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    Going back to Facebook after four years is a sad and scary experience | Hannah Jane Parkinson

    You can’t beat the site’s global reach, but the dullness of the news feed is something that’s easy to leave behind
    by Hannah Jane Parkinson Jul 30, 2017 3 minutes
    Facebook now has 2 billion users around the world. Photograph: Regis Duvignau/Reuters

    Four years ago this month, I made a decision that has altered my life considerably. I left Facebook. I peeled away from the 2 billion monthly active users and into a world in which the dodgy views of people I’d shared a carpool with on some trip or other weren’t thrust into my morning.

    I didn’t make a conscious decision to leave Facebook. It was similar to when I stopped smoking: every other time I’d made a song and dance about quitting I had failed, but when one day I realised that it didn’t

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