I'm curious, this is a question for users who have gave upon Facebook. I would like to know why did you leaved facebook? was it difficult? what were you using facebook for before leaving? where you really there to connect with friends? I'm not a recurring facebook user and my friends are starting to leave it (or at least they try) and I would like to know why. Would you say facebook goodbye?
I was a FB user long back and then I decided to move out. Then again, I joined FB just to keep in touch with my relatives but I remember I am hardly using it. FB though a good concept but I have heard strange stories of how they misuse our privacy.
The reason I left was a mix of "privacy issues" and "I'm sick and tired of all these people and I want to remove them from my life completely". I don't know why I just stopped using my account instead of unfriending them, but that's what I did. I do, however, still use my FB to log into Spotify and use it as an authentication/log-in tool on some websites. Kind of a pointless thing to do if my original reason to leave was "privacy", but hey... nobody said I have to make sense.
It's difficult to leave FB. It's a kind of drug addiction thing. I've tried several times. it's often difficult to find out where to delete account, they offer you to do it just for a month... Crap! It just makes you spend your time for Mr. Zukerberg, and substitute real communication with surrogate "likes"
I think that the whole procedure isn't difficult, but i had some troubles with finding the very button "delete acccount", then i received several notifications via emails and that's it.
I've signed up to FB few years ago and dropped it few days later - if I'd really wanted to waste my time, I'd found more interesting way to do it.
1. I left Facebook mainly after the revelations of massive espionage a man named Edward Snowden filtered to media. I also closed my old AOL account then. Now I am gradually trying to stop using many other services. 2. Leaving Facebook was not hard per se (in the sense you could just request account deletion with a few clicks), but the process was a bit complicated for me. First thing I needed to do was to contact all my 180-something friends on the site to tell them I was leaving Facebook and that I needed some other means of communication with them. Picture yourself copying and pasting the same message over 180 times and you will understand me. The next thing I needed to do was to transfer the ownership of my two Facebook pages to a new business account I created just for that. The next thing I did was to download a copy of all my activity on Facebook (which was, I must admit, a very scary archive of almost everything I have done on Facebook while I was a user there —computers just do not forget). I also needed to fight peer pressure for a few days, especially from friends who repeated me that those privacy concerns are foolish, that I was not a gangster and did not have anything to hide. I lastly needed to fight a slight withdrawal syndrome until the account was absolutely closed for good. 3. I was using it as a normal user: chat with friends, laugh at their <censored> photos or posts, and the like. My marketing-oriented use of Facebook was very limited. 4. Yes, I was there to connect with friends. After closing my Facebook I went through a phase for a couple of weeks: loneliness, social isolation, sadness. I rediscovered the sweet pleasure (and difficulties) of meeting with people in person again and it was done.
Reason to quit fb: 1) Your grandma has a facebook account 2) You are tagged in all sort of pictures from people you don't know 3) They allow adult content 4) You spent a lot of time blocking stupid invites ..and the list can go on
Privacy breaches are everywhere. If you want to protect your privacy, don't go online. If you're online, your privacy is always on stake.
100% agree. Privacy is a very bad excuse to leave FB. Whenever u r online, be sure, your privacy is being hampered. So dont take private things online ...Simple