If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.
I loved this quote cause it forces you to think about what's really going on with social
media.
How are they using my information?
How are they collecting all of my actions?
Why are they putting pixels on my computers following me around the web?
How are all these targeted ads popping up in there, and how is this affecting my health?
Many of you may notice actually it's not good for you.
It may be affecting the way you sleep.
It may be affecting your relationships.
In today's video, we're going to talk about the negative implications, how you can actually
hack Facebook to be useful for you and if need be how to quit.
Now don't get me wrong.
I think you can responsibly use Facebook.
In fact, I kind of hack the system.
I'll talk about how I'm doing it here in a few seconds.
But I use it as a bookmarking service.
I also use the live broadcaster so that I can stay in touch with my family; give them
updates when we've been traveling around the world.
However, there's a dark side.
It's not really talk about all the time of how Facebook isn't in many cases bringing
us close together.
It's actually dividing us.
Look at the latest election.
You didn't see anyone's mind change on Facebook.
What you saw are tribes all the sudden come together and you started off cutting off your
neighbor.
You started cutting off friends and family who didn't have the same political views as
you.
You also see the comparison where you look at your family the day to day situations.
You see this beautiful pictures of another family and you're like oh my gosh.
I'm a complete loser because my wife doesn't look like that or my kids apparently don't
behave like this for a family photo.
It forces comparisons on us.
When it comes down to it the negatives of the social media platform are real and you
need to recognize them.
So let's talk about how you can hack Facebook.
Tip #1 to hack Facebook is to disable notifications.
Now this applies to everything on your phone.
In fact, I encourage you to put your phone on silent.
Turn it off when you're not using it and don't let messages or any other apps out there have
notifications which are going to grab your attitude.
We feel important when someone has talked about us, notified us and we want to go check
it instantly.
Don't fall into this trap because when you do this again and again it becomes an addiction.
It becomes you're checking your phone every couple of seconds even when you don't hear
the beep.
Whenever you don't even hear the notification because you're hoping and that's what you
want to avoid.
Tip #2: Set your privacy settings to the max and make it so that people can't tag you in
photos.
I know when I mentioned that earlier some of you are saying I want to be notified whenever
someone tags me in a photo cause I want to make sure it looks good.
How about you just don't let them tag you?
Are you going to lose out if that doesn't happen?
How about setting it up so that random people can't request to become your friend?
Sure it feels good when some attractive woman you don't know sends you a friend request.
But really what good is going to come of this especially if you're a married man.
Be careful of those yellow flags and avoid them by simply setting your privacy settings
to the max.
Tip #3 for hacking Facebook is to unfriend useless friends on Facebook.
I know.
That sounds incredibly cruel.
But let's face reality.
You've got some true friends on Facebook.
People that if something happen, you would drive across the country to support them.
If they needed money, you would wire it.
If they had somebody died, you would spend the night with them on the phone consoling
them.
And then you've got people that you don't even know who this person is.
How in the world did I connect with them?
What is going on?
If you got 2000 friends, if you got 1000 friends probably 50%-75% of those people you could
unfriend.
How to do this though?
Actually do the birthday test.
Facebook is kind enough to let us know whose birthday it is.
If you wouldn't get on the phone and call that person and wish them happy birthday maybe
you need to unfriend that person.
Tip #4 for hacking Facebook is to get rid of all the useless information.
How to get rid of the useless information?
Well first of realize most the information there is useless.
So be selective about who you follow.
Instead of unfriending people if that was too extreme for you, you can go back and you
can unfollow.
I usually go through and if I don't like if a person's posting cause maybe they're ultra
political or maybe they post a lot about cats, maybe they post a lot about just something
that they're passionate about but honestly I don't care about, I simply unfollow them.
Now it's not unfriending them because I can go and check out their profile but by unfollowing
them my newsfeed is no longer clutter.
You slowly can do this and you will surprise at what's going on with a lot of people you
haven't heard off for a while or maybe some pages that you like a year ago that actually
it's relevant to you.
Now the ads you can actually select and tell that this ad is not relevant to me.
This ad is offensive to me.
So control the information that's being shown to you.
Facebook hack #5: Change your password frequently and don't save it on your device.
Use random letters, random numbers.
Not only is this more secure but when you go to check it on your phone maybe over on
your computer, you realize darn it.
I was just going to randomly check it but I can see I have to reenter that code.
I'm going to have to go find it.
I'm going to have to enter it.
It's too much work.
I'll worry about it later.
Guess what.
You did not check it.
That little barrier is enough to stop you from going in there and you're going to end
up spending less time on Facebook.
Hack #6 to spending less time on Facebook: Delete the app from your phone.
You take your phone everywhere.
So not having the app there no longer is the temptation to check it.
In fact, what's funny is when you delete the app and you're going to be checking your phone
probably for the next few days saying it's gone, it's not there.
Again, enough of a barrier that maybe you'll want to reinstall it.
I understand for some people in business you want to have it there on the phone for the
live broadcast.
But I think most of us can get away with actually just simply checking our laptop computer,
our desktop whenever we need to and we don't need to be checking it when we're out with
our kids at the park.
Hack #7 for spending less time on Facebook is to simply outsource it.
Yes.
Give it away and this specifically applies to companies.
People that are using social media to grow groups, to grow pages for their particular
companies or maybe people that look to start a business.
Maybe if you are looking to build yourself up as a personality.
Is this the best use of your time?
So you can find very affordable people throughout the world who will manage your Facebook, other
accounts out there for social media, Instagram.
Yes.
You may argue they're not going to do as good of a job for you.
But if you're just getting started with your business, guess what.
The no.1 job of your business that you should be focusing on is growing the business side.
Often times it has nothing to do with social media.
By outsourcing you force yourself to actually figure out what is the monetary value of growing
my presence on social media and can I set up a system so I can hand this off.
So everything I just talked about those are hacks to getting what you want out of Facebook,
to bending it to your will.
But let's talk about still what if Facebook is not worth it.
You're like Antonio I don't want to go through all those hacks.
It's affecting me in a negative way.
I'm not sleeping well.
I'm always checking my notification.
I'm addicted to it.
Then I would recommend you take a step back and possibly just quit.
In the description of this video I'm going to put that link where you can just click
that link and it will take you right to the place on Facebook where you can delete your
profile.
And if you're really serious about this, do it.
Why not?
Because what's the worst that will happen.
You'll have to recreate your profile.
Oh, isn't that an opportunity for you then to be more selective about who your friends
are, who you want to engage, who you want to follow.
That may be actually a great thing.
I've seen people quit and come back.
But I've also seen people quit and say my life is so much better.
Cause yeah I'm not getting the notifications about the party that I didn't even want to
go to.
But I find that people that really care about me that I have a deep relationship with call
me, send me a message, send me a letter, send me an email.
So you have to make the right decision for you.
I would love to hear from you guys down the comment what do you think of videos like this.
It's a little bit outside of style.
But I do think it is related to business communication, how we feel about ourselves hence why I wanted
to cover it.
And to my friend Chad, I highly advise you just quit because everything that we've talked
about to me it seems like the right choice and what's the worst case scenario that will
happen man.
You're going to end up coming back stronger.
That's it guys.