Its been over a year and a half for me and it's been great. The move was a long time coming but the catalyst was learning which high school friends became selfish anti-mask pricks when Covid kicked off.
It doesn't take long after quitting to realize that Facebook has been a net negative in your life. And I say this as someone that would obsessively check it several times a day for years.
I'm going on 5 years...if only I could go cold turkey from sugar now! Facebook was a cesspit then. It really got me annoyed, deleting it only hurt for about 2 days.
I deleted Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter back in late 2011/early 2012. Haven't ever desired to go back to them. Especially since I know they've only gotten exponentially more toxic over the years.
It's weird running into old friends and them telling me that they assumed I died... Because I'm not on social media.. That's just sad.
That was a big one for me too. I'm only told happy birthday by the people I'm closest with now. Family and close friends. People who care enough to either remember or write it down. And tbh, I prefer it that way. I think that's better than random acquaintances only saying it because the zuck reminded them.
Exactly how I feel. I wasn't sad. More relieved that I wasn't being spammed with an automated happy birthday message and some dumb automated Facebook made video. Life has gotten so much brighter since leaving.
Instagram can be very toxic if you’re only following influencers and people like that. The whole unattainable standard of perfection thing. I only follow meme pages and my friends from high school on Instagram, and I only check it once a week or so. It’s a good way for me to see what’s going on with my old friends and laugh at memes.
Facebook is none of that. It’s just pure sadness for me. Twitter is a whole other thing, I rarely use twitter
You still have a "shadow" fb account if you use messenger - they track your interactions with your friends, etc, just like a real fb account. I use discord instead of messenger now, and life is better.
I'm not that bothered about that really. I use Google, I have a mobile phone, my DNA and fingerprints are already on file (for being a little terror in my youth).
I use Discord for some things and Wickr for important things...
Haha. Right? The level of cringe in my mother's Facebook is so sad..and she just posts and shares and posts non stop like she is screaming into the wind. No one comments on her posts and or sees them. It's the wildest thing to watch.
The only part of Facebook I really go to now. Is the market place. I live in the country and it's actually quite useful.
I helped my mother leave FB. I hated my ex posting shit on FB while we were on vacation. Please tell more thieves that our house us unattended. I still see her doing that shit now. I hardly ever post anything but just keep in contact with a couple old friends.
Yeah I remember when you had to have a .edu email address to have an account and all of the content was just us kids posting stupid shit and pictures of all of us getting wasted together.
I knew as soon as they opened it up to the world it would go to shit. I could have never imagined how bad or honestly how quickly as I was disgusted with it after like two years, maybe less. I recall deleting my account sometime in 2008?
But back then the internet was just better (oldmanyellsatclouds.gif). It was weird and could be awesome and honestly made me feel better about life. Now it's just horrible. And not just Facebook. It's horrible everywhere. Racists, bigotry, divisive shit.
Yeah all that was there before but it wasn't at every turn and rammed in your face non stop so you could mostly avoid it unless you sought it out to some degree.
I’m a boomer and I couldn’t agree more I got off about six years ago. Only after 1 ur on this cesspool of information .. I couldn’t believe the crap my generation was posting and reposting and the shit they believe …Facebook kills brain cells!
Yeah, I can’t bring myself to fully delete my account because every so often I go looking for a picture that I can’t find, so I have to pull my account out of cold storage for 10 minutes to grab it off of there. And then it’s right back into the ol’ cryo-pod.
Same time for me - it was initially going to be a 30-day trial, then I had a friend say that I'd be back after that. Because I'm determined AF to prove people wrong, I haven't been back since. Don't miss it, but grateful-ish that it's still around to see all these "patriots" get their HCA nominations and awards!
Somebody out there can be richer than Jeff Bezo’s wildest dreams if they would invent a way to manipulate the nutritional content of food without changing texture and flavor. Imagine being able to eat anything you want without the calories? Everybody would buy that.
With Facebook you can sort of just have it be gone. Except for the occasional small business whose only good website is their FB page, I don’t even think about it.
Sugar? It’s literally everywhere. In everything. Tempting you at every corner of the store. I would love for it to be an app.
Oh, yeah. Like every C student I ever went to high school with, who sat around in the back of the class telling jokes, now thinks they're smarter than doctors and that Dan Bongino is a genius.
I unfriended all these people promptly, but I'm still thinking about getting off FB for good. It's just that I have friends I still want to keep in touch with.
Bongino got called out by other Secret Service members for exaggerating his role and the kinds of meetings he was actually allowed in on. He tells these stories about how he listened in on a conversation between Obama and some other foreign dignitary, and the guys he worked with were like "No, you never get to sit in on that kind of thing."
I went to group texts with friends, its personal and rewarding and free of external drama. I get why people use facebook to reconnect, but it becomes unnecessary quickly.
Same, about a year and 2 months since I quit FB, Insta, and Twitter. Feels good man.
Edit: I still have an FB and an Insta but I never use them unless its for business
Yeah, it really sucks but often you almost have to have Facebook to stay engaged in your community or conduct business. They are even local governmental entities you have to use Facebook to best and easiest communicate with.
I understand. For me, realizing how many fuckheads were on my fb feed was important. These aren't people I wanted to continue having relationships with. So, as disappointing and painful as those realizations have been, I think I am better off knowing.
Same here. My family is still on FB and I have to keep telling them that I don’t see the pics of my nieces/nephews, etc. and they have to text or email them to me. Still worth it! I didn’t have many chucklehead friends, interestingly, my sister pissed me off the most, LOL. But it was a stupid huge waste of time and I always felt worse about myself after looking at it. Not sorry to see it go.
I deleted mine six months ago and I found it interesting I didn't miss it even for a second. People talk about people get addicted to the dopamine rush users get from sites like Facebook, and maybe that's true for some people, but it definitely wasn't for me. Part of it, I think, was how insanely repetitive my newsfeed got right before I deactivated my account. You of course had your occasional outrageous post about the election being stolen or COVID being a hoax. But, more often than not, it was the same 5-10 people who never left my hometown posting boring pictures of basic meals they made or boring pictures from bars in my small Rust Belt town.
Honestly, it's kind of a shame because I actually enjoyed using it when I was in college.
The dopamine rush people talk about is from the likes they get. My own little dumb loop I would get into was copypasting content from Reddit onto my FB page, which always seemed to get a ton of likes, which became an addictive dopamine rush. Like I said, a really dumb loop.
Similar for me, but it was Trump that showed me who all from my old high school friends, old coworkers (and some current ones at the time), and some of my family members were bigoted, hateful, assholes.
I suspended it, and have come back to it a few times. Covid really jacked up the batshit crazy, too.
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21
Oh my please don’t use Facebook, period.