Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

Re:Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook? by Treegarden on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:07PM (#16649822)

I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook? by pizza234 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:23PM (#16650055)

This has been discussed before; "better" != "only".

If the target is to have a contact, an email or a phone number are sufficient.

Also, it's fallacious to think that emails/phones are subject to change, while a Facebook account isn't - some people close it. Especially emails nowadays are used for a lot of services, so people stick with them for a long time, more than the past.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook? by jasonkostempski on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:22PM (#16650039)

Email, text, phone call, all better messaging services than Facebook.

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Re:Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook? by rinze on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:30PM (#16654612)

As has been said before: e-mail. I moved to Canada from Spain but go back from time to time, on holidays. Every time I go, I pick up the list of people I want to see and send them an e-mail. Has worked every single time.

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