>"Here’s the thing. You won’t be as outcast and lonely as you think. Your friends—and I know this is hard to believe—are still your friends in real life. You just won’t get notifications of what they ate on their lunch break."
This is so true and you might even find that you interact with your real friends more in real life after quitting Facebook.
"Facebook friends" is really a misnomer that has kind of devalued the word friend in my opinion. I think for the vast majority of connections on FB are more likely to be "Facebook acquaintances." These exists in real life as well, you just might not be as up to date on "what they had for lunch"(quoting the article.
Problem with quitting Facebook has nothing to do with your (real) friends, at least not for me, but for one or two communities (retro computers in this case), 10 years ago they would have been on a forum-like platform, but are now on Facebook instead.
>"Here’s the thing. You won’t be as outcast and lonely as you think. Your friends—and I know this is hard to believe—are still your friends in real life. You just won’t get notifications of what they ate on their lunch break."
This is so true and you might even find that you interact with your real friends more in real life after quitting Facebook.
"Facebook friends" is really a misnomer that has kind of devalued the word friend in my opinion. I think for the vast majority of connections on FB are more likely to be "Facebook acquaintances." These exists in real life as well, you just might not be as up to date on "what they had for lunch"(quoting the article.