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01-12-2018, 08:01 AM
I deleted Facebook off my phone and you should too
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I deleted Facebook's app off my phone more than a month ago.*
And reader: I feel free.*
My days of mindlessly scrolling through random updates from my mom's friends and people I haven't spoken to since high school are over.*
And yours could be too.*
You just have to delete the app.*
That's it. Not your Facebook account. Not your life on the internet. Just the app.
SEE ALSO: The top 10 tech stories of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/top-10-tech-stories-2017/)
The initial desire to delete started with Facebook vacuuming up so much space and battery life on my (admittedly old) iPhone 6. But it quickly became clear that my actual, non-battery, capital-L Life was also better off not having Facebook a thumbtap away. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/delete-the-facebook-app/)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Iphone (http://mashable.com/category/iphone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Phones (http://mashable.com/category/phones/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Ae-xotnuyOo
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I deleted Facebook's app off my phone more than a month ago.*
And reader: I feel free.*
My days of mindlessly scrolling through random updates from my mom's friends and people I haven't spoken to since high school are over.*
And yours could be too.*
You just have to delete the app.*
That's it. Not your Facebook account. Not your life on the internet. Just the app.
SEE ALSO: The top 10 tech stories of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/19/top-10-tech-stories-2017/)
The initial desire to delete started with Facebook vacuuming up so much space and battery life on my (admittedly old) iPhone 6. But it quickly became clear that my actual, non-battery, capital-L Life was also better off not having Facebook a thumbtap away. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/delete-the-facebook-app/)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Iphone (http://mashable.com/category/iphone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Phones (http://mashable.com/category/phones/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Ae-xotnuyOo