Done with Facebook

[theyarecomingforyou]

Just wondering how many of you have quit or not to vent joined Facebook. I was on it for years and I was visiting it constantly reading posts, updating, etc.

Recently it has gotten very political and I found myself getting very angry and miserable from it. All the anti cop videos and posts, people offended by everything, posting drivel bullcrap, and so on.

My favorite podcaster Jim Florentine has a series of Awful Facebook post rants and he helped me see reality, he said that people he meet that aren't on Facebook aren't stressed out and are generally happy. He says that Facebook is for 16 year old girls and soccer moms.

I finally lost it when I started seeing friends changing their profile pictures to that dumb rainbow overlay. I started deleting everyone who did it then just said screw it and deleted my account.

I'm finding myself spending my time more constructively and not getting wrapped in drama.

Anyone else feel the same way about Facebook?

As the saying goes: Ignorance Is Bliss

[oldtimefighter]

Facebook is used for propaganda this is one of the reasons most governments want to block it. I was tempted in many ocasions to shut it down but i can at least keep in touch with long distnace friends.

The reason some governments block it is because it allows their citizens to connect with other people who share the same ideas that may not align with that government. Propaganda what?

[oldtimefighter]

I used Facebook for a couple of years and about four years ago closed my account. I didn't friend collect and refused friend requests from most people used to know in high school but... The service just became to creepy, Facebook would mess with the privacy controls, and turned their website into a mess. The last straw was when family members started using it. LOL

 

Just wondering how many of you have quit or not to vent joined Facebook. I was on it for years and I was visiting it constantly reading posts, updating, etc.

Recently it has gotten very political and I found myself getting very angry and miserable from it. All the anti cop videos and posts, people offended by everything, posting drivel bullcrap, and so on.

My favorite podcaster Jim Florentine has a series of Awful Facebook post rants and he helped me see reality, he said that people he meet that aren't on Facebook aren't stressed out and are generally happy. He says that Facebook is for 16 year old girls and soccer moms.

I finally lost it when I started seeing friends changing their profile pictures to that dumb rainbow overlay. I started deleting everyone who did it then just said screw it and deleted my account.

I'm finding myself spending my time more constructively and not getting wrapped in drama.

Anyone else feel the same way about Facebook?

Please tell me people using rainbow filters is not why you want to get off of it? Facebook is only stressful if you make it that way just like anything else. Are you saying you are afraid Facebook is not manly enough so you need to close your account? LOL I hope Mr. Jim Florentine never tells you to go jump off of a cliff... You know he has a Facebook account right?

[CrashG]

Can't we all  just get along?

[Raa]

It's pretty ordinary, has been for a long time.

I've only got an account so I can contact a few people that prefer to use it.

[patseguin Global Moderator]

You raise some good points. The thing is I am not intolerant. The whole thing just made me angry all the time. Probably underlying issues I guess.

And, yes I know Jim F. has a Facebook account. He says it every podcast and calls himself a hypocrite and only uses it to promote gigs. I didn't get off Facebook because anyone told me too.

[+devHead Subscriber²]

My thoughts exactly.

People that usually dislike FB are getting to old for hashtags/trends/online activity... it's not Facebook's fault.

No, people who dislike Facebook just have the emotional maturity of someone over 14.  And you're right, that's not Facebook's fault.  But Facebook attracts people in that category.

[Rippleman]

I finally lost it when I started seeing friends changing their profile pictures to that dumb rainbow overlay. I started deleting everyone who did it

 

Sounds like a personal issue.

 it's for 16 year old girls and soccer moms who want to seem hip using computers. 

 

That's a pretty bold claim. I am neither.

Facebook friends are not your real friends. ... Facebook has become a cesspool of idiots trying to be hip, cool, and pc.

 

You "could" add only people you personally know. Tons of people only "friend" people they personally know. From what I see, hating facebook is the new cool thing to do (apple hate was getting lonely)

[+Warwagon MVC]

I'm kind of a friends ###### with a little over 250 friends.  If someone wants to be my friend and if we have mutual friends in common (1 or more)  i'll accept. Then if they post  dribble I will unfollow them

[T3X4S]

I stopped around January.  Haven't been on, not even 1 time since then.

After an ex-girlfriend tried to get in contact with me, and started crap with my fiance, I knew nothing good would come from that.

Before I stopped altogether, I went from 400 friends down 60.  If you posted constant religious stuff - gone!
If you repeatedly posted your workout routine - gone  !
If you posted nonsensical nothingness - gone  !
If you showed a below average intelligence that I either never knew about you, or forgot about - gone !

[PNWDweller]

I quit Facebook once, came back to it again.  My family is on there and I cannot get them to go to any other Social Network which is fine by me anyway.  But, since I need to keep in contact with them and while E-mail and calling are fine, most prefer to post on there so I have to get updates they post on there.   I do not post there usually so I am more of a lurker, but do post random things from time to time.

 

I joined Ello a competitor and have been there, but of course, it is a dead zone compared to Facebook, so eventually, it might take off but whatever.    I know I can call the most important people in my life or email them.

[tompkin]

I quit Facebook once, came back to it again.  My family is on there and I cannot get them to go to any other Social Network which is fine by me anyway.  But, since I need to keep in contact with them and while E-mail and calling are fine, most prefer to post on there so I have to get updates they post on there.   I do not post there usually so I am more of a lurker, but do post random things from time to time.

 

I joined Ello a competitor and have been there, but of course, it is a dead zone compared to Facebook, so eventually, it might take off but whatever.    I know I can call the most important people in my life or email them.

I am like you. I was there playing Farmville, Then quit. Now I"m back. Coincidentally, I just ranted on there a few minutes ago about fireworks going off all weekend because I have sleep trouble as it is. But anyway...

I try to post funny things that won't be offensive to either side. If I post something funny that's political in nature, I post something that will poke fun at both sides and not something that will make fun of one side and not the other.

[COKid]

 

Now I don't mean to offend or shock anyone (Yes I have to say that .. because people think I say things just to shock)  ... but what is with the rainbow anyway? I mean I know its about gay marriage, but I always though when a rainbow was in reference to someone who was gay it meant they were flaming.

 

Wow, the ignorance of some folks is simply astounding at times. 

 

 

Yeah, I really don't see a problem with people taking pride in who they are. Especially after centuries of having to hide it. Seriously dude, if a frickin' flag is all it takes to make you feel unnerved, I think that says a hell of a lot more about you than the gays. I guess some guys are simply not comfortable in their own masculinity. Otherwise, why would you even care? 

 

Oh, and Facebook has never been, nor will ever be, a part of my life.

[LaP]

My favorite podcaster Jim Florentine has a series of Awful Facebook post rants and he helped me see reality, he said that people he meet that aren't on Facebook aren't stressed out and are generally happy. He says that Facebook is for 16 year old girls and soccer moms.

 

 

People who say another person helped them see reallity are usually not seeig reality at all.

 

You are seeing his reality only. If you need the opinion of someone else to have one then maybe you are lacking confidence in yourself. Think by yourself. You'll then see the reality thru your own eyes and be able to forge your own opinion about things.

 

Facebook is for people who want to use Facebook. It's for people who want to keep in touch with friends and family without having to call them once a week. Yes some people use Facebook to befriend the entire planet and post random crap. But it's true of everything not only Facebook. Some people use XBox Live to hump corpses and trash talk to people they can trash talk to in real life. Some people use food to comfort them. Some people use alchool to forget. Some people use Neowin to convince themselves this is the year of Windows Phone. Etc etc etc ...

 

Do i use Facebook? yes. Am i a girl? no. Am i 16? hell no. Am i a soccer mom? God i hate football.

 

I use Facebook cause i have Family in Rhode Island, New York and Florida. I have something like 50 cousins. One of my primary school best friend is living in vancouver and another one in paris. I follow most of those people on Facebook. They post pictures of their kids, new house or new kitchen. I do the same. We keep in touch this way. It's easier than calling 50 people once a month. Let's be honest before Facebook people living far away were just forgeting they once knew each other. At least we keep in touch and once in a while we can Skype, phone or visit each others.

 

That's my opinion anyway.

 

As for the rainbow filter i don't give a **** as it doesn't change anything to my own life.

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Facebook is silly, but if you want to be sociable or have any contact with anyone anymore it seems its required. i'd love to quit using it as well.

I actually just use the messenger. i rarely ever post anything on the actual facebook anymore. unless im drunk.

 

the facebook wont let you leave. Trust me.

[Tuskd]

Its the people who post $***  that makes it... 'it'. Supporting something is good and I have nothing against gay rights, but some stuff are just intolerable.

 

 

Important: Please help Facebook by sharing this on Neowin. 1 Like=1 Prayer. Ignore this and you will have bad luck for the rest of your life.

[Gabe84]

I find it pretty boring, it is useful though, I use it as a RSS reader of sorts, it's convenient to keep track of different websites' updates and I'm too lazy to look for a dedicated reader and start following tens of sites all over again, also I have to keep an account there because I'm the administrator of the page of my own volunteer organization.

 

I personally couldn't care less about other people's statuses/photos/games/whatever nor I care about "informing" people about my life, or letting people tattle about what I do, I regularly keep in touch with people I care about and, in my view, if I didn't keep in touch with someone is because neither me nor him/her had any interest in keeping in touch, so being "friends" on Facebook doesn't mean anything at all to me, I can't delete them because somehow people nowadays think Facebook is the real world and I like to avoid conflicts at all costs, therefore what I do is keeping them among my friends and unfollow them, and, if I post something - basically never - or someone tags me, Facebook will ask me if I want that update to be shown on my wall and I allow updates to be viewed only by a few people, those that I care about, family and close friends.

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

Facebook is what you make of it, like any website or service.

 

I grew up with MSN Messenger been the way you would speak / arrange things with friends outside school, Facebook is sort of the evolution of that.

 

Sure I agree a lot of rubbish is posted on Facebook, however you can simply un-follow people who have nothing better to do than post 15 cat videos a day. I use Facebook mainly for Facebook Messenger, which has essentially replaced text / instant messaging for me.

 

The group chat feature is very handy when arranging a trip somewhere, likewise voice and video calls just work.

 

Messenger.com is essentially Facebook's best core feature without all the bloat, well worth using over Facebook.com if you mainly just want to chat and message people.

[Dick Montage]

I came off for a month, was a lot happier.

That said, gonna try warwagon's thing of not defriending but unfollowing.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I don't see the point in complaining about Facebook. If you don't like it, then stop using it. You can log out and never log back in again or deactivate your account. If you want to continue using but find aspects of it annoying, then change it. You can control what you see on your news feed. And you can unfriend/unfollow people that spam links all day.

[The Evil Overlord]

I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. I have family all over and many of us seldom meet in person. Facebook is what most of us agreed to. I actually tried to quit Facebook last year, but apparently it upset my mother, so it isn't an option for me. Using it less, is, but I need to check in at least once every couple days, and I have to interact with my mother every so often, or she'll take it personally. And it's far less work to hit Like or make a comment or post something similar back than it is to make a call and smooth things over.

All of my Facebook contacts are real life friends. A few I haven't met in person and are friends of friends. They aren't just random people I added just because.

If you want a real reason to hate Facebook, don't blame them for your friends' politics. Blame them for deleting pictures of women breast feeding, when they allow child porn and bestiality. I've reported the latter two, and they come back and say that these images are not violations of their terms of service or whatever. Their terms of service might openly or secretly allow child porn, but that doesn't make it legal. I think they have some very sick individuals working for them and that there should be some way to escalate the reports. It just really bothers me to see that kind of thing. And it's rare to see it on Facebook but it does happen. Usually because someone posts it as a comment on a public (fan) page, so it's not like it's my friends posting it. Oh, and I'm not talking about pictures of babies being bathed or changed, or kids playing in the water in their backyard on a hot summer day. I'm talking about pictures of people actively abusing children, that Facebook says is okay. I don't want to see either, but if someone posts a picture like the former of their own kid, I'll usually message them privately and tell them the danger of putting that online (mostly that it will be downloaded and shared by perverts). It's the latter I'm reporting, that strangers are posting in public conversation threads.

Screenshot that sh*t send it to your local pd, if everyone did this, then whatever department in charge would have to investigate, ok it cannot help if the perpetrators are in china, but domestic citizens bound by domestic laws are a differenct story.

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

I use it to keep in touch with friends and family, and little else really. I rarely post political opinion, or controversial opinion and honestly if anyone on my friends list post things that offend or annoy me, I'll just un-friend them.. I'm not really bothered. 

 

If anything the kinds of drivel that people post will help you quickly decide who your friends or are not! 

[The Evil Overlord]

Its the people who post $*** that makes it... 'it'. Supporting something is good and I have nothing against gay rights, but some stuff are just intolerable.

Important: Please help Facebook by sharing this on Neowin. 1 Like=1 Prayer. Ignore this and you will have bad luck for the rest of your life.

Rofl, that was hilarious.

(For the record, I miss msn messenger, I wouldn't need facebook at all if that still existed)

[Gabe84]

I was think about switching to Messenger only too and setting up e-mail notifications for a few things, but instead of using the website I'd prefer using an app, I know I can set it up with Pidgin but that's the chat and I don't want to appear on line, I found these two http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/fbmessenger-stand-alone-facebook.html and http://messengerfordesktop.com/ are they trustworthy?

[Ian S.]

I have not logged in to FB for such a long time. I haven't completely shut it down, but I unfriended everyone, unliked everyone, and set everything on my Timeline to private. I do have Twitter, and yes lately when I open it all I see are rainbows everywhere.