Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
by frereubu on Monday December 24, 2018 @07:16AM
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Funnily enough I can categorically say that's not true. He's one of my closest friends, was extremely upset that I wasn't there, and was kicking himself for months afterwards for the lazy assumption. The almost total ubiquity of Facebook leads to an assumption that everyone is on there. Hopefully that's going to change over the next few years, but there are hard lessons along the way.
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Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
by seppin on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @10:20PM
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Do you ever talk with him directly, via sms or whatsapp? How often? Was the party really never brought up?
Re:Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
by frereubu on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @05:58PM
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We go long-ish periods without speaking. We have that kind of lifelong friendship where we just pick up wherever we left off. He lives in London, I live on the south coast, so we only really speak when I'm in London for work and I stay over at his place. That's usually relatively frequent, but I wasn't going up much at that specific time. I should also say that he's not particularly good at organising these things and usually totally ignores his birthday, so it wasn't a huge party. Still stung though!