Why I Don’t Use Facebook as Much as I Used to

[ADFSDF1996]

I barely entered the world of social media in 2014. I simultaneously created a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram account. Before that, I thought social media was overrated. Then I realized I can keep in touch with all my friends I know(assuming they have social media.) I admit that I frequented Facebook, I always commented on posts and became well known on the pages I followed. Well, nowadays I decreased my visits.

1.) I’m very opinionated

Even here on GAG, I’m a very opinionated person. I am very open with my views and interests. If I disagreed with someone I would debate with the person in a civilized manner. I always liked posting comments on controversial posts. Surprisingly, most people would agree with me. However, my friends would soon know about my personal views and interests for one reason...

2.) Comments appear on friends’ newsfeed

This is the main reason why I don’t use Facebook as much. Face book has a very unnecessary feature where commenting on a post shows up on your friends’ newsfeed by saying “so and so commented on this” and it shows your comment. I’m not sure if there is a way to deactivate that feature but hopefully Facebook adds the option to deactivate that feature later on. So yes, this is why my friends would start to know about my views.

3.) Politics are brought into everything

Even in the most unlikely posts, someone has to bring in politics. I remember reading a post that was talking about German beer in California and some guy commented by condemning the Germans for invading Poland. Most of the political comments are liberals taking cheap shots at conservatives.

4.) A lot of distasteful keyboard warriors

The one thing, that can’t stand is people who like to act “big cheese” behind a computer screen by constantly going around and insulting people for no reason, they get offended when someone puts them in their place.

5.) Fake female friend requests

I know they are fake accounts because the women who send me friend requests are way too hot to be real. They are catfishes. Catfishes can be dangerous people http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528570/Stalker-revenge-falling-catfish-internet-dating-hoax-sentenced-five-years-prison.html

6.) Family members

I did not think that many of my family members actually use Facebook, which include my aunts, uncles, cousins etc. Thankfully my parents don’t use Facebook but it is very awkward knowing that my family members are keeping tabs on me through Facebook.

7.) Still use use Facebook but...

While I still use Facebook, I have decreased my activity on there. I don’t comment on posts from pages I follow anymore. I don’t share as many posts anymore, I don’t post that many pictures anymore. I don’t write many posts anymore. I primarily use Facebook to keep in touch with my old friends. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll use it like I used to. The good news is that I can still use Twitter and Instagram without feeling awkward.

[Anonymous]

Excellent point, I don't use it for the same reasons, great Take 👍

[Opinion Owner]

Thanks for the MHO

[ADFSDF1996]

You’re welcome.

[Wolframium]

I myself entered FB quite late. Actually, I used to have twitter for a long time. For no reason. Basically, no followers, nobody had it, and those connections, which I had there, were just dead. Besides this, I realized that having this is just pointless.
I never gave like to anything. On any social network. This notion seems silly to me. It’s pointless.
Oh, opinionated, huh? Me too. :-) Here as well. And I was allegedly “too offensive”. Yeah, I am. :-) And if someone is too weak, then they cannot take it.
FB is basically for stalking. No, it cannot be deactivated and FB will not add this element of control, because FB is built on forcing you to use it like they want. You cannot even adjust date and time format to your custom. In groups, there are a lot of missing features, but pages (useless thing) have some of them. You cannot do things, which seems just logical and obvious, but collecting information? FB does that for you. And if you don’t want to see…well, too fuckin’ bad. :-D
Point 3: pic is missing 0, if 0 would be there, all the numbers would be single digit. But to the point: this is about people and you’ll have this everywhere. You just did that yourself. “Most of the political comments are liberals taking cheap shots at conservatives.” So, from this, someone might conclude that you’re conservative, you probably like Trump and here we go, whole new debate. So, I’m sorry mate, even when I agree with you, I must also say, that you are part of the problem.
Point 4: That’s the internet. No, really. Go anywhere, where are people. You’ll see this.
5: People keep talking about this, yet I’ve never encountered it. It shows (probably), that I’m not worth even this. :-D And also, there are not enough females here.
6: not relevant for me, thankfully. :-)
7: Me too. But I don’t follow pages. Not posting…because nobody cares. Cold, hard truth. I don’t have any old friends there. And I certainly don’t want to “resurrect” old dead friendships.
No, having twitter, Instagram and snapchat (or any subset of these) is just pathetic. Hey, strong opinion. Twitter is useless unless you are stupid celebrity, who cannot form nuanced position, which would actually require some more characters. I and S… I don’t even know, why those exists. I see them as shallow sites for teenage girls.

[ATuairiscean]

This will sound terrible but the main reason I don't use Facebook is my friends. I am middle aged now so a big number of my friends are settled down and have kids, ok one cute pic now and again is okay but do I have to get a pictorial diary of every kid's life.

[rjroy3]

Biggest flaw that Twitter and Facebook fell into was showing you posts yoir friends liked in your news feed. Or comments on pages you don't follow. It's annoying and pointless. I don't want to see that and have since blocked pages and unfollowed a few friends because of it. Now they'll be out of mind unless I proactively think to go to their page sadly. I use Instagram more anyways. *shrugs*

[BigRayFromNC]

Facebook used to be really good going back but I have found there are now a lot of anal retentive people on there with really bad attitudes so I have not been going on there that much anymore.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

i stopped using it very quickly. i didn't have 1 until college and kind of regret making it. not because of anything you said, but because it made me depressed. and tbh, that's actually a side affect of using social media. there's a long explanation of why, but let's just leave it at that. plus, all the political bullshit and stupid opinions that people kept saying. and i had nothing to really say to people

[JimRSmith]

All those things you've listed are reasons I don't arse with social media either.

[cutestboyever]

I used mine until the senior year (2012) of highschool. Then I stopped caring about that video game. The one where you end up with a need to post some dumb picture or trending phrase to get a high score (likes)

[strateguy632]

good reasons, here. i logged out and never logged back in! probably it got deleted after one year.

[Anonymous]

5.) it's very true.

Facebook is problems a like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8

[kinggeorge007]

I deactivated my facebook account.

[BigRayFromNC]

I do not blame you one bit as I did exactly the same as almost every week I would be getting messages on there from people in whom I have not seen in over 20 years that were looking to borrow money or ask me to co sign for a loan for them and I told each and everyone of them to go fuck themselves as in the last 20 years you did not even bother to contact me to see how I was doing and now the only reason you are contacting me now as you need money or someone to co sign for a loan because your credit is fucked up and did not pay your bills on time. Facebook sucks the royal root. Hopefully someone will hack facebook and take it down off the internet!!!