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I actually took this a step further and un-followed all of my friends. It took me more than a few hundred clicks, but Facebook now shows me a completely empty n
by fbelzile 6y ago
I actually took this a step further and un-followed all of my friends. It took me more than a few hundred clicks, but Facebook now shows me a completely empty news feed. There's no ads either, although I'm not sure if that's because of uBlock Origin or if it's because there's not enough posts to stick ads in-between.
As soon as there's another service I can use as a modern Rolodex, I'll be using that instead. I think most people only have an account for this reason...
- Dumblydorr 6y agoWhy doesn't Google do it? They already have gmail and chrome, I could see Googledex heavily populated from their existing data.
- bagacrap 6y agoisn't Google Contacts a digital Rolodex? What you're describing sounds like white pages.
- prepend 6y agoGoogle contacts has the downside of inserting everyone’s birthday into my calendar. I can’t remove a birthday from a contact once Google knows it. Super annoying and a dumb example of trying to use shared cloud data instead of my locally curated contacts list.
- s_y_n_t_a_x 6y agoThey tried with Google+, there's was nothing stopping people from using Google to socialize, no-one wants to.
- MajorBee 6y agoAt that point, why not just use (Facebook) Messenger and stop using the main website altogether? Messenger gives you the benefit of a Rolodex without subjecting you to the normal feed. Facebook did a pretty good job of cleaning up bloat from Messenger recently too.