Continuing the discussion from Quitting Facebook feels GREAT:
As it turns out, it does. Some slight problems, the event that I started disappeared. I found out at a get-together One of the other group members who is still on FB has to put it back. Some of the links I see on Twitter lead back to FB so I ignore them. But overall the experiment is working well.
Have you quit Facebook? Any issues?
(Please, if you never joined FB, just pat yourself on the back, no need to tell me about it.)
I joined facebook back in the beginning when it was all my college aged friends and growing to include great apps like SNES emulators. Then it went global and some people I knew in Europe and I got back in touch. It was awesome.
Then more people joinedā¦ extended family and ransoms with far too much free time. Suddenly I noticed I never go anymore because all those chain emails and scam emails are now posted on my wall.
So I quit and ādeletedā my account. Then I got an iPhone and rejoined to get bonuses in shitty mobile games. Still never visit the site, and I donāt even think about it at all.
Havenāt quit, but only login about once a quarterā¦ Never really participated - just joined to have access to friendsā and familyās kids picsā¦
Like @crenquis, I log on once in awhile to see family pictures. My mother, however, drains her iPadās battery looking through it. She often calls me to ask how to post pictures or whatnot; I got her this book for Christmas:
My mother-in-law is a Facebook addictā¦ The wife and I are always ducking out of photos so that we donāt end up on her timeline. We call her our teenagerā¦
The wife deleted her account soon after joining because she attracted some old stalkers.
The only reason I made an account was to get my name in there first, because itās not as unusual as it used to be.
I finally joined in the fall of '15, because Iād realized it was the main connection between so many people Iād lost touch with over the years (mainly high school).
However, I was beginning to become rather irked by the beginning of '16, and as the presidential campaign heated up, people started showing their true colors.
I do get the occasional message from those who care to communicate, but I just donāt feel like going back to that mess again.
Thereās sometimes a reason why you lose touch with people. When I realized a lot of my old friends were ardent Trump supporters, I questioned the value of regaining old connections.
Lately, Iāve been looking at the panel on the interface that shows how many people are talking about a given subject. Most recently, a story about how Anthony Bourdain did an interview and said he would never eat at a restaurant in a Trump hotel, and how he would lose respect for any chef who worked in one. And I scroll through, looking for the obtuse and hateful commentary, sort of like tonguing a sore on the inside of my mouth, or rubbing a hangnail ā It hurts to do it, but I canāt seem to not do it. So these crazy Breitbarters seem to be coordinatingly commenting on FB, saying how no one cares what this nobody Bourdain says, except for the fact that for three days, tens of thousands of people cared enough to comment on Facebook. So very strange.
I joined facebook, had about 600 āfriendsā at one point. Then I got a stalker, a more than online one. After some bunny boiling I left facebook and didnāt miss it, I noticed.
I find their current privacy regimen sufficient that between the content controls and my choice of a VERY few people to āfriendā, as well as a blocklist of stalker and enablers, I can still interact with the 30 or so people I really give a damn about and still easily receive invites and follow bands and businesses on a widely used platform.
It is a social platform, like a diving board is a diving platform. You still have to have a life/pool of your own to jump into from it.
I had a page ages and ages ago. It still exists, but I havenāt even looked it in years. I originally made it to keep in touch with work friends when our store got closed, but I let too many old school acquaintances sign up and I couldnāt keep track of anyone. Plus my ex and I broke up; he was extremely active on FB and I didnāt need to see his crap. (I know I could have blocked himā¦ but at the time it wasnāt worth the effort to save the page.) Eventually Iāll probably get around to deleting it, but I havenāt bothered. Unfortunately, many of my family is active on Facebook, so I may wind up making a new page just for them alone.
Quitting Facebook feels GREAT but then you have to find another platform to gloat about it.
I need the events, Iāve been off for a month or so and itās made it tough to connect with artists and musicians otherwise 
This sounds like the problem Iām likely to have/already having! How have you dealt with the whole rest of it?
I havenāt, really. Iād passively rely on the spouse for most shared-friend events but my own interests tend to fall by the wayside without direct attention 
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