Facebook is no more

[Ming the Merciless]

That scroll wheel thingy looks a bit high tech...…..

Rollerball is 70's tech.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

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Is that encrypted?

 

[slowmotion]

Rollerball is 70's tech.

What.....all retro and edgy?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What.....all retro and edgy?

Not retro if original.

 

[simonali]

What do you think?
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I don't understand the question. You've shunned a smartphone, which is a pocketable mobile computer, yet have a laptop, which is a mobile computer that you need a carrier bag to carry?

I prefer to do it the other way around and have a smartphone and no laptop to lug about.

Going back to post 1, I have binned off Facebook twice now. Did it once and opened another account about two years later that only lasted a few months. I found the lack of privacy mind-blowing and won't be going back a third time.

 

[Dave Davenport]

I could put a picture of my basic Nokia phone but it would be a bit disingenuous really, as when we're cycle touring or otherwise on hols I use Mrs D's smart phone quite a bit, looking for campsites, weather forecast, checking in to flights etc. If she didn't have one I'd probably end up getting one.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I haven't got a TV.

I haven't got a computer.

 

[Dave Davenport]

I should add that whilst both phones are on a contract I pay for, she's got the latest Samsung smart phone and I've got a thirty quid Nokia, things always seem to work out like that around here.

 

[Drago]

Aye, I'm on a Tesco comtract for £7 a months. Several thousand free minutes and a load of data giggles that I never use at all.

 

[fossyant]

After reducing usage to a minimum I have finally deleted my Facebook Account. I have to resist the temptation. To reinstate it in the next 30 days but once more I am free. Anybody else broken the Facebook addiction many of us have had?

Yep, deleted about 6 months ago. Nobody needs to see what I am up to, nor do I need to see them. Plus there were so many adverts.

 

[pawl]

Never had it and don’t want it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I haven't got a computer.

You get cyclechat speaking to you direct in your brain?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Only use it to keep in touch with a few friends 'down south' now.

That what often hooks us in, but why not keep in touch in ways other than FB?

 

[Edwardoka]

It was the shady crap that FB was up to that made me leave. Performing psychological experiments on users.

That and constantly seeing those that I had considered friends were liking some truly abhorrent things.
To this day I keep a screenshot of the thing that made me go "nope" so that if I ever weaken I can remind myself why I don't go back.

 

[Bodhbh]

These threads do make me laugh though. Congratulations on overcoming your addiction to social media, and telling us all about it on social media.

Has taking the piss about of people about not having a TV become the new I haven't got a TV?

FB and this are not the same. This is anonymous and mostly text.