What should you think about when using Facebook?

Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by francamps on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:33PM (#13561491)

There is a solution that can help you get here, and it worked for me: unfollow everyone and everything.

By unfollowing everyone except a handful of boring sites that barely ever publish anything, my newsfeed has become very boring and I rarely feel the pull towards it or any of its addictive power. The end result is that when I do log in, I only see notifications for a couple of groups full of my friends or interests that are truly relevant and I don’t waste any time scrolling.

At this point in my life, Messenger (not from the main site, but from its own site) and Groups are quite convenient, and both are a bit necessary for me at the moment, so I can’t quite disable Fb, but I’m very happily giving up on the feed for good.

I might eventually quit altogether, but this method has worked for me quite well for the last few months.

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Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by grenoire on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:38PM (#13561538)

This works well for any follow or subscription based network. Taking the instant gratification and new-content-every-five-minutes aspects out, just leaves you with something that does not incentivise you to keep returning so often (and therefore waste your time).

I have several friends who would benefit a lot if they stopped following hundreds of accounts, keeping their feeds and brains busy with "nothing."

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Re:What should you think about when using Facebook? by rolodato on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:55PM (#13563227)

For anyone thinking of doing this, you actually have to manually unfollow everyone. There is no Facebook API method to unfollow friends or pages.

I ended up deleting my account anyway.

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