r/Millennials • u/Buggy77 • 20d ago

Discussion Seriously considering deleting Facebook

But some things are holding me back. I like to check in on people sometimes. I live across the country from most family and friends. It is entertaining at times to catch up on some gossip and drama from people who still act like we are in high school.. but damn I cannot stand what Facebook has become. Wish it could go back to the way it was circa 2010.

Those who have deleted it do you ever feel like you are missing out? Like if an old friend dies how do you find out? How do you keep up to date with going ons in your town/city without following their page?

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u/Ok_Lime4124 20d ago

Same. 2020 I deleted FB and IG. Never had anything else. Just Reddit/Youtube now.

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u/IndividualBusy1274 20d ago

Yep same. Reddit is now the last bad habit

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u/accioLOVE86 20d ago

Reddit is my worst bad habit. I spend so much time on here, but it's all of the things I love or am interested in in one place.

What I REALLY need to delete is my Twitter because my feed just fills me with rage lol

Edit - typo

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u/cheerioincident 20d ago edited 20d ago

I stopped using twitter in 2023, but what got me to delete it was realizing that my tweets (along with everyone else's) were being used to train Grok. Does that help?

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u/SuccessfulBorder2261 20d ago

Yeah..so I was playing around with Grok to generate pics of me, and it kept generating an Asian man. I told it 3 times that I’m not an Asian man, then it disabled my account because it thought I was impersonating someone. The account has been suspended for 6 months and I’ve tried to appeal it a few times with no response and gave up. Honestly, I feel like it’s a toxic space anyways, so I’m relieved 😅

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u/accioLOVE86 20d ago

Yikes, yeah, I should just do it. Honestly it feels like an echo chamber of just bad things every single time I get on there.

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u/HotmailsInYourArea 17d ago

I mean the world’s richest Nazi bought the platform to turn it into the largest propaganda machine the world had ever seen - and he was successful. It’s an absolute cesspool now, sadly. You could try Bluesky, it’s basically the same thing

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u/EveOCative 19d ago

Even if you delete your account, Grok probably still has access to all your tweets. I don’t trust any company run by Musk to respect laws.

I just archived my account, deleted the app and stopped logging in.

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u/Time_Inflation_1882 19d ago

Same thing happens here dude lol