[krilly]

>This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago.

Why not just disable notifications, or just uninstall the app without deleting your account? Facebook can still be of use to you without you being of use to it.

I've long used Facebook only for messaging and managing events because it's an effective and ubiquitous platform for both of these things.

[cgriswald]

> Why not just disable notifications

Many apps provide useful notifications but some genius somewhere realized they can get more eyeballs if they abuse the notification system. So you have to take the bad with the good or throw them both out.

What’s worse is some apps provide “fine grain control” which is supposed to allow you to decide what types of notifications you get. Some other genius had the idea to be very loose with what belongs in what category.

And yet another genius had the idea to spam email if phone notifications are disabled.

And they’ll let you disable that too... but yet another genius had the idea to “accidentally” forget all these settings.

So... I don’t know. Disable them, sure. It’s the advice that keeps on giving, I guess.

[reaperducer]

Why not just disable notifications

Possibly because some combination of his device/platform/Facebook didn't honor his request after a while. At one time it wasn't unheard of for an app to self-update and reset notifications and other settings.

or just uninstall the app without deleting your account

Revenge, probably. And/or to punish FB microscopically, but in the only way we can.

I've long used Facebook only for messaging and managing events because it's an effective and ubiquitous platform for both of these things.

Good for you. Not everyone lives the same life that you do.