circlingvultures Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Just did it and it feels great. If twitter wasn't so handy for updates on records/prints that would be gone too. Wish I could get rid of the computer and phones all together. Sadly it's just not practical. Although I think I might downgrade my Blackberry and get a pager. Anyone else hating on this stuff lately as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonskanks Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 i thought about getting rid of it all. but i just cant be completely cut off. i would love to though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mygreatdevastator Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Dude I have been facebookless for about 2 weeks now. It does feel awesome. It does have it's drawbacks though, who doesn't enjoy reading about peoples failing relationships? Did you all the way delete it or simply deactivate it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circlingvultures Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 I thought I deleted it but I guess it is deactivated. I saved some pictures and got peoples contacts before I left. The people I am day to day friends with got deleted over the last 2 weeks and there were about 25 people left on it when I deactivated it. How do I delete it for good? It's such a time waster, not that this site isn't. A few things all sort of piled up and made me decide to delete it. Sometimes I just feel too connected. Very little work is required to maintain friendships thanks to the internet. I'm not interested in that. I'm also not a fan of the constant friend requests I get from people that I have met at a bar a few times. It's just a loose never ending circle of associates and people you sort of know but feel guilty if you don't add. I am down to 3 websites I check daily. This one being the most frequented but I plan to limit my time on here as well. The other 2 are used very little so I am ok with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mygreatdevastator Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Well that was my major reason, getting away from time consuming internet vices. Mine is not deleted yet as I have not saved the ridiculous amount of tagged and saved photos whatsoever. I am down to a few sites as well, this one becoming more frequent as I feel I enjoy most of the stuff posted and find the information to be quite useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxpxaddict Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 congrats! I have never had a facebook(although I do have twitter), I have been fighting it for a few years now, but there is just something weird about my mother in-law wanting to be my "friend" so I have not caved in! I have had a few friends delete their facebooks within the past couple of weeks and they are loving it, maybe now they will keep in touch with people in real life instead of just over interwebz. I wish more people would do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xfedaykinx Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 i just have a list of people who cant see my posts or pictures. solves the main qualms i have with facebook. having friends across the country/overseas makes facebook pretty handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circlingvultures Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 The friends that live far or out of the country I got contact information from before I got rid of it. The problem is that I don't do things I should do because I let myself get sucked into. Makes it too easy to be lazy. Going to start putting together a work out area in my basement. Excited that all the stuff is gone from there and I can finally get to work on this. Also let it be known that I am currently packing up records while browsing this website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 i just have a list of people who cant see my posts or pictures. solves the main qualms i have with facebook. having friends across the country/overseas makes facebook pretty handy. this. my profile is pretty much private, including photo albums, etc. the only reason i keep up with so many social networking sites is to promote my photography. it gets to be annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Talking about deleting Facebook on a forum is pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circlingvultures Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 true, but I did say that I am packing up records while doing such. Not just sitting here wasting time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariawithoneeye Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I just got a facebook but I'm never on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 This is silly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I've been patiently waiting for the backlash against so much technology and it seems like it's half-coming, but not really. I used to talk to an assload of friends on Facebook, but anyone I actually care about I talk to elsewhere, so I've found less and less use for it. I do use it to loosely keep contact with people I used to be better friends with, though. I also found a summer hockey team by posting about needing one on FB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Not a huge fan of Facebook's policies, but I enjoy it as a service. Everyone uses it. Setting up privacy settings is a pain in the ass, but I have mine tweaked to how I like them. I use the FB Purity script from Greasemonkey to weed out a ton of crap and I'm set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thousandjulys Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 no facebooks evah for me people think i'm strange but i don't need that shit. i'm partial to real live humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
controlthebleeding Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 i tried deleting myself weeks ago, but just kept it to keep track of people overseas. it doesn't really suck up that much time though, as i usually spend only about 3 to 4 minutes out of the day looking at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I've gone through a few times and weeded out people I don't know, remember, or care about multiple times. I think I need to go through a real over-haul. For some reason people like me though. I'm not convinced why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minty Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 just be sure never to sign up to it again. people that delete facebook and then get it back again a few days / weeks later look stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincefeelsthat Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 if you delete you facebook, do your contacts in your phone that synced information get deleted as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittenmittons Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 I can't delete facebook until I get a job. Real life friends cost money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 I rarely use my Facebook, but I don't think I'd delete it. For the 5 minutes a week I find it useful, it's worth keeping around. I don't use any other blogs/Twitter/whatever services, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 I was bored earlier and went through deleting about 70 "friends" that I either didn't recognize or figured I'll never really talk to them again. Still have 400+ which I feel need to be cut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamlikesmusic Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 I always thought that many friends was excessive. I hit 100 not long ago and felt weird. (Then again, I've probably got 40 or so friend requests that I have no desire to accept, but refuse to decline) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 I actually know tons of people though. My high school had just short of 500 people per grade, and I was the kind of kid that got along with everyone. Then I have all my college friends, friends from work, friends from hockey, family and friends from them... I'm all over the place. It's not like I'm some douchebag friending everyone I met at a bar the night before or friending my friends' friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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