To ask why you came off Facebook..

[bluemoon77]

Or if you’re considering coming off.... I think I might just deactivate, far too many wind ups lately. Also I think facebook can often be a source of feeling left out and ignored. Anyone else?

I’m considering coming off. It’s become utterly tedious and full of adverts. Also I’m sick of seeing grown adults doing shit like those “pick your birthstone to find out who you truly are” and then posting the result - “Julie, you have a heart of gold that is full of kindness but woe betide anyone who crosses you, you are force to be reckoned with, blah, blah”. Fuck sake 😑

I stopped bothering with it slowly, but haven't deactivated (as I want to download a lot of photos I've been tagged in from years ago but can never be bothered). When it first came out when I was at uni it was a huge thing but over the years it seems like fewer and fewer of my friends actually use it and so the updates on my feed are just from the few random individuals who still use it who I don't really know. I don't empathise with posts saying they get FOMO from facebook because in my personal experience so few of the people I know actually use it.

Come off it in Dec and not missed it once!

Yes those birth stone things annoy me too. I just think Facebook gives people a platform to be nasty too. I’m in a school ex pupil group and recently someone joined who I used to be friends with at school. I introduced my self telling her my maiden name and mentioning an old memory from our schooldays, she just ignored me completely, then carried on talking to someone else.

Deactivated about 2 years ago, don't miss it at all. I was getting lost in comment sections which were full of nasty racist/sexist/homophobic idiots (news articles, not my own friends) and it was just unproductive. Lots of people sharing blatantly false stories/fake news and most of my friends don't use it either so it seemed redundant.

Never signed up in the first place. I could see where it was going from the get go. It an interesting fact that the number 2 reason for disciplinary action or dismissal in our union now is Facebook or some other social media of the same ilk.

It’s fake and shit.

I don’t really enjoy this culture of “look at me” and constantly taking photos of oneself and food and life and sharing with the world as if they think they’re celebrities or something. I’m mid-30s but don’t seem to have bought into social media in the same way as many of my friends.

Also I lost a baby and I find the seemingly constant pregnancy and birth announcements tough.

Been Facebook free for about 3 years. Don't miss it at all.

Came off it last week feel 💯 better and concentrating on my own kids and life, spent far too much time on it.
It's so negative perfect life's, perfect families etc the only thing I miss is my gym online classes so so do nip back on for them then straight back off

To be fair @BunnytheHoneyBee you get a lot of that on here. “My DH earns high six figures” “Our Nanny this that and the other”

Similar type of platform I think.

There is at least some decent debate on here though unlike Facebook.

Deactivated it during the 2016 US election. Couldn't keep seeing my ass-backwards relatives posting pro-Trump, racist, sexist, xenophobic memes.

I reactivated not long ago, only because there are usual local groups. But I try not to go on much.

I still have FB but have deleted most of my "friends" the ones I hadn't seen since our school days or colleagues from long ago jobs etc, people who would friend me on FB but ignore me on the street etc! I just have family and a few close friends on there now, so only about 60 people. I don't follow any miserable politcal pages or any of that shite, my news feed is usually full of ponies and cats etc! I also find our local pages quite useful and it can sometimes be amusing to see some of the little spats that happen on them but I tend to stay out of all that!

I deactivated my account over 2 years ago along with all other social media & haven't looked back! at first it was hard but only because i spent alot of time on it (mainly to pass time) but i dont even miss it! x

Because i hate the needy self promoting.

I still have it as I use messenger a lot for various groups. However, I only look at my actual facebook page about once a month, if that.

I came off it because I was wasting too much time on it

I am not "friends" with anyone who posts the kind of shite posters have referred to upthread.

I didnt see any need for it.

Just realised I don't bother much with FB now. Bored of the zillion conspiracy theories. People showing off all the time. Know it alls. People I know in real life who are nice people yet on FB morph into someone else entirely.

Today I've unfollowed a friend who always puts up sly comments about women in general to do with looks, or hypothetical man problems that 'serve them right' - then has a whole load of her friends laughing. & a guy I've known for years who puts up his theories on lots of stuff, ending with 'But you morons are sheep so this will go over your heads'. Cue people landing on thread discussing his nonsense, presumably to prove (why?!) that they aren't moronical sheep.

Both these people run small businesses and I wonder that they don't think hmm this kind of talk might put people off me. Both of them are ok in real life but having now seen their FB antics I prefer to swerve them. I don't tend to have friends that behave like this in the main.

Also I waste enough time on MN, I'm not adding FB to the mix.

Came off it years ago. Hate it

Never been on it so haven't come off it. I can see nothing positive about it and have zero interest in the tiny details of other people's lives.

It doesn’t bother me so much on here @Ketchupqueen1 as I don’t know the people and to some degree I can screen what I read. I can go to AIBU or Style & Beauty wheres scrolling through my Facebook feed I don’t know what shit I’m going to find on any given day

And the shit I’m reading on Facebook is all by people I know

Privacy issues, I detest how what I comment on shows up on others newsfeeds.

Fakeness and folk playing happy families when it's not real.

Folk virtue signalling about donating to food banks, supporting nhs or being a local charity contact point yet they're absolute dick heads to others in real life.

The mental health copy and paste posts. Fuck off!! They are the last people to go to in a crisis and if I did the gossip would be all round the town in an hour.

Folk sharing old/irrelevant posts without checking the content/relevance - obviously just doing it to 'look good'.

Fake looking profile filters and making your face look like a plastic doll with cat ears on your head wtf

deleted about 9 years ago
Was sick of the drama, the BS, the woe is me, sick of people from my past coming back, it just added stress to my life so i thought screw this.
Dont miss it, people think its odd im not on it but IDGAF

How I use it has changed massively over the past ten years. I used to be on there to see photos of friends, comment on their posts, etc.

Now I literally never see anything from my friends. I see things from the local park, council, local businesses, neighbourhood groups, and from various special interest groups. I maybe check it one a week. I wouldn’t miss it if I deleted it.