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I recently deleted Reddit from my life. That was huge. I can turn off Twitter and would never know it was gone. But FB won't be that easy. It's important to me
by dpcan 7y ago
I recently deleted Reddit from my life. That was huge. I can turn off Twitter and would never know it was gone. But FB won't be that easy.
It's important to me for a number of reasons:
- Communities use it to communicate with their groups. I'm in business owner groups, collectives, local theater group, and some gaming/social groups that aren't as active.
- For many of these groups, FB is the ONLY way I'll get info about anything that is going on with them. And honestly, I don't mind. It works well.
- Businesses use it to send deals to their customers, notify them of events, post pictures, etc.
- I manage business Facebook pages as part of my business, so I can't get rid of my personal account.
- I also use the Marketplace a lot to sell off stuff from my house and it works brilliantly.
HOWEVER - I have technically stopped "using" Facebook.
For the last 3 years now, I've made my profile totally private. I haven't posted photos or shared stupid things. I un-followed (but stayed friends with) EVERYONE except my wife and parents and a close friend.
My news feed is empty except for posts from the groups I'm a part of and stuff from close family members.
And there's an added benefit - when I DO post something now, on a rare occasion, people actually take notice.
If everyone would only post when it's really important, the system would be useful and interesting. Otherwise, it's full of garbage.
Facebook is not all bad, but certain people ruin it with their constant garbage posting, and that's too bad.
- JustSomeNobody 7y ago> - Communities use it to communicate with their groups. I'm in business owner groups, collectives, local theater group, and some gaming/social groups that aren't as active. If only there were another technology one could use to distribute messages by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network.
- dang 7y ago"Don't be snarky." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- grogenaut 7y agoIf you have a facebook login active then facebook is still tracking you and able to advertise to you, so you are using facebook for the only things they care about. You are still generating content (your web traffic via like buttons) and revenue (via ads).
- dnissley 7y agoThe previous poster never mentioned that they care about any of that, so why bring it up?
- jedberg 7y agoI use Firefox containers (and before that I used a totally separate browser for Facebook) so they haven't been tracking me around the web for years. It's quite easy to avoid their tracking actually.
- icebraining 7y agoSo you hope. Just because you don't appear as "logged in" doesn't mean they can't tell you're the same person.
- jedberg 7y agoSure, they can cluster me by IP address, but they can do that whether I delete my Facebook account or not.
- ravenstine 7y agoFacebook has some utility if you're running a business or if you've found a really nice group of people on it, but I personally found it to be total trash and it's been at least 6 months since my profile was deleted. (yes, I know, Zuck still has backups and ML models trained on it) I am so much more happier not being exposed to everyone thinking they're e-celebs, the back-patting, virtue signalling, constant outrage, pseudoscience, and all of that. I thought I'd be missing out on a lot by not being on Facebook, but people haven't forgotten me and now there's so much more to talk about when I actually meet people in person. A private life is one of healthy solitude.
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