He announced this week that he would delete Facebook at the end of the year after nearly 12 years on the platform in light of the troubling revelations about how the company handles people's personal data. They say they didn't reach the decision lightly, especially with too few alternatives other than Twitter, which can be just as divisive , and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook , but they are glad they did it.
For weeks after quitting Facebook, they suffered from phantom-limb syndrome, imagining their phone was pinging them with status updates. They punched in their username and password on the Facebook login page only to realize they no longer had a profile. But soon they discovered that, without Facebook, they had more time for exercise, hobbies and, yes, real face time with their friends.
Their message: There's life after Facebook. Eric Tollevsen, a year-old New Yorker, quit Facebook two years ago to escape the political bickering and cesspool of fake news during the presidential election. The Facebook habit was tough to break at first.
Tollevsen caught himself typing Facebook into his browser 20, 30, sometimes 40 times a day, and had to remind himself that he no longer had an account. He's not off social media entirely. He follows politics on Twitter and, as a visual merchandiser for a clothing chain, he keeps an eye on what celebrities are wearing on Instagram. To make himself feel better about using an app that's owned by Facebook, he deletes Instagram from his phone each time he uses it.
After the recent news that Russians were targeting users on Instagram, not just Facebook, and that Facebook gave Amazon, Netflix, Spotify and other companies greater access to people's personal information than previously disclosed, he's reconsidering his use of Instagram, too.
Since giving up Facebook, Sung Lee, 51, a photographer in Orange County, California, says he spends more time reading books. He's also learning to play bass guitar. And he's cooking more, rediscovering Korean specialties and attempting to make the perfect pizza. Lee's social life hasn't missed a beat either, he says. Instead of updating his status on Facebook or scrolling through his feed, he calls friends on the phone or meets them for a cup of coffee. Sometimes he leaves his phone in the car so he can focus on his friends, even if they still pick up theirs to check social media.
And now when he meets up with friends at parties, he doesn't already know every single detail of their lives. From job changes to vacations, he feels like he's truly connecting with friends in a way he has not since when he joined Facebook.
It's like we always joke, the only time I didn't have it was when I was taking a shower," says Lee, who was dismayed when he switched to a Galaxy phone and the Facebook app was preloaded on it.
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