Fed Up Of Wasting Time On Facebook
Written on April 29, 2008 by Tezza
I never did participate in the craze of MySpace and I managed to fend off Facebook for a great deal of time until I one day too succumbed to the growing phenomenon. While social networking sites can prove to be a wonderful networking tool for some, I’ve personally found that it is largely just a waste of precious time.
The people I already want to stay in contact with already exist on my phone and email list so adding them again to Facebook seemed almost a redundant step. Throw in privacy concerns that have been circulating about Facebook, the fact that acquaintances can now track you far too easily, the time wasting application requests that you get daily and the benefits of Facebook quickly start to diminish.
So just the other day I decided to delete my Facebook account and join the small minority who’ve given Facebook the flick.
While deactivating your Facebook account is straightforward enough, it keeps all your personal information on Facebook’s servers and thus people can still tag you in photos and invite you to events like you were still a fully functioning Facebook member. Until recently deleting your Facebook account was a logistical nightmare having to manually delete your comments, untag photos, leave the networks and groups you’ve joined and any other trace you have on Facebook.
Thankfully Facebook has listened to it’s disgruntled members and have offered a convenient way to delete your Facebook account once and for all. You can email the staff at Facebook at privacy@facebook.com from the email address associated with your account and they can take care of the deletion for you.
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spot on tezza… =)
Thankfully I canceled my myspace account a long time ago! Although… i haven’t had the heart to cancel my facebook account yet lol
Komodo, luckily i never joined the myspace band wagon so saved me having to close that account down.
I totally agree with you on this one Terence.
Before I do anything I like to avoid mess and problems. Often I ask myself “Would this cause me more problems and mess?” When Facebook arrived, I realized that I would be spending time on replying emails and all sort of things which is not aligned with my goals. If I don’t have other goals to accomplish, why not ey? but I have other plans and doing something that’s not aligned with my goals would only slow me down.
Everwhere I go, “hey are you on facebook?”…. I happily reply , “No” lol
Breian, Thats a wonderful philosophy and certainly that would cut out all the useless distractions in your life. I did hold out on facebook for quite sometime until i realised so many pictures of our get togethers with friends were ending up on facebook and i wanted to see. But with all the distractions that comes with facebook even that isnt enough of an incentive for me to keep it going. =)
haha … i agree wholeheartedly. facebook is a big time consumer of my free time and itis just so … addictive
Kudos to you for deleting your facebook account. It’s a strange feeling, going out into the world where people are all connected via facebook and saying “actually I don’t do facebook” but it’s definitely something to be proud of!
Personally I just closed my facebook account 2 weeks ago and I was a HUGE user, totally addicted, 2500+ tagged photos of myself and 254 albums. Sad I know, but then that’s that name of the game over there.
The thing that tipped the scales for me though was the rise of a new type of spamming, where people write notes and tag-spam you with them. They answer some crappy chain mail which instructs them to tag 25 of their friends and talk bullshit.
I view tagging is a highly personal thing on facebook, and usually I presume that as I was tagged by someone who is a friend, there must be something vitally important to me in it, or perhaps I am IN the note they send me.
But no, invariably I’m not in there at all, but it’s some self-obsessed monologue or some other chain crap, that, if it were in my email I would disregard.
By tagging me in it, it catches my attention and wastes my time. Why would people I have chosen to call my friends send me spam? I have no idea.
As a result of this constant spamming by people I thought in real life were not morons, I decided that it was better to remember my friends as people that I actually like and respect, and not as idiots who send me crap that wastes my time, and so the decision to close my facebook account was made.
I must admit it’s been the best decision I’ve ever made, and although I sometimes think it would be respectful to open my account again and make it easier for my real friends to contact me again, I figure that if they really did want to contact me it’s no real effort to pick up the phone or open their email program.
Alternatively they could (and you could) send me a REAL post to post on my REAL wall, at http://www.myrealwall.com where I decided to post REAL letters. Anyone’s welcome to post on my REAL wall, but I can almost guarantee that the cost of a stamp and the effort of having to put pen to paper will deter most people.
now THAT’s spam filtering!
“The Dark Side of Facebook AKA “Disgracebook,” or “Facebooks Complete Lack of Customer Service”
If anyone thinks Facebook is “listening” to it members they simply DO NOT know what they are talking about! Facebook ruthlessly, relentlessly, and remorselessly walks all over its members with hob nailed boot polices of culling members from membership for unspecified unknown reasons and then accuses the permanently disabled members as “possibly” being guilty of spamming or “possibly” being guilty of harassing other members because of asking to many members to be friends at an unspecified rate. Facebook goes on to permanently disable accounts that have to many friends, belongs to many groups, pokes to many unknown times, sends to many email messages and on and on and on. Mark Zuckerber says that Facebook members seem to take a “personal ownership” of their Facebook accounts. Well golly gee Mark, Facebook is a SOCIAL internet program that people join to meet and make new friends. Making new friends, at least to me, is personal and publishing real photographs and genuine personal information on Facebook seems personal to me. Maybe you should say in your rules and regulations that we want members to be real and genuine but do not join Facebook for personal reasons and do not expect to be treated in a true genuine caring manner because Facebook does not care in the least about what you think or how you feel. When Facebook says you are guilty of breaking polices you will be treated with complete lack of respect in a impersonal sterile manner and banned from Facbook without recourse.
The unaired dark side of Facebook, or should I call it “Disgracebook” because of the extremely poor disgraceful way Facebook treats its members. The reason I say the unaired dark side of Facebook is I have yet to see anything announced on the prime time major news outlets about the disgraceful practices Facebook uses on its members. The Internet is bursting at its seems with unhappy disabled Facebook members who have posted thousands of complaints everywhere it is possible to post complaints about Facebooks complete lack of customer service and mean spirited disregard for concerns, questions and feedback from members and former members.
On Mark Zuckerber’s, the founder of Facebook, Facebook Fan Page Mark states “I’m trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.” I am glad Mark says he is “trying etc.” because, in my opinion, he certainly has NOT accomplished his mission. Facebook is one of the most closed undemocratic uncaring unsocial business operations since the formation of the Gestapo. Facebook operates carte blanche without regard of a due process of rights for members Facebook deems unworthy to be members of its social network service and therefore, disables their account. Facebook justifies its policy and actions under the euphemism of “protecting members” from “repeated actions that could be construed as spam,” and from anything Facebook makes up as a threat to its security. Facebook is an omnipotent uncaring broadly defined automated bureaucratic security service mechanism with unpublished specific rules that are violated without knowing it. If this is not Gestapo like policy, I guess I do not know what it is because it certainly is un-American to say the least!
Furthermore, in my opinion Facebook is not a social network service. When joining Facebook you are, in reality, joining a money making “computer program” complete with automated responders but is set up to look like a social network service operated by real people. Is it any wonder Facebook members are treated with total disregard for being feeling thinking real people? I have yet to know of a computer program that is able to feel and or to reason. When someone calls Facebook you are treated rudely and crassly informed to use their computerized automated services which do not reply when used or quickly transferred to an automated answering service to which there is no reply.
I strongly urge anyone interested to please research what I am informing you of because I assure you the situation I have explained is the truth and nothing but the truth so help me God. Until the media and or business community and elected officials takes notice of and makes public “Disgracebooks” inhuman treatment of people Mark Zuckerberg and his staff and money making computer program will continue to fill up trenches behind Disgracebooks California headquarters with unworthy disabled members.
One final comment. If Disgracebook is treating its foreign members as poorly as it treats its domestic members Disgracebook is not only giving itself a black eye it is giving the United States of America a black eye. Is there anyone out there who cares enough to tell the world about Facebooks dark side and will hopefully help Facebook to become a user friendly Internet social service it claims to be?