It's been six months since I parted with Facebook. I still have a profile there, and I can still access messages through my Messenger app, but I don't read anything except messages, and I don't post anything.
Except for when I'm thinking about the cute pictures of babies I'm missing and the invitation to someone's Turducken party I don't have yet, I don't miss it.
A forum poster from way back in the 80s, at graduate school (my school being on the Internet before most) , I still find it a little strange that I hate Facebook so much. In graduate school, I met all my friends online through "forums", or what we called "conferences." If you wanted to read what was new in the conference, you signed on and scrolled down a list of topics and there was some kind of symbol or alert that let you know which topics had been added to. If you wanted to read that topic, you opened it and could read all the posts on that topic. Then you had a choice with each post you read: Answer (or something like that); Pass; and Forget. I thought the Forget command was essential to the whole deal. If you "Forgot" something you would never see it again unless you actively did something to "un" forget it. (Kind of like the "hide" prompt oon Facebook).
Years later I began participating in the Amazon Reviewers forum and met some incredibly good friends there.
So why do I hate Facebook so much? Let me count the ways.
Except for when I'm thinking about the cute pictures of babies I'm missing and the invitation to someone's Turducken party I don't have yet, I don't miss it.
A forum poster from way back in the 80s, at graduate school (my school being on the Internet before most) , I still find it a little strange that I hate Facebook so much. In graduate school, I met all my friends online through "forums", or what we called "conferences." If you wanted to read what was new in the conference, you signed on and scrolled down a list of topics and there was some kind of symbol or alert that let you know which topics had been added to. If you wanted to read that topic, you opened it and could read all the posts on that topic. Then you had a choice with each post you read: Answer (or something like that); Pass; and Forget. I thought the Forget command was essential to the whole deal. If you "Forgot" something you would never see it again unless you actively did something to "un" forget it. (Kind of like the "hide" prompt oon Facebook).
Years later I began participating in the Amazon Reviewers forum and met some incredibly good friends there.
So why do I hate Facebook so much? Let me count the ways.
