I have never done Facebook. But my wife loves it and it turned her from a moderate into a conservative. Her friends there are very to the right and she believes them.
They’ll start talking about it when the riots happen later this month. Be sure to pre-plan your looting shopping season.
Depends on who your friends are.
The Borg.
Welcome to the club. I personally joined FB and Twitter solely for the purposes of supporting Donald Trump in his election bid. When he won, I deleted both accounts immediately afterward. I haven’t missed them for a moment. I’ve got far better things to do with my time.
When you love your house its a lot less likely you go nuts being in it. If you can’t have alone time/quiet time and be just with your own thoughts though, that’s when it gets hard.
“Nobody talks about the suicide hotline being 300% up in phone calls, people losing their homes and jobs, and people just losing their minds being inside of the house. It seems the cure is worse than the virus. all these people seem to have the same mindset that if you save one life it’s okay to crash the entire economy. I’ve had it with these people.”
So your problem is ... that everyone just doesn’t agree with you and therefore you want to deactivate FB.
To each his own ... but I use FB to keep up with distant friends. It is excellent for that purpose. I don’t do politics on FB and unfollow people that get overly political.
Believe it or not there is life outside politics.
Never had facebook. No desire to be on it.
All the stories I hear coming from it are bad.
A coworker once said: “Just say ‘no’ to faceplant.”
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That's much like it is here on FR.
All knew there would be a manipulated market crash. Market crashed.
The left: Party over life.
The right: Okay.
Don’t use FB, or any other social media, for that matter, to get your news or try to otherwise engage people in political matters...you will be miserable. I use it to keep track of kids and grandchildren, but gave it up for Lent and haven’t missed it one bit. I use phone calls, video chat, text message and actual visits in person (though mostly on hold for COVID 19) and I’m much more calm.
It’s a good move to get rid of Facebook. I did it years ago, along with Twitter. I did it after a friend kept looking at his phone when we were at a football game. He was missing parts the game and generally wasn’t good company. I decided I didn’t want to become that. After two weeks of withdrawal I stopped missing it.
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Well you don’t have my friends and followers.
I feed news and opinions daily to 4500 people in Western New York.
I get trolls and block them as soon as they pop their stupid heads out of their holes.
Yawn. No sympathy for Facebook groupies.
I joined Facebook when it was still college students only. The next year it was available to everyone, and I dropped it maybe three years ago. I check it rarely, when I really need to get a hold of someone or get a hold of a charity/animal shelter.
My friends from high school, many of them, blocked me when I voiced my beliefs on my feed. I no longer have any contact with them, which is a shame; my Dad graduated from the same high school in 1973, and he still has his friends, despite political differences. The friends who blocked me are essentially Socialists; the rest of my friends, whom I see now, are right-Libertarians or Conservatives. One is an admitted Commie, but loves the second amendment. Go figure.
I have Twitter, but don’t use it. I don’t do Instagram, and definitely NOT TikTok.
My advice - keep talking. Keep posting. Screw the idiots. We will see who is proven right. If you are proven right, those who castigated you will say nothing. If they are proven right, being a conservative, you will graciously admit you were wrong and go about your business. Never let the bullies silence your truth.
I’m like the 7-UP of facemash. Never had it. Never will.
I use it to keep in touch with friends and family. I don’t ‘do’ politics there, so no problems.
It’s a free tool. You don’t have to be. :)