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F*CK Facebook!

If you don’t have a person’s email address or phone number, they aren’t your friend.

Just let go of Facebook.
 
Climber said:
I am, but my one drawback is that it is the only contact that I have with some folk and I have zero ability to contact those few to let them know I'm no longer active with FB.
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Can't you just message them... with the phone or email saying you are leaving bookface??

I have zero clue how buttbook works, but maybe you can do a final final message.
 
My biggest beef with FB is that you can't create a business page without having a personal account first.
Of course, they claim they're just trying to make sure you're the real owner. But in reality it's just another way for them to harvest your data
 
ST Guy said:
If you don’t have a person’s email address or phone number, they aren’t your friend.

Just let go of Facebook.
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Strongly disagree. A really great motorcycle/track friend mine talk almost every day. I don't have her number or her email.

And no, she's not a millennial hipster that doesn't know what a CRT TV is. She's closer to your age than mine.

What's the difference between emailing someone and sending them a message on [insert social media platform]? The answer, there isn't a difference. She is not the only one. Even just on BARF, there's tons of people I consider friends. I don't have their number or email. That doesn't make them not my friend.

Few years after getting laid off from that current job, I turned in my work phone and I didn't have a private number for months. Didn't feel I needed it. All my friends were still able to get ahold of me through other means just as easily.

There are plenty of ways to talk with your friends that aren't a phone or email. This isn't 1990.
 
Also, not to defend Facebook like I'm a social media bootlicker, I do have a peeve about complaining about all the stuff people don't want to see. You can hide/block stuff you don't want to see and the algorithm will start adapt to show more of what you do want to see. There's no way to get around ads but most of my newsfeed on facebook is posts from friends, not a bunch of ads like a medical cream if you used an old razor to shave your butthole.

I have two instagram accounts. One was made by little sister before I even had a smart phone (back when you couldn't use instagram on your computer) She was 15 and she was bored.

Anyway, that first account I only use to see pictures/videos of raccoons, cars, motorcycles, martial arts, a couple other things. I have no friends and my newsfeed has very few ads easy to scroll by.
 
funny thing about Facebook, they had a nearly perfect messaging platform that blew the doors off texting, imessage, etc

cross platform, PC, Mac, Android, iProduct, tablet, didn't matter. It worked. It saved messages/chats/photos, could do audio, video, it was basically a fully unified communication platform

except it required facebook
 
Kurosaki said:
Strongly disagree. A really great motorcycle/track friend mine talk almost every day. I don't have her number or her email.

And no, she's not a millennial hipster that doesn't know what a CRT TV is. She's closer to your age than mine.

What's the difference between emailing someone and sending them a message on [insert social media platform]? The answer, there isn't a difference. She is not the only one. Even just on BARF, there's tons of people I consider friends. I don't have their number or email. That doesn't make them not my friend.

Few years after getting laid off from that current job, I turned in my work phone and I didn't have a private number for months. Didn't feel I needed it. All my friends were still able to get ahold of me through other means just as easily.

There are plenty of ways to talk with your friends that aren't a phone or email. This isn't 1990.
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I will add on to this that a little while ago I was going on a work trip, and reached out to an old coworker to catch up in person. She didn't respond on her phone, so I used Facebook Messenger to get in touch with her.

Reading between the lines, she changed her number after a particularly messy breakup where she didn't want her ex to be able to contact her anymore. But it's kind of unrealistic to text everyone on your contacts list with "hey I've had to get a new phone number due to unpleasantness," especially when (as in the case of the Facebooks) there are perfectly viable alternate ways for people to chat with you.
 
mikev said:
funny thing about Facebook, they had a nearly perfect messaging platform that blew the doors off texting, imessage, etc

cross platform, PC, Mac, Android, iProduct, tablet, didn't matter. It worked. It saved messages/chats/photos, could do audio, video, it was basically a fully unified communication platform

except it required facebook
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Yeah I thought that was a bad move and didn't really understand it. I have a few friends I chat with that have blank profiles only because it's necessary. Just anecdotally, I think it widely impacted Americans more than the rest of the world. I go to a music festival every year and my Canuckistani friends come down and join me, a couple from over the pond, a couple from South America. They all use whatsapp. It's different when we drive 200 miles and you're in a different state than driving 200 miles and you're in a different country.
 
Everyone should just use whatsapp.

of course FB bought them too.

Whatsapp is great though
 
Americans en masse will never buy into it because there's no convenience about it relative to what they currently have.
 
Kurosaki said:
Yeah I thought that was a bad move and didn't really understand it. I have a few friends I chat with that have blank profiles only because it's necessary. Just anecdotally, I think it widely impacted Americans more than the rest of the world. I go to a music festival every year and my Canuckistani friends come down and join me, a couple from over the pond, a couple from South America. They all use whatsapp. It's different when we drive 200 miles and you're in a different state than driving 200 miles and you're in a different country.
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Yeah at least half the Americans I know, mostly the older set, has never used whatsapp. It's really surprising. I guess it's not "pretty" enough for them? I don't know.

But, everyone has their preferred method. Some parts of Europe, like Germany, like to use Signal. While Russians, Serbs, and Islamic radicals like to use Telegram.
 
mikev said:
funny thing about Facebook, they had a nearly perfect messaging platform that blew the doors off texting, imessage, etc

cross platform, PC, Mac, Android, iProduct, tablet, didn't matter. It worked. It saved messages/chats/photos, could do audio, video, it was basically a fully unified communication platform

except it required facebook
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That's because they bought Beluga, mushed all the good parts of it out and into FB Messenger. Then killed Beluga.

A good amount of my cybersecurity peers and I use Signal.

I use WhatsApp for other friends, mostly Floridians for whatever reason.

You can use FB Messenger without having a FB now. But the value that FB Messenger has over something like WhatsApp is that FB can be attached for the ride. Because contrary to what some on this thread think, FB is used by a LOT of people. Which is why you choose whatever platform you choose. It's all about the people you're connecting with. It's why BARF has persisted over the years. It's the community.
 
Reli said:
Yeah at least half the Americans I know, mostly the older set, has never used whatsapp. It's really surprising. I guess it's not "pretty" enough for them? I don't know.
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It happened due to market dynamics and capturing of share. Imessage became widespread and free ..but it was because Apple had a larger share in the US.

At the same time, say Germany 2010-11 they had less share of....ahem proprietary and "more expensive" Apple devices, so they started gravitating to the free option Whatsapp
 
AbsolutEnduser said:
It was available to all known colleges with an .edu email at some point. You had to pick your institution from a list

harvard-only was probably only the initial 2-mo or 6-mo

(btw FB "marketplace" didn't even exist for the first few if not 5-10 years, so many posts above are moot///...)
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Holy shit, so you were an Early EARLY adopter. I didn't get a social media till some BARFettes tricked me into it in '09.
 
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