I quit Facebook
 

such a relief. it was a never ending trash fire and time suck

kill it with fire. kill the social with fire

i'll miss ya

but i'm like THE queen of surface level so i doubt you'll miss me. you'll miss the cute baby pics, whether you admit it or not

I thought everyone sort of quit Facebook, to be honest.

I'm still on the fb, guys


get at me

I deactivated my Facebook account about two years ago. At first, I intended it to be temporary, but I never got around to reactivating it, and felt better without it.

All it did was amplify my insecurities by demonstrating how I fail to measure up to my peers. And yes, I know, the thing about Facebook is that everybody is only positing the best parts of their lives and you're not getting a representative look, that you're "comparing their front stage to your backstage." But even if I hold that variable constant and only compare the best parts of my current experience to the best parts of theirs, I still come up wanting. Pretty sure it's not a perception thing, and that I didn't do something cool like hang glide in Thailand or get my work published only to forget about it. I'd wager that my self-perception of being an unaccomplished and boring person is pretty accurate.

Although I started an Instagram for my photos, and now I'm pretty much back where I started with facing an onslaught of examples of how everybody else is better than I am.

I actually am an unaccomplished and boring person.

Livejournal is sorely missed. It was okay to be a loser there.

who cares about being an accomplished person. now that's a real waste of time.

i've quit maybe a hundred thousand or so times. thereabouts.

Every time I click deactivate, a little piece of me dies.

i quit facebook so long ago, i can't even find when that was. 10+ years ago.

must've been somewhere around may 2008.

facespace is trash.

Facebook ordered by Germany to gather and mix less data

Still the remaining reason I don't deactivate is to get tour/new release news from bands I follow.

If there was an app or website used by the majority of bands that announced new music/tours, I would ditch FB in a heartbeat.

Myspace?

oh wait those are bands no one listens to

i've got y'all beat. i haven't had a cellphone since late november.

don't worry. i might get a new one this weekend. still won't buy a smartphone, though.

i miss angelfire guestbooks. deviantart was fun in 2001 when it was new. yahoo karaoke chats...omg don't even get me started!

cool i won't

I've never even, like, had a cellphone in my life.

it's an american expression. kekeke

don't talk to joeri

(kekeke)

lmao

i refuse to believe any bands are actively using myspace

Bandsintown?

Bush is playing here on Saturday for Mardi Gras.

so it seems.

so is 'I've got y'all beat', which would at least require you to not be on facebook anymore.

are you?

I wish; but they are the closest on the tour end of it. Very clunky app, though. And I'm pretty sure they are inextricably linked to FB.

A few months ago, I visited MySpace just out of curiosity.

Remarkably, the people who are still active in it look exactly like the people who were active on it in 2007. Scene kids (well, adults, actually) still exist in remote, uncontacted areas of the globe.

I imagine that bands like I Set My Friends on Fire, Blood on the Dancefloor, and UnderOath still use it to reach their target audience.

These people must be like Fuzzy, except their emotional development halted ten years after his did.

The Matthews of the next decade will wax nostalgic about the good old days of Fortnite, SoundCloud mumble rappers, the unparalleled comedic genius of Rick and Morty, and the convenient nutrition provided by bottles of Soylent.

all this archaic technology talk is reminding me of that one fanfic i never finished on the computer-crasher known as geocities. i was like a page away from 14 or so pages of it and never found it again. still haunts me, like the totality of my prepubescence.

I still have FB Messenger so PM me the baby pics!!! I don't want to miss them

Last year I deleted my Twitter account. Twitter did nothing but make me mad at the world.

I found with FB that i would open the app on my phone as kind of pacifier or distraction. And on top of that the ads were making me angry.

I have a couple of Slack Groups I participate in. A couple of bulletin boards. And my closest queer girl friend group has a regular group text going every day. I don't need FB to keep track of the people that I want to keep track of.

I do worry I'll lose track of a few bands and stuff that I followed on FB. However, I use Bands In Town now to alert me to my fav bands when their in DC.