Deleting Facebook

[jigglypuff]

I've wanted to delete facebook for a very long time after reading articles on the extent to which information is shared with people I don't know. On top of that every time I log in, I find my self staring into a souless, meaningless void of information in the form of updates and pictures. There's a crazy element of self obsession, self-promotion that really feels wrong. I hate the fact that its hard to detach from facebook as well lol.

I think I may be ready to delete me account but I have two reasons holding me back:

- Easy way to keep in touch with friends who I don't live near.
- The few pictures I have would be great to look back on when I'm old and grey.

Anyone here deleted their account? was it a good move?

[noam]

for fucks sake if it bothers you that much delete it and see what its like

it'll be a more interesting thread if you come in here after 2 weeks without Facebook and tell us what it was like

[MasterA]

there's a difference between deactivation and deletion as aweel, if I recall.

[accordionfan]

there's a difference between deactivation and deletion as aweel, if I recall.

sort of, facebook never deletes your data, just that deleting it makes it so you can never access it again

[antipode]

I deactivated mine about a month ago so it'd be long gone by now.
the only thing I miss is gig/music information.

I just spend more time on DSF

(you can still log on 2 weeks after you deactivate it then it gets deleted)

[knell]

Deleted mine today as part of my new years resolutions. I regret nothing, it actually feels really liberating, as if high school is finally over. It helped me get over a lot of emotional ulcers that I didn't even know I had... it's hard to explain, but I highly recommend it.

[Bass Music]

I want to delete mine as it's so time consuming but it's good for keeping in contact with girls and checking if they are still attractive. Also events and promoting and whatever

[leyenda]

Facebook is only good for keeping up with future events and posting hilarious youtube videos onto your mates walls.

[weedlefruit]

If it's the sharing of your information you don't like, it's all too late now.

They do keep the information and indeed pass it on the same when you delete your account, in fact it doesn't delete it at all.

It's pretty wild how it works, but hey, we signed the terms and conditions.

[Today]

i permanently deleted months ago
my life is better without it
i can't explain why, it just is. when something like fb becomes that much a part of my life that its so different without it, i know it was for the best
my focus has come back to my real self rather than my online representation of my self
All it did socially was weed out the stnuc who have nothing to do with me anyway

Anyway i'd nearly forgotten about it entirely, what it looks like, what the fuck people do on there... and it feels good

I do spend a bit more time on here, but tbh this is my facebook (minus the faces) (and intrusive targeted adverts and way-off-the-mark friend suggestions etc)
All i ever posted about on fb was music and a bit of politics, and no one ever cared. here, at least sometimes people discuss shit like that.

I'll very likely never go back to it

[Mr Hyde]

Its something I don't like in principle for the privacy and the way people live their lives through showing off about what they have done. But I reckon its worth having even if just out of paranoia- its why I started mine! If you aren't a member people can still put up pictures of you for the world to see, they cant tag you as a facebook user but they can still put your name on them. If you're not a member then you cant know anything about that, at least if you are you know what people are putting up and can complain about it.

Also its a bit annoying that certain friends aren't on there, extra hassle if sorting out group things having to call/text/email them separately to everyone else- You can just have a pretty much blank account to use for receiving messages, you don't have to keep checking on it- can get emails to tell you if you got a message/event invite, and if you don't put info about yourself on there then no-one will be using it ....obviously if you want to plan crimes or put up pictures of your riot-stolen gear then you probably shouldn't be sharing it on Facebook but if you only put things like what your favorite films are its only gonna be used to target advertising rather than any big brother surveillance.

[Today]

i don't like it in principle either.. the whole scene just isn't for me. as for being paranoid about being on there without knowing about it... i just don't care one way or the other. What other people do on fb .. id rather just ignore it. I don't do anything in public worth taking a picture of anyway. And if i am out, i'm not thinking "what if this gets on the fb" -- but i do kind of try not to embarrass myself in general. so at the end of the day, it is what it is. If my self ends up posted on someones wall, my self is on their wall. Nothing to worry about unless i were ashamed of my self. Its not the facebook representative of myself, complete with links and tags. its like a split second captured from my actual life, that someone else chose to post.

Much realer, less egocentric, probably never even happened to me since i deleted... but if it has, i wouldn't know about it and don't care

I'm just off the stuff, and i couldn't be happier about it
I truly feel like i successfully kicked an addiction


and i had to laugh about the inconvenience of having to send an extra text or phone call when someones not on there. Not a dig at you.... just at our entire generation
lol.... really? inconvenient that you cant send 55 invites with one click? you have to actually think about an individual and remember you wanted them to come?
Thats really the only kind of invite i wish to receive anyway.

[brettheaslewood]

I'm pondering whether to delete my Bebo, soo attached though

[Mr Hyde]

and i had to laugh about the inconvenience of having to send an extra text or phone call when someones not on there. Not a dig at you.... just at our entire generation
lol.... really? inconvenient that you cant send 55 invites with one click? you have to actually think about an individual and remember you wanted them to come?
Thats really the only kind of invite i wish to receive anyway.

I knew someone would say that. Of course its no real hardship, less convenient rather than inconvenient I guess. If you are having something like a birthday party and telling your friends a time and place then its much simpler to do that in one go on facebook with a link rather than doing that for 95% of people but then having to think about who wasn't on the easily available list, then go and re-write the whole thing as an email with links to the location and make sure you have the right email address (not an old one or work one), log on to emails- write- send- get individual email replies etc etc.

Its just a bit of extra hassle that they have caused you and could have been avoided if they had a blank account, but yeah, no big deal.

[wearecorsairs]

why would you delete facebook? how about just delete the stnuc you don't talk to/give a shit about.
you can borrow my balls if you want.

[Refuzed]

i deleted my personal one ages ago, now just have a band page to post tunes on

[therapist]

It's all been said before. Facebook is properly gay, but has upsides. Deleting it won't a) stop my details being on the internet b) stop pictures of me looking like a drunken twat existing on the internet. So I don't care.

[Pedro Sánchez]

Facebook confirmed my suspicions about people I suspected being cunts actually being self indulgent cunts.

[khamiz]

Deleted mine about 6 months ago, I feel no desire to go back.

Liberating.

[jigglypuff]

yeah i think that deleting facebook won't necessarily mean the information has been erased. secondly yes there is elements of self indulgent stnuc but its also just having that sense of privacy and restricting the excessive information. There is no reason to be updating where you are every hour, i also think people who are self obsessed with transferring experience solely for the image on facebook are missing out on just experiencing moments without worrying about how its going to look to the whole world.