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[mikazo]

Since getting off of Facebook, I have been getting emails from them telling me that so and so just posted such and such and to come look at it. I have never gotten this type of email before. This might be the first withdrawal symptom, not of myself from the platform, but the other way around. One thinks of a horde of zombies or other similarly

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[schnee]

I think the next round of emails will be more along the lines of “your friends are missing you over on Facebook” or “everyone we asked agreed that Facebook is much better with you” or so.

But yeah, when you really think about it, it's really quite remarkable as far as business practices go, isn't it? Of course every business wants customers (or products, in Facebook's case) to come back, but they usually are a little more subtle and a little less manipulative about it. The kind of things that Facebook does (not that it's only Facebook though) reminds me more of a drug dealer than anything or anyone else.

[hastka]

My solution to that was blocking the domain the email came from. Naturally, FB wouldn't give users a legitimate "stop nagging me to come back so you can monetize me some more!" option. ;-P

Depending on your email client you could also set specific rules to ignore messages mentioning posts or groups or events, etc. but still allow "maybe your account was hijacked" posts to go through.

Related to this, I am a little irritated at the business world in general going down the path of using guilt trips as a method for getting repeat business. The place I had my car serviced once sent out a sad puppy postcard asking where I went. The bird store sent one saying "we miss our flock buddy" or something like that. Like okay guys, it's cute, but come on.

[sabotlours]

They are pretty insidious. I was getting "friend suggestions" for people on my street as well as co-workers and contractors that I work with. That's just a little too intrusive for my liking.

[hastka]

Yeah... speaking of which, that was another thing about FB that I didn't like. I don't really need my work friends, family, and furry friends/interests/activities intermingling in the first place, let alone being actively informed of each other. :-P

You can kinda-sorta get around that with different accounts, but even then....