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herbst
lol @ still using messenger but writing a blog article how you quit facebook.
imartin2k
I don't think this is contradiction. Except if one is motivated by a general, ideological contempt of Facebook (the company).

Otherwise I find it totally reasonable to be critical of the "public" parts such as the newsfeed (for example) but to see enough value in Messenger (or Instagram or Whatsapp) to keep using it.

herbst
i agree with Instagram and Whatsapp if you put aside idology. But with using messenger you are just a +1 when zucki publishes the new amazing numbers how many users use facebook daily to reason with his shitty product, helping him essentially to make facebook even more "relevant".
camillomiller
I don't think I really care. It's basically a scam, and it's not gonna play well in the long term. I'm not speeding up the demise of Facebook by quitting messenger, but I'm losing the option to keep track of many contacts.

Matters of privacy are much more relevant, but that's still not a deal breaker for me, right now. Otherwise I would have just quit a long time ago.

BarbNerdy
Yes, you are absolutely right. But... there is of course always a "but": I had to make a choice: Reaching out to the folkes on FB asking them for their preferred communication details outside of FB (thats quite a lot to do) or not + quit FB Messenger but "loose" all strings. Which I don't want. But there is hope, that one day it will be different.
herbst
yeah i get you. I gave up on Facebook years ago and i still struggle sometimes. On the other side business relevant stuff is and was not facebook anyway, and those friends who i consider actual friends dont mind to contact me otherwise.

In the end, losing the connections actually helped me to focus on life.