Deactivate Facebook: Would you do it?

Michaelrsh

Today I was faced with a dilemma. To delete my facebook account or not to delete my facebook account. I hated the lack of privacy, the almost mindless status updates from friends and some people who I hadn't even met before; giving me a glimpse into their lives. I was compelled after a while to adhere to the mindless norms of the facebook community and update my status with pointless statements, play farmville, and so on and so forth.

Then one day, today, I said to myself, "NO!! I shall not conform any longer!!!". So I went and deactivated my account. Then, I thought, why not delete my bebo and myspace account too. So I did. And people, it felt good, really good! From now on if people ask me if I'm on Facebook, I'll just say; "No, call me or text me instead".

So would you do the same; delete your Facebook account, or other social network accounts you have?

RHunce

Would you mind deleting your boards account too? Just to save us from your mindless post which has been done umpteenth times

SV

already did.

although after seeing the Sp episode..I'm kind of afraid I did!

marko91

i deactivated mine...lasted a week before reactivating:pac:its as if you never deactivate it once its reactivated so was all good.

havent been on my bebo in months and i made myspace like 4 years ago and used it no more than 10 times.

orourkeda

The redtube account does it for me. Who needs social networking when you can mangle your stones while jerking off to lesbo porn.

Michaelrsh

RHunce wrote: »

Would you mind deleting your boards account too? Just to save us from your mindless post which has been done umpteenth times

Actually, I just might!

PogMoThoin

I deleted my Facebook last year, best move I've ever made, back to having a handfull of real friends, not 50-100 assholes I wouldn't talk to if I met on the street annoying me

the keen edge

What's Facebook?

You should just learn how to use it properly OP.

Andrew33

I killed mine a good while back, used www.websuicide.org to do it, it changes your password after it deactivates it so you can't get back in. Its like a release. There's a whole world out there with real people in it!

carrot_flowers

I live very far away from where I came, and as such, several friends and family members...it costs up the arse to make a phone call overseas and I think it's a really great way to share photos and other such information...it helps, because I miss them so much, and I feel like I can see what everyone's up to on a regular basis quickly, easily, and...free. I don't have anything particularly that I need to hide, nor would I publicly post anything that I wanted to if I did, so facebook's privacy doesn't scare me. Plus, if you know the ins and outs of it, you can tweak it so that nobody can see it or search for it except for you and your friends if you're so bothered.

Royale with Cheese

I don't use it very often but I wouldn't delete it. It's handy enough for keeping in touch with people you wouldn't talk to that often anymore. I just avoid all the Farmville type shíte and then removed the people who updated constantly with pointless shít.

phasers

You just don't use it properly.

Make your profile private and only add people you like. It's not rocket surgery!

LoanShark

I think somone was watching South Park...!

Tar.Aldarion

Ni, I get to talk to people I would never see, even made some eh friends eh...it's a good site.

GLaDOS

People get way too wound up about social network sites

Mark200

RT@RHunche Would you mind deleting your boards account too? Just to save us from your mindless post which has been done umpteenth times

123balltv

Yay quick before some freak stalks,kills or just freaks you out

mstan

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Today I was faced with a dilemma. To delete my facebook account or not to delete my facebook account. I hated the lack of privacy, the almost mindless status updates from friends and some people who I hadn't even met before; giving me a glimpse into their lives. I was compelled after a while to adhere to the mindless norms of the facebook community and update my status with pointless statements, play farmville, and so on and so forth.

Then one day, today, I said to myself, "NO!! I shall not conform any longer!!!". So I went and deactivated my account. Then, I thought, why not delete my bebo and myspace account too. So I did. And people, it felt good, really good! From now on if people ask me if I'm on Facebook, I'll just say; "No, call me or text me instead".

So would you do the same; delete your Facebook account, or other social network accounts you have?

Kip? Kip Drordy is that you?

Fago!

Andrew33 wrote: »

There's a whole world out there with real people in it!

Pish posh!

sam34

i had a facebook account for about 24 hours and then i deleted it

i only joined up because a friend of mine was moving to the states

but within the 24 hours i had received friends requests from people i had been in college with, wasnt friendly with back then and hadnt seen since - why would i want to be FB friends with them??

of course, being new to fb and being polite, i accepted teh friends requests

then i was getting stupid status updates every hour..

mindless crap

never again

Andrew33

:pac::pac::pac::pac:

Fago! wrote: »

Pish posh!

consultech

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Encoder1970

Andrew33 wrote: »

I killed mine a good while back, used www.websuicide.org to do it, it changes your password after it deactivates it so you can't get back in. Its like a release. There's a whole world out there with real people in it!

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Cleopatra_Rebel

Nah i couldn't delete my FB account...not yet anyway! to be honest i just use it to share pictures from nights out with my friends and not to keep in touch with them per se (use a mobile for that! ).

Dord

Just disabled mine. I've been meaning to do it for the last few weeks. It's just pissing me off. Some people who I (used to) consider friends now just spend their time on facebook and don't seem to want to go out. It's just sad.

Mushy

I actually deactivated mine last week. I was called a loser. Havent gone back nearthe thing, and barely thought of it. Anyone I want to talk to, I'll text/call.

Rothmans

I would delete mine but I know I'd regret it a few days after when I'm bored and have nothing else to do

Davidius

It's just a thing you can use every once in a while. You can always just ignore all the bull**** that comes along with it. I don't really see why deleting your account is even a big deal.

Dazd_N_Confusd

Michaelrsh wrote: »

From now on if people ask me if I'm on Facebook, I'll just say; "No, call me or text me instead".

Except people aren't gonna ring you now!

Mint Sauce

yo, you crazy fool, i haven't even deleted my bebo page yet

tipperaryboy

no as it is a good way to satisfy curiosity about someone else and i avoid joining all those pointless groups and especially the games such as farmville.

K4t

No, I've encountered tonnes of hot girls on facebook, even if they don't know it yet.

Antar Bolaeisk

The best solution I've found is to use a program like Pidgin which integrates nicely into the im side of things then you have all the benefit of your frends being able to contact you, and vice versa, without the mindless banality of the status updates slowly melting your mind. I can't remember the last time I've actually loaded up my facebook page.

Minstrel27

I have friends and family living in different parts of the world so no, I wont be deleting it.

m@cc@

On another note, I'm going to stop receiving mail. I know that I need it for receiving important letters etc. but I also recieve junk mail as well which annoys me. I know I could just send this junk mail back and say no more but it seems easier just to refuse mail altogether.

partyatmygaff

Never had one to disable it :pac:

Michaelrsh

m@cc@ wrote: »

On another note, I'm going to stop receiving mail. I know that I need it for receiving important letters etc. but I also recieve junk mail as well which annoys me. I know I could just send this junk mail back and say no more but it seems easier just to refuse mail altogether.

I don't think you can really compare facebook to your everyday mail. It's more than that. It's the tagging of photos, the mindless habit of getting addicted to games and some of your friends or friends of friends being able to snoop around your profile and look at photos and what you're doing. I also wanted to delete it 'cause I want to experience reality again instead of the constant urge to record your life on facebook. And I find it hard to imagine how you could receive really important 'mail' through facebook; we have this thing that works through the internet called 'e-mail' which you could use for that. Facebook is hardly as vital as mail or e-mail.

the_monkey

Yay - allready done in fact

m@cc@

Michaelrsh wrote: »

I don't think you can really compare facebook to your everyday mail. It's more than that. It's the tagging of photos, the mindless habit of getting addicted to games, some of your friends or friends of friends being able to snoop around your profile and look at photos and what you're doing. I also wanted to delete it 'cause I want to experience reality again instead of the constant urge to record your life on facebook.

It's the tagging of photos - untag them and request that you're friends don't tag you

the mindless habit of getting addicted to games - that's personal preference, I block all those games

some of your friends or friends of friends being able to snoop around your profile and look at photos and what you're doing - only if you share such information

Michaelrsh

m@cc@ wrote: »

It's the tagging of photos - untag them and request that you're friends don't tag you

the mindless habit of getting addicted to games - that's personal preference, I block all those games

some of your friends or friends of friends being able to snoop around your profile and look at photos and what you're doing - only if you share such information

I still don't think you can compare facebook to your everyday mail or e-mail. Facebook, for most people anyway, is just a silly past-time.

m@cc@

Michaelrsh wrote: »

I still don't think you can compare facebook to your everyday mail or e-mail. Facebook, for most people anyway, is just a silly past-time.

Of course I can. FB is a wonderful tool if used correctly. The points you've made can be remedied if you really wanted to.

K-9

Oh Good God, anybody else sick of Facebook will cause you syphilis type threads?

I deleted mine because there are paedophiles on there, you know.

m@cc@

K-9 wrote: »

Oh Good God, anybody else sick of Facebook will cause you syphilis type threads?

I deleted mine because there are paedophiles on there, you know.

I'm thinking of deleting mine because I don't want people seeing photos of myself that I've put up.

Michaelrsh

m@cc@ wrote: »

Of course I can. FB is a wonderful tool if used correctly. The points you've made can be remedied if you really wanted to.

Well I still find that there are far too many distractions on facebook. Maybe you might be able to resist the other stuff they have on that site but a lot of people can't, why would you think that they have it there if they thought other people weren't going to use it. I had to say no, I'm sticking with e-mail, web-texts/texts and calls for communication.

m@cc@

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Well I still find that there are far too many distractions on facebook. Maybe you might be able to resist the other stuff they have on that site but a lot of people can't, why would you think that they have it there if they thought other people weren't going to use it.

You can block those games and never see them on your profile again. It's been close to a year since I had any Farmville or Mafia Wars requests.

filthymcnasty

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Today I was faced with a dilemma. To delete my facebook account or not to delete my facebook account. I hated the lack of privacy, the almost mindless status updates from friends and some people who I hadn't even met before; giving me a glimpse into their lives. I was compelled after a while to adhere to the mindless norms of the facebook community and update my status with pointless statements, play farmville, and so on and so forth.

Then one day, today, I said to myself, "NO!! I shall not conform any longer!!!". So I went and deactivated my account. Then, I thought, why not delete my bebo and myspace account too. So I did. And people, it felt good, really good! From now on if people ask me if I'm on Facebook, I'll just say; "No, call me or text me instead".

So would you do the same; delete your Facebook account, or other social network accounts you have?

You are indeed brave to be facing you to this colossal dilemma, a cross-roads in your life of sorts. A crucial turning point that cannot be undone.
God love you and the generations ahead who will have to face up to your thankless, self -sacrificial task. A Hero.

K-9

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Well I still find that there are far too many distractions on facebook. Maybe you might be able to resist the other stuff they have on that site but a lot of people can't, why would you think that they have it there if they thought other people weren't going to use it. I had to say no, I'm sticking with e-mail, web-texts/texts and calls for communication.

Thats it, I'm giving up the internet.

Michaelrsh

filthymcnasty wrote: »

You are indeed brave to be facing you to this colossal dilemma, a cross-roads in your life of sorts. A crucial turning point that cannot be undone.
God love you and the generations ahead who will have to face up to your thankless, self -sacrificial task. A Hero.

Yes, my wording was quite dramatic.

Michaelrsh

K-9 wrote: »

Thats it, I'm giving up the internet.

Imagine what type of a hell hole boards.ie would be if they started introducing games, more detailed profiles where not only could you comment on a persons profile but you could also make status updates which could be view by everyone. Also, more public photo albums, and annoying adverts covering the page. What would you think of that?

m@cc@

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Imagine what type of a hell hole boards.ie would be if they started introducing games, more detailed profiles where not only could you comment on a persons profile but you could also make status updates which could be view by everyone. Also, more public photo albums, and annoying adverts covering the page. What would you think of that?

It would be a huge detriment to my life, taking those 5 seconds to block such applications.