<story><title>How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos</title><url>https://ronaldlangeveld.com/deleting-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amirathi</author><text>I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying &amp;#x2F; making my feed non-personal.&lt;p&gt;How?&lt;p&gt;I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in under 10 seconds. Over time my mind hated using FB and clicking on that app went away from my muscle memory without me trying to force any habit changes.&lt;p&gt;Why not just delete the account?
FB is still great to find old friends, ex-colleagues who I might have lost contact with. I also use it as my public mic to post stuff that I want to share as widely as I can.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fun to take on the PMs who design addictive products that influence us at psychological level and beat them at their own game. Bring it on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitemice</author><text>I can attest that this would be an effective technique, because recently I accidentally did the opposite.&lt;p&gt;A while back, I did a big clean up of all my groups, likes and (most of my) friends, which greatly improved the signal to noise. Before that, I hardly ever checked FB because there just wasn&amp;#x27;t anything I really cared about, and if there was it was too well buried.&lt;p&gt;Now, though I find myself checking it, just in case there is something worth seeing. I particularly started doing this after happening on two big surprise stories on there from small businesses that made me think &amp;quot;Lucky I was scrolling through FB, otherwise I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have known about that&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The signal to noise is better, but the problem remains the signal isn&amp;#x27;t worth receiving most of the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos</title><url>https://ronaldlangeveld.com/deleting-facebook/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amirathi</author><text>I successfully tricked my mind to not use Facebook by destroying &amp;#x2F; making my feed non-personal.&lt;p&gt;How?&lt;p&gt;I became member of all sorts of group: Buy-N-Sell in my local area, technology groups, 10+ DevOps groups and so on. The quality of posts on these is poor and is irrelevant for me for the most part. So every time I used to open the app out of habit, I would see all non-personal crappy posts and I would close the app in under 10 seconds. Over time my mind hated using FB and clicking on that app went away from my muscle memory without me trying to force any habit changes.&lt;p&gt;Why not just delete the account?
FB is still great to find old friends, ex-colleagues who I might have lost contact with. I also use it as my public mic to post stuff that I want to share as widely as I can.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fun to take on the PMs who design addictive products that influence us at psychological level and beat them at their own game. Bring it on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ElCapitanMarkla</author><text>I found just deleting the app on my phone was a great way to cut the habit of opening it every time I looked at my phone. I thought I was about ready to delete it after a few days but then suddenly realised that without it I would lose touch with a heap of businesses around town, food trucks, nice takeaways etc, that I wouldn&amp;#x27;t otherwise know about. Deleting the app has easily cut 90% of the time I was spending on facebook, but my hungry belly still has there :D</text></comment>