A return to Facebook has/had some positives, but in sum, the experience is still shit, and I have better things to do with my time than to wade through raw sewage
Facebook – A trial ends
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One Month Free
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Friday July 6th marks a full month without Facebook. As soon as the second week transpired, I got the notifications of all the other “attached” bits being severed. A good sign that I had held out the full two weeks. Apparently once they “delete” (cough cough) your account, it takes about 90 days to tag your data for removal, and for it being removed1 from their servers. I have removed the hosts...
Benefits of leaving Facebook
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It has been a week since I began the process of deleting my Facebook account, and I have a couple of observations that I can share: I do have more time. Yes, when I have a spare moment and grab my phone, I have the muscle memory that tries to load the Facebook app. But, then I go to the NY Times, or Twitter and life goes on My iPhone 6s battery lasts a lot longer. I knew that Facebook was a...
The breakup – Ditching Facebook, permanently
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This isn’t about me, it is about you. Seriously. I knew that you were abhorrent in your privacy practices. That you encourage people to over share, and that in the guise of creating a community, you have built walled silos and self reinforcing echo chambers. I knew that, and I continued to ritualistically log in, to swipe and share funny memes, to shake my head at obvious fake news (oh, when The...
The downsides of leaving Facebook
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As I mentioned on Friday, I am taking a break from Facebook. I did a little bit of this in mid 2015, and one of the hard lessons learned was how pervasive Facebook is across the web for the SSO (single sign on) convenience. Sigh. At that time, I was astounded at how many places that Facebook had wormed their way into for validation and authentication. My Strava, Spotify, and others were all tied...
Walking Away – A Facebook Group was taking over my life
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There is a closed community that I participate in on Facebook that I have been a member of for about 7 months. I was invited to join, and I thought I had found a den of like minded people to share our common goals. It was an amazing and safe place to hang out. Really cool people, sharing really cool things, and very little judgmental attitudes were in the air. Yes, there were some diversions, and...
Facebook “Promote” post – Don’t waste your money
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I manage a couple of facebook pages, one for my employer, and one for a non-profit that I work with (Southern Arizona Greyhound Adoption). I am constantly barraged by Facebook to “promote” a post to extend its reach, and get more responses. We recently took in a hound who had an injury on the racetrack, and we are doing some fundraising to cover the not insignificant vet costs. Our...
Oops, I did it again – The Facebook game
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Lately I have seen people in my friends list tell me to change some setting to prevent their life events leaking into the facebook social graph. Sigh. It seems like every few months, there is some new way that Facebook abuses your personal information, making it harder for you to control who sees what that you post. First, for those who expect me to change some setting to help you, or you are...