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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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1293 points rmason | 1 comments | 06 Mar 19 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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AdrianB1 ◴[06 Mar 19 22:46 UTC] No.19323743[source]▶
I lost too many "friends" on Facebook: I knew these people for many years, but I was shocked what they posted - from stupid to incredible things, mostly politics and mostly far left. I started cutting all these people and I was left with less than 20 when I closed my account.
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anarchy8 ◴[06 Mar 19 22:58 UTC] No.19323850[source]▶
> mostly politics and mostly far left

You're upset that your friends have different political opinions than you? And you're blaming Facebook for this? Why?

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0xffff2 ◴[07 Mar 19 00:24 UTC] No.19324465[source]▶
Is that wrong? I have virtually no interest in politics. It's unlikely that I'm going to remain friends with anyone who expresses particularly strong political views, left or right. I just don't care, and find it too exhausting to be bothered most of the time. If the only place I see/hear those views is on Facebook, it might be easier to drop Facebook than to drop those friends.
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1. shrimp_emoji ◴[07 Mar 19 03:03 UTC] No.19325241{3}[source]▶
How do you do it? I find myself so wrapped in what feels like a fundamental struggle for our future, which could be so amazing or so horrible depending on the glacial shifts in collective will and which I may be able to influence if only I ignite enough low-bandwidth arguments.

Posting is warfare.