Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I dumped Facebook
So now I will probably be the only guy in America without a Facebook account. I think I was on it for about a year and in that time I found it to be more and more annoying. It got to the point where I no longer wanted to look at it because rather than telling me what my friends were up to, I would see little updates about all of the stupid Facebook games and suggestions to add people as friends that I don't even know. Then the new format came and I couldn't even find a way to look at my whole friends list unless they were online. No, the whole thing got to be too stupid for me, so I dumped it. I know there are those who will say it was too harsh of a reaction, but let's face it, I'm just not that interesting that I need to be on Facebook, and it seems that most of you fill up your Facebook time with games, so I don't really see the point. I will be concentrating on my studies this semester and finishing my MDiv. degree, anticipating a call somewhere in the ELCA by the middle of this summer. Have fun on Facebook, and if you get curious about what I'm up to, call me or email me and we can get caught up that way. In the meantime I'll be reading about the newest efforts toward effective evangelism. Blogged by Don.
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Wow. I feel like maybe I contributed to your decision, with all the games I play. So, in case you decide to go back on, here are some tips for weeding out the entries you don't want to see: in the new layout, click on Friends in the left column; there is a subheading for Status Updates which shows you only the status of your friends, not their activities.
If you want to see their activities too, such as when Lauren updates a song or Bob posts a new comic, then you click on your News Feed and click on Most Recent. This is where you'll also see my silly game feeds, like every time I find an egg, etc. To block those feeds (or any feed you don't want) hover your mouse over to the right of the offending feed - a pop-up called Hide will appear. Click on that, and it gives you the option to hide all feeds for either that person or that application - I presume you'd want to hide the app feeds, since hiding the person means you can't see their updates of any sort. Might as well de-friend them, in that case.
Should you decide to come back to FB, that should help you narrow down your areas of interest.
If you are giving up FB as a Lenten devotion, I can respect that. But if it was out of frustration at the silly game feeds and hassle of finding what you want, then hopefully my tips above will help you.
BTW, for MY Lenten discipline, I am planning to give up most of my games. Been thinking of that for about a week, already, so it wasn't anything you did. But that underscores my thought... ; ) Hugs.
It wasn't you playing games that got me frustrated with Facebook, it was the format, mostly. I did not give up Facebook as a Lenten discipline. I have been getting frustrated with it for quite a while and this most recent format change was the last straw. Also, I have found that the life I lead is not interesting enough for social networking purposes and the things that most people post on Facebook are not interesting to me, so there is no reason to continue looking at it. We can interact via email, and that is more personal and interesting to me anyway. Thanks for your concern.
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