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Be a pioneer – delete Facebook

44 points by f_allwein 9y ago

leepowers 9y ago
Delete the Facebook app. It drains your battery and drains your attention. I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events: https://mbasic.facebook.com/ https://mbasic.facebook.com/
- n2dasun 9y ago
  same. I bounce between this and https://m.facebook.com https://m.facebook.com depending on what I'm trying to get done
  - kingosticks 9y ago
    The great thing about mbasic is you can read your messages without it launching the Play Store and trying to make you install messenger. That drives me nuts!
- f_allwein 9y ago
  Or try the http://friendly.io http://friendly.io app - lets you use Facebook, but does not ask for permissions.
  - kankroc 9y ago
    Thank you for that, great alternative!
daodedickinson 9y ago
I'm grateful for Jaron's Who Owns The Future for really laying out the scale of what's going on, and the stakes.
daodedickinson 9y ago
I left Facebook about six years ago and have never missed it. The drolly named Discord has been far more rewarding to me, and has proved even more valuable in non-gaming contexts. An open-source Discord with excellent privacy respect is about all I want.
- Nuzzerino 9y ago
  Matrix.org is likely the closest thing to an open source "Discord". Very decentralized, like IRC. Being open-source alone isn't enough, as many (but not all) open-source projects suffer from the same problems of centralized governance.
memorymappings 9y ago
Yeh did that in 2014 the day they filled my friends status feed with ads then news, where's my trophy?
hymestriasticon 9y ago
What if we refused to join Facebook all along because we saw this coming the whole time?
- madengr 9y ago
  Ditto. I guess that makes us prophets?
scottydelta 9y ago
> Each Facebook deleter must invent new ways to live without Facebook; the deleters are the pioneers, the vanguard of a new kind of literate, informed, proud digital citizenry. They are inventing on behalf of all of us. This argument alone has convinced me to delete my facebook account. I was a bit skeptical about missing on updates but then it's on us to develop, find and use the better alternatives to boost adoption.
hulton 9y ago
There is literally no real benefit to having and using Facebook.
cirgue 9y ago
More important than deleting Facebook: working on and supporting open platforms and helping society to reimagine socialization on the internet.
equalunique 9y ago
This link here on HN should include a disclaimer that The Guaridian has a vested interest in you spending less time looking at facebook.com and more time looking at theguardian.com.

44 points by f_allwein 9y ago

Delete the Facebook app. It drains your battery and drains your attention. I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events: https://mbasic.facebook.com/ https://mbasic.facebook.com/

n2dasun 9y ago
same. I bounce between this and https://m.facebook.com https://m.facebook.com depending on what I'm trying to get done
- kingosticks 9y ago
  The great thing about mbasic is you can read your messages without it launching the Play Store and trying to make you install messenger. That drives me nuts!
f_allwein 9y ago
Or try the http://friendly.io http://friendly.io app - lets you use Facebook, but does not ask for permissions.
- kankroc 9y ago
  Thank you for that, great alternative!

daodedickinson 9y ago

I'm grateful for Jaron's Who Owns The Future for really laying out the scale of what's going on, and the stakes.

daodedickinson 9y ago

I left Facebook about six years ago and have never missed it. The drolly named Discord has been far more rewarding to me, and has proved even more valuable in non-gaming contexts. An open-source Discord with excellent privacy respect is about all I want.

Nuzzerino 9y ago
Matrix.org is likely the closest thing to an open source "Discord". Very decentralized, like IRC. Being open-source alone isn't enough, as many (but not all) open-source projects suffer from the same problems of centralized governance.

memorymappings 9y ago

Yeh did that in 2014 the day they filled my friends status feed with ads then news, where's my trophy?

hymestriasticon 9y ago

What if we refused to join Facebook all along because we saw this coming the whole time?

madengr 9y ago
Ditto. I guess that makes us prophets?

scottydelta 9y ago

> Each Facebook deleter must invent new ways to live without Facebook; the deleters are the pioneers, the vanguard of a new kind of literate, informed, proud digital citizenry. They are inventing on behalf of all of us. This argument alone has convinced me to delete my facebook account. I was a bit skeptical about missing on updates but then it's on us to develop, find and use the better alternatives to boost adoption.

hulton 9y ago

There is literally no real benefit to having and using Facebook.

cirgue 9y ago

More important than deleting Facebook: working on and supporting open platforms and helping society to reimagine socialization on the internet.

equalunique 9y ago

This link here on HN should include a disclaimer that The Guaridian has a vested interest in you spending less time looking at facebook.com and more time looking at theguardian.com.