More people want to join the trend of going cold tofu with Facebook, but are unsure of the best way to go about it.
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I logged out and never logged back in. My wife informs me if something important is happening in her family, but my family isn’t big on Facebook anyway so I’m not missing anything.
Facebook became useless for that for me, anyway. One of the last straws was they’d show me endless irritating political bullshit, then I manually checked profiles of people I actually knew in person and cared about and found I had a missed a TON of updates about their lives I would have been interested in. Their algorithm is not only incompetent but abusive.
What are you using it for?
I just deleted my account and never looked back.
To keep in touch with important folks and for attending events.
get their numbers and text them if they’re important.
I think the multi-prong approach is by switching to Mastodon, Signal groups and Friendica.
Immediate family got Signal installed on their phones, if anyone outside of that wants to talk to me, they can send me a text.
if anyone outside of that wants to talk to me, they can send me a text.
An encrypted RCS text at that as well. Google better be forced to open the RCS protocol to Linux Phones.
It helps to have a real life that you’re living. Being preoccupied with what’s in front of you keeps you from being occupied with how it could be captured and preserved in a post.
Then you gotta avoid the 2 big excuses:
“I use marketplace”
“This is the only way to keep up with grandma”
Those are false, just always remember that those are lies to enable us to get back to the peepshow. Anything else that was on facebook you already knew how to do and were doing it before you started your account
Gotta call and message grandma with Signal
Then use Flohmarket to buy/sell second hand stuff
Exactly. Nobody actually buys from facebook, it’s just there to sprinkle some local crackheads and their wares into your feed for entertainment
About 15yrs or so ago I logged out and never logged back in again. Easy peasy.
Life was fine before social media. I have a fb account only for marketplace. I’ve unfollowed everyone and everything that shows up in my feed, except for flatland bmx videos. This way, when I do go on fb to look for oddities, I am greeted by sweet tricks.
Just hit delete. Been free since 2014.
what, is this serious?
- log out of FB and don’t log back in
- doom scroll Lemmy
- order pizza
jokes aside, 1.
i haven’t used it for so long I forget about it.
I eventually got disgusted enough with the way the site works that I stopped going. Told anyone who messaged me there to contact me elsewhere (even instagram sucks less). It’s like quitting smoking: the way to do it is to not smoke a cigarette.
It was easy as a MySpace user; I simply never signed up because everyone I knew was on MySpace.
If you just stop, you’ll be fine… Just stop.
I’ve not used it for years but have whatsapp and insta, like anything else just leave and the world will not implode.
Little point in fleeing Facebook if one likes it and they are just gonna feed Meta via whatsapp or insta anyway imo.
Any luck with transitioning to Signal and Pixelfed?
Nah, for keeping in contact with family, friends, work and more meta makes things easy and seems the default.
Have considered getting Facebook back after a decade or so away as it still seems rather useful for interacting with local businesses & certain groups…and Whatsapp seems far more invasive anyway.
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It did help that I was annoyed with my family at the time, then I just deleted my account and requested a GDPR delete to make sure there was no coming back.
Just leave.
But I’m not sure you can ever fully cut Facebook out of your life. I signed up under a fake name and fake email in 2010 or so, used it for exactly one hour and never touched it again, and somehow I still get updates about people I know delivered to my inbox despite having changed my actual email several times since.
