Giving UP On Facebook

Packerjohn

Packerjohn

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Maybe it's only me but I have pretty well given up on Facebook. It was designed for people communicating with family & friends. From my view point it is a complete waste of time. There are photos of dogs driving cars, cats sliding on butter, a lot of swearing & with some people posts about what they ate for breakfast. It seems that women in the age of 40 - 60 love to post quotes. Guess I have the wrong kinds of "friends". I suppose that it is free & being "free", you get what you pay for.
 

I have no problem at all with Facebook, however I always "Unfriend" someone, even a friend, that starts swearing. I put one friend on a 30-day hold, due to what he was talking about (Florida). I also "Unfriended" our Great Niece, because of how she was talking.
 
I have an FB account simply to keep an eye on family...I rarely ever post on there. probably less than a dozen times in as many years!! I have no interest in it....
 

hollydolly said:
I have an FB account simply to keep an eye on family...I rarely ever post on there. probably less than a dozen times in as many years!! I have no interest in it....
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Same here. I keep up with old high school friends by their posts and pics. Rarely post any of my own.
 
Packerjohn said:
Maybe it's only me but I have pretty well given up on Facebook. It was designed for people communicating with family & friends. From my view point it is a complete waste of time. There are photos of dogs driving cars, cats sliding on butter, a lot of swearing & with some people posts about what they ate for breakfast. It seems that women in the age of 40 - 60 love to post quotes. Guess I have the wrong kinds of "friends". I suppose that it is free & being "free", you get what you pay for.
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The problem with facebook and the internet in general, is that it gives people a soapbox that they wouldn't normally have. There are quite a few people that mistakingly feel their message is important and must be heard. With the wide reach of the internet someone will always be able to find other people who agree with them no matter how whacky their message might be to the majority of folks and this will only fuel their fire to keep getting their message out.

There is an option on fb to "unfollow" someone. When you chose the unfollow option you still show up on each others friend's lists, but you don't get that person's posts in your daily newsfeed. I have used this on a few people for various reasons and it's helped make fb more pleasurable for me to use.
 
JimW said:
There is an option on fb to "unfollow" someone. When you chose the unfollow option you still show up on each others friend's lists, but you don't get that person's posts in your daily newsfeed. I have used this on a few people for various reasons and it's helped make fb more pleasurable for me to use.
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Ditto...
 
I check FB every day to see what my FB friends and family are up to but I rarely post.

I do use the messenger feature to chat with a few folks.

I use the unfollow option to weed out fanatical FB friends that tend to overshare political views. cute memes and photos of their pets doing the most adorable things.

Once a year on New Years Day I weed out my friends list. It always seems odd to me that people will send me a friend request and then never contact me. It's almost like they are collecting popularity points or the person with the most FB friends wins some sort of prize. I guess I just use the term friend sparingly when referring to people that I have met over the years.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I check FB every day to see what my FB friends and family are up to but I rarely post.

I do use the messenger feature to chat with a few folks.

I use the unfollow option to weed out fanatical FB friends that tend to overshare political views. cute memes and photos of their pets doing the most adorable things.

Once a year on New Years Day I weed out my friends list. It always seems odd to me that people will send me a friend request and then never contact me. It's almost like they are collecting popularity points or the person with the most FB friends wins some sort of prize. I guess I just use the term friend sparingly when referring to people that I have met over the years.
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Im the same ...I check it every day but only post for a birthday or holiday... never do any shares and will put people on a 30 day hold if they’re posting crazy in my timeline...especially if it’s religious or political.

I do belong to private groups and I enjoy those the most...they are filled with people I don’t even know but are an informative or fun read.

One such group is my Trader Joe’s group.
 
I love facebook. I'm active on it, exchanging comments and posts with many friends and family, posting updates and photos about what's going on in my life. I just scroll right past the stuff I don't care to read, but personally I love the funny memes, photos and commentary. I also belong to close to a dozen private groups on facebook and I check in regularly with those, too. I have a large circle of friends and of course my family, most of whom are on either facebook or Instagram, and between the two I'm able to keep up with everyone, stay abreast of everyone's news and life events. If I had to stay in contact with all those folks just by phone, I'd quickly lose track of most of them.
 
I will add that it’s a great tool for connecting with people from the past (if you want).

Last week I got a friend request from the daughter of my husband’s best friend in Chicago from the 70’s ....that made me happy.

Also, FB doesn’t force anything on you...it’s up to you how private you want your page to be or even who you interact with.

You can do a lot on there or nothing at all...it’s up to you.

Im just on it less because my family has gravitated more to Instagram.
 
CeeCee said:
Im just on it less because my family has gravitated more to Instagram.
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This. It seems my older friends are predominantly on facebook, while my younger friends are more active on Instagram. Well, and my really young connections (like teen grandkids etc.,) are more about Snapchat! Which I'm also on, but primarily for the hilarious filters, and to have the occasional back and forth with one of the grandkids.
 
Grown adults over 50 complaining about Facebook.
:confused: I like Facebook personally, and other peoples posts, comments, views, and opinions don't bother me at all...Besides isn't this forum just a old folks version of Facebook?​
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Ronni said:
This. It seems my older friends are predominantly on facebook, while my younger friends are more active on Instagram. Well, and my really young connections (like teen grandkids etc.,) are more about Snapchat! Which I'm also on, but primarily for the hilarious filters, and to have the occasional back and forth with one of the grandkids.
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Yes, grandsons are on Snapchat also...that’s one Ive not tried. I am on twitter and Instagram but don’t post...just read.
 
Invictus said:
Grown adults over 50 complaining about Facebook.
:confused: I like Facebook personally, and other peoples posts, comments, views, and opinions don't bother me at all...Besides isn't this forum just a old folks version of Facebook. ​
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Haha...yes, I don’t get why people complain...nobody puts a gun to your head to be on it or spend your day on it...it’s all up to you. :)
 
Packerjohn said:
Maybe it's only me but I have pretty well given up on Facebook. It was designed for people communicating with family & friends. From my view point it is a complete waste of time. There are photos of dogs driving cars, cats sliding on butter, a lot of swearing & with some people posts about what they ate for breakfast. It seems that women in the age of 40 - 60 love to post quotes. Guess I have the wrong kinds of "friends". I suppose that it is free & being "free", you get what you pay for.
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Great line

I too, am not fond of FB
I have a couple dozen ‘friends’ there
And that’s about 20 too many
Had one niece cuss me out due to her limited political views
So, I had my verbal fun with that
I became her huckleberry
Poor thing
Went into a cussing snit
I'm afraid the strain was more than she could bear.
We became fast unfriends

Other’n that, I must stay tuned on it due to our newly wedded, going to be a father, newly enlisted (going to Afghanistan after jump school) grandson.
Like many young somethings, it’s how they communicate.

I recently unfriended a very good real life, retired Navy SEAL, buddy, mainly because he cluttered my page with his political dreck (even though I agree with his agenda)

I’m an email guy
It’s easy to communicate
Easy to swap pics
Nobody looking in

I have four buddies of which we email each other about once a week

That’s enough
 
Could it be that it's not FB fault, but that we lead really dull lives? Maybe the world isn't thrilled to learn you ate two whole slices of raisin bread for breakie? And it could be that I never felt good about putting down all kinds of personal information. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but were those "like & dislikes" designed for my benefit or for future sales input to be sold to the highest bidder? I didn't like being "steered" to certain products/services by things I said on FB.
Bah humbug!!!
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Could it be that it's not FB fault, but that we lead really dull lives? Maybe the world isn't thrilled to learn you ate two whole slices of raisin bread for breakie? And it could be that I never felt good about putting down all kinds of personal information. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but were those "like & dislikes" designed for my benefit or for future sales input to be sold to the highest bidder? I didn't like being "steered" to certain products/services by things I said on FB.
Bah humbug!!!
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It's all subjective...For example some people are foodies and love to read about food and see peoples pictures of food.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Could it be that it's not FB fault, but that we lead really dull lives? Maybe the world isn't thrilled to learn you ate two whole slices of raisin bread for breakie? And it could be that I never felt good about putting down all kinds of personal information. I'm not a conspiracy nut, but were those "like & dislikes" designed for my benefit or for future sales input to be sold to the highest bidder? I didn't like being "steered" to certain products/services by things I said on FB.
Bah humbug!!!
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Yes but you can do something about those ads that pop up or anything else for that matter ...

at the top top of each post there are 3 dots. ...

click on that and a menu menu drops down and you have a few choices like...don’t show me posts from this person anymore or this product.

there are quite a few options that you can click on so that you won’t see that add or persons post anymore.

I use it and it helps.
 
I go on facebook and most times I enjoy it especially if I see pictures of my grandchildren. They are grown up now and I like seeing what interests them. They are the reason I joined years ago when they were young. I wanted to make sure they were safe on there and I have stayed on just because of them. If I don't care for what someone else posts I just ignore it.
 
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