Is anyone else kind of totally over Facebook lately? I feel like I spend all my internet-time-wasting on here now and am seriously considering deleting my fb account. I feel like anyone I care about I talk to on the phone, and I'm not interested in the political opinions of my acquaintances or cousins.
I just kind of hate it there but somehow feel guilty deleting, like it would be anti-social.
I only keep my FB because being a military family, we move so much and are never near our families so FB is the best way for us to keep in touch with friends and keep our families updated with pictures.
But I get the dislike. It irritates me a lot. Then again, I'm totally fine with deleting people who are too political or over sharers or vague posters or just plain annoying.
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Living away from our hometown, FB has been great to keep up with friends and family. I tend to go through my friends list a few times a year and purge to help weed out the BS.
I spend more time on here than FB lately but I could never get rid of mine. I have close family all over the country and it's the easiest way to keep up with each other.
You know, I'd have no issue just not posting and checking up every so often, but I have certain annoying relatives who I can't get away from on fb; even after hiding them they'll still tag me to get my attention. I feel like deleting is less of a hassle than unfriending because of the drama that would cause, and I don't really want to be on there anyway. I guess that's a personal problem though!
I deactivated my facebook about two years ago and recently deleted due to the change in sharing information that facebook can now do with your "history". I don't miss it at all. There are other, less superficial ways of staying in touch with the important people in your life.
I've moved from either end of the country twice. I rarely post but do enjoy the ability it gives to stay up to date with my friends and family since we're so spread out. I keep my friends list really tight, delete as necessary and hide those that I can't delete (annoying family).
Post by rocksforludo on Feb 8, 2015 17:18:48 GMT -5
I mainly keep mine to stay up-to-date on college friends who are spread across the country. I rarely post but do share pics from time to time as I don't have Instagram or any other photo sharing accounts.
A girl who I studied abroad with almost 10 years ago recently moved to my area and found me on FB. We've met up a couple times since. That's why I keep FB. Otherwise I'd delete it because I never check it and never post anything. My wall is all stuff that other friends have tagged me in.
I'm not much of a poster, but I'm a super creep by nature. I love FB because I can see what's going on with people with minimal effort. If you're annoying, you get hidden.
I rarely go to Facebook anymore. I keep it to keep track of people far away and/or from different phases of my life that I'm not always good about calling like I should. I have gotten overzealous with hiding feeds but haven't gone through unfriending people I don't care about in a long time.
i am pretty active on it. My April 13 BMB is there now, so its my go-to to stay in touch with those ladies. I use it to keep in touch with friends and family I am happy to block or delete anyone who is annoying, friend or family member.
Yeah, I have a love/hate relationship with it too. I hate when people use it like their own personal Google. But I love when I see updates from old friends who I don't see on Instagram. I never hesitate to block the annoying ones, so that helps clear up my feed.
I use Facebook here and there. I like it to keep in touch with family in DR and stuff. I don't really have a lot of friends in it and I tend to ignore requests from a lot of high school people unless I really want to keep in touch. I believe the less people, the less drama. I also have it so those that are el dramatic don't show up in my feed, that way I don't have to out up with that crap. I use the Facebook privacy settings to my advantage.
I keep it to keep up with my Mar 12 BMB peeps, and a Nesties group I am in. I actually only go to my newsfeed when I can't sleep and feel like I have reached the end of the Internet.
I do hate Facebook though. I feel like it's blurs reality for people. No one's life is as awesome as Facebook makes it seem.
Post by sweetieheart32 on Feb 8, 2015 21:22:05 GMT -5
I like chatting with close friends and family, but annoying relatives who think we have to be friends because we're in-laws and creepy frienemies who just want to compare your life to theirs.. I'm over that. Whenever I add someone like that now, I automatically change their status to "acquaintance" and all of my wall posts are set to view "friends except acquaintances". That way I can accept their friend invitation, but don't have to share anything except profile picture updates unless I really want to.
Post by orangepickle on Feb 9, 2015 7:34:07 GMT -5
I wouldn't delete my FB since I have friends and family all over the world, so it's just easier to reach them that way most of the time. But I am very sick of it and don't log in for weeks or months at a time.
DF and I both deleted ours almost a year ago. It got to the point where there was so much just crap on there and I honestly didn't have time for it. It just got to be annoying. Everyone was always crying about something crappy in their lives. I mean just get over it. I don't have time to read a 3 page long story about how you're tired of your friend being mean to you or your boyfriend cheating on you. Really? I do have family that lives all over the country so sometimes it is hard to get in touch with them but luckily I have a super awesome family that can network pretty well. Deleting FB was really the best choice we ever made.
Post by marygracerich on Feb 9, 2015 10:51:26 GMT -5
MH and I have never had facebook. We have no interest in the drama that goes on there. Our phone numbers havent changed in about 10 years so anyone that we care about that needs or wants to contact us know how to do so. That being said we have actually lost friends because of facebook which makes me hate it even more. These friensds do EVERYTHING in their lives through facebook and cant bother to call or text us. I feel that I shouldnt have to be on a social media site to keep my friends and family.
We closed our accounts a while ago, and will never look back. For us it's really a privacy and Internet safety issue. If you're not paying for it, you're the product
Just wanted to add, I have deleted annoying family members. No regrets.
Same here. I deleted my bat shit crazy aunt, who only posts her conspiracy theories about vaccinations, after she said she "prayed none of us received the flu vaccine while pregnant because that's why we miscarried" on a post I wrote about pregnancy loss. Ignorant twat. Then my status was "well, you can't pick your family, but you can pick your Facebook friends " and I deleted her.
This actually inspired me to delete the app from my phone, there's no reason I need to be checking it as much as I do. I also use the unfollow feature all the time for acquaintances. I want to break my phone checking habit in general before LO arrives! I do love instagram though.
Just wanted to add, I have deleted annoying family members. No regrets.
Same here. I deleted my bat shit crazy aunt, who only posts her conspiracy theories about vaccinations, after she said she "prayed none of us received the flu vaccine while pregnant because that's why we miscarried" on a post I wrote about pregnancy loss. Ignorant twat. Then my status was "well, you can't pick your family, but you can pick your Facebook friends " and I deleted her.
I got up the courage today to finally delete said family member, but she really shouldn't care because I almost never post there these days anyway.
Yeesssssss!! Soooo over Facebook. It feels like a job sometimes. Or a needy relationship and it already have two of those to deal with lol, soon 3! I just don't have the time to fool with it anymore plus I haven't felt like sharing anything or talking to anyone on it recently.
I have a friend that has like, four times now, tried to oust my pregnancy on Facebook- before me! She'll write stuff on my page like "Hope you're feeling better! How many weeks are you now?" Thank god I have to approve stuff before it shows up.... And then she somehow added or suggested me to all the hyperemesis support groups on fb. Every other day someone loses a baby or goes into early labor and I just can't deal with all of tha right now
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