I gave up some things to leave Twitter, some of them substantive and some of them venal. I simply could not imagine continuing to use it in any way consistent with my principles.

I can’t tell you whether what you would lose by quitting Facebook is too great to be acceptable. I can imagine lots of circumstances in which it would be. But I don’t think *any* loss is a sufficient explanation for staying there in itself, if your principles also have value to you.

@hildabast @overholt Yes Hilda like your description and real reasoning about Facebook that many hold in some way...

But I'd say, the connection to people is a sort of a vicious circle / future digital violence (we're born into it) so at some point when comfortable plan for something different that we can come out of (at least for the next generation or when you pass?).. Positively I say consider slowly screenshot or some easy way to to offline place and feel ok when time comes...

Pretend you will not need to hang onto Facebook so much (also because Facebook might not hang on to you! ⬅️ it's a real risk and for next generation).

Some people might be ok if they are being let go and because storing it offline might be unsafe / insecure too... But a passworded or private directory should cover that...

I like you're positive look on it so say "be prepared" by considering something "slowly but surely" (while still accepting you still need it for today for the current people alive). One day you might need to do this anyway and good practice

Many people might not want to do all this backing up which I admit is a lot) but automatically it can felp ,..

So maybe all or some with all move one day so this helps sort one big part of it out or feel ok by not having every single thing for future memory of your son and perhaps doing things a but more offline to start with it will make the consuming of Facebook your life different (storing it all in a 1 big directory).

Happy to chat however you