*joins devrant*

*Deletes fb and all social stuff*

*all friends use facebook messenger*

*quietly installs again*

(First world problems)

TRAITOR!!!!!!

@relentlesscoder How should he get new friends without facebook?

@CozyPlanes I don't know if it might help or not but one of my senior in college created a script which whenever someone texted him on Facebook replied with "I no longer use Facebook, if you want to contact me here's my ID XYZ for ABC platform". You can try something like that and if anyone of them still cares they will contact you 😁

Fun fact: SMS is still a thing. Fucking text em.

@Cheeseus Are we talking "real friends" or just people that likes things that you post online?

If it's the former, better stay out of the aforementioned platform ;)

@Alice Is it that expensive? I pay €16 for everything unlimited (not even date is capped).

@Jilano I pay 3$ for everything unlimited except the data is capped at 2GB/day which is more than enough for me. Things really changed it India after Jio came into the scene here.

@Alice It's 2018... That's fucking pathetic. (On the carrier's part.)

It’s 2018 - I pay $50AUD/ month for unlimited calls/text and 17GB of data.

@ZapdoSSS $3???? Wtf!

@C0D4 Rs 198 ~ 3$

@ZapdoSSS curious, is the speed capped? Cause it is bit unreal to get such at 3 dollar price tag (and I take anything with ambani name with grain of salt)

Also, to address elephant in room, if you have "real" friends, you/they will find ways to stay in touch even after you left Facebook. Cause giving up friendship cause it is inconvenient to stay in touch is shitty. And leaving Facebook is not even much inconvenient with crop of ways to stay in touch!

@yendenikhil it's capped with useless speed after that :/

@ZapdoSSS Yeah, definitely good enough!

@Archang3l France. Long story short, an "new ISP" came in few years ago and slashed prices, so all the others had to do the same.

@yendenikhil sorry I was in hurry earlier so misread your speed capped question. The speed is not capped for the first 2GB of the day. I've seen the downloading speed up to 8 MBps+ some times. After the 2GB the speed is total crap though, 64 or 128 Kbps I think (take years to load even Google). Jio is loosing money as of now but they have long term plans as Ambani stated in a press conference.

@daemonAD still good enough. I don't know why I pay so much for first world country. Even with ppp I pay ridiculous for unlimited plan (35eur).

Deactivate your profile with the reason "I spend too much time on Facebook" and your messenger profile with your friends will stay alive along with your deactivated/dead/unsearchable profile.

Win!

If you know something about IRC (or even better already have a client running) you could consider Bitlbee. Or Pidgin which I think has Messenger support built-in.. so you wouldn't need the IRC interface that way. If you're going the IRC route though, do hit me up on Freenode! I'm Condor there as well :)

@Alice SMS costs money in Germany? That's a real rip-off, especially if they also provide mobile data in their contracts. At the physical layer, all traffic that enters the mobile carrier network is the same anyway, only difference being that an SMS is about as much load as a single TCP/IP packet. So asking money for that is just borderline evil.
(Of course having to pay for a data plan or something like that is inevitable, the network needs to be maintained and expanded.. so not really "free" free, but still e.g. charging up your card and getting 4k or 5k SMS's along with it shouldn't be too hard for the carrier to pull off)

Well no one can beat me

14gb/day + unlimited with unusuable speed

@CozyPlanes At what cost? Because we're missing some numbers here :p

@Jilano not sure but quite expensive

@Alice Well that's a real rip-off then. In Belgium (where the network is admittedly quite well-established) there's various carriers (so healthy competition) which all provide a few thousand SMS's, mobile data and all that stuff for usually 10 or 15 euros a month, even for prepaid customers. Perhaps the German government should step in to help regulate this stuff?

@Condor @Alice calls and sms is absolutely free here at least in my plan

@Alice Question, as far as I know, you can call from any of the EU countries without paying extra since a "recent" law. So wouldn't it be possible to take a plan from an other country and use it in yours to "enjoy" a better price?

(This is a purely speculative question since I haven't looked into it yet)

@Alice Well, that sucks. Thanks for the answer, I'll look into it to see what's possible!

@DefiniteGoose us.... we are friends! (insert emotional bgm here)

Kinda what I did but I just didn’t care about the social stuff to begin with