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While I am not a fan of Facebook myself for the all reasons recently talked about and the addicting nature of it, yes the self updating address book part is nic

While I am not a fan of Facebook myself for the all reasons recently talked about and the addicting nature of it, yes the self updating address book part is nice. Here's what I did: I got a Chrome extention[1] that unfollows all my friends. I've also unliked every Facebook Page that I used to like. This means my feed is now totally empty. When I login from anywhere there is nothing in my feed. Also I rarely ever get notifications, except when someone adds me as a friend. This way the feed is gone, there's nothing to be addicted to (feed was my main addiction), its very hard to get back because it involves re-following 100s of people which my lazy mind won't do and Facebook doesn't make any money off me (no feed, no ads). So I still get to use it as a address book.

salmonfamine 9y ago
You cited the extension but did not link it. I'm interested in it. Could you provide the link?
- aloner 9y ago
  https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-unfollow-everyone-on-Facebook-at-once https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-unfollow-everyone-on-Facebook... I've used the script provided by the top answer here before and it worked! No need for an extension (I don't know if it still works however).
fencepost 9y ago
> [I unfollowed all my friends] [...] I still get to use it as a address book. I'm not understanding something here. Is that an empty address book, or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to? I was under the impression that the default information visible to folks not on your "Friends" list was pretty limited, which is why [Cambridge Analytica/Kogan] needed to use an app to scrape data from users' friends.
- fabianhjr 9y ago
  > or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to Unfollowing removes someone's posts from your wall but they remain connected as friends. (You can also like a page and unfollow it)
- pjc50 9y ago
  With this, you remain friends with them, you're just not "following" them in the RSS sense - it destroys the news feed.
- Serow225 9y ago
  unfollow != unfriend :)

salmonfamine 9y ago

You cited the extension but did not link it. I'm interested in it. Could you provide the link?

aloner 9y ago
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-unfollow-everyone-on-Facebook-at-once https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-unfollow-everyone-on-Facebook... I've used the script provided by the top answer here before and it worked! No need for an extension (I don't know if it still works however).

fencepost 9y ago

> [I unfollowed all my friends] [...] I still get to use it as a address book. I'm not understanding something here. Is that an empty address book, or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to? I was under the impression that the default information visible to folks not on your "Friends" list was pretty limited, which is why [Cambridge Analytica/Kogan] needed to use an app to scrape data from users' friends.

fabianhjr 9y ago
> or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to Unfollowing removes someone's posts from your wall but they remain connected as friends. (You can also like a page and unfollow it)
pjc50 9y ago
With this, you remain friends with them, you're just not "following" them in the RSS sense - it destroys the news feed.
Serow225 9y ago
unfollow != unfriend :)