I think it's time I take Facebook out of my life.

[CTyankee]

I spend too much of my time scrolling through Facebook to see the latest outrageous stuff from my neighbor, then complaining about him to my husband.

I had to ask myself Why do I put myself through all of this?

The answer I got back was "Just go off Facebook and problem solved."

My daughter suggests that if I could get podcasts I would get a higher quality of product (if I chose well what I spend my time watching). It sounds like a better substitute.

Anybody else doing this?

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I did that years ago

I don’t even maintain a vestige of a presence on FB any longer.

[Boomerproud]

2. How can I delete FB? Haven't heard an answer yet.

nt

[sop]

5. Try this:

https://www.childnet.com/blog/delete-or-deactivate-what-to-do-with-your-old-accounts-updated-for-2020/

[BlackSkimmer]

8. Just don't open the damn page!

How hard is that lol?

[adnoid]

25. Did that

Couple months ago. Don't miss it. Works perfectly.

[Scrivener7]

3. Never got on it in the first place. I did try one of those neighborhood social media

things. It just made me sad that so many people who lived near me were so horrible. I had a reaction similar to what you are describing: why would anyone support such a thing or subject themselves to such creeps?

Closed down my account after about a month.

[LakeArenal]

7. I never wanted to either.

During the Russian troll period, friends on FB got such vile comments. Hillary Clinton so maligned. I couldn’t stand reading stuff friends on FB thought I just “had” to read.

Then it got hacked….So I’m told.

All stuff I just don’t need.

I suppose since I have no family to speak of, I don’t need to keep up with family photo etc.

[Scrivener7]

11. I have a big family. We text our photos.

[CTyankee]

12. It's funny, I got on it thinking about links to family and that's not what is happening. I get junk.

[LakeArenal]

15. Thanks. That seems to validate me. Thanks.

[LeftInTX]

16. Yeah, I'm on Nextdoor. I know what you mean

It's gotten a bit better in the past year or so, but it used to be a cesspool. I think they did better moderating after George Floyd.
But still....when you have neighbors complaining it doesn't bring out the best in people. I get on there now and then. I'm able to ignore the BS. We have a few people that are speaking out to the busy bodies: "You don't own the streets" (In reference to people who complain about every parked car they see)

I do enjoy the wild life posts, but I usually hop on for recommendations etc.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Had FB Account Very Briefly

I opened it because it was the only way to tell my sister our doggie died.
Didn't use it after that, until my wife's 40th grade school reunion came about & all the info was there.
I found it increasingly unappealing, and after that reunion, one of her classmates started slamming everybody with anti-Obama lies.
I unfriended him & never opened the account again.
Took one tool to turn me off forever.
One good thing around here is that the Nextdoor page is what it was supposed to be for. Swaps, lost pets, yard work offers & the like. It didn't turn into the cesspool I thought it might.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. I deleted my facebook account about 6 months ago. I never miss it.

There are far better thing you can do with your time than seeking out things to be outraged about.

[Hoyt]

6. Get it. I've got 3 days left on a 30 day suspension for calling GOPers

“ignorant white wing rube-necks.”

Unfortunately, there are some great music, guitar, local, etc., groups on FB that one can’t get elsewhere.

[mahina]

9. I was just thinking about this today too

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/dalvin-brown/want-to-delete-your-facebook-and-instagram-accounts-heres-how/87F677F2-B7CB-4E51-BC88-55BDC27B391B

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. I never had a FB account...

... after reading that Facebook legally OWNS any information that people submit to their FB accounts.

Plus I observed coworkers using it, not long after it became available to the public, and it was clearly causing more strife between them -- e.g., complaints about the lack of reciprocation from coworker FB "friends" in various stupid games, judgmental attitudes about the private lives of others, etc. I never witnessed anyone who said, "Now that I know THAT about them, I like them even more!"

[Tetrachloride]

13. One way is to delete your account and start a new one.

Eliminates bad friends.

Allow your family to close your account if you continue to be overly addicted

[CTyankee]

17. Thank you but I think I'm better off without it. I can phone or email family. And they are on FB

less and less themselves. So screw it.

[Ilsa]

14. I deleted mine 5 years ago, I think.

I no longer have a use for it. Most people I know that are linked to me haven't used it in years.

[bif]

18. I quit years ago.

No regrets.

[RockRaven]

19. I think ditching FB/other social media is one of those issues where once you ask the question

then you've already arrived at the answer. Finding yourself pondering the question at all is a signal to answer the question in the affirmative.

If it occurs to you that maybe you could or should quit Facebook, then you probably could and should.

[CTyankee]

28. I just found myself getting steamed up about our neighbor's most recent FB remark.

Then I thought "Why do I care? Don't I have something better to do?"

I got a big YES from my deepest self.

[underpants]

20. I must have a different Facebook than everyone else. There's some funny stuff there.

I don’t get “ads” or at least the ones I see I scroll past. The funny ones are the tease ones for mostly working out. The comments are hilarious - crude but funny.

My “friends” tend to be people I went to high school with. I have no idea how I know some of the people I correspond with on a daily basis. I see some RW nonsense but not a lot and I grew up in a military area that was pretty much created during the Reagan years.

[NewHendoLib]

21. Do it. I deleted FB, and Twitter, 2 years ago. Joy ensued.

[CTyankee]

29. I never got onto Twitter. It sounded silly.

[tishaLA]

23. i'll probably delete twitter soon, too

i got rid of FB years and years ago, but if Musk buys twitter, I'm out. Twitter has been a useful app, but I refuse to participate in enriching him.

[Captain Zero]

24. I started snoozing people on FB for thirty days

After I cut back going there only 3:times a week.... It has improved what I see.

Sometimes when an annoying person comes back off of snooze. I snooze their ass again.

Mess around marking some things 'do not show me' again.

I think if everyone fucked around with their algorithms that way it might get better.

Or I have also thought it will just make it easier when I do quit it. Haha.

[sarcasmo]

26. Dumped Fakebook many moons ago, it's a good life choice.

[llmart]

27. I haven't been on it for months and now I don't even see the need to have it any longer.

I rarely used it to start with. I think I initially signed up to see someone's wedding photos.

Trust me. You won't miss it. I'd rather read a book. At my age, I don't have enough years left on this planet to waste any of it on that nonsense. I have never been on Instagram or Twitter.

[CTyankee]

30. I'm writing my third book on art history and FB was eating up my research time. Also, I have a

partially handicapped husband and some disabilities of my own (not bad). Those things are my priorities.

[Pobeka]

31. I had gave it up completely in 2016.

When FB was a significant factor in getting TFG elected.

Prior to that I was getting tired of too many feeds of "look what my cat did".

Anyone who cares about me has my email and phone number. We stay in touch that way. I don't want to know what 100 people are doing all the time...

[BWdem4life]

32. I long ago unfollowed anyone

whose posts bothered me. Blocked some of them. Result: Boring fb feed that doesn't take much time to get thru and never raises my BP, but still occasionally has actionable stuff (e.g. friend/relative that I may be able to help in some way.)

[womanofthehills]

33. On Facebook you can choose to not see someone's posts without them knowing-

I did this with a right wing cousin. You will only see about one in thirty of their posts and they are not aware of this.

[Tree Lady]

35. And also you can snooze them for 30 days

I do that with a lot of groups and people.

[brooklynite]

34. Question: why are you "friends" with your neighborhood?

I don't engage in politics with anyone on Facebook, and I don't "friend" people who aren't actually friends.

[CTyankee]

43. They help us out every week by taking our trash and garbage cans to the curb for pickup

Their grown kids do stuff for us. They urge us to call them about anything. They visited me in the hospital after surgery. In return I make a year end gift to a Fund providing for private space for parents of premature infants who are born too soon in their development to live. I feel sorry for their loss and they in return let me know of the fund's growth in hospitals around the country.

[7wo7rees]

36. 7woTrees would never let us join.

I was in restaurant sales, I needed it desperately. Many fights ensued. 7wo7rees won. No facebook ever.

You all do know it was funded by venture capital related to CIA, right? Just another "conspiracy".

All the alphabet agencies love it.

[Demsrule86]

37. Block your neighbor. I delete anything I don't like and use it for pics of my new

Grandchild. Facebook is a took...it is what you make. I keep in touch with my family on Facebook.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

38. Never joined Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media sites.

DU is the only thing like a social media site I use.

Life is good.

[Johnny2X2X]

39. Engage

Facebook allows people to insulate themselves from other views. I have some friends on FB who I've been tempted to delete, but what's the point of that? Is my goal to only see views that are similar to my own? I'd rather see crazy stuff and at least monitor if not engage.

[edhopper]

40. I hear you

I stay on Facebook for friends and family. I discipline myself to stay away from politics there. I don't use it for a News Feed.
Why don't you unfriend your neighbor?
You could also limit yourself to looking at FB only once or twice a day.

[CTyankee]

44. I can't unfriend for a variety of reasons. They are nice to us and help us. It's just that he gets

his kicks making snarky remarks about Joe Biden and was totally into the "stolen election" stuff, seeing things that weren't there...you remember all those people who swear they "SAW" ballots being switched, etc. I was a little worried about him "going over the edge" for a while after the election. I was watching this lunacy play out next door. I fear it will return in some form or another.

Best to keep our distance online (where strange thoughts are hatched).

[MineralMan]

41. OK.

[FakeNoose]

42. I've quit Facebook - not once, but twice!

After Jan. 6th last year, it really got ugly. I was so depressed to find out that my old co-workers, or friends from high school, or people that I've never met "in person" were Chumpers. Suddenly everything was political and nasty, even though my own family and close friends were all copacetic. It was the once-in-a-while "friends" that really brought me down.

I finally realized it wasn't worth the trouble. Now I keep in touch with family the old-fashioned way. We email and text each other, and occasionally we have family Zoomers. Facebook lets in people who don't need to see my private stuff.

[CTyankee]

45. Exactly what I am thinking!

There just isn't enough of the stuff I expected to see, regular updates on all my grandkids and step-grandkids. The last FB blast from my neighbor was "The CDC can KMA."