Closed My Facebook Account

[Michael Eskin]

7 hours ago, SIMON GABRIELOW said:

Personally speaking I am not that keen on the sites, like the FB being discussed here, having certain anoymous ways of people being able to remak upon an inidivduals posts. Symbols 'like'  - unlike'  -  and so on can create a misunderstanding between people of which there is [ as we can see in the news intrenationally ] often a great deal of bitterness resulting.

If you manage groups on Facebook as I do, you can prevent anonymous people from posting, commenting, or like/unliking posts.

[niftyprose]

There's presently a campaign called "Lights Out META" which is inviting people to shut down all their Meta-related social media for the week January 19--26. I haven't linked to it directly because doing so could (I suppose) be construed as a political statement. But the excellent commentator Bruce Sterling linked to it, and you can see the flyer he cross-posted on brucesterling.tumblr.com. near the top of the page.

[Cathasach]

I'm slowly disconnecting from social media. Web forums are really much better than Facebook groups anyway and there isn't much there you can't find here, and a lot you can find here but can't there.

 

Of course, I'm biased since I've been on forums for around 40 years.

[Don Taylor]

49 minutes ago, Cathasach said:

I'm slowly disconnecting from social media. Web forums are really much better than Facebook groups anyway and there isn't much there you can't find here, and a lot you can find here but can't there.

 

Of course, I'm biased since I've been on forums for around 40 years.

Sadly, Facebook has managed to kill off a lot of the original forums.  Concertina.net is one of the exceptions, but I think that went through a rough patch a few years ago when some members tried to persuade us to use the Facebook concertina group.

 

In other groups that I used, somebody (usually a new member) eventually suggested moving the group to Facebook and thereafter the independent group slowly died.  Most of the independent groups were hosted by Yahoo! and when the traffic on the group sites tailed off then Yahoo! just shut down their group hosting service.

 

Independent web forums are now mostly run on hosting services that have to be paid for by somebody so if an independent web forum is important to you then make a donation to keep it alive.