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kleinbl00  ·  2546 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social and media will split

I"ve effectively abandoned Facebook for Instagram. And the only thing I really give a crap about on Instagram is watches. Yes, I'll like your picture of your kids being adorable but really - get out of the way of my watches.

Facebook already has a "pages feed" but it's deeply buried. Honestly, what kept me using Facebook was that feature. It's not available on mobile and when I grew averse to going to FB on my computer, I ended up not using Facebook.

I was reflecting on all the butt-hurt Trump voters I purged from my feed over the past year and realized that fundamentally, it's fucking asinine to know what your high school cheerleader thinks about politics. These are people who dropped out of my life for a reason; if Facebook the only reason I'm aware of the life of a cocktail waitress in Vegas who happened to be in my English class 25 years ago, then Facebook is one reason too many.





goobster  ·  2546 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I used to love Instagram. It was a great place to discover all kinds of interesting people and content that I had no other way to find.

Then Facebook bought it, and installed the Facebook algorithms. Now I see all the same people and content I see on Facebook.

My current plan is to dump Instagram, delete the Facebook app, and only use Facebook for replying to Event Invites when I happen to be sitting at my desktop computer.

I like the "social" aspect of social media, but the tools have gotten to cumbersome, and so narrowly focused, that most of my friends are back to using targeted email lists for most of our genuine communications.

grump, grump, grump...

house  ·  2545 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think shell profiles are the way to go for Facebook. Only one picture uploaded and no personal information on the profile, used only for Events and Messenger. I was pretty attached to my eight-year-old profile, but it became super cathartic (if time-consuming) to erase all my pictures, posts, and acquaintances.

goobster  ·  2544 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting technique. I like it!