deactivated my facebook several weeks ago

[The Wandering Harper]

my mental health feels all the better for it.
The site itself seems to get worse by the week.
A lot of the people I'm connected with there have shown themselves nuttier and nuttier.
But I've got some unfinished business there:
a promise to keep;
a handful of people I might want to stay in touch with that I 've no other way to reach.
Steeling myself up to plunge back in there to do that and to start deleting my account.
Thing is, feels like I've forgot how to keep up on any local events I might want to check out

[Skittles]

1. it just disgusts me how many people got sucked into the FB Borg

very disturbing

[The Wandering Harper]

7. my dad planted the seed a few years back, when he gave me a book,

by a guy he said reminded him of me.
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier
in which at a point he urges the reader to delete their social medias

[sanduca]

2. Just delete it

I deleted Facebook in 2016 and have never missed it. It's nothing more than a republican platform and so is Instagram. I deleted Instagram month and a half ago.
Nothing but republican platforms ridden with scammers, magats, Russian trolls.

[The Wandering Harper]

3. yea, I just need to do the things I mentioned

and see if there's any of my pics or videos I've put up there that I don't have saved elsewhere and might want

[Skittles]

8. I've never had an account but I literally cannot uninstall it off my phone

WTF is up with THAT

[Blue Owl]

4. It's a disgusting cesspool

[The Wandering Harper]

5. "about time someone cleaned up those cesspools of filthy taffers"

sorry couldn't help myself, one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite video games.
But yea

[Emile]

6. Good luck deleting your Facebook account.

I managed to delete my account several years back. All I remember is they don't make it easy, but I forgot how I did it. Hopefully they are making it easier now.

[soldierant]

10. There used to be a website called "Just Delete Me"WHICH HELPED.

Back in the late oughts, a former colleague of mine passed away. When I went to his funeral, I realized he was the only one in the family with any computer savvy. I waited long enough to be convinced that no one else was going to, and then managed to get his LinkedIn account closed with the card from the funeral. But when another friend passed away, I couldn't manage to get him taken off (what was then) Twitter even with the death certificate and access to his email account.

[Phentex]

9. Good luck. I never had an account so I don't exist to many family and friends

They expect everyone to see what they put on Facebook and the don't contact me outside of that.

It's really strange to me.