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malakaix

malakaix

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This social application blows my mind at how it's become an essential part of most people's lives, i have never seen anything like it on such a scale.

I recently deleted my own account almost 2 months ago, as an experiment to see just how addicted i was, it takes upwards of 14-days for it to actually delete the account, during which you can log back in an reset the deletion timer to zero. This to me was the hardest part, the initial sever from the broad social network of people,events and so fourth.. but i managed to overcome the 14 days and the account was deleted.

I noticed a big difference in how i viewed friends during this time.. i stopped profiling their identity based off their status updates, and felt less involved in their lives and gained back more of myself. I wanted to go back to catching up with friends without having a presumption of who they are or what theyv been upto, and vice versa, allowing for who you are at that moment to shine.

After two months, im on the fence on whether to go back or not, i do miss having the option of knowing what 'events' are on.. been in 'the loop' essentially, but at the moment that's the only appealing aspect. I tend to lose myself into the drama of it all without even noticing until im knee-deep in it, and my understanding of whats going on in my friends lives is based entirely off updates and photos.

I may remake it with a small selection of friends, or maybe ill remain in the shadows for just a little bit longer... ;)

Anyone else had experience's with leaving,deletion or addiction of facebook? Almost every person i know in my life.. has facebook, so i thought this would be an interesting topic :)
 
I check mine more than twice a day. Just to see if anyone has posted anything interesting. If I can't log in for more than a day, I get twitchy.
 
My uncle calls it 'The Dark Art that is Facebook'. I have one & check it but don't feel very comfortable with some of the stuff that people put up there. I only have people on there that I'd stop and have a chat with if i bumped into them.
We're the inernet generation, its one huge social experiment.
 
I use it to keep in contact wit people i dont see very often. Go on it maybe 3 times a week if that. I dont post anything anymore cuz it seems like what ever i post my family members take to seriously. I dont like how people post shit thats way to personal.
 
Cool to see this topic here! :)

I just deleted my facebook for like the third and final time. I had one a long time ago, and then I got uncomfortable with it for various reasons, and deleted it. After about four months I began feeling like I "needed" it for communication purposes and I brought it back. A few months later, same thing happened and I got pissed at some annoying "facebook drama" and deleted it again.

After that, I had another facebook without any personal pics or status that I had my artwork posted on. I thought maybe that would work for my life but no, after a few months of that I once again, began having a strong intuition that something isn't right about facebook and deleted it.

I'm done and I'm not going back. I'm sick of it. I could go on and on about this and it's kinda funny seeing this thread here because this has been on my mind a lot lately. I can't stand how you are just... expected to have a facebook. People say stuff about facebook and then look at you like an alien if you say you don't have one. I don't like it. I don't do things because everyone else does or because it's what we are "supposed" to do. I do things if they feel right to me and this definitely does NOT.

Also, it's funny how when I deleted my facebook 99% of my so called "friends", all of whom I delivered another form of contact for me to via message before deleting it, basically vanished from my life. Like if I'm not on facebook I just ceased to exist. It's fine, really. I don't want fake friends in my life which is another reason I hate the book. So many people add you just to have you on their list but couldn't give a shit and never even respond to your status updates or pics, etc.

The whole thing just disgusts me and my life is so much happier being uninvolved with it.

Btw, when I say "deleted" I mean I "deactivated it". I have never heard of this delete after 14 days thing... how do you set that up? That didn't happen to me. I had deactivated my really old account and it's still there. I just tested it, it's still there for reactivation.

I'd like my accounts GONE. SO if there is a way to do that, please let me know!
 
I've had my facebook account for 3 years and I've never had any drama. I use it mainly for photos and for socialising with my immediate friends. I've met friends-of-friends because of facebook but I probably would've met them anyway if it wasn't for fb.

I have never ever had ANY drama occur on or because of facebook whatsoever. I dunno if it's just that I don't attract drama, or I subconciously don't associate with people who create drama, or maybe a combination of factors. I dunno :)
 
MynameisnotDeja said:
Btw, when I say "deleted" I mean I "deactivated it". I have never heard of this delete after 14 days thing... how do you set that up? That didn't happen to me. I had deactivated my really old account and it's still there. I just tested it, it's still there for reactivation.

I'd like my accounts GONE. SO if there is a way to do that, please let me know!
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Ya they only recently allowed for people to actually delete their accounts, but it's no surprise that they've made this quite difficult to figure out; i eventually ended up googling how to.

I still dont know the actual steps to reach this page, but it was linked in a 'how to'; https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

You need to be logged into your account and then goto that link which will then ask if you want to delete your account which then goes through re-entering your password, security word, reason for leaving and then finally deletion, but.. it's not instant, facebook wont let you off the hook that easily. You need to avoid logging in, or clicking any links associated with facebook, make sure your logged out on your phone and any other third party program.

After 14 days it'll be gone, yet facebook still seems to retain some information for 'database use'.
 
I've heard about the pain in the ass process of trying to delete yourself from Facebook. I think if I ever wanted to remove myself from it I'd just delete all my personal information, delete all my photo albums, change the name on my account, and leave it active. As much work as that sounds like it seems more "final" than deleting your account Facebook's way.
 
I have to have a facebook for work (honestly ;)) so I'm online a lot, but I rarely use it. I find it incredibly boring and noone really posts on my wall or anything because they know I probably wont write back for a week, if at all. I just don't see the appeal of it, it feels like a waste of time to me.
 
It being a waste of time is exactly why I use it. Sitting at a PC for 8 hours a day at work, if I didn't have something non-work related to waste time on I'm probably go insane. =D
 
Its a means to manipulate and control people. Its a source of information for local/regional PD, CIA, FBI, etc. I do not like my information in the hands of these people. I am private with where I live (only my close friends/family know where my home is), what I do with my time/money, and what I plan to do with my life (travel, marriage, work, etc).

I certainly am not going to let some new world order shit into my life.
 
i use facebook far too much. it is very useful though. i never used to see the appeal with social networking sites, it was an effort to even motivate myself enough to set up an account. msn was fine for me. everybody was like "get on facebook" etc, so i thought fuckit, and made an account. eventually i signed up, didnt see what the fuss was about. but then i started to get drawn in......
 
ill admit i check it out like 5 times a day only because i have the puter set up on my table here beside the couch for watching movies and such,keeping myself logged in so that all i do is click the link,
I use it mainly for watching my families posts and som others,
but i rarely post stuff anymore ,cept i message my mom alot cause she lives far away from me and thats are way of comunicateing instead of payin for long disstance charges...
 
The only thing I ever used Facebook for was to play Texas HoldEm. After amassing over 32 million chips, Zynga banned me for naughty language. I deleted the account and haven't even given it a second thought.

The last time I was really into that sort of thing was with MySpace. I haven't used that in almost three years. Bluelight is my social network.
 
i check mine daily, but i've never found it so interesting that i feel like it's a problem or is affecting my "real" life negatively. like n3o, i use it for socializing with friends and family, seeing what people i used to know are up to these days and sharing pictures, articles, videos, etc with my "friends".

as far as the drama goes - i'm with n3o on this one. i've never had any, let alone seen any, online facebook drama. i suppose neither i, nor anyone i know, takes it that seriously.
 
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