Why No Facebook
Well Technically…
I do have the following Facebook Account/Pages:
Facebook (Meta) is awful for your mental health.
I quit using Facebook around late 2014, I only log in to my account for a handful of reasons:
- Keep my accounts active
- Minor changes to my Business Profile
- Look up the steps for a client
But I quit Facebook for the following reasons:
- Waste of Time
- Drama-llamas
- It no longer ‘sparked joy‘
- Tired of the re-post of re-post of memes
- There was no original material in my news feed
- So Much Vapid Content
- Facebook’s Business Practices towards it users and customers (Advertisers) – See Below
Since I wasn’t getting any dopamine or enjoyment from Facebook, I decided to drop it out of my social media diet – I have been much happier since.
To give you an idea of how much I dislike Meta, I have my Pi-Hole blocking Facebook Domains at a network/DNS level. So I have to actively choose to allow access to Facebook. This is inconvenient for guests, but whatever…
Now if only Elon didn’t make Twitter into a tire/oil/dumpster fire, even though it wasn’t great before he took it over.
If you want, you can follow me over at Twitter, or not, I wouldn’t blame you either way.
Follow me over at BlueSky, it’s much nicer than Twitter.
— Mad9Scientist
More reasons why you should quit Facebook (Meta)
- Become a Facebook-Free Business
Source: 37Signals - Facebook Cambridge Analytica
Source: Wikipedia - Facebook and Myanmar
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - May 31, 2024: Meta wants to use your data for its own AI, but if you want to opt out – Good Luck!
Source: Tantacrul on Twitter (Archived/Mirrored: screenshot) - Meta [Facebook] & Yandex are De-anonymizing Android Users’ web browsing identifiers
Source: Ars Technica (Jun 3, 2025)