The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With

Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by galfarragem on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:50AM (#20693489)

That was exactly my first step to drastically reduce facebook usage:

1 - Unfollow all your "friends".

2 - Unfollow friends that post too much. Only get in touch with them by email or presencial.

3 - Facebook becomes so static that you hardly ever have the urge to visit it.

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Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by beatgammit on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:39AM (#20695406)

My solution was to stop using Facebook cold turkey and request that my friends contact me another way. My real friends did, the rest didn't bother. I spend more time interacting with people I care about and less time "interacting" with "friends".

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Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by realshowbiz on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:46AM (#20696066)

Came here to say this.

Deleting my fb account has been a positive experience. Real friends stay in touch, and the stressful negative/argumentative comment threads and posts are gone.

Admittedly I still use instagram. Their model works well to let me keep in touch loosely, without highlighting every like/repost/comment of the people who I follow.

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