I'm going to miss you on facebook, mostly as someone I assume is seeing my posts. I suppose I'd miss you this way whether you left or not, as the new facebook ensures that everyone misses most of their friends' updates.
I would just like to say that this is one of your best videos to date. I agree with 100% with what you said. However, I almost CAN'T delete my Facebook, even though I would love to. It is my only way of communicating with group members for my classes and has become so ingrained in my school that by not having one I'm missing out on important info for classes, clubs, and other announcements. Facebook is slowly turning into a car: Not entirely necessary, but life is harder without one
I agree that it's quite annoying.Especially for me, when there is a project or an event that I have to know information about as a part of school, and I usually can just scroll through the latest feeds and see people talking about the same thing and join in, but if I can only see feeds that are 5days old, I may miss a deadline etc... Plus, especially when it comes to news, the more concentrated we are about our knowledge, the more extremist we can become. Not always a good thing.
This is sort of why I like tumblr, except that most of the people I interact with there are basically strangers.I follow several people who have really different views from my own, and I like to listen to them and hear them out and befriend them. tumblr do a little bit of suggestion based on things I already have interest in, but they don't advertise things I like to me, and I don't feel like they hide things from me.
Also, thanks for following my tumblr! I'm a huge fan. It blew my mind! haha
i just choose to not use it as a platform to consume. I just use it almost as a contact list. I have some people who I only communicate with through facebook (via dm). For this reason I am not deleting my account. Plus I have pages for businesses, etc I have to maintain.
I'm not going to delete my facebook account because that isn't what I use it for. That is what I use youtube for. Interesting enough, i subscribed to your channel BECAUSE your views aren't always in line with mine. Up until now, we have agreed on about 50% of the things on your videos. I for one am very grateful for your different spin on things. All I can say is, keep on keeping on.
I'm not going to delete my facebook account because that isn't what I use it for. That is what I use youtube for. Interesting enough, i subscribed to your channel BECAUSE your views aren't always in line with mine. Up until now, we have agreed on about 50% of the things on your videos. I for one am very grateful for your different spin on things. All I can say is, keep on keeping on.
Google+. Facebook changes so many unnecessary things and doesn't fix what needs to be fixed. I'm deleting mine as soon as important friends switch to google+. MySpace died because of the same stuff Facebook is doing, and at least with MySpace I could make my own layout.
Google+. Facebook changes so many unnecessary things and doesn't fix what needs to be fixed. I'm deleting mine as soon as important friends switch to google+. MySpace died because of the same stuff Facebook is doing, and at least with MySpace I could make my own layout.
Google+. Facebook changes so many unnecessary things and doesn't fix what needs to be fixed. I'm deleting mine as soon as important friends switch to google+
I feel like FB is going old school and focusing on pictures again. As for filtering info, it's a pain. I've miss more important stuff and get more mundane. Not to mention, FB is becoming the Internet as they keeping people on FB longer.
There is always the option of lists that they have on facebook (the precursor to google plus's circles). If you put each of your friends in a list that has a dissenting viewpoint in a list & check it often, you can get to hear all the other voices fb has been blocking from you. Though it is a bit over-controlling of fb. I don't use my fb that much anymore. Instead, everyday I'm tumblrin. I would just use google plus, but not all of my friends want to change. Plus I still like facebook's groups.
That doesn't affect me. 90% of what people are saying on Facebook are things which I either don't agree with or don't care for. I just blocked the annoying people, everyone else is on my newsfeed...not that I'd care for them. I use Facebook as a way to stay in touch with friends and see what my favourite musicians are up to, not to exchange my viewpoints with others. You can't properly discuss anything on Facebook because it gets way to emotional way to fast. I don't take Facebook seriously.
I'm not gonna delete my Facebook yet. Instead, I made a list, added all my friends to it, and I just click on that list to see all their status updates in order. It is a massive pain, but I did it because I am not a fan of Facebook deciding anything about me or what I'm supposedly interested in.
i'll not delete my facebook, but i'll continue to barely use it. most of my 'friends' on facebook all post ghost stories that start with "PLEASE READ", or people begging you to come to fundraisers for various things, so whenever i use facebook, the news feed annoys me, i skip right to my actual friends' page and talk to them directly. the whole redesign doesn't really bother me that much, but i completely understand your point.
I don't mind it so much when google uses it's model of my preferences to refine my search results because filtering the (massive) internetz in what search engines were made for. I'm not so excited about facebook doing this though. Not only is it controlling, it's counter productive. The point of facebook (for me) is to connect with the people that I don't hear from that often, not to connect me with the people that I hear from all the time.
I am a little bothered by the Googlez filtering and catering my results to me. If I'm trying to do research on something I sort of depend on search results to be unbiased and objective. Personalizing my search results, even in subtle ways, eliminates that objectivity.
I agree with ya, big time. I struggle with removing my account, though. The only reason, though, is a sort of crossing of people. The people I interact with offline here in WI have absolutely no highway toward the videos I do for my online world. The existance of facebook becomes that highway. If it weren't for that....yeah, I'd be off, too.
@doctornoise I guess I just don't interact with that many people offline these days *throws a pity party of one*
Actually when I think about it, the people I interact with offline generally don't even HAVE a facebook, or if they do have one they don't check it often enough for it to be a useful tool for me and them. Additionally my GF is not deleting here account, so any videos (like of Pixel) that I need to share, I can share through her account.
I have been off FaceBook since March. Idk how feel about it still. At least once a week I'll get this urge to start one up again. I'll be on the sign up page , putting in all my information and then -- Then I suddenly realize... Why do I need this again? I used to be that person who had 200 friends and within one week I went down to 20 (family,close friends,co-workers). Then as I was nearing down to 8 friends I was just like "screw this! If they want to talk to me, they know my number *DELETE*".
@ErysimumInconspicuum yeah, I have a feeling it's going to be a similar struggle for me. I currently have to use FB for work so I have to keep AN account open for as long as it takes me to get someone ELSE to do that job, which could be a long time.
Luckily I can manage almost everything for work through HootSuite so I don't actually have to log in to facebook itself!
I really don't get the use out of facebook that you do (or did). I just use it to keep in touch with people I no longer live near, so I, personally, am going to keep my account, but you're right!
@candiegirll I generally use it for that too, but sometimes those people are people who have different opinions than I do, and I respect them enough to want to read what they have to say. They are being hidden from me.
It's also not just the opinions of others that I value out of facebook, currently my feed is filled with about 3% of the people I'm friends with's stories, I know there are other friends posting stuff that I'm simply MISSING
@diaboomtia I don't generally interact with people on FB everyday. Occasionally I will interact with something there, but it's more rare now then it ever was.
I still use FB for work on occasion, and for that I am setting up a fresh account for that specific purpose, but overall I'm just done with FB ruling my online social life.
Nowadays, it seems almost easier to do something to get banned from, and have your profile subsequently deleted by, Facebook. There's no real way to completely remove your account because all you're able to do is disable it. Unless you spend hours deleting every bit of information and then deactivating your account, all of your information is still being used by Facebook.
@WhatTravisSays I read a big lifehacker article about how to delete the account completely, I'll let you know how it goes next friday when I've actually completed the process.
The only way I found to actually see ALL of the posts that you want, even if Facebook thinks it's not something you want to see, is to use your lists. For you, if you put all of those people whose posts you want to see, but never comment on in a list, then you can click the list and see ALL their posts (just like Twitter lists). It is annoying that Facebook is FORCING us to use lists this way, but it's something I can deal with. I appreciate Facebook as photo-album that's about it.
@FaeryFaith yeah, the lists thing has been pointed out to me before, but it feels like a huge hassle, and I wouldn't be surprised if FB broke that soon as well.
@themefund You can do this other way too. On each persons profile there is nowadays a dropdown menu called subscribe (or subscribed if you are on a friends profile). When you open that, the first section is titled "How many updates?" and from there you can choose if you want to see "all updates", "most updates" or "only important [updates]" from that particular friend.
Not saying that doing that to each of your friends isn't a huge hassle, but at least it doesn't involve the friend groups.
I shared this on my Facebook.
BackspaceSusanna 3 months ago
@BackspaceSusanna it's ok, so did I :)
themefund 3 months ago
I'm going to miss you on facebook, mostly as someone I assume is seeing my posts. I suppose I'd miss you this way whether you left or not, as the new facebook ensures that everyone misses most of their friends' updates.
altarflame 4 months ago
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IvoryDoll 4 months ago
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IvoryDoll 4 months ago
I would just like to say that this is one of your best videos to date. I agree with 100% with what you said. However, I almost CAN'T delete my Facebook, even though I would love to. It is my only way of communicating with group members for my classes and has become so ingrained in my school that by not having one I'm missing out on important info for classes, clubs, and other announcements. Facebook is slowly turning into a car: Not entirely necessary, but life is harder without one
10swords 5 months ago
... Cry me a river...
SciFiGirl1023 5 months ago
@SciFiGirl1023 cries
themefund 5 months ago
Dumb Facebook.
dan91709 5 months ago
I agree that it's quite annoying.Especially for me, when there is a project or an event that I have to know information about as a part of school, and I usually can just scroll through the latest feeds and see people talking about the same thing and join in, but if I can only see feeds that are 5days old, I may miss a deadline etc... Plus, especially when it comes to news, the more concentrated we are about our knowledge, the more extremist we can become. Not always a good thing.
ntcssj 5 months ago
@ntcssj
"Long live the difference" is one of many wise French quotes.
It is in exploring and knowing our differences that we define and accept ourselves.
IvoryDoll 4 months ago
@IvoryDoll I love that quote, and yes, I've found that contrasts really do help us discover ourselves.
ntcssj 4 months ago
This is sort of why I like tumblr, except that most of the people I interact with there are basically strangers.I follow several people who have really different views from my own, and I like to listen to them and hear them out and befriend them. tumblr do a little bit of suggestion based on things I already have interest in, but they don't advertise things I like to me, and I don't feel like they hide things from me.
Also, thanks for following my tumblr! I'm a huge fan. It blew my mind! haha
wellmakesmokesignals 5 months ago
i just choose to not use it as a platform to consume. I just use it almost as a contact list. I have some people who I only communicate with through facebook (via dm). For this reason I am not deleting my account. Plus I have pages for businesses, etc I have to maintain.
micahstubz 5 months ago
I think I have just naturally stopped using facebook as often, not totally because of the change on the site, but more a gradual change in me.
davidleduc85 5 months ago
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I'm not going to delete my facebook account because that isn't what I use it for. That is what I use youtube for. Interesting enough, i subscribed to your channel BECAUSE your views aren't always in line with mine. Up until now, we have agreed on about 50% of the things on your videos. I for one am very grateful for your different spin on things. All I can say is, keep on keeping on.
trentopia1 5 months ago
I'm not going to delete my facebook account because that isn't what I use it for. That is what I use youtube for. Interesting enough, i subscribed to your channel BECAUSE your views aren't always in line with mine. Up until now, we have agreed on about 50% of the things on your videos. I for one am very grateful for your different spin on things. All I can say is, keep on keeping on.
trentopia1 5 months ago
so...google plus now?
lidlurch 5 months ago
congrats on boycotting Facebook! although I admire your opinion and intelligence, I could never bring myself to do that haha
BlakesNo1 5 months ago
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Google+. Facebook changes so many unnecessary things and doesn't fix what needs to be fixed. I'm deleting mine as soon as important friends switch to google+. MySpace died because of the same stuff Facebook is doing, and at least with MySpace I could make my own layout.
LivingInEnvy 5 months ago
Google+. Facebook changes so many unnecessary things and doesn't fix what needs to be fixed. I'm deleting mine as soon as important friends switch to google+. MySpace died because of the same stuff Facebook is doing, and at least with MySpace I could make my own layout.
LivingInEnvy 5 months ago
Google+. Facebook changes so many unnecessary things and doesn't fix what needs to be fixed. I'm deleting mine as soon as important friends switch to google+
LivingInEnvy 5 months ago
I feel like FB is going old school and focusing on pictures again. As for filtering info, it's a pain. I've miss more important stuff and get more mundane. Not to mention, FB is becoming the Internet as they keeping people on FB longer.
phampants 5 months ago
I want to be stereotyped! I want to be classified!
suchducks 5 months ago
There is always the option of lists that they have on facebook (the precursor to google plus's circles). If you put each of your friends in a list that has a dissenting viewpoint in a list & check it often, you can get to hear all the other voices fb has been blocking from you. Though it is a bit over-controlling of fb. I don't use my fb that much anymore. Instead, everyday I'm tumblrin. I would just use google plus, but not all of my friends want to change. Plus I still like facebook's groups.
lightanddarklove 5 months ago
Afaik there's not an option to delete a fb account, just to deactivate it.
I never had a fb account and will never have one.
KingHeadbang 5 months ago
That doesn't affect me. 90% of what people are saying on Facebook are things which I either don't agree with or don't care for. I just blocked the annoying people, everyone else is on my newsfeed...not that I'd care for them. I use Facebook as a way to stay in touch with friends and see what my favourite musicians are up to, not to exchange my viewpoints with others. You can't properly discuss anything on Facebook because it gets way to emotional way to fast. I don't take Facebook seriously.
quaxBK 5 months ago
aw shit, this means i won't be able to see feeds from half of my friends o_o
i think i'll have a look at how it will turn out before i make any decisions though.
but as for the survival of my facebook account. it seams fairly slim.
martinkaby 5 months ago
I deleted my account about 10 months ago.
TheOneAndOnlyMaskros 5 months ago
no.
LordMortex 5 months ago
I'm not gonna delete my Facebook yet. Instead, I made a list, added all my friends to it, and I just click on that list to see all their status updates in order. It is a massive pain, but I did it because I am not a fan of Facebook deciding anything about me or what I'm supposedly interested in.
splicegrrl 5 months ago
How exactly do you delete a Facebook account when the last time I was there I only saw a 'disable' function?
soggymaster 5 months ago
i'll not delete my facebook, but i'll continue to barely use it. most of my 'friends' on facebook all post ghost stories that start with "PLEASE READ", or people begging you to come to fundraisers for various things, so whenever i use facebook, the news feed annoys me, i skip right to my actual friends' page and talk to them directly. the whole redesign doesn't really bother me that much, but i completely understand your point.
bailersss 5 months ago
I don't mind it so much when google uses it's model of my preferences to refine my search results because filtering the (massive) internetz in what search engines were made for. I'm not so excited about facebook doing this though. Not only is it controlling, it's counter productive. The point of facebook (for me) is to connect with the people that I don't hear from that often, not to connect me with the people that I hear from all the time.
justinhabit 5 months ago 6
@justinhabit precisely!
I am a little bothered by the Googlez filtering and catering my results to me. If I'm trying to do research on something I sort of depend on search results to be unbiased and objective. Personalizing my search results, even in subtle ways, eliminates that objectivity.
themefund 5 months ago 4
I agree with ya, big time. I struggle with removing my account, though. The only reason, though, is a sort of crossing of people. The people I interact with offline here in WI have absolutely no highway toward the videos I do for my online world. The existance of facebook becomes that highway. If it weren't for that....yeah, I'd be off, too.
doctornoise 5 months ago
@doctornoise I guess I just don't interact with that many people offline these days *throws a pity party of one*
Actually when I think about it, the people I interact with offline generally don't even HAVE a facebook, or if they do have one they don't check it often enough for it to be a useful tool for me and them. Additionally my GF is not deleting here account, so any videos (like of Pixel) that I need to share, I can share through her account.
themefund 5 months ago
I have been off FaceBook since March. Idk how feel about it still. At least once a week I'll get this urge to start one up again. I'll be on the sign up page , putting in all my information and then -- Then I suddenly realize... Why do I need this again? I used to be that person who had 200 friends and within one week I went down to 20 (family,close friends,co-workers). Then as I was nearing down to 8 friends I was just like "screw this! If they want to talk to me, they know my number *DELETE*".
ErysimumInconspicuum 5 months ago
@ErysimumInconspicuum yeah, I have a feeling it's going to be a similar struggle for me. I currently have to use FB for work so I have to keep AN account open for as long as it takes me to get someone ELSE to do that job, which could be a long time.
Luckily I can manage almost everything for work through HootSuite so I don't actually have to log in to facebook itself!
themefund 5 months ago
Your links are broken.
TheBurningBuddhist 5 months ago
@TheBurningBuddhist not for me. I just checked
themefund 5 months ago
@themefund *Raises fist* YOUTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBE!!!
TheBurningBuddhist 5 months ago
@TheBurningBuddhist someone pointed out that you were probably talking about the annotations, not the links in the dooblydoo. *facepalm*
Those were in fact broken, but not anymore!
themefund 5 months ago
@themefund you dont have annotations up... :D
Unholyspaghetti 5 months ago
@Unholyspaghetti you're right, that is probably what he was talking about *facepalm*
themefund 5 months ago
@themefund trololololololo :D
Unholyspaghetti 5 months ago
I really don't get the use out of facebook that you do (or did). I just use it to keep in touch with people I no longer live near, so I, personally, am going to keep my account, but you're right!
candiegirll 5 months ago
@candiegirll I generally use it for that too, but sometimes those people are people who have different opinions than I do, and I respect them enough to want to read what they have to say. They are being hidden from me.
It's also not just the opinions of others that I value out of facebook, currently my feed is filled with about 3% of the people I'm friends with's stories, I know there are other friends posting stuff that I'm simply MISSING
themefund 5 months ago
@diaboomtia I don't generally interact with people on FB everyday. Occasionally I will interact with something there, but it's more rare now then it ever was.
I still use FB for work on occasion, and for that I am setting up a fresh account for that specific purpose, but overall I'm just done with FB ruling my online social life.
themefund 5 months ago
I am not deleating my acout, I don't like things inof for it to make any noticeable afect.
NeilSonOfNorbert 5 months ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
AwesomeTyme 5 months ago
@AwesomeTyme thanks for commenting.
themefund 5 months ago
Oh my god, thank you Bobby. You just put my thoughts into a very eloquent video.
42muslimah 5 months ago
Nowadays, it seems almost easier to do something to get banned from, and have your profile subsequently deleted by, Facebook. There's no real way to completely remove your account because all you're able to do is disable it. Unless you spend hours deleting every bit of information and then deactivating your account, all of your information is still being used by Facebook.
WhatTravisSays 5 months ago
@WhatTravisSays I read a big lifehacker article about how to delete the account completely, I'll let you know how it goes next friday when I've actually completed the process.
themefund 5 months ago
@themefund That would be an interesting video. "How to PERMANENTLY Delete Your Facebook Account".
WhatTravisSays 5 months ago
The only way I found to actually see ALL of the posts that you want, even if Facebook thinks it's not something you want to see, is to use your lists. For you, if you put all of those people whose posts you want to see, but never comment on in a list, then you can click the list and see ALL their posts (just like Twitter lists). It is annoying that Facebook is FORCING us to use lists this way, but it's something I can deal with. I appreciate Facebook as photo-album that's about it.
FaeryFaith 5 months ago
@FaeryFaith yeah, the lists thing has been pointed out to me before, but it feels like a huge hassle, and I wouldn't be surprised if FB broke that soon as well.
themefund 5 months ago
@themefund You can do this other way too. On each persons profile there is nowadays a dropdown menu called subscribe (or subscribed if you are on a friends profile). When you open that, the first section is titled "How many updates?" and from there you can choose if you want to see "all updates", "most updates" or "only important [updates]" from that particular friend.
Not saying that doing that to each of your friends isn't a huge hassle, but at least it doesn't involve the friend groups.
hobbitnotes 5 months ago