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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeleting FB account
It takes quite a bit of time to make fb delete your account. I did it two years ago...took about 2 hours to finally get to where you are asked to download your stuff and then they make you wait another two weeks before they finally delete. Worth every minute I spent.😤.Ohiogal
(32,009 posts)I never had a Facebook account.
Despite pressure from family and friends I stayed away
Callalily
(14,890 posts)I too never had Facebook. Seems to me like far too much drama!
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)A lot less drama than here.
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)Everyone knows who I am and what I do. I'm FB friends with elected officials and candidates. No way would I say the stuff over there that I say on here.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)But I pretty much do say the same things there that I do here, and the conversations are a lot more respectful and multi-faceted.
If I have any candidates or elected officials as friends it is because we are friends in some other capacity. But I have friends, relatives, co-workers, former students, people from three medical support groups - in short a cross section of the world. I have a few relatives and people from the medical support groups who are very conservatve, and a couple of far left folks I can only take in small doses. But when I have the energy, we actually have good, rich, multi-faceted conversations. Occasionally I make inroads with some of the conservative relatives.
Wawannabe
(5,666 posts)Useless POS site
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)out of business. It ain't gonna happen but still.....
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GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)I'm presently using Facebook to manage a neighborhood page, a couple of ex-pat/immigrant group pages, and get information on living in France.
So, as the expression goes, YMMV.
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)sixty years and counting.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Just as much junk going on there. Then there is Amazon and Bezos. I don't think you can ever get away from this type of stuff. I have said this before here, Twitter is a sewer.
Nuffer
(40 posts)Have never done twitter...
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Whatever makes you feel good.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,357 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Zuckerberg is anti-freedom. I deleted my Facebook during the 2012 elections. By that point, all the backwards people had found FB and were spouting their nonsense. My wife asked me not to respond to her brother's wife, who is a new Christian and dumb as they come. I agreed to keep the family peace but also decided I didn't want to be on Facebook. So I deleted my account and haven't missed it once.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)everything stays in the FB Borg
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)and I'm waiting to see if there is any reason to reactivate it or permanently delete it.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,640 posts)I use it to stay in touch with many, many friends of all stripes.
Political friends
Neighbors
Poetry friends
Photography friends
Family, of course.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)I've been on Facebook for over ten years, and I enjoy it.
I've never seen any pro-trump posts because I have never friended anyone that would post those.
I only have about 100 'friends' on facebook, and they're all actual friends or family. I would invite any of them into my home without hesitation.