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Good luck with that.
Family got mad at me when I did that.
I had a Facebook only for a little while. G+ was really my true entrance into social networking. I was a late starter. I still do not see what the big deal is with Facebook. I can do everything and more in G+ and with more protection. Facebook feels like having a conversation in a billboard. Not to mention, I truly despised being used as a billboard.
I have tried to convince people I know otherwise, but it seems that they are addicted to the kool-aid they have been drinking.
A little background.
At one point, I had about 300 friends.
I cut the roster 6 months before G+ Launched. In order to stay a friend, the rule was pretty simple. I had to be in the same room as you at some point, OR I had to WANT to be in the same room as you at some point in the future enough to actually do something to make that happen.
I went from 300 friends to 30.
Over time, that grew to about 45, as I added people from Plus, like +Erin Joiner and +Keely Brubaker and +Ryan Kramb.
Of the 53 people I had friended today, only 10 of them are not regular G+ users.
An article about dead people hitting "Like" is what pushed me over the edge from "I never log in, but Connect With Facebook is Sure Convenient" to "Fuck fuck fuckity fuck NOPE.AVI"
Not even Connect With Facebook is worth starting the Zombie Apocalypse over.
I sent everyone who wasn't already an G+ user my email address and G+ Profile address so they can stay in touch through other means (or start using G+ more often, maybe.), then I checked one last time, pondered saving my data, and decided against it.
Sayonara, suckers.
+Ryan Kramb I sent my mom an inexpensive webcam.
Hangouts are the selling point for her.
Majority of my family on Facebook aren't savvy. Though I like your approach; here's my contact info, I'm out.
+Jonathon Barton I am considering getting my mother a Chromebook after the holidays. I figured hangouts would be a good way to communicate when I move to my new school.
I still keep my FB account mostly due to the websites that try to use its OAuth to log in. I never originate posts there, but I pump my public posts from G+ to both Twitter and my FB stream.
I never did the Facebook thing. I have one buddy who keps trying to get me to join. "You can connect with al the people you knew in school and stuff." I had to explain to him that except for the people that I still maintain contact with, I couldn't care less about any of those othe people. If they cant seem to contact me via home phone, cell phone, business phone, multiple email addresses, the dot com of my last name, or the fact that I have lived in the same small town for over 25 years… I am not sure joing Facebook will help. I have all those ways and more for people to contact me, but he'd rather I join that cess pool so we can "stay in contact". I keep pointing out all the issues with Facebook, but he doesn't get it.
+John Livingston That's what I was doing for the better part of this past year. I've reached the point where the risks and drawbacks to sharing even my YouTube favorites and OAuth login history isn't worth whatever convenience that Connect With Facebook provides.
I'll use Google where it's available, Twitter if it's not, and LastPass 30+ character random passwords if neither of those are.
Trying to use G+ more often, but I can't quite remove FB from my life. My mother has a Farmville addiction so I'm tied to FB, at least in a small way.