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The problem with Facebook is that your contacts are there. I'd have left a long time ago if it was a similar service for a dedicated crowd of hobbyists or for w

by yason 12y ago

The problem with Facebook is that your contacts are there. I'd have left a long time ago if it was a similar service for a dedicated crowd of hobbyists or for work colleagues but everyone's there from my neighbours to my relatives to my friends' kids. But even that is dwindling. What I would like to do if follow people, what happens and what they post. But Facebook only gives me a fraction of what my friends publish. I'd basically have to dig up each friend by myself to see everything they've posted. So I don't even know how they are doing, except when I chat with the closest ones. But disconnecting is hard for a human being. I happen to know it would feel good, too. When Facebook suspended my account I wondered if this is it, then. Things got arranged back to where they were but before that I felt a wave of relief. I wouldn't have minded being free either.

TrinnyLopez 12y ago
Your contacts are only in Facebook and no where else? There's people that you are friends with on Facebook but no where else? Lots of red flags. If you can't get rid of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, that means you are an exhibitionist, or narcissist. Or, you are selling something. That's why I'm on Facebook and Twitter: to help sell my software and apps.
- tjr 12y ago
  I used Facebook for a few years, and deleted my account last summer. What I have observed is that, while indeed I have other means of contacting nearly everyone that I was connected with on Facebook, Facebook was (and I presume still is) their preferred means of staying in touch with people. Sure I can call them. Sure I can send them email, or paper letters, or text messages. And for specific communications, that's fine. But for just sharing what you're up to from day to day, or week to week, many people appear to prefer using Facebook, and find other methods inconvenient.
- cgriswald 12y ago
  I don't agree. I'm going back to school. You have a lab partner and need to communicate? He's probably on Facebook. You want to invite those other guys to the party but no one has their number? Easy to find on Facebook. I have many contacts on Facebook that I don't have anywhere else because there isn't a need to have them anywhere else. Facebook basically makes it easier for me to maintain social contact with more people than I would otherwise. Sending someone a message on Facebook is "softer" than sending someone a text or email or making a phone call. It's also much easier for me to keep in touch with relatives in remote places. I get a little of their life every day, but don't have to spend hours on the phone with everyone to do it. Can I get rid of Facebook? Of course. Facebook didn't even exist for the first three decades of my life. I think people who have a Facebook "problem" really have mild "internet addiction" and Facebook just happens to be their poison. FWIW, the best part about Facebook is grandma doesn't send me 43 emails a day containing jokes about the weather anymore. :)
smacktoward 12y ago
On why he [Yogi Berra] no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#Quotations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#Quotations)

by yason 12y ago

TrinnyLopez 12y ago

Your contacts are only in Facebook and no where else? There's people that you are friends with on Facebook but no where else? Lots of red flags. If you can't get rid of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, that means you are an exhibitionist, or narcissist. Or, you are selling something. That's why I'm on Facebook and Twitter: to help sell my software and apps.

tjr 12y ago
I used Facebook for a few years, and deleted my account last summer. What I have observed is that, while indeed I have other means of contacting nearly everyone that I was connected with on Facebook, Facebook was (and I presume still is) their preferred means of staying in touch with people. Sure I can call them. Sure I can send them email, or paper letters, or text messages. And for specific communications, that's fine. But for just sharing what you're up to from day to day, or week to week, many people appear to prefer using Facebook, and find other methods inconvenient.
cgriswald 12y ago
I don't agree. I'm going back to school. You have a lab partner and need to communicate? He's probably on Facebook. You want to invite those other guys to the party but no one has their number? Easy to find on Facebook. I have many contacts on Facebook that I don't have anywhere else because there isn't a need to have them anywhere else. Facebook basically makes it easier for me to maintain social contact with more people than I would otherwise. Sending someone a message on Facebook is "softer" than sending someone a text or email or making a phone call. It's also much easier for me to keep in touch with relatives in remote places. I get a little of their life every day, but don't have to spend hours on the phone with everyone to do it. Can I get rid of Facebook? Of course. Facebook didn't even exist for the first three decades of my life. I think people who have a Facebook "problem" really have mild "internet addiction" and Facebook just happens to be their poison. FWIW, the best part about Facebook is grandma doesn't send me 43 emails a day containing jokes about the weather anymore. :)

smacktoward 12y ago

On why he [Yogi Berra] no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#Quotations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#Quotations)