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Why I Left Facebook and Twitter

Posted by hotdogtopus - December 11th, 2016


So, I recently closed my Facebook and Twitter accounts and I thought I would post why for whoever is curious.

When my friends post something to Facebook, it doesn't show up in my feed. This is interesting. At first, stuff from new friends post, but they disappear after a few weeks. Maybe it's because I read, but don't interact with the posts? Not sure, but they don't even see what I post -- at least, most people don't and I don't post that often. What's the point? If I post something to my page, it should show up for my friends unless they block me. That's why I'm posting it! Facebook is filtering way too much. Who does Mark Zuckerberg think he is? The other issue is that Facebook makes strange connections. For example, one day I sent an e-mail to my boss from a different e-mail and the next day, my boss showed up in my "Do you know ..." feed. I thought that was weird and wondered whether my boss typed my e-mail in the Facebook search or something and that's why they were asking. We don't have any friends that are the same on Facebook.

Twitter has similar issues. I don't post that often, but when I do, my posts don't show up in the Twitter search very often. If you don't have a lot of followers, you're just talking to nobody. Doesn't make sense. I didn't SPAM. I didn't have objectionable content. They just block the nobodies.

There's also the privacy issue. Will future employers pick through my social media feeds? Will I be fired or not hired because of what I've posted? I don't post anything extreme on my pages, but I do share petitions for political / social campaigns, etc.

Anyway, I don't use social media that often, but if Facebook and Twitter are reading this -- bye, bye! And good riddance to ya.


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The weirdness with Facebook for me is that I feel like I can check it once per day and I'm still seeing a lot of the same stuff I saw the previous day - the algorithm isn't keeping things as fresh as it could and I know I'm missing a ton of stuff.

Yeah, a lot of people don't like what they've done, but they think it works based on their metrics. I have never been a big fan of Facebook and now that I'm out of college, I don't even need it for the group stuff.