I left Facebook about six years ago and have never missed it. The drolly named Discord has been far more rewarding to me, and has proved even more valuable in non-gaming contexts. An open-source Discord with excellent privacy respect is about all I want.
The great thing about mbasic is you can read your messages without it launching the Play Store and trying to make you install messenger. That drives me nuts!
> Each Facebook deleter must invent new ways to live without Facebook; the deleters are the pioneers, the vanguard of a new kind of literate, informed, proud digital citizenry. They are inventing on behalf of all of us.
This argument alone has convinced me to delete my facebook account. I was a bit skeptical about missing on updates but then it's on us to develop, find and use the better alternatives to boost adoption.
This link here on HN should include a disclaimer that The Guaridian has a vested interest in you spending less time looking at facebook.com and more time looking at theguardian.com.
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I use the Mobile Basic interface to check FB once a week or so for messages or events:
https://mbasic.facebook.com/
This argument alone has convinced me to delete my facebook account. I was a bit skeptical about missing on updates but then it's on us to develop, find and use the better alternatives to boost adoption.