Comments on: Thinking of Deleting Your Facebook Page? Here’s Some Resolve

By: Bye-bye, Facebook « i sing. i eat. i love. i blog.

Bye-bye, Facebook « i sing. i eat. i love. i blog. — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:34:46 +0000

[...] Blog post from Donald Miller if you need some resolve. [...]

By: Richard Mareda

Richard Mareda — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:32:25 +0000

Dear Nicole,please help me deactivate my facebook.
I hate it. It’s got all of my information,friends and it is worthless.
Boy did I mess up.
Please help !
Richard

By: Shelly

Shelly — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:48:37 +0000

Anne Jackson is now on facebook…just sayin’

No wonder that Zuckerberg kid is a billionaire. Even the “anti” can’t stay away for one reason or another.

Just thought I would make note of it…for no apparent reason other than it made me giggle when I saw her post.

By: Melanie Bradley

Melanie Bradley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:49 +0000

How much you miss…

by not reading Jane Austen that is. GOOD STUFF!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:53:41 +0000

i dont know why i read this .. haha. I’m not experiencing the dilemma myself but it was funny. I just wanted everyone to know.haha

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:53:25 +0000

It’s neat to read about someone else who pulled the plug on Facebook. I did so this past January after having had an account for nearly four years. The changes Facebook had gone through (making it public, etc.) failed to impress me, and all the new applications were annoying. To top it off, I was spending way too much time doing absolutely nothing on the site and not enjoying it at all (something I will take the blame for). Like your friend Anne, I do miss “being in the loop” about friends and people from high school and college, and about events that are happening, but I guess I just got to the point where I felt that if someone really wanted me to attend an event, or wanted to sit down and have a conversation, they would actually take the time to contact me in person, and I felt that I should offer them the same courtesy. To be honest, I did go through Facebook withdraws (because it was something I interacted with daily), but after about two weeks, the “longing” (lol) went away and now when I hear about Facebook, I just cringe and rejoice that I’m no longer one of the millions of Facebook minions!

By: jocelyn

jocelyn — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:02:07 +0000

Finally – other people who are as tired of FB as I am come out of the woodwork. Or something.
I feel like I am the only one who is just overwhelmed by FB’s constant demands for attention. I just don’t have the time, regardless of what my privacy settings are. That’s the nice thing about Twitter – it’s simple and doesn’t demand anything of you. Nobody’s going to get mad if you miss a 140-character tweet, but I get a lot of flak for not responding to the hundreds of inbox messages I don’t pay attention to on FB.
Do it! push the button!

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:37:52 +0000

I deleted my Facebook account and figure that another application like Google Wave might take it’s place. I have missed some of the photos and updates from old class “friends” but haven’t missed enough to start again. At least now it is easier to permanently delete your account rather than suspend it.

Thanks for the post!

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:34:09 +0000

Don,

I missed something. From the privacy settings page you also click on Search Privacy settings, to be invisible to anyone who searches for your name.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:33:35 +0000

I would love to sit next to a wide range of people – family, classmates, and members of churches we started and attended. 2 churches are defunct so it’s impossible to go back for a visit.

I have friends and family scattered all over the planet. FB allows me to stay in touch on my terms, once or twice a week. I can hide updates that offend. I don’t hide much because the new list feature makes it easy to organize their updates. I also choose whose messages come via SMS. All without going to different blogs or online photo galleries, or stuffing an overloaded feedreader with things I don’t have time to view.

FB also allows me to share my news, such as my son’s game photos, with current friends and those who may find me in the future. It also let’s me post comments on niece’s and nephews’ walls immediately after outstanding achievements.

I will at least post a notice of my site launch. My brother and nephew show their blog posts on FB; I probably will, too. But I don’t plan to link to my personal FB page on my new website. I’ll use the fan page.

Don, during last week’s simulcast Beth Moore said she uses FB and Twitter. I bet nearly 95,000 women looked for her. I’m sure she’s there, but “dark”. On FB she has probably customized her visibility to only her friends.

To hide on FB, on your Privacy Settings page:

Click on profile
For any of 9 categories, choose:
“customize” from the dropdown list
unselect “everyone on facebook”
choose “only friends”
choose “none of your networks”.

Then no one but your current 4,620 friends, or whoever you keep, should find your page again. It will be up to you to find who you want to add.

And before you ditch FB entirely, you might read http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/ff_facebookwall?currentPage=all. Zuckerberg wants to put a friendlier face on the web, and let me see how friends or my network rate doctors, for instance. He’s been underestimated before.