Logged out of Facebook >6months. FB working overtime to get me back. How about you?

Funny. My kid taught me about Finsta accounts years ago. (Fake Insta). That’s the only way to go these days.

 

Deleted my account, blocked all fb sites and advertising domains with my Pi-Hole clone. Perfect. Couldn’t even log back in if I tried.

 

My wife still has one to keep in touch with friends and family. But I don't do it because you see only what they want you to see. I know its privately owned like this place and there is no such thing as free speech on private property so I just choose to not participate.

 

The ONLY reason I still have a FB account is because I run our band page and it's an effective marketing platform in that sense. I have my friends list pretty trimmed down as my rule is that if I passed you on the street in real life and wouldn't stop and say hi or have a chat then I don't actually know you and you don't need access to my entire personal life online. I've also had my privacy settings locked down heavily for over a decade. Nothing public. Nothing viewable to anyone not already on my friends list. You can't even friend request me unless you're already friends with one of my friends. I stay out of groups and that nonsense.

It would be difficult to delete entirely as the Messenger app has been widely adopted as the primary messaging tool.

One thing I did delete a few years ago is Twitter.

 

I deleted my account a couple years ago. They don’t make it easy to delete. And you have to careful or your account automatically reactivates itself. Like if you mistakenly click on some link that brings you to some Facebook page. It’s very sneaky. And some businesses, etc, do not have websites, they only have Facebook pages. But overall I am happy to not be on it.

 

Never had a FB account. Tempted a few times, but every six or twelve months there's a new reason not to sign up. (like when they change privacy settings). Email and text work well for friends and my family. If anything really important comes up I hear about it(!).

This thread helps, too. Glad to hear more people are enjoying and engaging with real the world offline.

 

Acct. deleted lst yr.
We just didn't see in concert with one an otter.

Mark's called me sev times...

And I don't even have a phone!!
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You can deactivate but not delete because they want that chance you will come back. I deactivated my account a couple of years ago. They sent emails to the address I used to open the FB account. Those emails were showing me "what I've been missing" and "Come on Back!" But I opened a new email and signed up with a fake name because there were some things I missed and I use FB Marketplace to sell stuff like CL. My new page is all things music and I am signed with lots of musicians and builders and I enjoy it. I only have 3 friends, my best friend and 2 professional musicians. I enjoy it because I get to use the media without all the junk. But they definitely try to get you back.

 

The exact thing happened to me. I stopped using Facebook about 4 months ago and Facebook tried doing anything it could to lure me back. My phone was constantly pinging with alerts anytime someone posted something. As has been mentioned, I had watched the documentary on NetFlix called The Social Dilemma prior to deleting the app off my phone. It's scary how they are able to follow you and constantly try to keep you engaged on their site.

I did keep Facebook on my laptop. Once in a blue moon I will go into it but only for about 5 minutes. Getting it out of my phone was definitely worth it.

 

Had an account, made one contribution to check. I was bombarded with notifications, alerts, bulletins, who's online, why am I not online, would I like to do this, or that, So-in-so posted this, etc. That was before 24 {bleeping} hours had elapsed. Haven't been back since. That was over a decade ago. I know some folks find some bit of usefulness, but the noise level, tax and distraction far overwhelms any usefulness I can possibly see.

 

No, they aren't hurting. Not at all. Not even a little bit. 2.8 BILLION active users. Computer generated emails based on an algorithm don't cost them a dime, so there is no downside to it.

 

I've sold many items through facebook, and maintain contact with a number of friends and a few family. There are also interesting groups to join.
Because it's easy to block someone's messages from my feed, I have never had an angry confrontation on facebook.

 

Is that really true that it doesn’t cost a dime? I understand that sending an email from a gmail account or whatever seems “free” to most of us, but for a business to send out billions of emails...that has to cost something, doesn’t it? I could even imagine there’s a whole division of Facebook employees (or contractors, outsourced, etc.) paid to handle emails, algorithms, etc. Not trying to be argumentative, just wondering and thinking out loud.

 

I never opened a facebook. It might sound cold but I don't need or want more friends and I have stayed in touch with the ones I care about. I don't see the friends I already have enough, why do I need more? My wife closed her facebook a few years ago. It seemed like a lot of drama to me, she doesn't miss it.

 

Yes, someone has to design the algorithm, they have to maintain the servers that send the emails, so it's not completely free. The point is more that it's not like it costs 50 cents (or whatever a letter costs) for postage, then paper, envelop, someone to type/print it, etc, etc., etc.

 

I left Facebook after the 2016 election. I couldn’t stand to watch friends become enemies.
I ended up here instead.

 

I don't use it like most people do. Only for marketplace. Absolutely never for anything else. No 'friends' or contacts at all. No facebook app. Only an opensource replacement that is disabled 99% of the time.

 

Same thing happened to me with Faceburg. I shut off all notifications. I’ve deleted anything that could possibly be used against me although I know they still have it.

 

I've never actually used FB messenger, but I'm pretty sure if you're using it you're not logged out of your FB acct?

Trolling!