Facebook Freedom

[HDvinyl]

I've decided to eliminate Facebook from my life. Too consuming. But, the main reason for leaving is shown in my last post...

"I'm done judging people by their Facebook posts, thinking they're IDIOTS because they don't know when to use - they're - there - their and your - you're - correctly. Goodbye Facebook."

 

[ddarlak]

I quit about 4 years ago and never looked back.

I recommend burning the bridge by defriending everyone. this makes it final.....

 

[James Burke]

I quit about 4 years ago and never looked back.

I recommend burning the bridge by defriending everyone. this makes it final.....

If that seems a bit severe, you can always deactivate your account. It doesn't allow any friend activity or annoying email notifications. And for all they know, you've disappeared into oblivion.

As for the fb sabbatical, I couldn't agree more. I've been away from it for four months and it's wonderfully empowering to be free of the constant need for comments and/or interaction.

I've rediscovered my reading list. The awesome smell of freshly ground coffee, ink and paper is almost intoxicating.


JB

 

[Kottwitz-Graphics]

I just deleted my account as well... I always hated the way Facebook made people think that they are so self important... I don't give a flying s#&t what you had for breakfast, or what time you took a s!&t...

But the main reason I got out was I got a friend request from my ex wife....I divorced that crazy b....h for a reason. Do I really need her as a friend on social media?

 

[Marlene]

I love my groups like the Jello, Aspic and other delights too much to quit. I get a good laugh everyday from groups like that. I also can follow my family that doesn't live near me, see photos of what they are up to. for the ones who post a picture of their breakfast, I just don't follow them. it is what you make of it and if you've made some good friends and have joined some fun groups it is a nice break in the day. if you have dicks for friends and belong to bitchy groups then I can see why it would be something to remove from your life. maybe time to make some new friends

 

[chester215]

I originally signed up to share pictures of a trip to Asia several years ago.
But after seeing all of the stuff being 'shared' by others, it seemed to be a lot of mindless dribble.
A year or 2 of that was enough and i deactivated my account.

 

[Suz]

Who needs facebook when there is Signs101 :Big Laugh

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

I just deleted my account as well... I always hated the way Facebook made people think that they are so self important... I don't give a flying s#&t what you had for breakfast, or what time you took a s!&t...

But the main reason I got out was I got a friend request from my ex wife....I divorced that crazy b....h for a reason. Do I really need her as a friend on social media?

You can't delete an account on facebook. Anything you load to facebook they now own. Your personal info and everything. You deactivated your account. All you have to do is sign in and BAM everything is still there and it's like nothing changed.

 

[ddarlak]

You can't delete an account on facebook. Anything you load to facebook they now own. Your personal info and everything. You deactivated your account. All you have to do is sign in and BAM everything is still there and it's like nothing changed.

exactly, go back on deleted every post you ever made, defriend everyone, and sooner or later when facebook backs up your "account" there's nothing to backup...

you can never truly delete your account, but you can wipe it clean!

 

[BIG EASY DOES IT]

but everything you ever loaded is still saved on one of the facebook servers. Read the terms and cond. I believe the second you load an image to facebook, they own that photo. Anything they want to do with it they can. Meaning in 10 years when they do a throwback video of what facebook used to be they can use your pictures and your posts to do so. Even if you have "deleted" them from your viewable account.

 

[rjssigns]

What is this thing called Facebook?

I guess I have an account because the wife set it up. S'posed to be good for business. IIRC I posted on it once. 4 years ago...

 

[fresh]

Facebook is a great tool for social networking for our business. Last night I got a call from someone who told me the only reason he called us is because we "like" stuff that he posts to FB. Honestly, we don't typically like things on facebook, but we do a lot of instagramming every day. And my partner who runs the IG account saw something this new client posted on IG and went to facebook to look his business up earlier in the day. A few hours later he calls us to talk about storefront signs on a new location (3 lightbox faces, window lettering, possible vehicle wrap, etc.)

We have increased our revenue at least 5% (probably more like 10%) in the past year just through spending a few minutes a day searching for local businesses and "liking" the stuff they post. And honestly, we really don't even try that hard. One of my goals for 2015 is to hire a social networking company to help us increase visibility.

Anyway, did you know you can unfollow (not unfriend) people whose posts annoy you? That way their activity doesn't show up in your stream. I unfollowed so many people, now I only see posts from people I deem worthy of my time. AND nobody knows that their crap isn't showing up on you feed anymore. Win Win!

 

[lgroth]

FB... Ugh...

Besides doing this as a day job I'm also a musician by night, I play with and do studio work for several bands annually... What better way to communicate and interact with fans than Facebook, right??? After every show I received tons of friend requests, I sure felt like a rock-star... when I hit 5,000 friends and was told I couldn't have any more I realized just how pathetic my life had become, especially when I looked through the list and realized "I don't really know ANY of these people". I'm still on FB, but I dumped that account and started over, now at a respectable 200 + change of family, friends and select other musicians I work with life and FB is manageable. You have no idea what it's like to open your account over morning coffee and see 6-8,000 notifications... I know now why my hair turned gray so fast...

 

[HDvinyl]

Day 2 post-Facebook and not one negative thought about anyone.

 

[player]

I'm sure the 1000's of followers you had are now completely lost without you.

 

[HDvinyl]

:iamwithstupid
See, you just ruined my non-negative thoughts for the day.

 

[player]

Payback's a b!tch.

 

[Techman]

FB is evolving into an advertizing medium. Take it for that and every thing becomes crystal clear. Use it as that and some will make money.
Print media is dead. TV is dead. RAdio is going dead.

Online media is about the one working deal left. In the end I think it will all come back round to the old days of personal brand building.

 

[TimToad]

We think it helps our business, but I'm not on it all day posting the latest $82 banner we just did. We try to post stuff we're proud of and that might spur the public to choose us for types of work they may not be aware that we do. I think with a minimal time investment, you can reach a lot of people and you can support fellow businesses who in turn really appreciate the simple action of your liking or friending them. As we monitor our other more traditional advertising expenditures like Yellow Pages ads, I'm of a mind that you can get a helluva lot of exposure wit the same kind of dollars spent on social media.

On the personal front, I'm willing to put up with some of the more distractiing aspects of it if I can stay in better touch with my nieces, nephews, siblings, and friends who use it a lot. I'm sorry, but if you have friends or family under the age of 30, they are on FB.

Do they call often enough, write, or even email with their busy schedules? NO, but they do seem to find the time to connect with me or others on FB. Its a tradeoff that I guess everyone has to make for themselves.

 

[DesireeM]

Sometimes I feel like hating facebook is a "thing" the same way hating Nickelback or Justin Bieber is a "thing". Just something else for people to get on the bandwagon and complain about.

Facebook will be whatever you want it to be... If you let yourself waste hours and hours on facebook wishing and hoping for comments and likes isn't that more of a personal flaw than a facebook flaw? Same with judging people....if it's in your nature to do so you will do it...whether its on facebook or in traffic or at work or on signs101 whatever...people will do and say things that make you shake your head...

You have to take the good with the bad. Don't get caught up in the bad. You have to accept peoples downfalls on facebook just as you do in real life. If I actually de-friended everyone that said or did something that irked me I'd probably have to move to a small cottage in the mountains and cut myself off from society completely.

In the end if Facebook's not your thing then just don't use it...but sharing your disdain and negative feelings towards it to everyone every time facebook is mentioned is akin to posting that same negative crap on facebook isn't it?

 

[Suz]

Techman,
Radio Dead? No!!!
I love radio more than all of it. But I listen through the internet radio.
Delilah, love her show! So I'm a modern radio listener.
At least I think I am.
:Big Laugh

Also, I have an old tube radio out in the shop I listen to when screenprinting. Nothing else sounds like it, it is just a fabulous old radio. Not much comes in, but what does comes in very clear. Fond memories of that old radio and all the hours I've listened to it. If it dies, I will be sad.
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QUOTE=Techman;1216195]FB is evolving into an advertizing medium. Take it for that and every thing becomes crystal clear. Use it as that and some will make money.
Print media is dead. TV is dead. RAdio is going dead.

Online media is about the one working deal left. In the end I think it will all come back round to the old days of personal brand building.[/QUOTE]