When Facebook annoys you

Ronni

Ronni

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Over time I’ve read here that many of you have left Facebook because you couldn’t stomach the political posts. There may have been other reasons but that’s the one I remember.

Not challenging you, you have every right to make that decision if you choose. But I’m just wondering if you’re aware of the many features Facebook gives you to be able to monitor your feed so that you can enjoy the social media experience and stay in touch with the people you care about or care to hear from.

I have unfollowed folks on Facebook for a variety of reasons, not all of them political. I just done care to have my feed overwhelmed with 30+ daily memories...posts I’ve already seen and responded to in years gone by. Or one of my friends who I just love but she posts a dozen or more memes every day and I’m not interested. Or another sweet friend who I think must just hit the share button for every single thing that scrolls across her wall!

When I want to see what if anything is going on with these guys I go to their page and catch up that way.

The only person I have ever unfriended on fb is my ex. I manage everyone else with the onboard Facebook features. But I also have a large circle of friends and acquaintances that I keep up with on fb from all over the world and it would be a huge loss to not be able to stay current with their lives. And I think they’d feel the same about me.

So, I’m just curious about those of you who’ve chosen to leave fb. Was it just not useful enough to you, so leaving wasn’t a big deal. Were you unaware of the features that allow you to manage your feed? Something else?
 

Same here Ronni. I always use the unfollow feature when someone constantly posts things that annoy me like politics, religion, sexual content etc. I've had to block a couple folks who insisted on posting their garbage directly on my page, but everything can be controlled to where fb is enjoyable if one wants to continue using it.
 
There is also the ability to snooze someone for 30 days. I can see this helpful during heated times, like U.S. elections. I am there mainly for a couple of the games I play, and to keep upp with a few friends and family I do not see often.
 
My Facebook account was opened by my oldest daughter a few years ago on a lark .... I didn't really want it then, and after a little while, I really knew I didn't want to be there! .. Not wanting to hurt my daughter's feelings I left it open for a while, but finally closed the account. She understands.
I enjoy Twitter more, along with some other social media sites..
My son deleted his Facebook account last year, and so did my oldest granddaughter ... they spend more time on Instagram.

The younger generation seems to be leaving Facebook to the older folks.
 
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I have both a Twitter and Insta. I’m not very active on Twitter but do a lot on IG. I also have Snapchat primarily as a lark because the grands get such a kick out of me posting with goofy filters or us doing selfies with same.

I’ve tried MeWe. Don’t care for it overly much.
 
I am on there somewhere =do not like it -dont like people telling the world about their hols' and what they had to eat '
plus if they are gonna have sex -so I look in about once a month to see what my family abroad are up too -the site I find has no meaning to it at all ……… and a hide out' for some less and savoury people ………...
 
Keesha said:
COOL! I love it. I can use my own phone emojis
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toffee said:
I am on there somewhere =do not like it -dont like people telling the world about their hols' and what they had to eat '
plus if they are gonna have sex ..
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Whoa! You have interesting friends!! 😉😂

I will freely admit I post minutiae about my life. But I guess my friends find it as interesting as I find their minutiae because there are always lots of responses and interaction.
 
People post if they are going to have sex on Facebook?

Hahah. Whoa is right. What a colourful life. 🥳lol

I’ve met plenty of folks who only use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends. They aren’t there to see how many friends they can collect and they seem quite content with it.
 
I have been much more at peace since opting out of Facebook. I experienced drama, aggression and downright lying when I was on this sight, my life is now so much more tranquil.....ahhhhh
 
I have deactivated my account at times from being annoyed at stuff. I now just "unfollow" those who get on my nerves for one reason or another. I do like you, too, in that I go to their page every once in awhile to see what's going on with them. Sometimes I get annoyed all over again...:LOL: when I see the stuff they post. So back to square one. I like to keep in contact with my family all over the world so now I won't deactivate or leave for good.
 
I got on FB in its infancy. I quickly saw it for what I believe it is: An intrusive warmup to a platform that will, eventually, allow Big Brother to monitor our every move on this planet. I couldn't stand it, so I bailed, after a few weeks.

About six months ago, I gave it another go, simply for business reasons: I advertise my tree business on it. That's about all I use it for, now, but I rarely tweak my business site, since business rolls in at a pace that's perfect, for me.

I totally agree with everyone who can't stand seeing what everyone is doing in their daily lives, on FB. I also can't stand those who feel that everyone actually wants to know what they're doing, every minute of the day, and those who feel that the trite memes they post have any value to anyone other than their similarly brain addled friends.
 
When I joined over ten years ago, I was addicted and would scroll down every day until I'd caught up. Then I learned about the blocking feature to lessen the amount of my feed. Now I follow very few people and check in every few days. I don't bother about catching up on anything that was posted the days I didn't log in, but I do like the ability to go to pages of close friends and family to check in on what's going on in their lives.
 
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Lc jones said:
My best friend has a nickname for Facebook, she calls it “Crackbook” due to so many people being heavily addicted to using it. Funny, sad and true all at the same time.
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I've known of people who actually LIVE on Facebook. 🙄

I check in about once every month or so for 10 minutes to see what niece, nephew, and a friend are up to.

But never been a fan. I think it's juvenile. Same for Twitter.
Both are silly, imo. Different strokes, I guess.

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I joined FB when my grandson's were young and I wanted to make sure they were safe on there and not seeing crazy things. I stayed on because my SIL likes to post pictures of my granddaughter. I go in just to steal them !LOL I wish he wouldn't put her picture on there,but he doesn't listen to even my daughter (his wife). He also gets banned many times for his Political views. The good thing about it is that I got friendly with cousins I didn't even know.
 
FB works for some people and for others it does not and that is fine. For me it just wasn't my thing. When I joined back in the day and it was awhile ago I would get friend requests from people who went to high school with me that I really struggled to remember at all. Sure they shared the same halls with me, but they weren't my friends in high school so why would it be any different now. I can't tell you how many requests I got from classmates like that. I could have declined them all and just accepted the people I really knew, but all those people I already had them in my phone contacts and they knew how to contact me and we already hung out regularly. It just didn't make much sense to me.
 
Little interest in Facebook. I have an account, mostly to check up (NOT following) on people who are now casual acquaintances whom I remember fondly - ex-co workers, for example. A few small businesses we like to patronize use their Facebook pages to post updates or changes.

Most younger, more "hip" businesspeople use Instagram instead, I've noticed.

Did you know that Facebook can decipher out all kinds of details about you, and it can run into dozens of pages? Using Facebook allows them to use your info. Facebook sells your data to advertisers and corporate data analyzers. It's been shown that even a relatively new programmer can write an algorithm that can cross-check stripped (anonymous) data and rebuild personal profiles with amazing accuracy.

I Found Out Everything Facebook Knows About Me — And You Can Too
Money magazine March 23, 2018
http://money.com/money/5212501/how-facebook-tracks-me/

I figure Zuckerberg is rich enough. I don't need to add to his billions. Nice guy, but very naive.
 
applecruncher said:
But never been a fan. I think it's juvenile. Same for Twitter.
Both are silly, imo. Different strokes, I guess.
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Twitter isn't juvenile to me .. It's all in how you set it up. It doesn't have to be a tit for a tat type of website.. I use the site as a news feed, and 99% of my account is receiving news and articles from all over the world ... things I would never find on my own. It's very enlightening if you set it up that way.
 
I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread about why I go on FB. I met cousins that I had never met in person and just today one of them sent me a picture of when I was about 2yrs old sitting on Santa's lap. I had never seen that picture before. I don't know why her family had it and my Mom didn't, but at least I got to see it today. My Granddaughter got a big kick out of it when I showed it to her today.
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I am on Facebook only to see what my daughter and her family are up to. Recently my Grandsons have been on. It seems there is a kiddie Facebook and I really enjoy their posts. I've had the same 13 people since I started years ago. Family and close friends. Recently I am having a problem with a close friend who can't seem to get the hang of Facebook at all. I will send her something on messenger and she replies on the Facebook page. Half the time it doesn't make much sense especially to others. If I don't message her from time to time she writes are you mad at me? Or what did I do? That lands on the Facebook page for all to see.
 
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