Deleted facebook from phone

Facebook has it's benefits , but there a're definite downsides .

Had a clean out of irrelevant follows last weekend , which helped , but today I deleted the app off my phone . Still have it on my computer at home .

Cliff

 

As someone who was in their (target demographic) prime when Facebook blew up I manged to resist ever creating one. Friends and family kept asking incessantly for years. I work in IT so I could see where it was headed. The computational power we can now throw at machine learning is only now starting to really become a thing. The insights - positive and negative - we'll be able to derive from people based on this haphazardly discarded data is going to be shocking for some in years to come. I don't think people realise just how much information they've given away. ML will create a pathway between what you've written and what you think. Scary stuff. Keep that data private!

 

Who needs FB? I don’t

 

You should deactivate or delete it completely. I used to go on that website back around 2007-2010 before I got rid of it. I'd rather spend time on Reddit and learn new things than see pictures of what people ate for lunch on fakebook

 

It depends. If one runs a business and needed promotion, facebook can be a cost-effective way. I think @Westminster 's company has one. Also, I have resisted Instagram and Tiktok so far. If you are working with China, you need WeChat too as they don't allow facebook and google apps.

 

Haven't seen a lunch photo for years. I belong to several science, gardening, political and other special interest pages ... so full of snippets and lots that is interesting .... including news

Not so much from family and friends nowadays, as the usage seems to have shifted

 

I do for work. Large workforce we have a private group that's how we all stay connected and communicate.

 

Most of what I do is keeping in touch with friends / family or special interest groups ( music orientated ) and all of their updates come via Facebook .

i have a couple of genuine friends who turned out to have sides I wasn't aware of .

I have some genuine friends who like to call out the loonies out there .

It can be a useful tool , but like all tools can be used for good or bad .

Cliff

 

Oh that's good to hear, it used to be photos of lunch, dinner and big toes back in 2007-2010

 

Yes it can be a good way to keep in touch with family/friends but I much prefer email for that

 

I have found one very useful purpose. I have an older person who passed away. His facebook page turned into a legacy page. We still wish him heavenly birthday every year and remember him. It was useful when his death notice was announced so friends around the world know about it.

 

I use Messanger - which one used to have to have FB to use, but is now a separate entity

 

A young woman from a South American country sends me raunchy photos and videos. She also makes propositions and wants US dollars. I wish she was more subtle.

 

I use Facebook heaps. I was using it a lot to become more familiar with varieties indoor plants and knowledge of prices for rare varieties. I’m selling off a lot now so will probably cut back once I move most on. I’m quite fascinated with what some frangipani growers are producing from growing seeds all over the world so it’s quite useful for me. You can get some ideas of seeds that produce new great varieties. It’s good to share what I’ve grown also to get some feedback from other growers. Their is a couple of Thai experts that I can share pictures and get advice with virus, bugs, etc.

I mainly use messenger to keep in touch with family interstate, and FB for friends and interstate family.

 

Possibly Americans don't appreciate subtlety

 

If your aim is to slowly wean yourself off FB, deleting the app is a great first step. You'll also note you'll likely get better battery life from your phone as the FB app (dep on version and your phone hardware) updates constantly in the background, using bluetooth to track your location and being a data drain on your cellular network too.

You can still use FB on your phone's web browser, and on a desktop. So it's not entirely out of your life.

As for me, I've been off FB for half a decade. My real friends still have my phone number and can contact me, my extended family all have Apple devices and use Facetime video calling to keep in touch... I do miss it sometimes as I don't have access to marketplace - and I find offloading second hand/unwanted goods quite a pain - scumtree or fleabay are my alternatives. And special interest groups - well, other forms of social media - forums such as this and subreddits fulfil those needs.

I am not associating myself or giving my personal data to Zuckerberg's empire. The faster this fad implodes on itself the better IMHO. I give it a decade and a half maximum.

 

Just wear a tinfoil hat.

There is worse things out there than FB. Data is pretty much being sold everywhere.

 

I have found out to get delete unwanted likes but still can not get rid of unwanted followers, (all likes and followers are from Africa and I hear that Google search engines are penalising sites that have irrelavant likes and followers) any tips? (All the internet seaches for solutions bring up pages/menus that can not be seen/used on my Facebook page)

I set up Facebook reluctantly only about 6 months ago with the goal to then create a Facebook business page (which I did and it is the only page I use), but I am now starting to regret it.........