<story><title>A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/a-gold-standard-study-finds-deleting-facebook-is-great-for-your-mental-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Brigadirk</author><text>I quite liked facebook. I don&amp;#x27;t have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on holiday and would like to run into again).&lt;p&gt;I deleted it because the company seems thoroughly evil and doesn&amp;#x27;t respect my privacy. But if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative I&amp;#x27;d be more than happy to become on of their first adopters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RankingMember</author><text>The problem with the alternatives is they don&amp;#x27;t have the budget and installed user base Facebook has.  Sure, you&amp;#x27;ll get techie people to jump on board at first (remember Google+?), but all the family members who don&amp;#x27;t know a Twitter from an Amazon will stick with Facebook because the constant negative Facebook press isn&amp;#x27;t enough to get them to leave and no longer see pictures of their baby grandson.  I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the solution to this is.</text></comment>
<story><title>A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health</title><url>https://www.salon.com/2019/01/30/a-gold-standard-study-finds-deleting-facebook-is-great-for-your-mental-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Brigadirk</author><text>I quite liked facebook. I don&amp;#x27;t have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on holiday and would like to run into again).&lt;p&gt;I deleted it because the company seems thoroughly evil and doesn&amp;#x27;t respect my privacy. But if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative I&amp;#x27;d be more than happy to become on of their first adopters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>have_faith</author><text>&amp;gt; if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alternative&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m working on something at the moment. More experiment than anything else for the time being but the purpose of it is to have a minimal &amp;quot;social network&amp;quot; for keeping in touch with people, and that&amp;#x27;s about it. Very little in the way of notifications and most facebook-like features. Just a way to keep in touch and keep contact details for people you care about.&lt;p&gt;Question for anyone who would be interested in such a thing: How would you suggest monetising or funding such a project?</text></comment>