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Also, get yourself off Facebook. Honestly, ripping that bandaid off was one of the best decisions I made for my own mental health, my time, and my ability to p

Also, get yourself off Facebook. Honestly, ripping that bandaid off was one of the best decisions I made for my own mental health, my time, and my ability to properly assess which relationships in my life were worth maintaining. (Turns out it wasn't the hundreds of people I was connected with on Facebook.)

beamatronic 7y ago
But then how do you share pics of food, kids, and vacations?
- yumraj 7y ago
  I'm assuming that the above comment is not sarcastic. Ask yourself: First, do you have to share pics? If so, do you have to share pics of food? Do you really want to share pics of kids in an open forum such as FB? Above for vacation pics? Do you really want to share all the pics that you share currently, or just a small subset? If so, here are some much safer options: 1) email 2) instant messaging application of choice 3) shared folder in the cloud storage of choice.
  - beamatronic 7y ago
    “Open forum”? How is it an open forum if you lock down all the privacy settings to only your most trusted friends and family? FB has those options. I’ve always thought there should be a social network that is private by default. With no concept of public anything. And you pay for it, so there are no ads.
    - yumraj 7y ago
      FB, it's behavior, it's data collection and sharing policies and violations of those said policies makes those settings irrelevant. Agree with the second part of your comment.
  - rochak 7y ago
    You hit the nail on the head. The only problem is that it is all about the memes. I have never posted more than 10 photos in my entire 10 years of using FB. I only use it to tag my friends in memes and have a laugh or two. The rest of the stuff is mind numbingly useless.
    - yumraj 7y ago
      I stopped using FB many years ago so no idea what is happening there. Regarding memes, I get my daily dose via the groups in the instant messanger that I use.
- Pfhreak 7y ago
  Discord, text messages, links, email. Plenty of places. Or I share fewer.
JumpCrisscross 7y ago
> get yourself off Facebook Re-posting an old comment of mine. Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years: 1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; then 2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; next 3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; then 4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally 5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop. It took me 2 years to go through from step 1 to step 5. It has made me happier and more productive. I still have a Facebook account. But the friction of grabbing my laptop and logging in forces me to consider "is this what I want to do? Or am I thoughtlessly reaching for the crack pipe?" (It's been over a year since I've cared to log into Facebook. Feels more like trudging through spam in an old e-mail inbox, now, than anything compelling.)
- masonic 7y ago
  Am I the only one never to use a Facebook app? Yikes. For the few phones that I've owned that had Facebook apps among the non-removeable bloatware, first thing I do after updates is Disable and Force Stop them.

beamatronic 7y ago

But then how do you share pics of food, kids, and vacations?

yumraj 7y ago
I'm assuming that the above comment is not sarcastic. Ask yourself: First, do you have to share pics? If so, do you have to share pics of food? Do you really want to share pics of kids in an open forum such as FB? Above for vacation pics? Do you really want to share all the pics that you share currently, or just a small subset? If so, here are some much safer options: 1) email 2) instant messaging application of choice 3) shared folder in the cloud storage of choice.
- beamatronic 7y ago
  “Open forum”? How is it an open forum if you lock down all the privacy settings to only your most trusted friends and family? FB has those options. I’ve always thought there should be a social network that is private by default. With no concept of public anything. And you pay for it, so there are no ads.
  - yumraj 7y ago
    FB, it's behavior, it's data collection and sharing policies and violations of those said policies makes those settings irrelevant. Agree with the second part of your comment.
- rochak 7y ago
  You hit the nail on the head. The only problem is that it is all about the memes. I have never posted more than 10 photos in my entire 10 years of using FB. I only use it to tag my friends in memes and have a laugh or two. The rest of the stuff is mind numbingly useless.
  - yumraj 7y ago
    I stopped using FB many years ago so no idea what is happening there. Regarding memes, I get my daily dose via the groups in the instant messanger that I use.
Pfhreak 7y ago
Discord, text messages, links, email. Plenty of places. Or I share fewer.

JumpCrisscross 7y ago

> get yourself off Facebook Re-posting an old comment of mine. Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years: 1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; then 2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; next 3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; then 4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally 5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop. It took me 2 years to go through from step 1 to step 5. It has made me happier and more productive. I still have a Facebook account. But the friction of grabbing my laptop and logging in forces me to consider "is this what I want to do? Or am I thoughtlessly reaching for the crack pipe?" (It's been over a year since I've cared to log into Facebook. Feels more like trudging through spam in an old e-mail inbox, now, than anything compelling.)

masonic 7y ago
Am I the only one never to use a Facebook app? Yikes. For the few phones that I've owned that had Facebook apps among the non-removeable bloatware, first thing I do after updates is Disable and Force Stop them.