Quitting Facebook
RAJ
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Anybody ever do or are considering doing this? It's way too much of a time waster and other than using it as a promotional tool, I'm seriously over it. Might try Google Plus when it's live... but Facebook is starting to own me.
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Plaese.
It feels great. Make sure to remove the app from your phone or the deletion will revert to active status.
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Way more of my time spent here than on Facebook...
:shocked:
peace, stein. . .:)
I have thought about dropping it. Haven't quite caught on with Google+ yet, but I am there.
A couple of great things about google+ are
Video chat (Hangout) is pretty great. You can video chat with up to 10 people while watching snyc'd youtube vidz or whatever.
Photos & Vidz - Unlimited photo uploads. Except photos larger than 2,048 by 2,048 pixels will automatically be resized when uploading. Unlimited video uploads (up to 15 minutes per video, up to 1080p).
The best part of all is the control over your info and what you share with who. Plus, Data liberation. Google gives you the option to take everything with you if you want.
Only qualms are it's a bit of a learning curb to figure out everything. And not enough people I know use it to make it fully usable.
But I'd love to drop fb right now and stick to google+
what's the deal with it? it didn't really grab me.
Sure, for you "dads" you can make a circle of your "dad" friends who wanna talk about disciplining your offspring without getting comments from people who wouldn't know.
Generally though, I'm just adding the same people on Google plus that already have a Facebook, and sharing less with all of them.
I know... boundaries. But I don't think you're really networking at all if you're always "group inboxing" certain people = how I'm seeing Google + right now.
p.s. never liked Twitter
I'm sure you'll waste far less time on Google +
My coworkers have befriended me and they are older and it's bizarre. I don't need to e friends with them. We work together. I also don't need to see vacation photos of them in bathing suits. Yikes.
I only added former co-workers I *don't* see daily. My current co-workers find it rude. Not adding them is way easier than explaining why you deleted them later.
Here is an example (While not the best at how well it really does work, it gives you an idea).
*joke*When is the first Strut youtube soundclash?*/joke*
bingo.
ill hang with fb until something knocks it out.
I recently figured out how to make it usable though (for me). I use a fake name. I hide all posts and updates from everyone so I never see them, and put myself permanently offline. I keep it a private page. Don't post any pictures of myself, and use it as basically another email address that basically rss updates my blog and updates my band page automatically.
Now it's actually been somewhat helpful to keep in contact with the people I've been meeting traveling. As I can easily delete these temporary friends.
Cheers,
- spidey
This is one of the best things about google+
Circles allows you to put the people you only accepted on fb to not be awkward to and didn't want to offend or be awkward around in real life, can now be all put into a circle that you simply never post anything to, but on their end they believe that you added them.
Quick vid to show the basic functionality.
I suspect whatever Social Network one ends up on, this facet of human nature will rear its head. I suspect they are posting for posting's sake, so as not to appear "Boring." I don't post there that much - I am afraid, with the 3 "Jaws" barrels of Wife, Kids and Mortgage, I am not going anywhere soon and cannot regale all and sundry with tales of my one man trips up the Amazon with only a spork and 140 days worth of mp3s.
"Boring" it is, then.
Moving your social network activity to the one company that also hosts your e-mail adress and collects your internet search activities doesn't seem the wisest idea to me but probably I'm just paranoid.