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It's Quit Facebook Day, are you in or out?
It's May 31st, which makes it not only Memorial Day here in the States, but also the first officially unofficial Quit Facebook Day.
You may have noticed that Facebook has been getting a lot of attention from us recently, and it's really no surprise given the amount of public sentiment toward the social-networking site. About a week ago, one of those posts was about a movement to get users to leave the network in droves, spearheaded by the website QuitFacebookDay.com.
Well, it's time to ante up.
Earlier this month, a couple of our writers up and quit the network, setting their accounts on the path to peaceful rest. According to the counter on QuitFacebookDay.com, some 26,000 users have pledged to quit just like they did, making this Blue Monday a Facebook Blue Monday -- or so they hope. Considering the fact that Facebook has somewhere in the range of 400 million users, 26,000 just doesn't seem substantial enough to make Mark Zuckerberg shed a tear.
That being said, we're still curious. Are you quitting today?
| Yep. | |
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| I just can't quit you, Facebook. | |
| I'm thinking about it... |
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsdamienMay 31st 2010 8:00AM
You forgot the "I never joined Facebook" button in your poll...
Matthew RogersMay 31st 2010 8:10AM
Haha, well there are so few of you out there! I do come across somebody every now and then who has managed to stay off Facebook, but it's somewhat of a rare occasion these days.
SensaiMay 31st 2010 2:35PM
That's me too. I never joined a single social networking site...gotta say I'm a little proud, honestly. I figure anyone who I would wanna keep in touch with I already do in real life. I don't need extra 'friends.'
http://xkcd.com/743/
xprimeeeeeeexMay 31st 2010 9:01AM
How stupid....
DuckMay 31st 2010 8:06AM
Here comes the day when all those people who have no friends quit facebook...
Can't wait for the "Hit your balls with a hammer day", I'm sure people will sign up to do that in droves...
Tom in MNMay 31st 2010 8:36AM
A couple of years ago, after receiving invitations to Facebook, Linked-In, etc. I made a decision not to join ANY social networking sites. Nada. I have never regretted this decision as I see these sites as tremendous time-sucks with absolutely no concrete upside other than the enjoyment of pseudo-relationships.
HospiMay 31st 2010 9:33AM
I felt (and still feel) much the same as you do Tom, but I joined Facebook reluctantly and although I rarely go on it, it can be really useful on occasion. Recently for example, a friend of mine, who I may only see once a year, if that, had an art show. They are not close enough that they would have phoned me, but invited me via Facebook. They invited about 40 other people via Facebook. I noticed that there were about 5 other people going that I had lost touch with and really wanted to see. That's five old friends I spent a day with that I might otherwise not have run into.
RichMay 31st 2010 12:25PM
I am there with you Tom.
I did break down and join LinkedIn when I was out of work to generate some leads but once I got a job, deleted the account.
FB?
It will never happen no matter how much my fiance, mom, sister, friends and coworkers say I need to. I see absolutely zero point in using it. I keep in touch with all the people from high school and college I want too, I live with the fiance, mom barely knows how to turn the computer one and between the calls and emails I get from friends and co-workers I don't see how FB would make ANY difference in how I communicate with people.
Its my goal to be the last person earth without a FB page.
HospiMay 31st 2010 1:03PM
... by the way, I may be on Facebook but I have yet to own a cell phone even though I have been tempted to buy since the days when we still called them car phones. It's just too much money for something I've been able to live without for this long.
sharkyncMay 31st 2010 9:34AM
Was never in to begin with - so there.
dm3ntdMay 31st 2010 10:04AM
Staying, they can share all the info I have given them.... an email account I use for sites I think are gonna spam me, and my hometown & high school (haven't lived there in 20 years).
The upside is daily communication with family members that have drifted apart for many years, and friends I haven't seen in years and don't get to see as often as I would like (they live in or around that same hometown, which is over 75 miles away).
gidleysMay 31st 2010 10:14AM
I jumped. If facebook worked reasonably reliably I could almost (ALMOST) tolerate the frank and unapologetic incremental erosion of my privacy. However, it sucks, so I'm gone.
Mental note to actually call some friends occasionally instead.
Matthew RogersMay 31st 2010 10:16AM
The mental note to actually call friends made me lol :)
NemanjaTGGMay 31st 2010 11:56AM
I really don't see point why???I have all my friend there,i am in music business so FB is great place for accumulating fans,also it's great place to find sweat love (i really mean a lot of love,no more trying to get phone or find them outside,they are all there waiting for me,all you need to do is add her,say hi and there we go,simple as that ) As my friend sad it's a place of sins!!!
Tired_May 31st 2010 1:11PM
Ok. We get it. You don't like Facebook anymore. Enough of the "quitter" posts, Download Squad. It's tired and old.
Matthew RogersMay 31st 2010 1:14PM
26,000 people pledge to quit a social network on this day and you're whining that we're paying attention.
If you're tired, take a nap.
Tired_May 31st 2010 2:07PM
I'm whining about overly repeating an issue.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/13/farewell-to-facebook-at-least-for-now/
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/17/the-time-has-come-for-me-to-say-goodbye-to-facebook-too/
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/24/quitfacebookday-lets-you-you-guessed-it/
And now this one.
That's a lot of posts in just over two weeks about not using some website. Isn't there some new software somewhere to review?