Posted on 03/23/2018 10:30:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
What kind of a person doesn’t have a Facebook account?
#DeleteFacebook is trending, but will people actually do it? Even given the recent brouhaha over Facebook’s privacy violations affecting 50 million people, that’s unlikely.
If you deactivate your account, or even just stop posting updates for a couple of weeks, Facebook has a virtual army — your Facebook friends — who will text, email and even find you on Twitter asking what’s wrong and imploring you to come back. With some 2.2 billion users worldwide, it would take a tectonic shift for people to delete their photos and walk away.
Try to give up Facebook, and some people think you have an axe to grind.
The biggest social network on the planet is stickier than most checking accounts or cable companies, psychologists say. Try to give up Facebook, and at least some people are likely to think you have an axe to grind with the world or them personally, are going through a divorce or have slipped into a deep depression. What kind of a person doesn’t have a Facebook account?
Those left behind often take it personally, and may even have formed a co-dependent relationship with their Facebook friends, said Simon Rego, chief psychologist and Montefiore Medical Center in New York. People either send messages asking, “What’s wrong?” or, even worse, “What have I done?” But there’s a deeper reason why people pressure others into staying, he said.
Leaving Facebook is like breaking up with all of your friends
“When you step away, you’re breaking up with everyone in your network,” he said. “Breakups don’t normally end on a good note. It’s rarely that both parties agree pleasantly that things aren’t working. People notice the absence and they want an explanation.
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Is this for real? Do friends and family really freak out if you quit Fakebooking?
the author is a stupid bunny.
One cannot delete one’s stuff from Facebook
It is all there waiting for you to restart it.
It never goes away
Don’t quit -Join! Create new totally fake fictitious FB accounts, lie about everything! If enough people did this and advertisers realized they were wasting money because the FB database was polluted with fake accounts, it would ruin Facebooks business model.
I am on Facebook for one reason.....to be able to keep in contact with friends and relatives who live far away. I ignore political posts and don’t open any games, etc. I know Facebook is bad, but I would be so sad to lose my many connections around the globe.
If “friends” break up wit you because you left Facebook - they were really never your friends.
I’ve logged into Facebook about 5 times in the last 6-7 years.
Fortunately, I am able to avoid people tagging me on Twitter, Snapchat, Periscope or Instagram by not having an account with any of them. It works brilliantly.
What kind of a person doesn’t have a Facebook account?
ME!!
It will be a "teachable moment" for them.
(And Google is no doubt watching with a worried eye. If the FTC can come down on Facebook and possibly threaten it with a breakup per antitrust laws, Google's own neck is on the block.)
Not true (I believe). You can deactivate your account - in which case it’s all there waiting for you to come to your senses. Or, you can permanently delete your account and all your stuff is gone (from you, at least) forever.
At least that was my understanding a couple of years ago when I decided I had had enough of watching my niece and her husband hold arguments on FB. They’re a great couple, but I realized that I was wasting way too much of my time on it,so I wrote a little opus and went completely away.
Haven’t missed it for one solitary second since then.
As the old commercial (for what, I can’t remember and am too lazy to look it up right now) said, ‘try it, you’ll like it.’
I know Facebook is bad, but I would be so sad to lose my many connections around the globe.
Amazing how texting and using emails work for us even with relatives and friends in remote Africa, snobby Eurotrash countries and of course the “52 states!”
“Do friends and family really freak out if you quit Fakebooking?”
Most of our relatives and friends text and email and don’t FB.
One female in law in her mid 50’s is so addicted to FB, she can’t leave her Apple phone, watch or I pad off more than an hour.
I rarely post anything. Mostly where I am attending church and the sermon topic. My joy comes from hammering people who post political stuff. The rest of the time is spent hiding sources that are liberal or mention missing dogs or people.
I have found that you can say things like “Hide anything from HuffPo” but eventually, it will burn through anyway and you won’t be able to hide it.
I have one FB friend who posts a selfie every day. There are about a dozen friends who are completely self-absorbed. Their job is to post on FB/Instagram/Snapchat.
My sister digs up my dead parents and grieves over them on FB almost every day.
I'm not going to try looking it up either, but I seem to remember it was Alka-Seltzer, and the "try it, you'll like it" line was a reference to an entree dish that occasioned the need for a remedy, not the remedy itself.
(Alka-Seltzer ad campaigns could support an undead thread all on their own.)
I went to a small Catholic girl’s school from pre-school through high school. I joined to stay in touch with my school friends but would;d not join otherwise.
I delete all political stuff both Dem and Repub. I delete most ads ... there is a tag on the side of all ads saying you never want another ad from that source. I use it all the time and it works.
If a person gets very vocal about politics, I delete them.
Thanks for your post. I too have never had a Facebook account. I value my privacy too much.
And yes, I’m enjoying a certain amount of schadenfreude over Facebook’s troubles. Zuckerberg is a nasty little brat and it’s pleasant contemplating him losing his fortune.
I have no profile photo, no Friends, no Timeline, no About, no Photos, no nothing. All of my privacy settings are set to keep people out.
Facebook, nor anybody else, has ever contacted me or wondered what was wrong, since I don't actively use the site.
It's like hiding in plain sight.
FB is not necessary to with correspond with people you know.
I just prefer what is shared between me and my family and friends is between us and not "shared" with the whole world like on FB.
You can completely delete it. Google “delete Facebook”. There will be instructions to close account and to delete the account.
But since I don't use the FB account anymore and may have to use it again for another high school reunion event down the road and no one have ever contacted me from FB or otherwise about my page, I'll probably just leave it as is.
It is a phantom or ghost page anyway. I'm not really there. :-)
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