Off Facebook for 2 months

murphy

murphy

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Dip in for messages..DM?...PM

But my stress has reduced significantly...needed a break....and a little wary to indulge again.

I miss some of the staying connected to events etc, but so much stressed me because I cannot do everything I would like to anyway.....and drama and tragedy all around...ignorance is bliss.

So Talkbass is my world right now

Anyone else tried doing similar?
 
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murphy said:
Dip in for messages..DM?...PM

But my stress has reduced significantly...needed a break....and a little wary to indulge again.

I miss some of the staying connected to events etc, but so much stressed me because I cannot do everything I would like to anyway.....and drama and tragedy all around...ignorance is bliss.

So Talkbass is my world right now

Anyone else tried doing similar?
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I’ve done the same recently, and I’m about at the two month mark as well.
Talkbass has definitely helped when I feel the need for phone time.

Great minds think alike!

-ScottM
 
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murphy said:
Dip in for messages..DM?...PM

But my stress has reduced significantly...needed a break....and a little wary to indulge again.

I miss some of the staying connected to events etc, but so much stressed me because I cannot do everything I would like to anyway.....and drama and tragedy all around...ignorance is bliss.

So Talkbass is my world right now

Anyone else tried doing similar?
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Yes, and it’s quite heathy.
 
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I broke with Facebook a few months back. Completely deleted my account. I got sick of the fact that I never actually got together with people or DID anything since Facebook. I also got tired of all the banality, profanity, data collecting / sharing / hacking / selling, etc. I told everyone I was leaving it behind. Not a single Facebook "friend" has bothered to contact me since. I feel a lot less stressed as well.

I read an article about ditching Facebook before I left. Best quote from it: "Facebook is a lazy way to be friends with someone."
 
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Pretty much off TV, including cable, and social media too except for TalkBass.

I take a peek now and then. Watch a movie occasionally. Off of news programs as well.

Too many other things to think about that I like to do. Only so much brain power to go around.:thumbsup:

I have been listening to more music lately through some really good headphones I picked up not too long ago.
All my favorites sound so much better!
 
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murphy said:
Dip in for messages..DM?...PM

But my stress has reduced significantly...needed a break....and a little wary to indulge again.

I miss some of the staying connected to events etc, but so much stressed me because I cannot do everything I would like to anyway.....and drama and tragedy all around...ignorance is bliss.

So Talkbass is my world right now

Anyone else tried doing similar?
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I did EXACTLY that on Wednesday 11/9/16.

Now I only pop in bi weekly if I need to contact somebody thru there or pimp either band's page. I do enjoy checking my Memories when I'm there, since my own memory isn't all that great :unsure:
 
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murphy said:
Dip in for messages..DM?...PM

But my stress has reduced significantly...needed a break....and a little wary to indulge again.

I miss some of the staying connected to events etc, but so much stressed me because I cannot do everything I would like to anyway.....and drama and tragedy all around...ignorance is bliss.

So Talkbass is my world right now

Anyone else tried doing similar?
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I have been much more off Facebook than on in the last year. It worsened my depression, a lot. You continue deluding yourself, lurking the lives of people that don't give a **** about you. Or "keeping in touch" with people you'll never meet again. Or "being interested" in events you'll never attend. Or longing for someone who can't even remember your face and you would do better to forget as soon as possible.
Having had such a dysfunctional and unhealthy experience on social media is surely my fault, I know I have problems. But since I have deleted pretty much everyone and I use it only to sell stuff or ask technical advice in specific groups I live MUCH better.
 
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oZZma said:
I have been much more off Facebook than on in the last year. It worsened my depression, a lot. You continue deluding yourself, lurking the lives of people that don't give a **** about you. Or "keeping in touch" with people you'll never meet again. Or "being interested" in events you'll never attend. Or longing for someone who can't even remember your face and you would do better to forget as soon as possible.
Having had such a dysfunctional and unhealthy experience on social media is surely my fault, I know I have problems. But since I have deleted pretty much everyone and I use it only to sell stuff or ask technical advice in specific groups I live MUCH better.
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I think we all agree that overall it is a toxic environment for our mood, brain and real active friendships

It also gets me very frustrated and upset at things going on locally and globally to things I care about...people and animals ...and the planet
 
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I've never been completely "off" FB, but I've found that I miss a lot of life events if I stay away for too long. Like it or not, FB is still how a lot of people choose to disseminate info. A out of town friend of mine recently had a stroke, and I didn't know about it until about a month after it happened because I wasn't checking FB. His wife is posting updates there, and she doesn't know me well enough to contact me personally via text, email, etc. I guess in the pre-social media days, I likely wouldn't have heard about it at all.

Rather than turn this into a FB bashing thread (and yes, there's plenty to bash), I will say that I've found I'm happier limiting my time spent on there. But I'm not going to delete my account.
 
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friskinator said:
I've never been completely "off" FB, but I've found that I miss a lot of life events if I stay away for too long. Like it or not, FB is still how a lot of people choose to disseminate info. A out of town friend of mine recently had a stroke, and I didn't know about it until about a month after it happened because I wasn't checking FB. His wife is posting updates there, and she doesn't know me well enough to contact me personally via text, email, etc. I guess in the pre-social media days, I likely wouldn't have heard about it at all.

Rather than turn this into a FB bashing thread (and yes, there's plenty to bash), I will say that I've found I'm happier limiting my time spent on there. But I'm not going to delete my account.
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I agree....and i have tried to encourage it as a useful tool....which it is.
Some of us get information overload
some friends share too much personal
It is doing me good taking a break.....and yes...I am missing out on some friends news....some bands shows.....some tours/ events

So I will stay connected....but try to limit my time on FB.....instead of a few times a day where I get sucked in to issues I am concerned with
 
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Deleted my account over 2 years ago. It's occasionally inconvenient for a few minutes when I don't have another way to contact somebody I haven't seen in years, or because I miss out on actual important events in the lives of others that I would have been interested in, but on the whole I don't miss it a bit. The noise to signal ratio there is stupidly high, and the whole experience always made me itch. Much better now.
 
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I quit Facebook for the third and final time about a year ago - just around the time when when the latest round of privacy issues was starting to break. Only reason I got back on the third time was to run the band’s social media. Once I retired from the band, no more social media. Don’t miss one gol-danged thing about it.
 
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murphy said:
Dip in for messages..DM?...PM

But my stress has reduced significantly...needed a break....and a little wary to indulge again.

I miss some of the staying connected to events etc, but so much stressed me because I cannot do everything I would like to anyway.....and drama and tragedy all around...ignorance is bliss.

So Talkbass is my world right now

Anyone else tried doing similar?
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I don't have Facebook, Twitter, or any other social network.

Just TalkBass and Whatsapp, for close friends and family. I hate social networks.
 
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Social media appeals to narcissists.
Quite often, it’s a platform to spout of your theories, feelings, politics, philosophies-
It’s also a place to show people how ‘awesome’ Your life is.
It’s actually a great idea on paper; FB, that is.
But the reality is no one ever really hooks up or contacts those old friends. It’s fascinating really that the technology is there, but it doesn’t function like you’d think it would in the real world.
 
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