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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

Me shading my Gen X and Boomer friends.
I have not logged in for so damn long that made me jump hoops to log in. I have to fish my photos from the platform tho, so I can't disconnect it yet lol

@liztai This Gen Xer quit Facebook the day after the election. And the more I hear about Zuckerberg, the gladder I am to have left.

@soulexpress I think I quit ... ok I'm Malaysian so the election didn't effect me, but I quit mostly because of too much info about friends lol. Unlike others, I really don't want to know about their lives that much unless you have a face to face lunch/coffee with me ;D

@soulexpress oh yeah and how much they love to share negative content. I couldn't deal with all of that doom

@liztai yeah, finally someone who might not think its weird. I'd rather invest time in people who invest time in me, the friend who I meet for coffee, or the one whose kids play with mine, people I actually socialize with, rather than every acquaintance with whom I might have mutual recognition.

Mastodon is different, it's more like seeing regulars at the local pub and occasionally meeting people by jumping into an overheard conversation in a public space.

@raven667 I love it here. It's the only calm social media I know

@liztai I've been wary about giving personal details and photos of my kids to Facebook for a while now, but there are edge relatives and in-laws and whatnot that I want to let have updates. I tried posting links to my own photo site a few times. Finally, I'm starting an email mailing list for a family newsletter. I'll email them those personal details like in the 1990s.

@shannonkay omg email newsletter to relatives is the BEST THING. I love the idea.
Yeah I don't like sharing personal info on FB. A lot of my friends OVERSHARE to a painful degree. I really have no energy to deal with their drama and honestly i don't want to inflict my neuroses on them either.

@liztai I agree. And the problem I had was that people like my mom's cousins and my husband's aunts wanted personal updates, pictures of the kids, etc. But we don't see them IRL, they're not local, etc. Those are the "Facebook people" I didn't want to abandon. Email is perfect for that crowd!

Be aware that sending things via email is equivalent to publishing them in a book: email is not encrypted, so if your mail hops on GMail (Google), Hotmail (Microsoft) or others' servers, they get to see the contents and collect them (and they do). So if you're sending sensitive stuff over email, just don't. Send them in a side channel, like handing things over to them in person :)

@paguro This is a good reminder, thank you. Nothing is sensitive, just more personal stories than I would prefer to give to Facebook.

@liztai i got my fb password wrong one time so it makes me jump the hoops of typing the one-time password sent to my email within 10 seconds. i cannot input the password within 10 seconds even if i had their ideal setup, which i believe is on mobile and just dropping the password into the input box. anyway that is why i have not logged into fb for months—because i am so annoyed by that 10-second timeout thing :blobcatangry:

@liztai Facebook still has critical mass. Various people I'd have a hard time staying in touch with otherwise, and several groups that are hard to follow without it. So I'm staying for now.

@noam I only follow some groups but even then, not really lol