Facebook, I quit

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Wed, 2018-12-19 18:32

Pogo

Facebook, I quit

I am pretty well convinced to quit facebook. There is just so much that is invasive and wrong going on there. I rarely go there anymore, as I find the discussion on Twitter far more productive. I do worry about what I will lose.

Family and friend connections that I don't have elsewhere. I know that once I cut the cord I a bunch of second cousins and high school friends will disappear. Many of whom are considered good friends and family is always family.
I will be out of the loop for some future events. This years grad-reunion was done almost completely over facebook.
Facebook is used to rally support for progressive causes, Will abandoning it give over a valuable platform to non-progressives.

Has anyone recently abandoned facebook. I kind of want to still have it, even if it only to go every 6 months just to see check in.

Wed, 2018-12-19 19:02

Mr. Magoo

Many years ago, a student of mine invited me to "friend" her on FB (by accident, I think; I suspect she allowed FB access to her contacts) and so for fun, I created an account and accepted, but did nothing other than maybe put up a photo on my page. Later I noticed old friends finding me, and that was kind of cool, but TBH, I don't really have much interest in genuine reconnection with any of them -- it was just interesting seeing what they look like now. And that was how I used it for a couple of years. When a friend was killed, a FB page was used as sort of a "hub" for people to discuss, and I made a few posts on that FB page, but other than that I don't use it. The only difficulty with this is convincing people that I really don't use it, so they don't expect me to interact with them on FB.

I figure if you can work that last part out, there's no reason you can't keep your FB account and just not really use it regularly.

Wed, 2018-12-19 19:13

epaulo13

..i used to have a political page but i ditched that several years ago. still have, like you pogo, a personal page where i connect with family. about a year ago i stopped going to that page on a regular basis. rarely go now. but i've kept messenger and use that to stay connected instead of facebook itself. exchange photos etc.

Wed, 2018-12-19 20:17

NDPP

More here:

http://rabble.ca/babble/media/future-facebook

Wed, 2018-12-19 23:10

quizzical

"discussions on twitter more productive"

i rarely use my fb except for gaming it can be annoying. but to say Twitter is more productive isn't realistic. i use both and Instagram. just different platforms for using.

my mom had the right idea when she joined fb. she only allows people on who she cares about whether they live or die in an immediate fashion and it foednt matter if they're family or not. she has less than 60 people as friends and her fb is amazing. news feed pertinent and not cluttered with crap and it's a memory pic storehouse.

i just deleted like 400+ people trying to get there too but it's hard deleting. i shoulda started like her ruthlessly denying requests.

Thu, 2018-12-20 08:55

quizzical

http://time.com/5482390/twitter-online-abuse-women-amnesty-international-study/

Tue, 2018-12-25 10:11

NDPP

Dear Facebook, Please Explain the Censorship

https://twitter.com/GarethPorter/status/1076914946842284038

"Still more evidence of Facebook's serving as a tool of Israeli manipulation of mass media to silence critics..."

Fri, 2022-02-04 15:04

epaulo13

Mark Zuckerberg loses $29bn overnight as people abandon Facebook

Net worth of Meta CEO plummets as company’s hopes shift to metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg saw $29bn (£21.4bn) wiped from his net worth when Meta share prices collapsed following its latest quarterly report.

Shares of Meta dropped nearly 25 per cent in after-hours trading after the firm announced lower-than-expected revenue figures, as well as a decline in Facebook users for the first time in its 18-year history.

Wed, 2022-03-02 11:17

lagatta4

I got kicked off facebook for exposing a neo-Nazi woman who had the "14 words" on her homepage. I've always hated Facebook -and Twitter - but not being on them makes certain research more challenging.

Wed, 2022-03-02 20:46

#10

laine lowe laine lowe's picture

I have voluntarily walked away from Facebook since November - my account is still there but it was becoming way too much and with every worse event that followed a series of many deaths, I just didn't have the energy to check the chatter out.

Thu, 2022-03-10 20:31

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kropotkin1951

lagatta4 wrote:

I got kicked off facebook for exposing a neo-Nazi woman who had the "14 words" on her homepage. I've always hated Facebook -and Twitter - but not being on them makes certain research more challenging.

I got banned from FB for a day for posting a picture of the Azov Battalion 's official logo, which is a Nazi symbol. I agreed it was against community standards because I think Nazi symbols should not be promoted and did not dispute the censorship. I have now been censored for a longer period for a breach of their "community standards" but this time they did not even tell me what the exact infraction was. I suspect someone who I was engaged in a debate about international affairs complained to the algorithm that I was disseminating false information and I was immediately banned. I guess I can just go to some other platform to communicate with my friends and family.

I love living in a free and open society where all points of view are respected and are guaranteed equal access to the government regulated platforms that we all discourse on. In Canada you can agree with the NATO narrative or you get banned by FB. Even on babble one gets shouted down by freedom lovers who don't want to hear a dissenting voice.

Kudos to https://rabble.ca/ for allowing dissent from the NATO narrative to be aired on this chat room.

Thu, 2022-03-10 21:00

#12

kropotkin1951

I finally figured out my way through FB's platform to discover what I have been banned for. I made the mistake of disputing the legitimacy of Canada's democracy. In a free and democratic society a US billionaire run algorithm gets to say that this is discourse that breaches community standards.

"One would have to find a democracy before one could protect it. I personally find the word to be meaningless. If Canada is a democracy then how is it that ever government gets less than half ..."

Sorry for the truncation of my statement but that is all FB has listed. I can more or less fill in the rest of the statement, "of the votes cast in an election."

Fri, 2022-03-11 18:44

#13

kropotkin1951

I found the full quote. In our free and democratic society this idea is not allowed to be disseminated. I can however go on FB and post meme after meme that call Trudeau a "fucktard." Those posts are still up and mine is down. As well if I want to post when my ban is up my posts will be purposely buried lower down in the Feed.

One would have to find a democracy before one could protect it. I personally find the word to be meaningless. If Canada is a democracy then how is it every government gets less than half the voters choosing the winning party. We have a facade and we are cheering on people to give up their lives and kill others so they too can have a facade.