to click the pagination at the bottom, the urge to keep scrolling is extremely low if the first page doesn't offer anything valuable - which is the case most of the times. Some links and articles coming via certain groups are quite useful if you have interest in some niche topic. A decade ago these would have been on small subcult sites, but those days are gone, sadly. Anyway, what I wanted to say: it doesn't matter if you leave FB or not, your time is your time. If you spent hours on FB and the only way for you to leave that behind was to delete you FB account, that's not completely FB's fault. Don't get me wrong though, I hate FB and what it's made of, all the hoarded user data, with their one and only goals of keeping you fixated at the screen, but this doesn't change the fact that while it's simple to manipulate people, getting rid of addictions is usually only a matter of will. It's not different this case either.