Comments on: It’s not you Facebook, it’s me — okay, it’s partly you: Why I unfriended almost everyone

By: Patsy Collins

Patsy Collins — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:05:32 +0000

Matthew, don’t you think Facebook should bring a saviour like John Patton as a CEO? So it can really be… Digital first!

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:17:13 +0000

Thanks, Mark — I decided to try and take it back and make it personal again :-)

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:16:28 +0000

It has made it more relevant, but I am spending less time on it, if that makes any sense.

By: daveatkins

daveatkins — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:10:35 +0000

I did a great unfriending a few years ago and then, this weekend, I just quit. I was helping my mother in law configure her ipad to use the facebook app and I saw all the drivel that was in her newsfeed–self-important political pontifications from our relatives–and I thought, is this what I look like? How did we get to this point where everyone thinks their friends want to know what they are thinking all the time?
I predict you will experience a period of six months or so where you feel Facebook is a little more relevant to you and you enjoy actually seeing what your real friends are doing–now that they are less obscured by the noise of those people who friended you to join their 1000+ friend club–but then you will realize: it is all crap. It’s all fake. It was fun for awhile to “reconnect” with people you hadn’t seen in 20 years, but the reality is, you are not really connected and unless you’ve reconnected in person, the Facebook experience is just an illusion.

By: Amit Gadhia

Amit Gadhia — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:12:36 +0000

facebook: so useful and so useless, at the same time

By: guest

guest — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:08:00 +0000

Let’s face it: Only drama queens go on unfriending sprees. It’s a way they make themselves feel self important on a system where their shallowness is initially fed by friend count. After they tire of their inability to max out at 5000 friends, they decide to “unfriend everybody” to help their bruised egos.

By: Dona Buckmann

Dona Buckmann — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:58:41 +0000

I use facebook to link to a wide variety of news and informational pages. Economist, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Space.com, Forbes, The Cool Hunter and the list goes on and on. Links from the far right to the far left & everywhere in between. It also affords me the opportunity to stay in touch with people and share a few tidbits, I’m overseas & it would be easy to lose contact with everyone I’ve ever known – In theory I’m not a hugh fan of Facebook in the manner most use it, but it serves a purpose to me for now.

By: Stofferpix

Stofferpix — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:21:48 +0000

I deleted almost everyone on my Facebook profile before Christmas. Don’t miss it, but miss some of them. Problem is that Facebook takes to much of my time…

By: Stofferpix

Stofferpix — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:18:17 +0000

I deleted all my friends on Facebook just before christmas exept my son, daughter, and some realy close friends. I don’t miss anyone, and Facebook takes to much time.

By: Greg Satell

Greg Satell — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:23:34 +0000

I love Facebook, but then I’ve always been careful about who I add. In my book, anything that has family stuff on it is not an open forum.

A few times people harassed me about it, but as far as I’m concerned, I have a twitter feed, a fan page for my blog and I linkedIn profile that I’m pretty open with. There are more than enough opportunities for anyone who wants to connect with me.