#leaving facebook

[amaliazeichnerin]

If you are considering leaving the social media of the Meta company, here are some tips.

January 19, 2025 Before you leave ... Make a list of the mutuals whom you'd like to stay in contact with. This can be challenging if you have a lot of mutuals. Try to select no more than 150. Why 150? Read the text in the footnote, about Dunbar's number.

Now write on your list where you can contact these mutuals. Maybe they have a blog and a public e-mail adress. Maybe they use messenger services outside of the Meta company, like Signal, Threema, Skype or the messenger here on Tumblr, or others. Maybe they offer a newsletter to which you can subscribe. Ask them if you don't know. Yes, this is tedious work, but it may be worth while.

Or: Write a post in your Meta social media, explaining where you can be contacted in the future. Ask in your post where you can contact your mutuals, if they want to stay in touch with you. Give them the option to write you a private message about this, instead of a comment which can be read by others. Another idea: If you want to, write a post about Tumblr (or the Fediverse, or Pixelfed or other social media that you can recommend). Explain the advantages of these social media. Maybe link to a guide to them, like this one for the Fediverse: https://fedi.tips/ Maybe some of your mutuals will follow you there.

Footnote Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. You can read more it here.

[thelowerdecker]

After today, my Facebook will FINALLY be deleted! They give you a month after deactivation in case you change your mind. Well, by tomorrow, it will be a month, I deactivated it back in October It may feel like an end of an era, but I’m glad to see the back of Facebook!

Farewell, Facebook!

[bambidabbles]

Just gotta rant about something unimportant that's stressing me out this morning.

I've been on Facebook since I was 11. It's been a while. Facebook was Baby's First Social Media and it was a wonderful place when I was growing up

But God forbid I talk about anything important! The only posts I get any amount of interaction with are photos of my outfits (and I am cute so I get it but I also have a ton of things to say that matter!) I have absolutely been sh@dowb@nned there. I tried to share a post about how getting a lawyer for SSDI disability benefits works and it IMMEDIATELY got taken down as "spam". I requested a review about it and was informed that my account has already been restricted due to "multiple policy violations". I think it might be time to move to a different place online. It's hard to rewire that part of my brain. I don't know how to do it and I don't know where to go.

I don't know how to make friends I know in other places. I don't understand the social dynamics of different online spaces. It's actually hard and scary. Like I'll be okay, it's just Facebook. But Facebook saved me when I was growing up. It was my light in the dark. And it's hurting me now. WHERE WILL I GET MY MEMES NOW? HOW WILL I SHOW THEM TO MY FRIENDS? 😭

I would gladly take advice about it. I don't know what I'm doing.

[political-us]

[beautifullychaoticworld-blog]

At this point I have all my pictures downloaded and I made a list of people I want to stay in touch with after I delete my facebook account... now I'm trying to figure when would be the right time to send my message to everyone and delete my account for real... (trying to get them to contact me via whatsapp or my email instead).

I think I want to do it for real now, after more than 10 years of using it, I'm fed up and I've had enough... I recently made a new FB account for professional/uni/family stuff instead (not for maintaining fake toxic friendships with people I knew from school/uni like before). Definitely want to use my new account in a different way this time around... But it was a really hard decision to delete my 1st account and I been thinking about it for a long time, for a few years now because it's been making me miserable and upset... (it's not easy to leave because Facebook is still widely used to stay in touch with people or connect or meet with new people and it doesn't seem like it will die off any time soon). Also all these facebook groups that I used to exchange info and other stuff, I do admit that I was addicted to facebook and that's not good for you either... But I feel like it's time to leave if I am no longer appreciated among my "friends". It's become this toxic place where I don't feel valued and feel like everyone hates me or is envious of me for no reason. I can't say what I think in the chats or post what I want on my wall either because people get irritated way too easily by the slightest things and get butthurt. Not to mention that facebook encourages cyber-bullying, stalkers, trolls, envy and undercover haters. It seriously messed up my mental health and self-worth too. These horrible people will have a harder time finding me after all this shit they put me through...

I think the older generations who grew up without facebook during high school and university are so lucky to NOT have to deal with this bullshit...

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The Autism Urge to be Helpful

The Autistic Teacher

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm rewatching leverage out of nostalgia and some other emotion I haven't figured out yet, and I do think there's a story in "Maggie Ford Collins deals with having the most unhinged ex in her suburban book group, learns to hotwire a car, and gets her groove back, not in that particular order."

[afklancelot]

“I mean that’s what you get for wanting to turn The Minotaur into a homie… no homie at all” is an objectively funny quote from Johnny even in context, but taking the letters ‘homie’ out of ‘The Minotaur’ and rearranging the letters left gives you the iconic word ‘Truant’, clearly referring to himself and serves as foreshadowing to Johnny acting more and more like The Minotaur once he learns Lude, his hoss and homie, is dead. and i feel that quote perfectly sums up Johnny Truant himself: someone who, underneath his playboy facade, is pretty damn clever

[tomorrowusa]

« It is up to all of us to fix this. It’s not gonna be because someone comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen -- the ordinary person who says, 'No, that’s not right.' »

— President Barack Obama at a presentation at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York on Thursday.

He also said that we have become too complacent. We won't be able to protect democracy unless we are willing to sacrifice for it.

His reference to us being the source of our own salvation is reminiscent of a favorite quote by Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

Go outside and get more active in your community.

People in Ukraine are risking their lives for freedom. People in this country who claim to be for democracy need to understand that their rights are not handed to them on a platinum platter. We need to work and sometimes fight to sustain those rights.

The simplest and easiest things to do right now are to get off of broligarch social media and to pause Amazon Prime indefinitely. Saying that you don't look at the ads or don't click the ads on Meta or Twitter/X misses the point. They make money just by you being there. You make Zuck and Musk richer (and more able to back Trump) just by using those platforms. By posting that vacation selfie on Instagram you chip away at our freedoms. Find untainted platforms which do not undermine democracy.

[sharkinlovewithadolphin]

Sooo if anyone here is on facebook, just know that it's currently forcing users to follow official pages like “President Donald Trump”, “First Lady Melania Trump” and “Vice President JD Vance”. On instagram tags like “democrat” are being hidden as well

[kedreeva]

I don't know why this interaction is sending me rn, i don't follow either one of these people, but for some reason I can't stop laughing. Blue found a fossilized scallop and posted a photo and Carla didn't like that I guess

[thatneoncrisis]

literally cant stress how often i search "[my city name] butch lesbians" its fucking dire. where are they hiding. this is such bullshit i despise the midwest

[thebluester2020]

I just wanted to leave this here as someone from the US,

Keep your eyes and ears open as we go through another four years of a Trump presidency. Trump "saving" TikTok was a political PR stunt to get GenZ and younger generations to like him, he doesn't give a damn about you. All he cares about is serving himself and his rich friends, he's a convicted felon of 34 counts and a rapist. Elon Musk is a man-child who believes he's Tony Stark when in reality, he's nothing but another imbecile born into money.

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook was originally a "Hot or Not" site to rate women. He's just as creepy as Trump and Elon. Because of greed, a lack of education, and this country's unaddressed history of racism, it's facing a narrow path of becoming similar to 1930s Germany before eventually burning to the ground. I urge everyone, American or Non-American to please remain educated and build communities. America is in an oligarchy right now, the rich at the top control everything while those at the bottom suffer and they're willing to do anything to keep the status quo while ensuring they continue to line their pockets even more.

If you're a Pro-Trumper, block me. If you're apart of the communities facing the ICE raids this coming Tuesday, please stay safe and remember that you don't have to answer any of their questions.

That's all y'all, stay safe and hopefully someone finds a Death Note and Trump's name is the first one on the list.

[beadyeyes]

Can I have that thing. Too

[juniperhillpatient]

they should invent a polite way of saying “no I don’t want to” when people ask if you wanna hang out without having to make up an excuse. for girls who everyone knows are never busy

[tomorrowusa]

Musk and Zuck are vassals for Trump. Don't expect your data on broligarch social media to be free of far right surveillance.

Get off off Twitter/X. Get off of Facebook, Instagram, and other Meta platforms. Do it NOW.

Don't say you weren't warned!