De-activating your Facebook account
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Now I know PH is very anti FB and no doubt plenty of comments to that effect will follow, however...
For those on FB who has deleted their a/c? I only ask as I just have. Signed up back in 2007 but of late i've just got sick of reading s
t posted by people i don't actually like. My "real" friends i see, speak to or text, sod anybody else to be honest!
So has anybody else taken the plunge?
For those on FB who has deleted their a/c? I only ask as I just have. Signed up back in 2007 but of late i've just got sick of reading s
t posted by people i don't actually like. My "real" friends i see, speak to or text, sod anybody else to be honest!So has anybody else taken the plunge?
Tubbytommy said:
Not happened to me yet and I've had some close to the mark jokes as statuses.
They need to devise some kind of scale for people like me who havent received diversity training, and are unaware of what offends liberal sensibilities It could be called the Bernard Manning Scale.
who forces you to read all of the ste that is posted? my browser is set up so it just goes to my profile page. that way i dont have to actively use it but can still get messages etc. ok i had to delete some prick today who kept sending invites for his socialist group protests but that was painless enough.
seems a bit pointless to shut yourself completely out of the loop. often things like birthday invites get sent through there and so on. i know you are probably saying 'but if they are a good friend they will call me' which is true but often people dont. fb is now such a hub for people that other lines of communication can be overlooked. its kind of like linkedin, sure you probably will barely use it, but there will be a few occasions when people use it to get in contact when you are thankful you made the account.
te that is posted? my browser is set up so it just goes to my profile page. that way i dont have to actively use it but can still get messages etc. ok i had to delete some prick today who kept sending invites for his socialist group protests but that was painless enough. seems a bit pointless to shut yourself completely out of the loop. often things like birthday invites get sent through there and so on. i know you are probably saying 'but if they are a good friend they will call me' which is true but often people dont. fb is now such a hub for people that other lines of communication can be overlooked. its kind of like linkedin, sure you probably will barely use it, but there will be a few occasions when people use it to get in contact when you are thankful you made the account.
aucklander said:
who forces you to read all of the ste that is posted? my browser is set up so it just goes to my profile page. that way i dont have to actively use it but can still get messages etc. ok i had to delete some prick today who kept sending invites for his socialist group protests but that was painless enough.
seems a bit pointless to shut yourself completely out of the loop. often things like birthday invites get sent through there and so on. i know you are probably saying 'but if they are a good friend they will call me' which is true but often people dont. fb is now such a hub for people that other lines of communication can be overlooked. its kind of like linkedin, sure you probably will barely use it, but there will be a few occasions when people use it to get in contact when you are thankful you made the account.
Hmm, maybe see how i feel in a week, but right now, fte that is posted? my browser is set up so it just goes to my profile page. that way i dont have to actively use it but can still get messages etc. ok i had to delete some prick today who kept sending invites for his socialist group protests but that was painless enough. seems a bit pointless to shut yourself completely out of the loop. often things like birthday invites get sent through there and so on. i know you are probably saying 'but if they are a good friend they will call me' which is true but often people dont. fb is now such a hub for people that other lines of communication can be overlooked. its kind of like linkedin, sure you probably will barely use it, but there will be a few occasions when people use it to get in contact when you are thankful you made the account.
k it. Survived without it before.TheEnd said:
Facebook is both useless and irritating. I thought I had deleted mine about two years ago (very glad I did, good riddance and not a single regret that I have done so) but i can see information remains online (maybe i have only deactivated it) so the link above is useful cheers, I will get on and do that pronto.R.
Originally signed up to faecesbook at the request of a friend. I trundled along on there for a few years, mainly using it to look at what others were doing (rather than posting my own stuff).
I deleted my account yesterday as I didn't see the point in it anymore. I used to use it to wind some people up
but they removed me in the end, so it got boring.
It is such an odd system. I know of some people who use it to make things official. I.e. a friend of my OH has now 'officially' started seeing someone as she has updated her status to 'in a relationship'. I have also known it to cause hatred. A woman at work split up with her boyfriend. She was more angry with him removing her from his friend list than the actual separation. Mad!
I deleted my account yesterday as I didn't see the point in it anymore. I used to use it to wind some people up
but they removed me in the end, so it got boring.It is such an odd system. I know of some people who use it to make things official. I.e. a friend of my OH has now 'officially' started seeing someone as she has updated her status to 'in a relationship'. I have also known it to cause hatred. A woman at work split up with her boyfriend. She was more angry with him removing her from his friend list than the actual separation. Mad!
So many of the usual "complaints" about Facebook are user stupidity, either through not understanding what they've signed up to (who really reads the T&Cs?) or through not understanding the customisation options available to them.
Remember: If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
Remember: If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product.
TheEnd said:
Brilliant, some of the links on there are quite funny, just going through the titles$ "how to delete a location from your timeline..."There is a lot of crap on there, and I very rarely use mine. Being at university it is very useful for events and organising things as everyone is on it and everyone checks it every now and then.
I have configured mine to email me anything important so that helps a lot!
Just hide posts / delete anyone who constantly posts crap, or don't log in. Works for me.
Some people take it far too seriously, had many an argument with my ex over me not using it, not having her in my profile picture, no having enough photos on it etc etc. st like that is really not important!
I have configured mine to email me anything important so that helps a lot!
Just hide posts / delete anyone who constantly posts crap, or don't log in. Works for me.
Some people take it far too seriously, had many an argument with my ex over me not using it, not having her in my profile picture, no having enough photos on it etc etc. s
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