Feels monumental but after upwards of three decades on Facebook, I just deleted my account there. This is now my sole social media platform. - ThreadSky

chawls.bsky.social • 40 days ago

Feels monumental but after upwards of three decades on Facebook, I just deleted my account there.

This is now my sole social media platform.

Comments

remakingmanhood.bsky.social•39 days ago

Me, too.

thxchef.bsky.social•38 days ago

Nice work. The oligarchs need a few lessons on playing fair.

glutenpositive.bsky.social•39 days ago

Yeah, me too. Feels weird, but can’t do meta anymore. This is a good place.

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Apparently my Facebook exit posts speaks for a lot of you — the mixed feelings but mostly how positive it feels to be clean of it.

sunset-pt26.bsky.social•39 days ago

I haven't deleted as I need it for work. But stopped all posting. Use blusky and Threads.

thewelshtaffy24.bsky.social•39 days ago

Good 👍

lazycirclesesq.bsky.social•40 days ago

Hitting that follow button!

muffintop72.bsky.social•39 days ago

Me too!

mdenn.bsky.social•39 days ago

I’m still on it for now just so I can share from here and reach more people. For now. Not forever.

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

For sure. There’s solid rationale for staying on for many folks.

billybobertsonbaby.bsky.social•39 days ago

Same. Kinda fun, right?

tiredtx.bsky.social•39 days ago

I deleted my FB and Insta a few months ago. I would be interested to know how many accounts they’ve lost since the election.

tiredtx.bsky.social•39 days ago

Also, would like an accurate number on how many accounts are bots.

liberalrage.bsky.social•39 days ago

Facebook is filled with nothing but fake Chinese pages extolling musk's virtues.
Keep blocking them and more pop-up

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Isn’t that something? Where did that come from — and without permission? That was the last straw for me.

liberalrage.bsky.social•39 days ago

Zuck is allowing it
Even the communist China regime is posting propaganda ads

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

All this is why I just makes no sense to me for our Democratic government officials to be posting there and on Twitter/X but not here.

liberalrage.bsky.social•39 days ago

My senator hasn't been on her Facebook page in forever.
Our governor?
Not a peep
They should be here guiding us

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Or at least talking to us.

zongo-the-zischer.bsky.social•39 days ago

Strong move! Congrats.

pnwrose64.bsky.social•40 days ago

Congratulations 👏

capecodcritter.bsky.social•39 days ago

Mine too!

bengalzae.bsky.social•39 days ago

Deleted it yesterday. The people who matter know how to find us.

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

That’s what I came up with.

meaningfulsalt.bsky.social•39 days ago

dutch-in-us.bsky.social•39 days ago

I did the same. Felt great!

mytrain666.bsky.social•39 days ago

Congratulations

familinomics.bsky.social•39 days ago

I bid adieu to folks last night.

But I am leaving it up in order to follow and hammer my Congressman, who's also on X, which I did delete.

esthersantos.bsky.social•39 days ago

me too! way to go!

dfed.me•39 days ago

Facebook didn’t exist three decades ago. Do you mean two decades?

leahvavra.bsky.social•39 days ago

The internet wasn’t even really a thing three decades ago. LOL. Three decades ago was 1995. Isn’t it amazing how rapidly things have changed?

ccnurse59.bsky.social•39 days ago

2000,2010,2020
3 decades. 2 and half decades

lordye.bsky.social•39 days ago

Good move

a1al.bsky.social•39 days ago

3 decades ?

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Upwards of. At my age, everything seems forever ago.

leahvavra.bsky.social•39 days ago

Yeah, Facebook wasn’t even a thing till 1994. And 3 decades ago was 1995 and the internet wasn’t even widely available until 1998-2000. LOL

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Which is why I said “upwards of three decades.” No way I can remember exactly when I joined but it was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

charlieharry.bsky.social•39 days ago

I did the same thing 👍🏻

democracy-deb71.bsky.social•39 days ago

I get it

dianademarest.bsky.social•39 days ago

Mine too. I killed Facebook and Twitter.

fraidicat2.bsky.social•40 days ago

Cleansing

meidasdavid.bsky.social•39 days ago

Good man. I deleted FB a long time ago. Just cancelled Amazon subscription, and psyching myself to delete Instagram. Small gestures, but I just refuse to play along any more.

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Yep. Also cancelled Amazon effective last Friday.

* Bezos deleted Friday
* Zuckerberg (Facebook, Instagram) deleted yesterday
* Musk deleted January
* TikTok deleted yesterday.

They picked up the garbage this morning.

meidasdavid.bsky.social•39 days ago

Feels like a long-awaited, and much-needed purge.

willib718.bsky.social•39 days ago

I did the same. congrats.

diotimaellen.bsky.social•39 days ago

Very wise of you!

hankwankford.bsky.social•40 days ago

This is your SOUL social media platform.

tenbux-says.bsky.social•40 days ago

Never had FB. Never had X. Only here till it gets weird

tacticalmoonpie.bsky.social•39 days ago

Same. I hated to do it, cause I know some of my friends wouldn't leave it for various reasons, but I felt like I had to cut FB, Insta, and Threads out of my life.

karmasdad.bsky.social•39 days ago

Way to go. Everyone should follow suit.
I left on my 20th Anniversary (Feb 1). It felt good to remove that stain from my laptop icons (i never put it on my phone).

madmom1219.bsky.social•39 days ago

Just did the same. Fed up with being exploited by Zuck.

fagin.bsky.social•39 days ago

Way to go!

broth11.bsky.social•40 days ago

Sadly republicans will never see you.

And the democrats won’t hear you.

And Orwell’s 1884 was just a few decades late.

chawls.bsky.social•40 days ago

There has been zero percent mutually constructive political dialogue with my Republican friends there since we’ll before Trump and it’s only gotten worse.

It is fruitless IMO to waste energy on the Trump cult. It has never been a good platform for political dialogue. Same as Twitter.

grandmaof8.bsky.social•39 days ago

It was so sad when I did it but I had to.

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

It feels that way for me right now just leaving friends and even family. But we can stay in touch here and elsewhere. That’s how I’m approaching it.

lesmj.bsky.social•40 days ago

Substack is good too.

ibjimmyg.bsky.social•39 days ago

Almost 2 decades for me but the same since zuck’s decision to eliminate the fact checkers

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Good point and good call.

jb-hot-cheeze.bsky.social•39 days ago

I want to sooooo bad! However, it is the only place where I can get timely information from @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social because they never post here! HEY @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social , PLEASE START POSTING HERE ON BLUE SKY FOR GOD'S SAKE!

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

I SO hear you. The time will be right for you when it’s right. My time arrived. Yours will in time.

themysteryinc.bsky.social•39 days ago

Thank you for leaving nazibook

timzero4.bsky.social•39 days ago

Congratulations. Another piece of Mark Zuckerberg's empire shattered. Every little bit helps.

emilykayvotruba.bsky.social•39 days ago

me too!

mafhoney.bsky.social•39 days ago

Well done!

mommabean.bsky.social•39 days ago

I deleted everything too like last week. I finally just did it.

ccnurse59.bsky.social•39 days ago

today i ditched /deleted all my Meta accounts FB, INSTA, THREADS, Messenger. i'm only active on Bluesky

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Way to go, Rene! It gained you at least this one new follower.

sandiadiva.bsky.social•39 days ago

Didn't delete my FB accounts (yet), just deactivated them. My only social media accounts are on Blue Sky and Substack.

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

Oh, I guess I forgot about Substack as a social media account. Subscribed to a few of those, too.

spinoza1960.bsky.social•39 days ago

Congratulations!

jeanyousefi.bsky.social•39 days ago

Me too.

fshagan.bsky.social•39 days ago

I did the same. Also deleted Threads, which was better than Bluesky for curating your feed.

hiramhaus.bsky.social•39 days ago

They don’t make it easy

hopebutterflies.bsky.social•39 days ago

Same here. Nothing but Blue Sky now

corgiman.bsky.social•39 days ago

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

suzikabloozie99.bsky.social•40 days ago

Same. Congrats!

lahelca.bsky.social•40 days ago

I haven't been on FB for years. When I had an account, it wasn't longer than a year. I was on Twitter forever. After years there, 2 weeks ago I deactivated both of my X accounts. I'm praying, as a photographer, for a new creative site so I can leave Instagram.

mcyj1.bsky.social•39 days ago

I hear you- as an Interior Designer with 21 years on the platform- it wasn’t easy to say goodbye- but I feel so much lighter not supporting oligarchs and Zuckerberg specifically…. Will sit tight for @bluesky to launch a viable competitor…

chawls.bsky.social•39 days ago

That’s how it was for me with Twitter. Actually not as hard as I expected and it feels good not to be supporting oligarchy and standing up for democracy.