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The cult of Facebook
Market Watch ^ | 03-23-2017 | Quentin Fottrell

Posted on 03/23/2018 10:30:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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I've never had a Fakebook account. Some days I feel like should get one. Just to take that smug satisfaction of deleting and closing it a few days later.

Is this for real? Do friends and family really freak out if you quit Fakebooking?

1 posted on 03/23/2018 10:30:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

the author is a stupid bunny.

One cannot delete one’s stuff from Facebook

It is all there waiting for you to restart it.

It never goes away


2 posted on 03/23/2018 10:34:22 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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Don’t quit -Join! Create new totally fake fictitious FB accounts, lie about everything! If enough people did this and advertisers realized they were wasting money because the FB database was polluted with fake accounts, it would ruin Facebooks business model.


3 posted on 03/23/2018 10:39:59 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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I am on Facebook for one reason.....to be able to keep in contact with friends and relatives who live far away. I ignore political posts and don’t open any games, etc. I know Facebook is bad, but I would be so sad to lose my many connections around the globe.


4 posted on 03/23/2018 10:40:39 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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If “friends” break up wit you because you left Facebook - they were really never your friends.


5 posted on 03/23/2018 10:44:42 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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I’ve logged into Facebook about 5 times in the last 6-7 years.

Fortunately, I am able to avoid people tagging me on Twitter, Snapchat, Periscope or Instagram by not having an account with any of them. It works brilliantly.


6 posted on 03/23/2018 10:44:55 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Responsibility2nd

What kind of a person doesn’t have a Facebook account?

ME!!


7 posted on 03/23/2018 10:47:02 AM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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Facebook isn't going away. But Facebook IS going to undergo a measure of humbling that its power-mad millenials haven't even imagined.

It will be a "teachable moment" for them.

(And Google is no doubt watching with a worried eye. If the FTC can come down on Facebook and possibly threaten it with a breakup per antitrust laws, Google's own neck is on the block.)

8 posted on 03/23/2018 10:50:04 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: Chickensoup

Not true (I believe). You can deactivate your account - in which case it’s all there waiting for you to come to your senses. Or, you can permanently delete your account and all your stuff is gone (from you, at least) forever.

At least that was my understanding a couple of years ago when I decided I had had enough of watching my niece and her husband hold arguments on FB. They’re a great couple, but I realized that I was wasting way too much of my time on it,so I wrote a little opus and went completely away.

Haven’t missed it for one solitary second since then.

As the old commercial (for what, I can’t remember and am too lazy to look it up right now) said, ‘try it, you’ll like it.’


9 posted on 03/23/2018 11:02:39 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Capitalists sign their checks on the front. Socialists sign theirs on the back.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I know Facebook is bad, but I would be so sad to lose my many connections around the globe.

Amazing how texting and using emails work for us even with relatives and friends in remote Africa, snobby Eurotrash countries and of course the “52 states!”


10 posted on 03/23/2018 11:02:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems are having trouble with their MAMA campaign (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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“Do friends and family really freak out if you quit Fakebooking?”

Most of our relatives and friends text and email and don’t FB.

One female in law in her mid 50’s is so addicted to FB, she can’t leave her Apple phone, watch or I pad off more than an hour.


11 posted on 03/23/2018 11:06:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Dems are having trouble with their MAMA campaign (Make America Mexico Again) versus MAGA!)
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I rarely post anything. Mostly where I am attending church and the sermon topic. My joy comes from hammering people who post political stuff. The rest of the time is spent hiding sources that are liberal or mention missing dogs or people.

I have found that you can say things like “Hide anything from HuffPo” but eventually, it will burn through anyway and you won’t be able to hide it.


12 posted on 03/23/2018 11:10:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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I have one FB friend who posts a selfie every day. There are about a dozen friends who are completely self-absorbed. Their job is to post on FB/Instagram/Snapchat.
My sister digs up my dead parents and grieves over them on FB almost every day.


13 posted on 03/23/2018 11:13:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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As the old commercial (for what, I can’t remember and am too lazy to look it up right now) said, ‘try it, you’ll like it.’

I'm not going to try looking it up either, but I seem to remember it was Alka-Seltzer, and the "try it, you'll like it" line was a reference to an entree dish that occasioned the need for a remedy, not the remedy itself.

(Alka-Seltzer ad campaigns could support an undead thread all on their own.)

14 posted on 03/23/2018 11:17:04 AM PDT by thulldud ("What makes it news is its dissemination, not its concrete reality." -- Ellul)
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To: originalbuckeye

I went to a small Catholic girl’s school from pre-school through high school. I joined to stay in touch with my school friends but would;d not join otherwise.

I delete all political stuff both Dem and Repub. I delete most ads ... there is a tag on the side of all ads saying you never want another ad from that source. I use it all the time and it works.

If a person gets very vocal about politics, I delete them.


15 posted on 03/23/2018 11:18:33 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thanks for your post. I too have never had a Facebook account. I value my privacy too much.

And yes, I’m enjoying a certain amount of schadenfreude over Facebook’s troubles. Zuckerberg is a nasty little brat and it’s pleasant contemplating him losing his fortune.


16 posted on 03/23/2018 11:40:51 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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I opened a FB account maybe ten years ago so I could access a closed group for my former high school classmates for information on our reunion. Once the reunion was over, I never accessed it again. My FB page is still there though.

I have no profile photo, no Friends, no Timeline, no About, no Photos, no nothing. All of my privacy settings are set to keep people out.

Facebook, nor anybody else, has ever contacted me or wondered what was wrong, since I don't actively use the site.

It's like hiding in plain sight.

17 posted on 03/23/2018 11:52:57 AM PDT by HotHunt
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I use email to keep in contact with family and friends.

FB is not necessary to with correspond with people you know.

I just prefer what is shared between me and my family and friends is between us and not "shared" with the whole world like on FB.

18 posted on 03/23/2018 11:59:36 AM PDT by HotHunt
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You can completely delete it. Google “delete Facebook”. There will be instructions to close account and to delete the account.


19 posted on 03/23/2018 12:02:36 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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Thanks for that information.

But since I don't use the FB account anymore and may have to use it again for another high school reunion event down the road and no one have ever contacted me from FB or otherwise about my page, I'll probably just leave it as is.

It is a phantom or ghost page anyway. I'm not really there. :-)

20 posted on 03/23/2018 12:10:25 PM PDT by HotHunt
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