This thread is a smug accumulator, then. Welcome home.
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jumping in w the never-had-FB people (never had). FB is more like CBS in the 1950’s. You could still read news, turn on the radio & talk w friends. When FB first came out I asked “How many ways does someone need to contact me?” People said, “It’ll be just like Myspace” and wanted me to go to my junior high reunion (really?). There will come more channels and more options, so don’t get so wrapped up in CBS that you won’t want cable someday (also dropped cable 6 yrs ago). Also your cell phone, email, twitter, Amazon, etc are can be accessed, hacked regardless. There’s always been a lot of BS & idiots out there. good friends will be just that no matter. I like kaleberb7
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Step three: PROFIT!
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It’s possible, but it seems unlikely to me. I have two teens at home, and FaceBook is dead to them. Sure, they have accounts, but they never use them.
Everything is Instagram and SnapChat for the teen and younger crowd, and if FB is paying attention this has to have them concerned.
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I’m not attending any of my reunions, even if someone could track me down and invite me. Without FB, that’s not easy. The thought of attending a junior high reunion, let alone a high school or college reunion, is just ridiculous and a waste of time and money.
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Facebook IS Instagram, so likely not 
Yeah. But I’m a self-aware smug bastard! Even saying this makes me feel just a little more happily smug!
I just think I’m better than the sheeple that surround themselves with (at this count) 144 others that feel exactly the same as they do, all saying I DON’T WANT TO BE A PART OF A GROUP THINK COMMUNITY. Amirite??? C’mon…I need more people agreeing with me or I won’t feel like I’m accepted! LOVE ME!!!
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If I’m not mistaken they haven’t really been able to monetize Instagram in the same way. They have lots of eyeballs, but I don’t think an Instagram eyeball is worth as much as an FB eyeball.
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Not trying to bring about Smugception, just saying it’s not a great counter 
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Which one of us?
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DON’T IMMANENTIZE THE SMUGSCHATON
I think this happens when 100 people somewhere in the world does all these things in the same day:
1)buys an electric car (sorry, prius doesn’t cut it anymore)
2)quits facebook
3)sends everyone a holiday card announcing a donation to an African NGO in your name
4)Tells someone that they only watch BBC news. But not on a tv, because they don’t own one.
5)compiles their own linux kernel
6)gets more outraged THAN YOU
Be careful out there, if you’ve done three or four of these things today already, stop and go to bed.
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With other individuals perhaps, but anybody willing to pay FB a few bucks to be an advertiser pretty much has whatever you got out there, either directly or through your friends.
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Every single platform. Instagram, Twitter, FB, everything. So many people suffer this FOMO on likes. And there’s the evidence from a few successful examples that you get the sudden onrush of likes and you go hugely viral.
It’s happened to … a few people.
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And it’s unfair to blame users entirely, these platforms are designed to nag and enforce mandatory interaction, while some do go without while having the accounts, the psychology preys on many social persons’ natural instincts.
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you’ve hit on something there. it’s like gambling or advertising, FB is a business model that is psychologically predatory. that in itself makes it icky. the privacy concerns and the annoyance and time-wasting are of course valid criticisms, but I think the predatory nature of it is the worst, though.
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What can we do against all that desperation and disconnection?!?!?
I am moments away from meeting a new friend for coffee. That’s my part for today.
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Exactly. I’m almost… jealous of the persons who can disconnect?
I have a boundary issue with Facebook. It makes relationships with acquaintances too personal and takes too much time even still with close friends.
My page is shut down but I lack the ability to get invited to events from local artists and musicians, and may end up creating an account just for local happenings. But then i will show up in the “you might know” list for persons I added before and this abomination begins again…
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Yep it’s unfair BUT with a little self-discipline and the grown-ups showing the kids what fun real people are, things won’t go all hikikomori on us.
So it’s not the users, but the real people who have to fix this!
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