Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Facebook Best Features: Now Quit Facebook!!
Posted on 2:01 PM by Admin
Almost everyone uses Facebook, but almost everyone agrees that the
social network has quite a few problems. Chances are, most Facebook
users have encountered some feature or flaw--from overarching privacy
concerns to assorted interface annoyances--that made them reconsider
their membership in the social network. Nevertheless, Facebook users
tend to stick around because they believe that the benefits outweigh the
costs--and because they don't know how to leave the service without
losing a few valuable features, such as games or public photo albums.
Luckily, you can export or replicate many of Facebook's most useful
features with ease, so you can quit Facebook without losing what you
love about it. If Facebook is your all-in-one stop for socializing
online, you're probably better off staying with the service and hoping
that the company fixes a few issues in the next redesign. But if you're
hanging on for the sake of just one or two features even though you'd
rather quit, take a look at the following tips and tricks. With some
help, you'll be able to enjoy the best parts of the most popular social
network without all of that Facebook anxiety.
Export Info From Facebook
If you quit Facebook,
all your personal data should be deleted from the Facebook servers.
Eventually. But if you want to leave Facebook without losing any of your
data, you can download a copy of your Facebook information fairly
easily. Simply navigate to your Facebook account settings, and you
should should see a Download a copy of your Facebook data link
at the bottom of the page. Click the link, and confirm that you'd like
to have an archive created for you; Facebook will send a download link
to your email address in a few hours when your archive is prepared.
In the General Account Settings menu, you can find an option to download a copy of all the data you've shared on Facebook.
Several mobile apps (such as the free SmartSync for iOS or AddressBook for Android) will scrape your Facebook friends info and automatically add it to your smartphone contacts database, as well.
Even so, Facebook offers far more information on you and your friends
than you'll ever really need, and it's better to be selective about
what data you take when you leave. Think of it as an opportunity to do
some spring cleaning. Unless you really want your whole Facebook friends
list clogging up your phone, do a quick manual review of your friend
info and copy any pertinent information before shutting your account
down.
Another trick lets you copy one of Facebook's most used and least
appreciated features: the birthday reminder. Navigate to your Facebook
Events page and click the magnifying glass icon. Select Birthdays, click the magnifying glass again, and choose Export Birthdays
to quickly and easily grab your contacts' birthday info in formats
compatible with every major scheduling program. This way, you'll
remember to drop your best friend from college a birthday note even
after you leave Facebook.
Organize Events
I've kept Facebook around for years because, despite its many faults,
it has been the single best way to schedule parties and other events
with my friends. That's starting to change, however. In the past,
Facebook was a superior event-planning platform because users were sure
to check it often enough to catch event invites; with the rise of event
spamming, though, more and more of my Facebook-using pals now ignore all
Facebook event invitations. This problem forces me to confirm through
other channels, removing Facebook's one real advantage over other
event-planning tools.
If you want to invite people to your event without using Facebook, you can find a lot of options, such as Evite and Eventbrite, that are free and work well. I'm a fan of Doodle,
which uses a simple, clean interface and is incredibly quick to set up.
Just enter an event name and time, and Doodle will provide you with a
link that you can send to your friends by email; they can then RSVP with
one click.
The free and easy-to-use Doodle event-planning service is as good as (and in some ways better than) Facebook's Events app.
Doodle also offers a killer feature that Facebook doesn't: Doodle
events allow participants to choose a start time from a list of
host-provided options. This feature can save a lot of time, and it
eliminates irritating auto-updates like the kind you get when you're
trying to coordinate event timing via Facebook.
Move Your Photos off Facebook
If you download your data from Facebook as described earlier, that
archive will include any photos or videos you shared on Facebook. To
start sharing them again, as well as to have the same quick online
access without Facebook, you can transfer those photos to Google's
photo-sharing service Picasa.
Unfortunately, Facebook makes it all but impossible to export photo
and video files directly to other hosting services. The easiest way to
migrate photos over to Picasa is to download Move Your Photos,
a Chrome extension that, once installed, will show you thumbnails of
all your Facebook photos so that you can easily sort through them and
transfer the ones you want to keep over to Google's photo-sharing
service. If you want to transfer your Facebook photos to a
social-network-agnostic photo-sharing site such as Flickr, you must
manually download the photos to your hard drive and upload them directly
to Flickr.
If you use Chrome, the Move Your Photos extension offers an easy way to migrate your Facebook photos over to Picasa selectively.
Of course, you can't replicate every Facebook feature without an
account. (Sadly, a life without Facebook seems to mean a life without
FarmVille; if you're a social games addict, check out a few social games on Google+.)
On the bright side, moving your personal info, photos, and event
calendar to a better, safer service should make quitting Facebook much
simpler. Good luck!
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