Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To be sick of Facebook

21 replies

familycourtq · 04/09/2019 09:44

Specifically sick of all the fake adverts and fake news? Today's latest is a "news" story about how an interview with Kate Winslet about bitcoin has been banned. It's a total lie and a scam. Obviously Facebook don't care of they'd stop this shite. I know most people won't bother - but I am increasingly feeling I don't want to participate in Facebook.

OP posts:
JoxerGoesToStuttgart · 04/09/2019 09:46

What am I missing here? You can just delete your account, right?

twofournine · 04/09/2019 09:51

Haha exactly delete your Facebook.

Anniegetyourgun · 04/09/2019 09:54

So don't! I gave in to family pressure to join it a few months ago, but then the most recent scandal came out about how they use people's data, and I just couldn't be doing with it. So I shut down the account and deleted the app off my phone. Most of the games I play keep trying to persuade me to connect to FB but obviously that ain't happening.

It actually spooked the life out of me when I first joined, a list came up saying something like "you may know these people", and it was all sorts of people I last worked with 10 years ago etc; in most cases I never even had their contact details on my phone. If I still wanted to be in touch with them I would be - but more to the point, how did it know?!

SistersOfMerci · 04/09/2019 10:02

I can go weeks without looking at fb these days.

All the bickering and whining does my head in.

The groups with the competitive illnesses (I'm chronically ill) does my head in.

Just don't go on it or deactivate your account for a while to see if your life improves without it and go from there.

Aquickquestionforyou · 04/09/2019 10:59

I left six months ago and haven’t looked back. Total cesspit these days!

ILikeyourHairyHands · 04/09/2019 11:08

I left recently. Haven't missed it a bit. Just delete!

Passthebubbly · 04/09/2019 12:02

Deleted my account in January - never missed it once

Squirrel23 · 04/09/2019 12:25

I am feeling the same way OP. When I scroll through news feed every other post seems to be an advert. There are people i want to stay connected withand i enjoy seeing their photos etc. And with the best will in the world, know we won't keep in touch another way if I leave Facebook. I have unfriended/unfollowed everyone I'm not interested in, this just seems to bring more ads! I also feel i should stay on there as i would want to know if people are posting photos of me or my baby on there (which i have requested them not to but a few still will)

Beesandcheese · 04/09/2019 12:26

You can report scams.

Mollypolly2610 · 04/09/2019 17:17

@Beesandcheese
I’ve been scammed and reported it 3 times to them and have heard nothing from them. Do you know a way of reporting to them that they will answer?

Jog22 · 04/09/2019 18:28

Kate Winslet is a scam?!

Roozy123 · 04/09/2019 18:30

I left over a year ago and never regretted it.
Time wasted scrolling down seeing selfies, status' and shite
Same old same old

joolzfromyork · 04/09/2019 19:10

Deleted it last year

(Cambridge Analytica was the last straw for me)

Don't miss it at all

AiryFairyMum · 04/09/2019 19:29

The advertising is there because it's a free site - how else would they fund it?

Gingerkittykat · 04/09/2019 22:07

I've noticed since I joined Mumsnet I get loads of adverts for pregnancy tests and for rival Netmums.

MeowTseTung · 04/09/2019 22:16

Only use Facebook for competitions, even that's a bit of a drag having to like, share, comment, tag yada yada yada...

(Incidentally competitions used to be the only reason I ever used to visit mumsnet until the forums sucked me in Grin .)

hazandduck · 04/09/2019 22:21

I was over Facebook about 2-3 years ago. I still have an account but can’t be arsed to look at it. There is never anything of interest apart from the odd pregnancy news or engagements etc. It kind of feels like a dead space now.

I do like knowing what some of my friends are up to though who I wouldn’t keep in touch with via text or email, just to see how they or their families are doing. So I can’t bring myself to delete yet!

Original poster
familycourtq · 27/09/2019 17:37

The advertising is there because it's a free site - how else would they fund it?
No quibble with that - just want it to be legal advertising - MN has to to do it so why not FB?
You can report scams.
I shouldn't have to.
I’ve been scammed and reported it 3 times to them and have heard nothing from them. Do you know a way of reporting to them that they will answer?
They appear not to be interested.

Anyhoo, FB account deleted - not that they will care.

OP posts:
BeBraveAndBeKind · 27/09/2019 17:39

I deleted mine 9 months ago and haven't regretted it or missed it for a second.

JayDot500 · 27/09/2019 17:41

I haven't deleted mine because the public/private groups for areas of interest can be decent.

For private life/personal stuff, does anyone actually use it for that anymore? I don't.

So it has its uses.

Lana08 · 27/09/2019 18:00

Deleted Facebook 3 years ago. Don’t have any other social media. Never missed it once.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page