Well, instead you could start with “I want to do something win my nephew” and the find things to do. It puts you back in control.
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Well, instead you could start with “I want to do something win my nephew” and the find things to do. It puts you back in control.
It'd probably also put me on the FBI's child abuse radar.
Here's the thing about this particular concert: Most amateur music groups are pretty terrible at getting the word out about their performances, and I wouldn't have known about this one because I'm not a member of the church where they performed. I may have seen this group once before in a totally different venue, but that was long ago, and I nearly forgot that they existed (in fact, I briefly thought that they were actually a different group based in a nearby town).
The person who posted about it on FB is also a former colleague who happened to be sitting in for the gig. Because he's a good player, I trusted his word that the group itself was going to play well.
The current state of music groups these days pretty much dictates that they use social media to advertise themselves. It's that Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-style string of connections that gets a wider audience than they'd reach by just posting flyers at grocery stores, airing spots on local college radio, and attempting to maintain email lists.
I can't deny that the misinformation-laden clickbait that spreads around FB turns me off (and my mom, although I agree with her politically, has periodic meltdowns while speed-sharing articles and posts that often border on fake news). But like I alluded to before, the bulk of my FB list has enough maturity to stick to the important things.
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slightly off topic, but that reminded me of something.It'd probably also put me on the FBI's child abuse radar.
I was playing fallout 4 and needed some "nuclear material" for building stuff, I was about to google nuclear material and I'm like, I better reword that otherwise I might get a knock on the door
"you can check out, ,,, but you can never leave" guitar solo.....................Today, I'm initiating a self imposed exile to social media. Some of this may be temporary, other portions will not.
I think the meanness of some of the stuff I see (without getting overly PRSI) has just turned me off. I also think most of the stuff I see is useless, like those quizzes to see what type of villian, superhero, cartoon character you are.
I waste enough of my time here at MR
With that said, have others been tempted to leave social media and/or quit?
I'm sure there can be some good coming out of social media but as it stand I'm not seeing too much
There's a quote I like when it comes to using social media -- "If you are not paying for the product, you are the product."
I quit Facebook last year and haven't looked back. I updated my status a month prior, listing my reasons I was leaving the site and how people could get in touch outside of social media. I'm now social media free. No Facebook or Instagram.
Although I gave it up all together I'm not against the idea totally. It's a great way to find old friends or keep in touch with long-distance family. I just realized over time it was roughly 2% of the aforementioned mixed with 98% garbage, including posts about irrelevant/uninteresting topics, politics (and political views), advertisements, conspiracy theories, cruelty videos, game app requests, fake news, clickbait, and people or businesses wanting me to "Like" something.
I've read stories of some companies requiring employees to have some form of a social media presence. It must really suck for some people who go to an interview and are asked "Do you have social media?" I know some employers will seek to find your account just to see what kind of stuff you post or what you're interested in as part of the hiring process, but forcing an employee to use those accounts regularly to make management happy, no thanks.
I quit Facebook last year and haven't looked back. I updated my status a month prior, listing my reasons I was leaving the site and how people could get in touch outside of social media. I'm now social media free. No Facebook or Instagram.
Although I gave it up all together I'm not against the idea totally. It's a great way to find old friends or keep in touch with long-distance family. I just realized over time it was roughly 2% of the aforementioned mixed with 98% garbage, including posts about irrelevant/uninteresting topics, politics (and political views), advertisements, conspiracy theories, cruelty videos, game app requests, fake news, clickbait, and people or businesses wanting me to "Like" something.
I've read stories of some companies requiring employees to have some form of a social media presence. It must really suck for some people who go to an interview and are asked "Do you have social media?" I know some employers will seek to find your account just to see what kind of stuff you post or what you're interested in as part of the hiring process, but forcing an employee to use those accounts regularly to make management happy, no thanks.
Oh I know, I had no illusions of how FB gets its money, in fact I know of a person who works at a company that uses the metrics from FB to target ads
Lol. Where can I buy uranium?slightly off topic, but that reminded me of something.
I was playing fallout 4 and needed some "nuclear material" for building stuff, I was about to google nuclear material and I'm like, I better reword that otherwise I might get a knock on the door
Google shopping should help
lol, I know. it was crazy, because you need certain materials as you go through the game and want to build things, yet, it didn't dawn on me, that this could look bad in RLLol. Where can I buy uranium?
Google shopping should help
Well I'm sure the understanding people from the FBI would have seen the funny side! Or you'd get an all expenses trip to guantanamo bay!
Guantanamo Bay, at least on the happy side of the fence, is a pretty nice place to visit.
I deleted my FB account over 10 years ago. I have no regrets!
That doesn't always work. No one believed me when I said I was leaving, several years ago. You'd think I'd said something inexplicably outrageous like Hey! I'm moving to the moon. Some occasionally try to contact me after all these years through FB even though they have my email addresses, etc. but won't use them. Too bad for them if they didn't listen.
I quit on principle back when Zuckerberg took money to allow psych manipulation on users by various companies to see if they could make some feel depressed, & I (most likely) coincidentally got a lot of pix of abused/dead animals & children in my timeline. To keep logging in on something which shows mostly icky or depressing things is stupid.
First 2-3 weeks was difficult, like a nicotine addiction, not seeing stuff from far-flung friends & fam, but I'm so very happy now that I did. No regrets, in fact I feel vindicated since it's now known that Zuck sold tons of user data to some creepy companies like Cambridge Analytica.
I did what Maflynn did, signed out & deleted the icons & bookmarks from my devices & iMac ---so I still get a little bit of FB junkmail trying to lure me back. Probably should completely dump it but that would mean logging in again. Ugh.
When I was deactivating my account, it asked about snding me some sort of email notifications, I read between the lines and figured it was just going to spam me with invitations.
Ha, yes, Facebook is absolutely relentless. I use the Ghostery extension in Safari which turns off Facebook-linked comments on a lot of websites, plus some other FB trackers. On balance it's a tradeoff I don't mind making. Have also diminished using my formerly main-email address associated with my FB account, which has turned it into a sort of junk mail pile.
Many try, but they just get pulled back into the vortex..
It's easier to not go in there in the first place. The problem is its social media... If their friends don't all leave, what hope has one person have of the group?
Being in business would have more of an effect, and may not even in your decision...
It's easier to not go in there in the first place. The problem is its social media... If their friends don't all leave, what hope has one person have of the group?
Being in business would have more of an effect, and may not even in your decision...
We me and the wife go out either with friends or just the two of us, this is something we always get a chuckle out of too. For example, we were at a bar/restaurant that had outdoor seating. We were next to a bachelorette party, and I kid you not, ever single one of them was on their phone. There was very little laughter, usually after someone found something funny online and showed the group. The only time we really saw any emotion outside of the occasional laughter, was when they decided to do the group selfie images. The whole image, now that we knew the backstory to that image, was "look at us having so much fun." Annnnnnnnnd then back to their phones.
In the beginning we made it a point to not get on our phones and now it is pretty much second nature and there really isn't a need or want to, to get on our phones.
Having no friends probably helps!
Never been there, never will. Simples.
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Such a common and sad sight.
I put FB’s domain name in my ad blocker too. No need for any crap there.
No need to quit something I never really got into in the first place. I do have an account and it was only good for keeping in touch with people across the country. 99% of what came through a "news feed" I could care less about. Time waster. Adblock was always on full-blast because you never knew what is tracking you on those sites.
There are lists you can subscribe to in your adblocker that gets rid of social media buttons and trackers. I don't see the point in Facebook, to be honest. Yes, I get that you can connect with family you don't see often, but some of us like the time and space that affords us. My opinion on social networking 3.0 platforms like Instagram aren't great, but I can see why some would like it. It's a digital photo album you can always pull up. At some point, people are going to pull back from social media because of how large its grasp is on people.
My opinion on social networking 3.0 platforms like Instagram aren't great, but I can see why some would like it. It's a digital photo album you can always pull up. At some point, people are going to pull back from social media because of how large its grasp is on people.
There are lists you can subscribe to in your adblocker that gets rid of social media buttons and trackers. I don't see the point in Facebook, to be honest. Yes, I get that you can connect with family you don't see often, but some of us like the time and space that affords us.
Facebook owns Instagram -which is why I dithered back & forth for a couple years before joining. It's a sort of portfolio, but I do feel guilty about caving to FB/IG. :-/
I had to rejoin Twitter for a University class - which annoys me. Starting to dread the potential Social Media class in my major, I may have to take something else instead: there's no way I will ever go back to Facebook.
Thanks for the reminder that FB owns Instagram - bleh.
Thanks for the reminder that FB owns Instagram - bleh.