De-facebooking?

[Aruntraveller]

This is an interesting article about leaving FB:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/facebook-dangers-habitual-sharing?CMP=fb_gu

I have been thinking of leaving Facebook for sometime now. IT eats up so much time and I'm not I don't think in any way the most voracious consumer of the platform, still I spend more time than I really want to on it.

The bit that struck me as most true in my case was about the amount of time spent looking at holiday pics of people I haven't seen for 25 years

Add to this the ever constant feeling of some undercurrent of manipulation I get from the platform I think it is probably time to go.

Has anyone here ever de-facebooked themselves? Or thought about leaving?

Cheers

[Rhiannon]

Trent, I've never joined and my life seems to go on ok.

[Nearly Sane]

It's currently too useful for me in terms of organising things with people for which it is much easier and responsive than email.

[jeremyp]

It's currently too useful for me in terms of organising things with people for which it is much easier and responsive than email.

What he said.

I have got Facebook friends that I haven't seen for 25 years but I tend to ignore their posts unless they have some real interest to me.

That said, I have two friends that post almost entirely political stuff which is interesting because they both frequently post things that are fake believing they are real.

[SteveH]

The Book of Faces is bloody annoying in all sorts of ways, but I wouldn't be without it now - I'm a member of dozens of groups: cycling, clocks, politix, humour, etc.

[Robbie]

Trent, I've never joined and my life seems to go on ok.

Good for you! I joined after allowing myself to be persuaded but frankly don't see the point & never go on there now. I much prefer meeting people for real and would never consider people I don't know to be 'friends'. The purpose is 'keeping in touch' I suppose but I manage OK without.

[jeremyp]

Good for you! I joined after allowing myself to be persuaded but frankly don't see the point & never go on there now. I much prefer meeting people for real and would never consider people I don't know to be 'friends'. The purpose is 'keeping in touch' I suppose but I manage OK without.

I meet people more often as a result of Facebook.

[Rhiannon]

I don’t think me not joining is especially praiseworthy. I’m just better off not putting my life all over social media.

[Nearly Sane]

I don’t think me not joining is especially praiseworthy. I’m just better off not putting my life all over social media.

Despite being on FB, I don't

[Rhiannon]

Despite being on FB, I don't

Yeah but I’m not confident enough I could lock my security down how I want it. It’s ok, I’ve managed without it this far and I get a degree of comfort from not being on it.

[jeremyp]

Yeah but I’m not confident enough I could lock my security down how I want it. It’s ok, I’ve managed without it this far and I get a degree of comfort from not being on it.

It’s actually relatively simple. All you have to do is remember that posting on Facebook is like pinning a notice up on a notice board in the middle of town. Every time you post, ask yourself the question: do I mind everybody knowing this about me. If the answer to that question is yes, then don’t post. Also set your share settings to friends only.

Most of the people who get in trouble do so because they forget that Facebook is a public forum (Twitter even more so). 

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Had a look at signing up for FB some time agoI didn't sign because I wasn't pepared to give the information FB wanted about me before I could use it.

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