I am no longer going to go on Facebook for one its full of drama and judgmental people and people who are harassing me nonstop with wanting me to get a reading not interested and wanting me to message them back and they keep on hounding me to death, so I am done with going there for good and I keep getting bombarded with messages and message request And if I don’t respond they keep messaging me so I sometimes I block them but still others keep messaging me they can’t take a hint that I don’t want to talk to them right at their beckon call. Turned off chat and messenger on my phone so I don’t keep getting alerts and notifications. That worked so far
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Good for you! Shut down the social media and you’ll save yourself a lot of stress. I have never even opened an account on Facebook and glad I didn’t.
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I deactivated my account 5 years ago and don’t miss it much. It can be toxic.
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you are right I am finding it to be a toxic drama filled environment and overwhelming with all the messages I am getting not really threatening in nature just nonstop harassment so I am going to delete my account or just not go there ever again same with Instagram had an account with them which I closed.
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It’s addictive and can be difficult to free yourself from it all.
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I quit Facebook a couple of months ago
Don’t miss it one bit
None of its real
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I’ve been on FB since May 2009. In that time I’ve had to block very few people. Twitter on the other hand . Well into 4 figures!!
I just don’t reply to spam. You could just delete people that post toxic stuff or those whom you don’t want to connect with.
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The platforms only purpose is to spam you with ads. Even posts of people you’re friends with don’t show up. And Zuckerberg rakes it in.
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I’m only connected to like three family members, and then my parents too. So for me it’s not toxic or eventful at all. If anything, I’m the only person who’s activity turns up on th timelines probably as “liked this”
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I think Facebook is a powerful tool if used correctly, but, yeah, it can be frustrating. I don’t do politics at all. If something winds me up I stop looking at it and hide it from my feed. People who are consistently bad for winding me up are muted so I never see what they post.
My current challenge is an amateur photography group where there are some older, more “experienced” members punching down on newbies because their camera or lens isn’t good enough or (gasp) they enjoy doing photography with a phone. I have been providing polite encouragement to the contrary when equipment shaming happens while trying to avoid fights. If it gets to be too much I’ll just walk away. I like mentoring photography newbs, but I won’t do it if it affects my health.
One positive is the number of fellow paddle boarders I met this summer. Three of them own cabins by lakes and I have invitations from all three to camp on their land this summer at no charge, which I will certainly do (but politely, without bothering them). This is a saving of a thousand dollars in camping fees thanks to Facebook, so that’s fantastic.
It’s not all bad!
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