If you're leaving Fb just leave!! No one cares

[RocketQueenP]

A person sil on my Fb has just posted to say she is "leaving Facebook" along with basically a long explanation as to why (everyone is just sooooo fake on there apparently) plus needily offering her mobile number to anyone who wants it "or add me on Instagram" (erm...)

She is 40

How attention seeking!!!

And we all know she'll be back 😴

See it's not the leaving Facebook that I object to it's just I think why all the big fuss and announcement ? Just leave

I'm not on it anymore, haven't been for years. Didn't announce it either!

The ones that got me were the 'I'm doing a cull. If you are not in my friends list this time tomorrow sorry but I am only keeping people I interact with on here so don't take offence'.

Go on the next day, I haven't been culled despite hardly ever seeing or speaking to the person and only then in passing. But they do have lots of comments like 'phew i'm still on your friends list' etc.

So glad I came off it. Too much angst.

Haha yeah the "culling"

If you wanna delete folk, fine. Your choice. Just don't bother announcing it it's just twatty 😂

I'm SO glad I deleted fb three weeks four hours twenty minutes and seventeen seconds ago. My life is so much calmer, as well as being busier and ultimately more fulfilling. I now spend every single waking moment with my children rather than being glued to Facebook like everyone else is. I don't understand why people on fb compare themselves to others all the time! Now I'm not on Facebook I can see everyone who uses it is a pathetic attention seeking drama queen with no life who has to make things up to seem interesting. I prefer to actually spend time with my children, live life in the moment and post on mumsnet instead. I don't miss Facebook AT ALL and only even remember it exists when I post a similar iteration of this message on every mumsnet post that mentions Facebook.

^^ I find that equally annoying tbh...

I left last year. Didn't make an announcement or deactivate my account. Just stopped using it. Not been back on. I guess if anything was posted on my account I would know -but how? I'm not sure now if I should go in and deactivate. Is that safer? Deffo got more headspace as a result and even though I think yep I'll go back on I can't be bothered.

I deactivated my fab last year, didn't announce it and can't really
imagine anyone has noticed. Spent far too much time on it rolling my eyes
and saying for fuck sake...don't miss it all.

Why make a big drama about leaving. Why not just stop looking at it?

Haha Kitzi 😂

BUT sometimes I wonder if AIBU on Mumsnet has filled that void as I'm addicted to this now instead? !

Thing is though that if you don't tell people you've deactivated fb then they will assume you know things because they've put it on Facebook. And wonder why you're ignoring them. Or think you've blocked them.

Really allow? I would never assume that everyone I am friends with on FB has seen/read everything I've posted and if I wanted to tell a specific person something, I wouldn't do it in a FB post.

The way FB works, I don't think they show everyone's posts to everyone anyway. DP and I have a lot of mutual friends and I may say 'have you seen X about friend Y'? and he won't even have had the post on his newsfeed.

Hahaha Floral - deleting to get blokes numbers. God loves a trier

My sister did the 'I'm going to leave facebook for 3 months' one. I don't know if she ever came back because I just deleted her on the spot :-)

I assume she is still on it in some measure as I use it to send messages to her....

My mother rang me worried about it - but I'm of the mind of - don't say your leaving just go!

I agree that I wouldn't use facebook to contact someone unless I messaged them specifically on it and then I'd follow it up with some other form of communication if they didn't get back to me. My son has hundreds of friends but rarely looks at his newsfeed, he just has a lot of message conversations with people.