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I left 99% of the groups on Facebook

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I am close but there are some good groups on there. Other than my wife and kids, everyone I have as a "friend" is unfollowed. I do not want to see your political, how great your kids are, pictures of the food you got in a restaurant posts. I rarely post in groups but enjoy some of the ones I follow. The groups I belong to are pressure canning foods, dehydrating foods, foraging, mushroom hunting, muzzleloader hunting, archery, fly tying, fly fishing and a couple of gun groups. Wow, now that I put that in writing I just realized I must look like a prepper :) Pete
 
Facebook is only useful for me to message people I don't have phone numbers for. Other than that it is a mostly a waste of time. Who really cares what the "Jones's " are doing. This forum is way better
 
BigAl said:
Facebook is only useful for me to message people I don't have phone numbers for. Other than that it is a mostly a waste of time. Who really cares what the "Jones's " are doing. This forum is way better
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What if papa Jones has a sweet 1 pound climbing method?
 
The facebook groups are really making me see forums in a different light. Repetitive questions and the constant leg humping of others just gets old. Just slowly pulling myself away from it and doing other things. Heck I'm trying to learn how to shore fish lake michigan now. Just want something different and exciting to do.

I'm on facebook more for personal stuff, but I'm about one more balloon picture away from leaving every group besides the unfiltered fishing ones that I'm on purely for a good laugh. Kinda nice to be able to shoot the bull and not worrying about feelings and being on the same page with others. Getting tired of having to not speak honestly on a subject just because somebody might be offended and complain about it.

And honestly the forums are slowly becoming that way. I just go and look at the old stuff and focus on that since the majority of the value is in that anyways.
 
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The facebook groups are really making me see forums in a different light. Repetitive questions and the constant leg humping of others just gets old. Just slowly pulling myself away from it and doing other things. Heck I'm trying to learn how to shore fish lake michigan now. Just want something different and exciting to do.

I'm on facebook more for personal stuff, but I'm about one more balloon picture away from leaving every group besides the unfiltered fishing ones that I'm on purely for a good laugh. Kinda nice to be able to shoot the bull and not worrying about feelings and being on the same page with others. Getting tired of having to not speak honestly on a subject just because somebody might be offended and complain about it.

And honestly the forums are slowly becoming that way. I just go and look at the old stuff and focus on that since the majority of the value is in that anyways.
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Facebook is 100% worse that what it replaces for everything except sending out family photos to the second tier of recipients, and sending messages to people you don't have a phone number for.
 
I don’t like Facebook I only still have it on my phone to see what’s going on with friends and family I’m never on it more than 2 minutes I can’t stand seeing the people that post videos of themselves sitting in their cars talking politics and all the other nonsense
 
The crapshow started waaaaaaay before Facebook. Back in the day, there was no web browser, just like minded geeks doing geeky things over ARPANET. Back before Tim Berners-Lee created the web browser, there was ARPANET, then TCP/IP protocol, And multiple ways for geeks to communicate, .e.g, Gopher and Veronica, etc. ... none of this non-geeky graphical windows.

Then TBL created the web browser and every slack jawed lackey with opposable thumbs either became a consumer of crap or a producer of crap with nice windows. Then came the marketers, and the lawyers, and the patent trolls, and the pornographers, and the mindless lemmings eating up all the “content”.

Heck, if I go to check the weather, the marketers are making me download gobs of data and taking up my computing resources to display video ads to sell me crap I don’t need.

Breathe Sojo, breathe. Woosah.

But FB, I use it to entertain myself. I have a game I play with my friend ‘s wife. We trade phones and she makes outlandish friend requests on my account and i do the same on hers. Whoever gets the most friends accepted wins the round. I have no idea who most of my FB friends are, but it is a hoot getting entertained for a little bit when I am bored.

Life was pretty good before TBL.

And now I have gone against my ethos and have degraded the signal to noise ratio on the internet.
 
Same, killed mine the week I graduated, (along with a state land, long beard) 4 years ago and haven't missed it yet. Well other than birthdays, people getting married, and having kids, or whatever. That experience kept me away from forums for a long time. This page has changed my mind about that. Managed, positive free exchange of ideas, way better than 40 post about what somebody had for dinner.
 
Never had Facebook

I go on here and Hunting Beast (except HB quite a bit less often since it isn’t very user friendly to navigate like Tapatalk is with SH)



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Tapeworm said:
Never had Facebook

I go on here and Hunting Beast (except HB quite a bit less often since it isn’t very user friendly to navigate like Tapatalk is with SH)



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Man, I 100% agree on the lack of Tapatalk being a limiting factor on the beast... I think I’ve only gone on there once or twice in the last year and a half now.


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One day I had a message and I couldn’t view it because I was on a hunt with low signal. I don’t understand why but I was able to post that who ever keeps sending me a message, I’m not avoiding you. I just can’t open messenger. Well people started telling me all kinds of ways to get into messenger. I said if they are a real friend and it’s important they have my number. If they don’t have my number, they are just a Facebook friend. Lots of people got their feelings hurt. Lol

I kept threatening one day I’m just gonna delete this whole thing because it’s exactly what I thought it was. Then I looked back on my page and looked over my post. I was ashamed. I became the same idiot as the rest of them. So I deleted my account. I hear people complain about Facebook and they are doing the same thing they are complaining about. You don’t even realize it. You just get caught up in the everyday cycle of it all and it becomes normal.

Getting off Facebook was like I imagine a drug addict getting off drugs. It was addictive and you don’t realize how often you are checking in. I’d catch myself picking up my phone and just stare at it thinking what can I look at now. I’d check the weather more than an 80 year old. Waiting in line somewhere or at the doctors or dentist office I was lost. Took a while to get back to normal. It’s sad!

Take the Facebook challenge and don’t get on for a week. You will realize how much reading other people’s crap about their life has consumed your time.
 
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Fortunately I've barely ever used FB so no addictions to recover from :D. Pop on once in a while to look for something specific and that's enough. My ex-wife is obsessed with FB though so I saw in a very real way how twisted people's view of the world can get through that garbage.
 
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Facebook and social media as a whole have been a huge part of the degradation of saddlehunter.com.
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I know you are super busy guy. I'd love to see some stats on the forums growth broken down over the last 3 or 4 years. It has become apparent to me that forums (of any kind) tend to go south at a magic number of members.
 
I’ve never had it nor ever wanted it. If I don’t have their number or them mine then I don’t have a need to talk to, message or otherwise associate with said person. My wife is absolutely consumed by it. Pisses me off to no end but I’ve learned after 15 years to choose my battles wisely.
 
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