[nimajneb]

I really wish I could get rid of my FB account. It's so pervasive in my social life that it would things difficult and I would miss out on events with my friends. My family uses it for video chat, my friends use it to organize social activities, I'm on a recreational kickball team that uses it for team communication, etc.

I recently deactivated and a few weeks later a friend asked if I was going to an event he invited me to. I had no idea anyone invited to me anything. I had my invite me to an event and it let her invite and didn't tell either of us I was invited to something... If you invite a deactivated account there's apparently no indication the person won't see it.

[codepoet80]

Just rip off the band-aid. Your friends can't invite you to things on Facebook if your account is fully deleted, and they'll be forced to reach out in different ways. The first 6-12 months are hard, but if you can make it past that, you won't miss it. I setup a Discord server for my family, and we're enjoying a "semi-private" social network that way -- it works well, even for grandparents. I wrote a bot that let's them save photos posted in Discord to their digital picture frame in their living room, and they love it.

[zeroonetwothree]

Weird, in my circle no one uses it anymore. Although to be fair I’m not convinced that most of the alternatives are likely to be much better. I don’t see why Google wouldn’t be doing exactly the same stuff.

At least there is Signal. I’ve moved most of my messaging there.

[hbn]

There was a point in time where you could sign up for just Facebook Messenger without making a Facebook account, but of course they removed that cause they want everyone to have a Facebook account.