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The problem is that it's to be removed completely from Facebook. I think about deleting my profile all the time, but there's potential for awkwardness and offen
by brennenHN 14y ago
The problem is that it's to be removed completely from Facebook. I think about deleting my profile all the time, but there's potential for awkwardness and offense that aren't worth it. Facebook has engrained itself in our lives pretty deeply and it's going to be a huge challenge to dig it back out.
- guscost 14y agoIt's kinda like ripping off a Band-Aid. Feels good.
- rjd 14y agoJust full your account up with junk info, use a nickname, install ghostery, and sign up with site specific auth. I'm pretty sure Fucking in Austria has an extremely high Facebook population... I know ALOT of my friends say they come from there LOL Then its nothing more than a forum with photos of your friends and family, downloaded them and untag yourself.
- biomechanica 14y agoI had a facebook account once. I thought that by deleting my account it would somehow limit my social life and, of course, make it a lot harder to keep my friends and family updated. I couldn't have been more wrong. Not having a facebook account (or any social media website account) forced me to be more active. It forced me to contact my friends face to face. This has HUGE advantages. This notion that facebook is integrated into our lives tightly is absolutely an illusion; one that Facebook relys on (or any site like it). Take the initiative and go out of your way to contact your friends/family "the old fasioned way". Rallying groups for a cause isn't as hard as it seems to be, either. You just have to work a bit more. So what? Our society(ies) is/are becoming so lazy it's almost unbearable. Facebook does not dictate your life in any way, shape or form. There are many people who don't use it and are just fine without it.
- kd0amg 14y agoIt forced me to contact my friends face to face. This has HUGE advantages. I'd much prefer to see my friends face-to-face, but I can't afford to fly very often.
- biomechanica 14y agoThen use other means of contact. The point isn't to replace facebook with the same amount of convenience. The point is to disable the illusion that Facebook is necessary to keep in contact with your distant friends/family. Use a phone. Use the postal system. Yes, it's not as "instant" but it at least shows that you put in work to contact them. Or you can use open technologies like Jitsi or Ekiga to do video chat with them (if they are willing. If they aren't, then perhaps explain to them why it's important). There are options out there. Facebook isn't the ONLY technology that closes the gap.
- taligent 14y agoMany of my friends don't live in the same country. So phone or video chat is impossible and using the postal system is just being stupid.
- dbaupp 14y agoWhy is video chat impossible? International calls are the perfect use case for it. (I guess you could drop the video, and just do a VOIP phone call also.)
- taligent 14y ago@dbaupp .. Full time jobs + Time zones.
- deerpig 14y agoI live in Cambodia, work 18 hour days and between email, skype and the telephone I keep up with friends in family in North America on both coasts, in Europe, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, India and even people in my own time zone (Thailand, Laos, Singapore). I don't use facebook for any of this. It isn't difficult, and at least out here, most international calls are very cheap. And even if they were you can call through google voice or skype to mobiles and land lines at very low rates.