Be a pioneer – delete Facebook

Posted by f_allwein on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:48PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/27/pioneer-delete-facebook-addiction-social-life

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by leepowers on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:47PM (#16691561)

Delete the Facebook app. It drains your battery and drains your attention.

I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events:

https://mbasic.facebook.com/

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by f_allwein on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:32PM (#16691957)

Or try the http://friendly.io app - lets you use Facebook, but does not ask for permissions.

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by kankroc on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:10PM (#16693995)

Thank you for that, great alternative!

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by n2dasun on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:10PM (#16691791)

same. I bounce between this and https://m.facebook.com depending on what I'm trying to get done

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by kingosticks on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:42PM (#16693000)

The great thing about mbasic is you can read your messages without it launching the Play Store and trying to make you install messenger. That drives me nuts!

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by hymestriasticon on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:53PM (#16693090)

What if we refused to join Facebook all along because we saw this coming the whole time?

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by madengr on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:46PM (#16693521)

Ditto. I guess that makes us prophets?

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by scottydelta on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:31PM (#16693393)

> Each Facebook deleter must invent new ways to live without Facebook; the deleters are the pioneers, the vanguard of a new kind of literate, informed, proud digital citizenry. They are inventing on behalf of all of us.

This argument alone has convinced me to delete my facebook account. I was a bit skeptical about missing on updates but then it's on us to develop, find and use the better alternatives to boost adoption.

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by cirgue on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:53PM (#16694214)

More important than deleting Facebook: working on and supporting open platforms and helping society to reimagine socialization on the internet.

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by daodedickinson on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:03PM (#16691118)

I left Facebook about six years ago and have never missed it. The drolly named Discord has been far more rewarding to me, and has proved even more valuable in non-gaming contexts. An open-source Discord with excellent privacy respect is about all I want.

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by Nuzzerino on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:05PM (#16692713)

Matrix.org is likely the closest thing to an open source "Discord". Very decentralized, like IRC.

Being open-source alone isn't enough, as many (but not all) open-source projects suffer from the same problems of centralized governance.

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by daodedickinson on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:57PM (#16691066)

I'm grateful for Jaron's Who Owns The Future for really laying out the scale of what's going on, and the stakes.

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by memorymappings on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:36PM (#16691467)

Yeh did that in 2014 the day they filled my friends status feed with ads then news, where's my trophy?

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Re:Be a pioneer – delete Facebook by hulton on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @06:38PM (#16693453)

There is literally no real benefit to having and using Facebook.

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