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Comment by tfha | Hacker News Reader

I lost a lot of friends quitting Facebook. All of the events we coordinated were over Facebook. I was no longer able to invite people to my events, and they no longer were notifying me of their events. I was off the radar.

Took me more than two years to build up a new set of friends who could coordinate apart from Facebook after that.

Not fun, but Facebook was definitely unhealthy.

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That's the only reason I won't delete. So many friends from traveling that would be lost ...

Same. As much as I would like to move off Facebook, my friends are worth more to me than that. I could still communicate with them if I didn't have it, but it would take much more effort and I'm not the type to reach out that often. For people in my age range, we often make a facebook event, invite all the relevant friends, and it's done. If you don't have Facebook or don't check it, I won't remember to text you an invite. Maybe it makes me a shitty friend but I just assume everyone will see it on Facebook

Badger people for contact details (phone, email, etc.). It’s a good excuse to catch-up with people, and it’s a good thing to do, even if you won’t be deleting you’re account.

Even if this whole thing blows over in a week, Facebook will eventually go out of style for the usual reasons that social platforms do.

Your connections are more important than an ad surveillance network.

Backup your relationships!

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