When FB first came out, My childhood friends, now spread all around the country, were trying hard to get me to join. Over and over I heard how great it was, how I was going to fall behind 'the group.'
Meh. I was not concerned. I had their phone numbers, they had mine.
When a weather event greatly impacted my childhood stomping grounds, I was frustrated that without FB or twitter, I was largely cut off from the instant info, as it came out.
But this was not enough to get me to join either.
2016 or so I was included on a conference call with my childhood friends and they all grouped up on me to join FB. So, I did so.
I locked down every privacy setting. I sent out freind requests to only those I considered actual friends, and denied any whom I considered an acquaintance, or just someone from my past, as well of dozens of people I never heard of.
I allowed a few in, who I was indifferent to, but did not want to insult by denying them.
I quickly got annoyed that every post by my so called friends, was more or less:
"Look at me!......... Look how great I am!....... Look how great my life is, you should be jealous!!"
This then evolved into:
"Look how smart I am, look how dumb they are, here is a meme that proves it!!,OMG!! Me ME ME"
I cancelled some, blocked others.
Slowly, as the country got more and more divided, and opinions got stronger, and Identity politics took over, I blocked more and more people whether they posted their BS from the right or left.
I'd stopped posting anything about myself long before, and never clicked like, or forwarded anything ever.
I had all notifications turned off on my phone, yet was still getting them. Double checked all settings. Was getting seriously angry.
Deleted FB and Messenger from phone, or tried to, but the newer phone the only option is to turn them off and sometimes they would show back up.
Jan 2021, I deleted my FB account via my laptop. Got some 'FU' texts by some of the most vociferous and insecure, who apparently noticed their number of 'friends' dropped by one, thinking I had deleted only them, and not myself, and thus everybody.
Then, some my so called friends started chain texts. posting their 'look at me' BS and their political memes. Blowing up my phone, wasting my Data, and time.
They seemingly truly believed were proving their 'truth'. But only showing their pathetic desperation.
Too vapid to realize they are still trying to convince themselves.
The least intelligent, are the most vociferous, and desperate to prove that they are not.
Desperate to prove that they are the victim, when they have only ever been the unethical, amoral bully.
Looking for validation that they are not the POS that deep down, they know they are.
I will not feed these delusional Narcissists.
Those demanding attention from their soapboxes......I have deleted, or blocked, those not yet blocked or deleted are not responded to.
I am considering changing my phone number, too, and would have already, if it was easier to do so.
FB is a malignant platform.
A soapbox for the intellectually and emotionally insecure.
You do not use Facebook, it uses you.
I am thankful I tried it, temporarily, as it showed me exactly who is not worth expending any more effort in trying to continue being friends with.
Good riddance to FB, and those toxic individuals who infest it, whether they be people I once considered friends, or more sadly, family.