To delete Facebook?

[shalliorshallinot]

Any advice from those who have done it?
It really negatively affects my life.
If I see social photos and I haven’t been invited then I feel down for days.
If I check my profile and notice I’ve lost a couple of friends then I feel down.
I don’t post that much to be honest, as I figured if I wasn’t posting stuff and people deleted me then it wasn’t anything I’d said or done.
I suffer from anxiety.
I’ve posted 3 times in the past month, just a photo of the kids at an activity or the dog doing something funny etc.
Realised this week that an acquaintance I’ve known since I was 11 must have deleted me about a year ago, but kept 50 mutual friends, including my sisters. I can’t stop wondering why.
I’m just worried I’ll miss stuff, like announcements re the kids groups being cancelled, or the school class fb page where class announcements are put up.
Has anyone done the same, and how did you make sure you didn’t miss any vital info?

Register a new account and only sign up/like the school stuff that’s important.

Don’t bother with any friends

It isn’t real and it doesn’t matter

Oohhh that’s an idea re just having the groups on a new profile.

I permanently deleted mine over a year ago best thing I ever did. I rely on mum friends from school to let me know if I'm missing out on anything from the class groups.

Was an avid user. I then realised the negative impact it had on me a plus all the data issues. I deleted it 6 months ago. I don’t miss it at all

Any friends I’m interested in keeping in touch with, I do. Downloading all my data was an eye opener as to how much info they stored!

You won't miss it.

Oh and I was on it for about 10 years so it was a deep seated as a habit!!

Do it! I recently downloaded and saved all the photos I wanted, set up a blank account (I need to manage a page for work) and deactivated my account. You can keep messenger, though I plan to send my number to people who really need it then leave completely.

There is life without it! Though I do spend more time here now

I’d miss it. But it doesn’t negatively impact my mental health - quite the opposite. All my friends are actual friends and I enjoy what they post and they seem to enjoy what I post.

Deleted my account just after Christmas - haven’t missed it one bit.
It was the same crap every day.

I know you can keep messenger as a friend has recently deactivated but kept messenger.
It’s mainly the ballet, football, swimming, school notices etc that I’m worried about missing.
It’s all absolute bollocks on there. So fake! I want my life back!

Why is it fake? Mine’s not fake. My friends post mostly good stuff, for sure, but it isn’t fake. We talk about negative stuff in person.
Like all social media it’s all about who your friends are.

Like Cardibach - I like seeing friends having a nice evening / day out. I think 'how nice' if my friends are doing something nice.
I like Facebook for that reason

... though is it just me that seems to see fewer and fewer posts from friends and have their feed taken over by 'non-people' over the last fw months ?

What do you mean by ‘non-people’ BackforGood?

I deleted it 12 months ago and the RELIEF!!

My account randomly got deleted in that bug thing last September and try as I might I could NOT get it back.

As for whether I miss it, not the 'friends' side of things whatsoever. But I was on alot of groups - selling/hotel/equestrian and not being able to access them really frustrates me.

Good grief - just delete it. What is making you drawn to it?

The only people I know that use FB nowadays are my parents' generation.

If by non-people you mean tons of "sponsored posts" and "similar to a post you interacted with", then yes definitely.

I just felt that I wasn’t seeing the people I wanted to see and those I wanted to see least I’d shouted loudest! Lots of ads or random posts friends he liked and I was so bloody sick of hearing people’s opinions - the constant drip, drip of left, right, Brexit and fake news type articles drove me nuts!

Myself and my closest friends have a WhatsApp group and we tend to share news and pics via that more these days.

Just bin it and get on with your life.

Are you getting help for your anxiety?
Facebook is just st a tool,so it's entirely up to you how you use,but if it's affecting you negatively then there's no point in really.
As a PP suggested,start fresh with an account just for groups and keep it clean otherwise.

I deleted my account a couple of weeks ago (well I'm still waiting for it to be totally deleted, if I log back in after a certain date (30 days from deletion request) then I'll have to start the process all over and it will be reactivated.. weird but I guess it's for people who might delete their accounts in a fit of rage then regret it later )
My reason was similar to yours, it made me feel left out of things and sad about the life i had left behind that i was no longer really part of. I guess it's a case of out of sight out of mind and I needed to really put it all behind me to truly move on. It made me feel nostalgic for the old days but I have to remember that's not really my life anymore. There's also a lot of people I wasn't interested in keeping contact with and it was like some weird cyber elephant in the room seeing them on there!
And i was wasting sooooo much time just scrolling through it.. I wasn't even seeing anything of interest but I just couldn't seem to stop scrolling!

Yeah I manage my anxiety pretty well day to day.
But Facebook is one of the biggest causes of me feeling shit.
It’s like I barely see any posts from one of my best friends in Australia, but I know a girl from schools kids better than I know myself, due to all the photos, status’, certificates of their achievements, what they ate for dinner etc.
And my biggest anxiety inducer is seeing I’ve been deleted. I know it’s not a true reflection of life, but I find someone actively saying “I no longer want to be your friend” really harsh!

I deleted mine over a year ago and do not regret it at all.
I found I was moaning about it constantly and then checking it every 5 minutes out of habit.
It did wonders for my mental health!

If social media causes you anxiety then yes you need to delete it.

I did this and I’ve not looked back. Best thing you’ll do IMO. I deleted Instagram yesterday for the same reasons. I do have a secret FB account though, in a different name, with no friends and only use if I’m selling junk on the local pages. Other than that it’s deactivated all other times.

Do it. You won’t regret it.