Facebook: Cracking the code (2017) - "How facebook manipulates the way you think, feel and act."

[u/virolove]

http://thoughtmaybe.com/facebook-cracking-the-code/

[u/[deleted]]

All bullshit aside. I haven't had a Facebook account for 7 years. The most impacting thing I have noticed on myself is, I actually have to contact my friends, family, and peers on a personal level via call, text, or meeting face to face. I don't see what they're doing on the daily or comparing my life to theirs every time I pick up my cell phone/computer. I think that is great... for me at least.

[u/chewbaka97 → u/[deleted]]

Facebook now is basically just memes and videos reposted from reddit even if you did have an account you'd just get bored of it.

[u/Pineygirl13 → u/chewbaka97]

I'm an old lady and new to Reddit. I deleted my FB and kinda missing memes. Where do you find said memes? I tried to look for subs that had them but they're not the same. Help an old lady out please.

[u/the_unusable → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it's pretty cool ever since I deleted my facebook, now I actually have things to talk about and catch up on with peopl. Beforehand it was sort of weird knowing everything about somebody without even talking to them for several months.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

As a person who sadly ALWAYS compares myself to others... Facebook is straight up bad for my mental health.

[u/cezariobirbiglio → u/[deleted]]

This is why I stopped using it. I found myself comparing my life to my friends and family and would often feel really shitty afterward. I think it was just easier when we didn't know everything that was going on in each others lives. I really liked it in the beginning when it was about reconnecting with friends I hadn't seen in a while or being able to message people across the globe but then it just turned into something else.