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Did you close your Facebook account or have you thought about it?
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Anonymous
| I'm thinking of closing my Facebook account. If you've closed yours, what did you say to your Facebook friends before closing it? |
Anonymous
| I have not closed mine but think about it all the time. The problem is that FB has become my family and friends way of communicating with me and alot of them are overseas so I am hesitant bc of this otherwise I am sooooo over it. |
Anonymous
| Yes! I don't really want to do it anymore but I have 100 "friends"...not sure what to do. I'm so over it, too!! |
Anonymous
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OP here. I have accepted being "friends" with people that I didn't want to because it would have been awkward if I hadn't. (We all know the same people, so it would get around if I didn't accept their being my "friend".) And I don't like my pics up there. And I don't care for the random things people post.
I'm sure Facebook is great for some people, but it's not for me. I even found myself thinking, how can I get more "friends", even though I wasn't crazy about doing Facebook. Ugh. What is a nice way to end it without being rude? |
Anonymous
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Can't you just drop off? Don't post anymore, and don't read.
If anyone asks you, "oh, sorry, I've been swamped at work and don't check it anymore..." |
Anonymous
That's what I've been doing. But of course people still post things on my FB page. So when I get an email saying there is a post, I just email back rather than go through FB and explain I'm not really using it anymore. I was never very active on it so it's not really a big deal. |
Anonymous
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one of my friends simply deleted her profile for awhile -- if you don't like doing it, stop checking it or updating it -- i know plenty of people who say they have a FB profile, but they just don't use it that much
i also delete friends every now and then -- when you have hundreds of friends i just don't think people notice if i am suddenly gone |
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| I think FB gives you the option to suspend your account. Maybe you should try that for a while until you know for sure you want to delete it. But if you delete it's not that big of a deal. All your actual friends will still be able to contact you through phone and email, and the other people don't really matter. |
Anonymous
| You can change your settings so that you are not notified of new posts, emails, etc. Sort of a "grey mode." Easiest way to drop out of sight without making a big deal of it. |
Anonymous
| I felt really oppressed by my facebook account for a few weeks and I almost deleted it. Now I'm having fun w/it again. |
Anonymous
| Yes. I have considered it. I keep it thinking one day I'll want to read more people's profiles. And it's the only way some people will contact me (sad isn't it - why on earth will they e-mail THROUGH facebook but not just e-mail). But honestly, I rarely log on and when I do, all I see is tons of invites for games. It's annoying |
Anonymous
Ignore, ignore, ignore. I notice new users (not all, but some) lose their minds with the games and the quizzes and the hey hey hey. They'll stop. Ignore - and I mean, hit the Ignore button - and they'll get the message. Nobody's ever come back to me wondering why I didn't accept their Lil Green Plant or whatever. |
Anonymous
| I felt the same way - I just deleted those "friends" that I am just not interested in and have hidden friends that keep posting those annoying FB application quizzes, surveys, etc. It has helped. I still only go in about once a week. |
Anonymous
| I unfriended some friends for various reasons and one old friend sent me a new friend request with a note saying "somehow we got un-friended - I hope it was a mistake!" No wonder I defriended her to begin with - its not like I've seen her for 20 years - does it really matter if we are FB friends? Ugh! |
Anonymous
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I dropped my account. I could never get over the fact that so many people could see photos of me and my friends - it just gave me the creeps. (I know I'm in the minority, but I didn't like the whole thing after a few days.)
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