What activities did you pick up when you deleted your Facebook?

[sportygirl89]

Just was tired of Facebook and deleted it. Just realized how many hours I wasted. I've picked up salsa dancing and I might get into my crafts again. I rarely communicated with people and it was just eh..

[thunder777]

another trick u can do is un-follow absolutely everyone and everything to a point that your news feed remains completely empty

 

u can still message people but u wont get the news feed so theres nothing to look at

 

then just use the messenger app to converse with friends

 

try yoga/pilates. my gym has classes for everything and theyre free as long as u pay the weekly membership

[sportygirl89]

I do cross fit and a second gym with Pilates and Yoga. Mostly trying to get my GPA up before I graduate as much as I can.

[jen1447]

What activities did you pick up when you deleted your Facebook?

Loveshack.

 

I didn't actually delete my FB but I realized some time ago that reading about friends' dogs' exploits and their one-sided musings on politics wasn't all that interesting. Boards like this are much more eclectic that way, if sometimes much stranger and somewhat impersonal.

[circlesinfinity]

Hi

I am considering leaving and just joining some free groups on my campus, yoga (again) and doing some self improvement activities. The reason that stopping me is because I love the posts about fashion from my favorite magazines and the goupr I'm in called 'The Law of Attraction'.

My family kind of talk less to me but I think it's because I've changed, not in a bad way though.

[sportygirl89]

Hi

I am considering leaving and just joining some free groups on my campus, yoga (again) and doing some self improvement activities. The reason that stopping me is because I love the posts about fashion from my favorite magazines and the goupr I'm in called 'The Law of Attraction'.

My family kind of talk less to me but I think it's because I've changed, not in a bad way though.

 

I've been doing lots of reading. The people who get rid of Facebook don't ever look back at deleting it. If I get the urge. I hope I don't though. I don't need to know what everyone is doing 24/7.

[popcornpuff]

I picked up reading as well! I recently finished the Count of Monte Cristo and am now going through Don Quixote--they are two very long books and I want to have the accomplishment of completing them.

[sportygirl89]

What made you decide to delete Facebook?

[LoveIsMyReligion]

Anything that got me out of the house.

 

Gym, reading at a coffee shop, bike riding, walking the dog, meeting a friend just to go for a walk or happy hour, etc...

[popcornpuff]

What made you decide to delete Facebook?

 

It was just too superficial. I mean, posting "Happy Birthday" on a friend's wall is nothing compared to giving them an actual freaking phone call.

[Diezel]

You guys spend that much time on Social Media, that you can pick up other activities?

 

That makes me sad.

[Shepp]

I never really get stuff like that.. My fb probably takes up a a total of 10-12 mins thoughtout my whole day!

 

I have a fair few hobbies, fb neither impacts on these nor could I use the time I'm on that for them.

I normally check fb while my toast is toasting, maybe on my break at work, maybe while I brush my teeth before bed!

Like it's just not exciting enough to check more than that!

[sportygirl89]

You guys spend that much time on Social Media, that you can pick up other activities?

 

That makes me sad.

 

I've been in college for 8 years. I think they said the average people said spent during college was like at least minimum of 30 minutes a day.

[sportygirl89]

I never really get stuff like that.. My fb probably takes up a a total of 10-12 mins thoughtout my whole day!

 

I have a fair few hobbies, fb neither impacts on these nor could I use the time I'm on that for them.

I normally check fb while my toast is toasting, maybe on my break at work, maybe while I brush my teeth before bed!

Like it's just not exciting enough to check more than that!

 

 

I would always set a timer of 15 mins then it would somehow turn into 1-2 hours just surfing through news and stuff. Then looking at friends pages and what not.

[MsHopeful0208201689]

LoveShack lol.... Working out, watching me movies more often, going out dancing without the constant distraction of uploading and posting to Facebook while doing so. More focused on school, meeting more people in person, etc.

 

Not ONLY did I delete my Facebook but also my Twitter (in which I never used anyway), Instagram, LinkedIn, and I've also deleted my snapchat app off of my phone, etc.

 

I have no more social media and feel as if my life is a better because I am not constantly boggled with things I could care less about

[sportygirl89]

I use my Instagram more as a health food and fitness journal type of thing.

[HansonGirl]

Did you guys "deactivate" or actually "delete"? I am currently deactivated but I frequently log back in, and just re-deactivate. I want to delete it but I don't have the balls, and I am still a nosy person. I am also sorta paranoid that somebody is going to create a fake profile with my picture and pretend to be me, and unless i am on there, i won't be able to monitor to make sure that doesn't happen. I know that's paranoid but how else will i know? i feel like it'd be so easy to do to like tarnish my reputation. I think i might just unfriend everybody and unfollow everybody so i can't view anything and that way i can keep the profile but have no reason to log in.

I think it's cool that there are other people who want to deactivate too. Last time i went on there, this girl posted something that said how many hours she spent on facebook in the last year, and it was like 930 hours. That is absolutely crazy - almost 3 hours a day. Do you know what you can do that time every day? you could take spanish lessons and know spanish by now. you could learn piano and know how to play some tunes by now.

[Bobbi7]

I don't think I really picked up any activities when I went on a hiatus from FB.

[Lion Heart]

I got a Faceache account to sell my kids things through a local selling page. It lasted about 2 months. We made $1003 and the kids bought their new wide screen TV and DVD player.

 

That was all I could see it "good" for TBH!

 

I can't STAND it. BS show offs is my take on it because alot of my friends say how much they LOVE it but so much of their talk about it is HORRIBLE. Bit**y school yard banter NOT face to face! In a far wider school yard community!

 

Anyway this thread wasn't about bagging FA.

 

REAL COMMUNICATION. Phone your friends. ACTUALLY HAVE A 1:1 conversation! It's disappearing!

 

Visit your friends and relatives. Have get togethers. At your house. At a cafe or restaurant. At the beach or bush walking.

 

Send a card. He** drop a card in to someone! I'm 50yo and in the past (dark ages to some lol) we sent and received BEAUTIFUL cards for anything and nothing. Just because.

 

Reach out in REAL AND AUTHENTIC ways.

 

Plan a holiday. A road trip. Ski. Surf. Walk and SAY HI TO ALL NON threatening people on your walks. I do this. It's great! I've met some truly awesome old people on my walks and they're LONELY. They smile and say THANKYOU because I stopped. Because I reached out.

 

He** I saved my neighbours life last week because I stopped and asked her how she was going. She lives alone. I saw her face and neck had swollen from a tick bite and told her to get her a $$ to the hospital emergency asap. She waited but went. She was admitted and had meds intravenously for 3 days!

She came over afterwards and I got the tissues out. We had a big teary at how quickly life can be over. In a blink!

 

Don't waste time. Live life. FB is not real life. It's fake.

 

LS friends and physical friends held my hand through two suicidal episodes I had at the beginning of this year. The suicide hotline made me feel MORE suicidal! Lol not. 5 mins. And the guy was counting out loud every 30 seconds to me.

 

I'd like to be strong enough to help on a suicide hotline but I think it won't help me to help others.

 

My focus is now on ME, My children and grandchild, my work and the 700 people there. Reaching out and BEING HONEST about everything. This way of living is wonderful. People are "saved" this way (and no I don't carry a religious message). But lives and attitudes are sometimes saved.

 

You never know what someone else is going through.

 

FB can be an addiction. LS is an addiction for me lol! But as I recover I will phase down.

 

Best wishes

Lion Heart.

[Grumpybutfun]

I never had a FB page. I ride horses, go fishing, boating, take my girl to plays, theatre, or opera, Fight in local MMA, train for Iron Man and Tough Mudder, play intramural rugby and soccer, coach baseball, travel as much as possible, and play with my grand daughter. In airports, I will log in here but it is rarely these days.

My wife received a handwritten letter the other day from an old friend of hers and she put it in a frame....it just seemed so special, she wanted to preserve it. I think of the Depression when they would take a letter and holed up in a dust storm, pass it around the cramped tiny spaces to read out loud for entertainment. People are so entertained now that nothing is special or sacred and very little actually entertains. I try to unplug and only use the Internet or watch tv for sports, news or artistic endeavors. I think we are losing something in being too connected to a fake, shallow world online.

Best,

Grumps

[joseb]

Just was tired of Facebook and deleted it. Just realized how many hours I wasted. I've picked up salsa dancing and I might get into my crafts again. I rarely communicated with people and it was just eh..

 

What were you doing with Facebook that took up so much time?

I probably use it 10 mins a week.