Note: I'm here talking about deleting an account, not deactivating it.
Since I closed my Facebook account about a month ago, and I'm thinking about how I will explain the motives that made me make this decision, because I want to help those who are reluctant to make such a decision and to be clear and detailed. There are a lot of things you might like about Facebook. It's basically a forum for the family (especially for expatriates), a source of news, a place to discuss things with your classmates, write your friends, do some serious work and can help you "kill time".
- # 4 Distraction
When I looked at these characteristics carefully, I immediately discovered that they were the reason why I left Facebook. This mixture of international and local news publications, then personal and study, arranged according to a vague algorithm, does not seem to understand human psychology as much as they understand Facebook's ad algorithms - You can only meet on Facebook, which in the end causes you a degree of distraction that does not realize its consequences until it is too late. What is the relationship that brings together a caption video with a singer's song while your friends eat something somewhere? Can your mind link these events that you read sequentially in a context? Is the link really the social component? Can this happen in real life? I think that the constant exposure to this pressure caused by the diversity of the content you follow will negatively affect your brain cells. Either it loses the ability to link coherent events, or makes them see links between things that are not supposed to be relevant. The result will be a change in thinking and behavior. Which is subject to it.
- # 3 Social hypocrisy
Facebook is simply no longer a social network, it has become a reality of social life. Everything in our real life ends up in the Facebook newsletter, but we often do things in our real life for the purpose of participating on Facebook or at least it is motivated by motivation. How many times have you picked up a group photo with your friends, and the purpose of picking it up is just to keep it as a memory, without thinking about posting it on Facebook? How many times have you got the idea and resisted that hidden motive that makes you publish it immediately on Facebook amid an audience that may not care at all what you might think?
Facebook push you to share all the happy moments in your life and take away any desire for privacy. At the same time, you will notice that you are hiding your sad moments because you think it is inappropriate to publish among the many happy publications in your news bulletin. Even when you publish something negative, The impulse is just to share more, bring more and more hits that compensate you for the feeling of grief! Is something I will discuss immediately.
It is ironic that your long-term use of a social network that claims to connect people to one another becomes a non-social person. But this is true, and I think I have a theory that explains the mechanism by which it happens: when you do not get involved enough in the social activities of your friends on Facebook, because you do not see them deserve any comment or admiration (do you really care what your friend listens or what he eats Is it impressive or worth commenting?) Facebook's algorithm reduces the importance of your publication to you and decides that such a publication is less important than others in the news bulletin, so Facebook will start hiding publications that are thought to be similar to it in the future. Interact with these publications again (since you do not see them) Their importance will continue to decline. Little by little, everything published by a person is unimportant in the eyes of this algorithm because it takes into account your communication with the author (in addition to your interaction through comments and comments). This means that the large number of non-important publications on Facebook (the vast majority of publications) will also affect the possibility of the publication of publications you may deem important from the same person. Therefore, when you truly feel that you do not see an important publication, Facebook penalizes you for not interacting with It deprives you of publications that may be important to you; of course, this is not intentional, but computers that fail to explain the psychological impulses! In the eyes of Facebook algorithms, you are required to comment and share everything you encounter, otherwise your newsletter will become a desolate desert, and you will come back repeatedly to find that your news bulletin does not change. Facebook does not respect your sincerity in admiring or ignoring a publication, all that matters is to be always active so as to guarantee them more hours of use that are reflected on the profits of the site! Now watch the reflection on your real life. Some of my friends have always asked me: Why do not you participate in my publications? (Thinking that I do not want to be their friend); the answer is always: Either the publication is not important, or you should ask Facebook's algorithm!
- # 2 Addiction
I know that chemistry can not explain all the psychological impulses of man, but at least I believe that feeling happy is associated with the secretion of dopamine by a command from the brain, the same substance responsible for the "sense of reward" of the number of hits obtained by that image published on Facebook. The dopamine secretion leads to the need for more of it. At the same time, the threshold for feeling happy with exposure to the same stimulus increases in simpler words: a person becomes addicted and always needs an additional dose to restore happiness. Facebook addiction is no different in principle from drug addiction or any other habit; it is initially done in full consciousness, then it is out of control.
How many times have you found yourself opening a Facebook page in your browser routinely without attention? Have you noticed that this habit is repeated more frequently when you feel despair or emptiness?
Over time, all your emotions, emotions and motivations will be centered around "How do I get more love?" To restore this feeling; worse, it happens unconsciously until you decide to do something and start observing yourself.
- # 1 Privacy
It is one of the most recent things I have paid attention to, especially after my complete transition to Linux. Free programs and privacy are closely linked. Privacy has contributed to the emergence of free software, a free system that protects my privacy and continues to rely on a service that grows and feeds. On their users' data and their conversion into inputs into ad generation machines are incompatible. Hack your deal with Facebook implicitly when you start using it:
"We have the right to steal your data, use it to direct advertising to you, and give it to the governments when they request it, and we have the right to treat you as a test mouse to conduct psychological tests on the grounds of scientific research, and we have the right to do anything that we did not mention here and we may need to do one day to change the employment agreement when Like ... ah ... you ask about your rights? Simply Facebook is free!"
We all know that "free" here (and most of the services of the giant companies on the web) means that you are the commodity!
The problem is that most people I know in my real life do not care about their privacy on the web, simply because they can not understand the concept of digital data and think it is a secluded thing that can not influence their real lives (the funny thing is that data is exactly what intelligence agencies around the world are trying to gather) , Do what they want on the web and publish all the details of their lives because they are reassured that the Web is not tangible, and it seems that the dangerous things must be material and concrete before it can convince you that it is dangerous. Is it possible for a person to publish what he eats and drinks and when he comes out of his house and what he loves and what he hates and what he does every few hours in public? Someone will tell you that there are privacy options that do not allow others to see these details, so you can share the right content with the right group of people, the simple knowledge of how the Web services work and how they store them in databases that make anyone aware that privacy options are just a few Dozens of code lines that create a virtual barrier between the viewer and the publication, and the publications can be accessed through a direct request from the databases without having to pass that privacy layer, I mean that you hide some of your friends specific publications, but easily visible to those who can access the rules of the Data, including governments (this is no longer a secret) and staff (this happened with Google) are probably groups of hackers who do not know where they are or who they are.
Here's the summary: Privacy options require you to share more information about yourself and about your life that you might not have shared before these options are available .
I think everybody knows that Steemit is different from Facebook in all the previous things
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I spent the whole day writing in this, I hope that this post you like it, I'm sorry about the grammatical errors
