Reasons you should abandon Facebook

[LunaSea]

Tromholt M (2016). The Facebook Experiment: Quitting Facebook Leads to Higher Levels of Well-Being. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 19 (11), 661-666 PMID: 27831756
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27831756

It Wastes Your Time

Facebook Uses You to Sell Stuff...

And Targets You with Advertisements

It's Bad for Your Health

"Who Are These People, Anyway?"

"But I Don't Care About Privacy"

Nothing You Post Actually Matters

http://www.mensjournal.com/gear/collection/why-were-getting-off-facebook-in-2015-20141231

Privacy, privacy, privacy

Facebook is … like high school all over again

Facebook is Judge-Y

It’s creepy that you know what’s happening in someone’s life when you never talk to them in person

Does Facebook bring the best in people or the worst?

Kony 2012. ‘Nuff said.

Facebook is a Productivity KILLER!

https://youngandthrifty.ca/9-reasons-why-i-deactived-facebook/

https://www.dailydot.com/via/quit-facebook-in-2016/

1. Nobody actually wants to just read about what you’re doing anymore.

2. Facebook makes it impossible for you to stay “private.”

3. Your parents (and even grandparents) are now watching your every move.

4. Or they’re posting photos of you that you would never want anyone to see

5. Facebook is even keeping track of what you don’t say.

6. Facebook makes you feel less positive about your life.

7. The “friend suggestions” tell you to befriend people you don’t even know.

9. Your friends keep announcing their engagements.

10. The excessive ads are about to ruin the whole experience.

11. It makes getting over a breakup really hard.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/reasons-quit-facebook_n_4493791.html

10. Facebook's Terms Of Service are completely one-sided

9. Facebook's CEO has a documented history of unethical behavior

8. Facebook has flat out declared war on privacy

7. Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch

6. Facebook is a bully

5. Even your private data is shared with applications

4. Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted

3. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to truly delete your account

2. Facebook doesn't (really) support the Open Web

1. The Facebook application itself sucks

https://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook

Facebook sucks time from my life

Most of my Facebook friends aren’t (actually friends).

There are other (better) options for photo sharing.

Facebook brings out the worst in people.

I learn more on Twitter.

The presence of ads on Facebook is getting ridiculous.

Less is more.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timmaurer/2013/06/20/7-reasons-i-dumped-facebook/#148f89517b72

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-delete-your-facebook-once-and-for-all/

http://lifestyle.allwomenstalk.com/excellent-reasons-to-quit-facebook

Facebook may be making you miserable

Facebook is the ultimate hack
http://bigthink.com/david-ryan-polgar/want-to-be-happy-in-2017-get-off-facebook


http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/disconnecting-from-facebook-reconnecting-with-me-stylist-reader-story

https://www.brit.co/how-quitting-facebook-changed-my-life-for-the-better/

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/11/taking-a-break-from-facebook-was-the-best-decision-ive-ever-made/

I stopped broadcasting my opinions

I stopped feeling alienated by the opinions of others

I stopped comparing myself

I stopped wasting time

I regained a level a privacy I didn’t know I missed

https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2016/05/23/how-quitting-facebook-helped-my-mental-health/


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/11/16/quitting-facebook/

1. Facebook won't help your friendships

2. Facebook is linked to depression

3. Facebook is linked to jealousy

4. Social media may bring out the negative parts of ourselves

5. Social media may be an addiction unto itself

https://www.inc.com/alice-g-walton/5-ways-quitting-facebook-will-improve-your-mental-health.html


And of course.....trolls

[Angry Dragon]

1. don't use it or twitter

[uppityperson]

2. Reasons and how to stay on facebook. Use it, don't let it use you.

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Lock down your privacy so no one can see or share anything you wrote or tagged you in without your permission.
Accept only those family friends you want to.
Shut down your page so no one can post a new post.
Share with those few union actually care about.
Limit the time you spend there.

ETA block all games and programs.

ETA
Reasons: to be able to contact all those close people aft one time.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Absolutely right, my dear uppityperson!

Your suggestions are ones I mostly follow.

It is a community, and they exist for good or ill. I use it for GOOD.

[Generic Other]

4. I do all these too

Only people I trust and like are my friends. Hi Friend!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Generic Other!

Are we Facebook friends?

We could be!

[Generic Other]

6. Yes we are

I will let you know who I am there!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Thanks for letting me know!

[Johonny]

24. Pretty much

I don't know why it's creepy to share with friends you don't see often. I mean people that have lived in many places facebook is a great way to stay in touch with family scattered in many places. It's also a great way to keep up with and read the latest Rude Pundit. No plug there, just a plug

[Canoe52]

8. quit it 3 years ago

total waste of time for all the above reasons!

[Blue_true]

10. I never joined and don't plan to join. nt

[mythology]

9. What a bunch of self-important nonsense

If you don't want to use Facebook, don't (and I personally don't), but the overwhelming majority of those lists are things people can handle themselves. If your Facebook friends post inane stuff, that's on them to stop posting or you to stop reading. If you can't control the amount of time you're on Facebook, that's on you.

[Canoe52]

12. Easy to say but it sucks you in, very addictive.

As an ex smoker, it was a similar experience, had to quit both cold turkey.

[pnwmom]

14. No worse than DU. And when I post political stuff there

I have the feeling that some people are reading it for the first time.

Here it's the choir preaching to the choir.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. So don't use Facebook if you don't like it.

Don't tell me what to do or not to do. I don't tweet.

I also don't own a television and therefore never watch regular broadcast TV. I would strongly suggest to everyone to kill their TV. You can watch almost everything over the internet, without commercials, and not miss very much. Did I mention that you won't see commercials? What a boon. Especially during election years.

Meanwhile, I'll stick to FB myself.

Recently someone close to me died, and quite frankly without FB it would have been weeks and months before most people would have found out about that death.

[Dave Starsky]

13. Really? It would have taken that long?

How close a friend were you with this person?

Facebook is an ersatz substitute for real friendship and human interaction.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Someone very close to me who lived in another city.

None of his friends there had my phone number. Someone who did know me in my city happened to see on FB that he'd died.

I prefer not to give any more details than that.

[Dave Starsky]

19. No worries. I understand.

Facebook is an ersatz substitute for real friendship and human interaction.

[LunaSea]

23. Of course.

Nowhere in the post did I suggest you do, or not do anything at all.

I'm pretty ambivalent about FB. I was surprised at the number of lists that turned up in a search for the phrase "reasons to abandon Facebook" and was unaware of the study linked above.
The ethical practices of the company might warrant more scrutiny these days, as suggested in one of the links. I know the fact that anything posted there becoming property of the company has had some photographers and artists wishing they'd read the fine print more carefully.

By all means kill your tv if you wish, and perhaps practice what you preach.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. I killed my TV nearly a decade ago.

I hope that counts as practicing what I preach.

[LeftInTX]

16. We arrange most of our activism via Facebook

I'm in closed groups where we don't have to worry about getting in fights with right wingers. Also local officials create events on FB.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Like any other digital platform, it's a tool you can use well or poorly.

I run two adblockers through my browser. I am careful about who I add as friends. I'm well-versed about fake accounts and fake news, so I don't fall for it if it happens to show up because one of my less savvy friends likes someone else's post. I'm able to follow important activist voices I wouldn't have otherwise known about. As someone who works from home in a rural area, it helps me from feeling isolated. I love it. Mileage certainly varies.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. I love seeing these kinds of threads...on an online discussion board.

[Blue_Tires]

20. Damn, all that and not even one mention of the Russians?

[EarthFirst]

22. This. nt

[EarthFirst]

21. I sense a vain Millenial dig here...

There are half a dozen legitimately valid reasons for abandoning social media in it's entirety that aren't even mentioned on a SINGLE list of the click bait links you have provided.

Yawn.

[LunaSea]

25. Then by all means...

Tell us!
I was surprised by the study, and found several reasons that sound pretty valid to me.
Social media is at least as old as the mimeograph machine, it's just faster and in wider use.


scratch, scratch….

[Squinch]

28. WTF? Were you under the impression that only millenials use Facebook? And if there

are even MORE good reasons to quit Facebook than the ones listed, why would you assume that it has anything to do with millennials? Why wouldn't you assume that it is about ALL the good reasons to quit Facebook?

Your conclusion about the OP is a bit bizarre.

[Squinch]

26. I've never been on it. Don't care to try.

[crazycatlady]

27. I did abandon it

ANd most social media (I do use Pinterest to promote my Etsy store).

I have a former friend who uses Facebook to track down where her former friends are (with every FB update privacy settings are erased). SHe tried to run down another friend in a Staples parking lot. Only reason she knew other friend was at Staples because FB allowed her to see location.

With risk of stalking, posting on social media is a safety issue for me.

[Blindingly apparent]

29. I opened an account to use a different app that used Facebook to sign in

I have never opened Facebook but daily gey suggestions to friend somebody.

I hate it

[Luciferous]

30. I made a Facebook account to play candy crush, didn't use my real name or add anyone...

But I can see how it could become a problem for people that use it to socialize.

[octoberlib]

31. Nope. I'll continue to use both FB and Twitter.

I use FB for organizing and to keep in touch with friends and family and Twitter to see what journalists and politicians are tweeting.

[B2G]

32. Anytime someone tells me not to do something

I tend to do the exact opposite.

[malaise]

33. Never joined up

so I don't have to leave

[WinkyDink]

35. No FB, no Twitter, no IG. Don't care!