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Not using Facebook, losing touch, people going abit crazy
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Sooooo since about February I have not been on Facebook, and thats literally not going on it at all. I just lost interest in it and stopped signing in and tbh I've not missed it at all.
I have "friends" on there from all over. Uni mates, mates at home and just the usual acquaintances you have on there. Tbh I very rarely kept in touch with people while I was on there, just the usual hey, how you doing? whats going on these days? There were a couple of uni mates I would go up and see every now and then.
I keep in touch with my mates at home (the ones I do stuff with) via phone and texting. So didnt really feel the need to use facebook for that. The downside of that is some people are starting to think I'm ignoring them as I'm not on facebook these days.
I have had a few missed calls from Uni friends, who are on my facebook, but I never got round to returning the call. That is something I'm really bad at, I admit. But its kind of weird, I've not missed facebook at all and honestly, even if it sounds abit bad, I've not really been that fussed about catching up with everyone.
Its not like i would ignore them if I saw them in real life. I just dont have much time these days to spend on Facebook but I have this feeling that they think I'm purposefully ignoring them. I should have just returned their call at the time but now more time has gone on and on it just feels like it would be abit awkward to ring them up now.
I've had a few texts and whatsapp messages the last few days, that are well....they sound really arsey and are really moany. I mean I'm still not all that arsed. I replied and asked how everyone was but tbh I cant be arsed to chat if they're going to spend half the time going "WHY THE FUCK HAVENT YOU RESPONDED TO MY FB MESSAGE FROM 4 MONTHS AGO".
Just feels abit awkward atm.
I have "friends" on there from all over. Uni mates, mates at home and just the usual acquaintances you have on there. Tbh I very rarely kept in touch with people while I was on there, just the usual hey, how you doing? whats going on these days? There were a couple of uni mates I would go up and see every now and then.
I keep in touch with my mates at home (the ones I do stuff with) via phone and texting. So didnt really feel the need to use facebook for that. The downside of that is some people are starting to think I'm ignoring them as I'm not on facebook these days.
I have had a few missed calls from Uni friends, who are on my facebook, but I never got round to returning the call. That is something I'm really bad at, I admit. But its kind of weird, I've not missed facebook at all and honestly, even if it sounds abit bad, I've not really been that fussed about catching up with everyone.
Its not like i would ignore them if I saw them in real life. I just dont have much time these days to spend on Facebook but I have this feeling that they think I'm purposefully ignoring them. I should have just returned their call at the time but now more time has gone on and on it just feels like it would be abit awkward to ring them up now.
I've had a few texts and whatsapp messages the last few days, that are well....they sound really arsey and are really moany. I mean I'm still not all that arsed. I replied and asked how everyone was but tbh I cant be arsed to chat if they're going to spend half the time going "WHY THE FUCK HAVENT YOU RESPONDED TO MY FB MESSAGE FROM 4 MONTHS AGO".
Just feels abit awkward atm.
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If they get arsey that's the problem, and just leave them to it!
Oh, and if you close a facebook account you can re-open it at any time and all your stuff will come back :thumb:
FB allows you to keep contact passively in a way, and so you can "keep contact" with more people than the ones you would otherwise. You're ok with that but if you do want to keep contact with some, do so in another way.
Hey I do the same thing, we should be friends.
For ever and ever and ever! Friend! Car friend? Football friend?
All of the above.
that's why it's best to put up a status for a few days before you delete it saying a way to contact I think it would be better to delete it though, rather than just not use it, because I can understand why people would get annoyed if they don't get a reply to an inbox or something. Unless you do what Whowhere says, and change your settings so you get an email when someone writes to you on facebook.
My problem would be mostly (and even if this sounds sad) without things like Facebook nobody would contact me, except my mum.
So for some people it's a waste of time, for some, it's the crack of light under the door in what would otherwise be a lonely existence. It's no replacement for 'real' social contact, but as a replacement for no social contact? I'll take it.