current facebook participation level

what is it with ilx polls and false dichotomies

what's the false dichotomy

regularly/never. PICK ONE.

I am on facebook and ignore it regularly

ok, that's more of an oversight than creating a "false dichotomy".

i check my facebook every day for messages but i don't spend time clicking around on there unless i'm real bored

yeah I check my messages and scroll down the newsfeed for like 3 seconds but I have pretty much stopped caring about 'my social network' and I would not be willing to pay $10 a month for this service

Its cheaper than actually meeting ppl

There def needs to be another option inbetween 'use it regularly' and 'never use it'. Cos i use it these days maybe once or twice a week, for a total of like 5 mins, just checking messages scrolling through a dozen or so news feeds. And that's way different than signing on every day, multiple times a day, commenting on stuff, actually browsing the site.

I really hate how you are kind of obligated to do FB if you are for instance in a band or have some kind of business/art thing, you have to check in and repost and create images and make events and invite people, etc. I want to play in a band, not run an effing fan club.

when i was single i was there a lot.
after i met my partner ( on facebook!) i go there only once a day/2 days, just to check messages, usually from a friend who prefer the facebook platform upon regular e-mails.

i was never really interested on the "social network" aspect of it, actually.

so i guess "other option"?

"other option", specifically: I'm on Facebook, use it frequently but very lightly (partly for professional purposes) and resent it because it's such an awful, awful, awful fucking mess of a thing.

Yeah, I'm not going to lock the poll and start fresh or anything. I'll just assume that people who want to vote something like that will vote "other option" and voice their opinion in a post. My bad.

I'm disappointed—I thought this was gonna be a super-detailed breakdown, with options like "Rarely add content, but check timeline and 'like' posts several times per day" or "Add new photo albums more than once a week")

"facebook participation level" is a great concept tho and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter

sorry for the shitty poll.

you can assume that the "average" answers would be "used to use it very regularly, now i use it less".

in the future it might be "facebook? who use that anyway?"

also, don't take it too hard lol

factors that seem relevant:

— frequency (& spatial distribution?) of facebook-checking
— frequency (& intensity?) of 'primary activity' (updating status, uploading photos or videos, creating events, making changes to profile)
— frequency (& intensity?) of 'secondary activity' (liking or commenting on the 'primary activity' of others, posting on a friend's or event's wall ['changes to profile' should maybe go here too? idk])
— size & variability of a user's friend network

only use it for events (promoting shows, reminding myself what's happening this weekend)

ya I was trying to think of some way to consider the 'facebook-only' vs. 'correlates w/ real-world' axis but......it's complicated

maybe a level below 'primary activity' consisting of friendships & social gatherings whose existence precedes Facebook & would survive its disappearance

I have a daily or thereabouts scroll through my news feed to see if there's anything interesting, click a couple of likes, block a couple of arseholes and post the occasional Snopes link in response to some stupid shared conspiracy shite. Probably takes up an hour a week.

I terms of status updates I think I make maybe one a month idk.

i think i'm the only person in the world who never wrote a facebook status.

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i usually scroll more than i read. i'm a terrible friend. there's just too much to get through.

I am a Facebook refusenik.

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Does anyone know an easy way to delete all of my past comments to other people's threads and/or all publicly visible content without literally deleting everything I've ever posted?