<story><title>Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages-after-deletefacebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>I always felt like doing this (deleting my facebook account), but fear of missing out always kept me from doing it. Whenever I seriously considered leaving the platform, I had a vague sense that I would &amp;quot;not belong to the herd&amp;quot; anymore, that I would lose the option to contact friends &amp;#x2F; family members, that I would be left outdoors.&lt;p&gt;The other day I made the step. I deleted my account. Before I did I exported all my data.&lt;p&gt;Two days past and I have a strange sense of freedom. Previously I would check my FB feed a dozen times a day. Although I deleted the app years ago, never really used Messenger, always had to use different browsers than Safari on my iPhone because FB would not let me read&amp;#x2F;use messages in Safari, instead it wanted me to install Messagner. So previously I would check my feed many times a day to kill time. I was a &amp;quot;lurker&amp;quot;. Never posted anything since years, just used it as a news reader. And glanced over the things that my contacts posted. It gave me an illusionary feeling of connectedness, when in fact I could not be more disconnected from real contacts, quality contacts, and most of all: from myself by fleeing into a dull activity, by entering &amp;quot;the matrix&amp;quot;, killing time.&lt;p&gt;Today I felt like in my childhood, going to appointments, not killing time on my way to my appointment, having seen my surroundings like back in those days without so many distractions. A wonderful feeling.&lt;p&gt;I hope this platform dies, rather quickly. Because it harms society and individuals more than we are aware of.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lphnull</author><text>In your opinion, what is your criteria for declaring that a platform is &amp;quot;bad for you&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;an unhealthy habit&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Personally, I spend ALOT of my free time lurking 4chan&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x2F;g&amp;#x2F; &amp;quot;technology&amp;quot; board, 4chan&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x2F;ck&amp;#x2F; cooking board, and a carefully curated list of my favorite food and technology related subreddits on Reddit. I personally consider my addictions to be quite healthy because I learn and absorb a tremendous amount of information from sites that focus more on &amp;quot;actual content that matters&amp;quot; and less on worshiping the same small group of narcissistic acquaintances that congregate on platforms where &amp;quot;disliking&amp;quot; content is frowned upon.&lt;p&gt;Sure there&amp;#x27;s a lot of stupid crap on 4chan and reddit is full of corporate and government shills, but the internet has grown SO MUCH lately that the signal to noise ratio isn&amp;#x27;t as bad as it was in the early 2000s. My only problem nowadays is that I don&amp;#x27;t have enough time in a day to read&amp;#x2F;watch&amp;#x2F;comment on all the important stuff I find on the net. Compare that to the early 2000&amp;#x27;s, when useful information on the internet was so scarce, that I had to use minesweeper in my highschool computer labs to pass the time.&lt;p&gt;I for one am happy at how much content there is on the internet now. If you&amp;#x27;re smart, you can curate your own nonstop stream of &amp;quot;useful&amp;quot; content without that much effort. Problem is that you have to reject content that is curated by big businesses like Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and program your own method of retrieving things that matter.&lt;p&gt;People will always complain about the exponential growth of information. Look at newspapers and the printing press. I&amp;#x27;m sure that people reacted the same way towards pocket watches and newspapers as people nowadays are reacting to smartphones and social media. Some people just have addictive personalities in general, and will blame not being productive on whoever&amp;#x27;s in charge of &amp;quot;information&amp;quot; at any given moment.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages-after-deletefacebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>submeta</author><text>I always felt like doing this (deleting my facebook account), but fear of missing out always kept me from doing it. Whenever I seriously considered leaving the platform, I had a vague sense that I would &amp;quot;not belong to the herd&amp;quot; anymore, that I would lose the option to contact friends &amp;#x2F; family members, that I would be left outdoors.&lt;p&gt;The other day I made the step. I deleted my account. Before I did I exported all my data.&lt;p&gt;Two days past and I have a strange sense of freedom. Previously I would check my FB feed a dozen times a day. Although I deleted the app years ago, never really used Messenger, always had to use different browsers than Safari on my iPhone because FB would not let me read&amp;#x2F;use messages in Safari, instead it wanted me to install Messagner. So previously I would check my feed many times a day to kill time. I was a &amp;quot;lurker&amp;quot;. Never posted anything since years, just used it as a news reader. And glanced over the things that my contacts posted. It gave me an illusionary feeling of connectedness, when in fact I could not be more disconnected from real contacts, quality contacts, and most of all: from myself by fleeing into a dull activity, by entering &amp;quot;the matrix&amp;quot;, killing time.&lt;p&gt;Today I felt like in my childhood, going to appointments, not killing time on my way to my appointment, having seen my surroundings like back in those days without so many distractions. A wonderful feeling.&lt;p&gt;I hope this platform dies, rather quickly. Because it harms society and individuals more than we are aware of.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hanklazard</author><text>&amp;gt;Today I felt like in my childhood, going to appointments, not killing time on my way to my appointment, having seen my surroundings like back in those days without so many distractions. A wonderful feeling.&lt;p&gt;Well put. For me, it’s not FB that is standing in the way ... it’s HN! ;)&lt;p&gt;That being said, this place tends to have much higher caliber comments that what I read on FB, and I learn so much from both articles and discussion. I’ll #neverdeleteHN</text></comment>