Re:Reasons not to use Facebook
by ericfontaine on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:55PM
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> I do use Facebook to plug my books and to hopefully drive traffic to my blog articles
The trick is configuring your blog to autopost to facebook, for which I use https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-link-to-facebook/ which also automatically grabs likes and comments from the facebook post and adds them to the wordpress comments database. Maybe this is acknowledging facebook's value, but at least I don't have to personally interact with facebook, nor are visitors to my blog tracked by facebook's javascript.
I do use Facebook to plug my books and to hopefully drive traffic to my blog articles, but I have been considering cancelling my account.
I have similar issues with Google, but with Google I get much more value: using G+ to promote my own web properties, and generally really useful services.
That said, I have switched to using my GMail address as a secondary email that I don't often check, and having the people most important to me use my own email address. Also, I give this advice all the time: choose one web browser like Chrome for use just with social media (Google, Facebook, and Twitter web properties) and another web browser for everything else.