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Why You Shouldn't Use Facebook

12 pointsby kevqover 5 years ago

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generalpassover 5 years ago
I stopped for other reasons.<p>Facebook doesn&#x27;t respect the user.<p>I had a routine that every time I logged in I would go carefully through all of the privacy settings. I observed that: these were revised on a very regular basis; would always be default no privacy; every revision would reset everything to default.<p>Facebook would reset the feed to popular from chronological even in the middle of a session. When I read articles claiming facebook is spending billions on developers and highly sophisticated analytics, I&#x27;m certain they see that I&#x27;m manually resetting my feed to chronological several times during the same session. My experience is that my behavior is indicative of some subset of users.<p>Facebook would completely not show me posts from friends who rarely posted. Who are they to decide whose posts I want to see? It was often that these posts were more interesting than the food and puppy spam mindlessly upvoted.<p>I sandboxed facebook into IE because I&#x27;m not interested in having them track me everywhere and I never used IE for anything.<p>Facebook assumes people don&#x27;t manage relationships independently or in some sort of grouping, e.g. college friends, motorcycle gang, co-workers from last employer, etc. Not everyone actually wants to see all of my posts, and I don&#x27;t desire to see all of everyone&#x27;s posts.<p>As soon as facebook started publicly embracing ideologies (of any sort), I knew it was time to leave completely and I log in maybe once every few years to grab a phone number, although I find LinkedIn is actually better for that, so it&#x27;s really been a long time since I last logged in. An organization pretending to be a place for fostering relationships cannot also support ideologies.
gothackover 5 years ago
Couldn&#x27;t agree more.
gohiso123over 5 years ago
You missed the most important reason of all.... “It’s a huge waste of time and all the cool people stopped using it forever ago”.
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