FACEBOOK

Vanity | 07/01/2018 | Self

[FrankR]

OK, I've had it with Facebook. I've been on there for a year or so, only because of my kids and grandkids, and a few, close, personal friends. My total number of "Friends" on there is only 54, (and a few of those need to go).

Now - in order to get their hooks into more people - you only get to read the "News Feed" IF, you add "more friends". They've blocked me at only one post I can read, until I add more friends.

I refuse. I've got the friends I want, and that's all I want. It's not a "popularity contest" to me, it's communications.

Therefore, I'm thinking about bowing out of FB. The only thing is, I need to post to my friends where they can reach me...does anyone know of a FB-like site that I can re-locate to?

Suggestions appreciated, and sorry about the vanity - I don't do it very often...only a handful of times in I joined FR in 1998.

[Wiser now]

Hit “refresh”. That helps.
I have sent them several notes telling them exactly what you said. I have all the “friends” I want, and who is Facebook to demand I get more?

[eastforker]

See my post 13. Join some different groups. I belong to 3-4 different local buy and sell groups, 3 trade groups plus family friends. Found some great deals out there.

[righttackle44]

Their site, their rules.

If you find yourself ad odds with both the Facebook management and staff decisions and do want to venture further into activities that will add friends to your status, then perhaps it's best that you not participate at all. I despise many or virtually all of Facebook's decisions regarding their editorial slant--yes, they do have one--but I enjoy finding people who think as I do and want to visit with me regarding issues.

[Qiviut]

I got on FB to keep up with my nieces and nephews. I have various “pages” I have liked - Rush Limbaugh, Judicial Watch, Franklin Graham, some crochet/knitting pages, DietDoctor (low carb) ...... (you get the picture).

To keep from getting all the FB CRAP, I have installed Facebook Purity (link: https://www.fbpurity.com/ ). Facebook, for me, would not be tolerable, without it.

Using FB Purity, in my newsfeed, I only see posts from my friends and the pages I have “liked”.

I only have 24 friends (far fewer than your 54) and have not gotten the message that my newsfeed is restricted. Try FB Purity & see if that doesn’t eliminate the cr@p messages. This will clean up your newsfeed (nothing from FB, just from your friends & any pages you’ve liked). No more ads, suggestions, etc. FB Purity is wonderful.

[discostu]

That’s a bug, means their feed is having troubles. If you’ve got an FB handler add on turn it off, those tend to exacerbate the problem. Or change your feed sort, sometimes that helps. Or just wait.

[eastforker]

Exactly, you can learn a lot about someone, great tool.

[Ouderkirk]

I did an “opus” on Facebook where I trashed Marky Zuckerberg personally and called him the world’s second most repellant Jew right behind the execrable Anthony Weiner. The general impetus was to get them to ban me rather than resign. It worked.

[outofsalt]

"Well, the “news feed” is not really about the “news”, it’s where all your friends’ posts are displayed so you won’t have to go to each of their “walls” to read what’s new."

I prefer drinks on the porch.

[bigbob]

Good plan. I assume if someone comes along and wants to be friends after viewing your FB page they’ll sniff your butt to let you know.

[gibsonguy]

I keep hoping FB fades out like my space and is replaced by something that is at least neutral. I made the wise decision to stay off FB along ago. So l was not exposed to Russia massive effort to hurt Hillary, despite this l voted for still Trump /s

[outofsalt]

Yikes! Please tell me you burned down your rental property rather than rent to this?!

[HotHunt]

I communicate with my family and friends through regular old email. You can attach photos to them. Why do people think they have to post their lives up on a social media bulletin board for everyone to see when they can use private email instead?

I've had a FB page for at least 12 years now. I use it to gain access to a closed group of old high school classmates.

I have no information on the page about me at all except the obligatory birthday date. By the way, I was born in 1905 for those interested.

No profile photo. No photos at all. No priends at all. No timeline. No about information.

I never post anything or share anything about my life with anyone on FB. And given Zuckberger's idea to use the liberal Snopes. com to screen for fake news, I would never consider reading the news from FB. Why would you do that when you have FR?

Facebook has never said anything to me about my page. It's been static and unchanged for years. No activity at all. Like I said, I only have it in order to access a high school alumni FB page which is closed except to members.

[shelterguy]

I should have clarified that I was kidding.

[HotHunt]

priends = friends

[Halgr]

I turned my FB and TWIT accounts off some time ago....I won’t support these invasive and evil web sites.

[Frangibled]

I recently had a voice mail on my land line phone from a fellow high school student who was a friend over 50+ years ago, begging me to call, email, message back as he has been searching for me for years. I checked his FB page. FB can be a lot like feedback on eBay. There is no way I would ever want to reconnect with someone so full of TDS, hatred of anything conservative or religious. I have my entire friends list on FB hidden. I have never posted a photo or a word on FB. I only use it to keep up with friends and relatives who use it.

[chris37]

You bored, littleboob? Why don’t you go return your nose to Jeff’s rear.

[chris37]

That’s cool.

I only like dogs. I’m in a couple of dog groups. I don’t like anyone from my high school.

It was interesting to discover that FB somehow knows I’m “ultra conservative” though.

Sneaky bastards.

[HotHunt]

55 friends? Wow!

At age 70, I have maybe 4 or 5 people I would call friends. The rest of the people I know I only consider acquaintances or bystanders.

On my FB page, I have no friends listed. As in zero. None. By design.

And that's one more friend than the number I care to have on there. :-)

[usconservative]

I made the wise decision to stay off FB along ago. So l was not exposed to Russia massive effort to hurt Hillary, despite this l voted for still Trump /s

So what you're saying is, you weren't part of the Russian Collusion however you're a victim of Russian Propaganda?

(/humor)