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Zuckerberg created Facebook in bad faith (as a hateful hot-or-not site) and it has been run in the same vein ever since. We can criticize him till we're blue in the face, but the only thing that will make a difference is if each and every one of us log off and delete our accounts.

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Social media addiction is a real thing - if you want to quit Facebook but don't want to deal with the hassle of installing browser extensions or deleting your account (Facebook deliberately makes this complicated), just log out from all your browsers and delete any installed apps.

If you depend on Facebook for managing a page (work, band, etc), just use the dedicated Pages application. Same applies for Messenger if you don't want to get rid of it.

It's helped me curb the ridiculous "CTRL+T, fa, enter" reflex - seeing the login page instead of my Facebook feed every time I do this makes me notice how out of hand this has gotten for me.

I got flagged for using a pseudonym after 7 years - they want government ID - took about a week to get rid of the CTRL-T reflex and dopamine hit.

Planning to do that this week actually. Just have to make sure all the folks I know on Facebook have me email address and I'm good to go.

I am so sorry I ever joined that f*cking site.

I did that roughly a year ago. My happiness level increased immediately.

Good to know. I shudder when I think of how much time I've wasted over the past 5 years or so with that social media rubbish.

Congrats. I did it around 6 months ago. Much happier now :)

Isn't this amazing? My wife still uses Facebook, and I think she thinks I'm just trying to be like a pushy vegan when I say life's better with no Facebook.

In general I have tried to remove myself from things that keep my attention on my phone rather than what's going on around me. Now I sort of get frustrated when people ask me what they missed or what just happened in the real world while they were glancing down.

I have friends and family who I think have completely forgotten what's it like to just be a passenger in a car watching the world go by, because if they're not driving they're looking at Facebook or Instagram.

I dropped I while a go. Then I got back. Realized it suck even more and deleted my account. No way I'm wasting my time with that again.

"Zuckerberg created Facebook in bad faith (as a hateful hot-or-not site)"

What made the original Facebook hateful when compared with other "hot-or-not" sites?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook

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