How do you find out about races or clinics etc etc... gee I sound like I'm lost without it but I'll be honest I found all my stuff on there ... horses, tack, local races, vehicles, trailers ... I'm just about sick of Facebook.. all the advertising and DRAMA between people and family and "friends" I just need to distance myself. I've unfollowed, unfriended,  blocked, all that stuff, but I still find myself in the drama mix lol! I wish I hadn't ever gotten on there in the first place! It use to be fun to stay in touch with family and distant friends but now I'm slammed with advertisements, basically whatever I want to check out on google to read about or whatnot  ends up on my feed and a lot of it!! I'm tired of social media period. But I may have a little "FOMO" lol! I just try to remember how it was before Facebook.. pretty darn functional ..... and probably a lot less drama 

I go off facebook from time to time. I need to for my mental health when I get really overwhelmed with "life" I've learnt that Fab makes it so much worse. 

All the associations I go to still have web pages with the dates and entries, I just use that. My friends usualy mention clinics before I see them on face book but that is a tough one, not many are advertised on web pages anymore. 

As for keeping in touch I pick up the phone, sure makes my grams day. 

I just deleted it off all my mobile devices and logged out the other day, the first week is unexpectedly hard every time its acatualy shocking how much of your life social media can eat away at without you even knowing. I don't think I'll ever let it back on my phone. 

Hell I got all my chores done and 3 horses worked today before I'd normally be just finishing up coffee and endlessly scrolling facebook  

Exactly! I think I end up wasting a lot of my time on there. And there is soooooo much misinformation on there on certain pages,  it's crazy. It's easy to get sucked in. I'm a stickler about the time my kids are allowed to play their video games but I'm sitting there looking at Facebook... seems like a double standard so yeah ... im removing it from my phone as well. 

FB ended people talking to each other on the phone.  I don't FB and didn't know my brother-in-law had passed away until someone in my family was alerted to the fact that I don't and "texted" me. They had used FB to let family know of his death.

What a great post....   I am also very tired of all the "stuff" you have to deal with on FB.  I love all my inspirational post and info.  But some of the stuff in just more than i can deal with.   

Have to admit I spend alot more time on FB than I should.  I live by myself and have no children, I guess I've let it become my window to the outside world.  Seriouly thinking about taking a break from

it....  The one living relative I need to stay in contact with has become dependent on FB as her way of letting her people know how her health is....  Drives me crazy.  I refuse to put messenger on my phone and that is her avenue of communication...   

Hope we all find away to spend less time on FB...

Have a Great Day ....

I don't do FB and haven't for a long time.  What I don't get is the number of people that have FB and spend all their time while at work scrolling through FB.

I do not have facebook, I'm in my early 30's and everyone thinks I'm crazy for not having it. I love it!! When people want me to know something they call or text me.

Since everyone knows I dont have facebook, I still hear about races and whatnot as most of them put calendars on their website or I can look them up on facebook and then screenshot it.

I had it for a while, and then I got off of it because I do not care what someone I have not seen in person in 10 years ate for lunch or their political views, go fund me, whatever. I've had the same phone number since I was 12 years old so chances are someone can track me down if needed. :) 

I logged out just under a year ago, but I do still log back in briefly 1-2x a month to check the pages of the races I usually go & the local NBHA schedule. For me most of the races are pretty much the same and fall on the same weekends each year, so I kind of have an idea already. And friends, you can ask friends about shows. When I log in I go straight to those pages & don't scroll the news feed or checks anyone's page. Then just log back out. Life is way better without facebook.

Only downside is you have no idea what's going on in people's/friends lives, but at the same time thats a huge blessing also. I got mostly sick of the people who posted every other day soemthing they bought, whether it be saddle, horse, truck, trailers, whatever. Just begging for attention & trying to get people to like them bc of what they own. Or whining about what their significant other didn't do or gushing about what they did. The number of people begging for sympathy because they're sick, even if it's just a cold. So annoying to me. It's like people have lost the desire to keep anything private in their lives lol. Maybe I'm the only one annoyed by this stuff 

I asked a friend of mine to please text or call me when shes going to a local race because I'm getting away from Facebook. It's gotten really out of hand. Take for instance my birthday last year.. I was really hurt my brother and sister didnt even call me or text, I would have preferred a phone call but whatever. I told my mom that it bummed me out and she told me they said to her that they "facebooked" me so what was the big deal! Wow... its just plain stupid how that's a replacement for even a phone call on a birthday or like a few said a death in the family or health issues.. makes me sad.  The fueds that have happened over "unfriending or blocking" people... I mean some people really take that as a huge offense! Like the worst thing that ever happened in their life. I blocked a young girl after I learned she was talking poorly about my daughter at church so when my kiddo comes home from youth group in tears over what this person said, I'm apparently the monster for blocking her?! Her mother even made a post about me on Facebook for it, getting everyone to grab their pitchforks and torches to come after me. It's still a thing apparently around here lol! Like being blocked from Facebook is the end all ... I never realized I had so much power ... geee...  I see some people who have over 3000 friends on their list... how on earth do you know when you've been unfriended or blocked with those numbers!? And then theres the fakes ... I see so many sad/phoney  people trying to put only their best Facebook face on .. knowing darn well it's a lie ... I wont say I haven't experienced good things from Facebook because I definitely have, but when the bad annoying stuff starts to outweigh the good, it's time to step away and get back to life BF (before Facebook) 

No you arent the only one!! I had a few that constantly posted their entire divorce process... I mean every dirty detail. It was 2nd hand embarrassing. I enjoy watching a few of my friends barrel races and seeing their kiddos do other sports... but the others are just so ohhh look at us, we are perfect, one actually said my family is better than yours... such a joke. Yes yes we get it you're in the perfect relationship,  your life is perfect, your kids are perfect, your horses are perfect blah blah blah...I know those are all lies and majority of the people you are putting on a show for do too. 

Yeah. If I didn't have responsibilities with MVP and DiO I wouldn't have it. The only things I've posted the last year are jsut shares from their pages. I started just going to races, even without horses to represent the brands the old school way. I have instagram but I keep it limited to who & what I see and don't post a lot. I really like people having no idea what's going on in my life 

My Husband did open a Facebook account, but never use it, but the times I have gone on it to look for something all I could do was shake my head at all the crap on there. All the drama, all the me me me me look at me posts, look at this food that I'm about to eat, my take issss, who gives a rats a**. I have never seem so many insecure bunch of people in my life that or always looking for a pat on the back. I have never opened a account and never will, if I have not talked to you since highschool why in the heck would I want to talk to you now!!!! Lots get their feeling's hurt over nothing on FB..

Yes!! A good deed never goes over anymore without having to be acknowledged by the entire world! One lady I know, my kids use to go to school with her kids, she posted a video to show her son giving his leftover food to a homeless guy at a restaurant .... its super great and noble and sweet but it really took away from the whole point. Nonetheless,  she got what she wanted from it... telling her how wonderful of a mom she was for raising such a kind hearted boy... while I dont doubt he is a great child at all, I know him and it doesnt surprise me he did that. 

I don't know if I'm just lucky or what, but I don't really see any drama on Facebook. I always hear people talking about how they dislike FB because of the drama, but I never see it on mine. 

You are lucky or just good at selecting "friends" I've seen two grown women fight over something one of them said....back n forth on Facebook in our little community. People screen shot it and when one of them posted something and then tried to delete it another person posted it again to fuel the fire up again. It's so ridiculous. Nothing is sacred on Facebook,  it's all for show ... I wonder if there is any possible way to only view businesses and delete all friends lol! I could only imagine how mad people would be and hurt if I did that. It's taken so personally... being friends on Facebook.

You could go through and unfollow all of them without unfriending them, but it may be time consuming lol. Then they wouldn't come up on your news feed 

I didn't read all the posts so please excuse me if I comment what someone else already has. . . 

what about creating a new FB account and not adding any friends? Simply using it just to view pages/groups of your barrel racing associations and such. 

I have FB mainly for family overseas, and race info. 

I don't see too much drama, but that's because I either unfriend or unfollow the drama queens.... And I just scroll past whatever I don't want to see. Still can't believe people putting their entire life on there..... Just to get some attention. 

But back to the question, I also use the producers websites (most of them do have that besides a fb page) and ebarrelracing. I Excel to keep track of races and at the beginning of the year I start a new sheet and put all the races I see and might want to go to on there. I also use that to track our results. So I know what time we ran in what arena, what the winning time was and where we ended up. 

That's a good idea ... I think last time I checked I was up to 321 friends. It wouldnt be too hard. But maybe if i just deleted my old account and secretly created a new one ... I've heard thru the grapevine that I am being "mean" because I dont like so and so post on Facebook or I never liked this or that.. I've unfollowed plenty of people and apparently it doesnt go unnoticed. People can still look you up though right? So if you're technically on Facebook people can check and find you? I wouldn't mind following a handful of pages in regards to tack, feed and horse sales and associations. I can definitely do without the people 

That's a very good idea! 

Can you have more then 1 account with FB? I know that some way BB's on here have more then one. Edited to say, I know some BB's on this forum have more then 1 usier name, I always wondered how they can do that, but like you said maybe have more then one Email account?

Probably have to create a new email to associate it with too. Since my email is linked to Facebook. 

Right, it would require a new email address. You can deactivate your current account, but it is still linked to that email address so you cannot reuse it.

I have like 5 emails though so its never a shortage for me LOL

I don't do drama on Facebook AT ALL. We only have prayer requests, looking for missing people and amber alerts. Have a few friends that are running WPRA and are a long way from home sobitviscnice to know they are doing well and winning. Sounds pretty boring but it's nice that way. There is an E Tx events page that is handy. Oh and a bunch of Trump!  

I don't do Facebook either.  A lot of organizations pages are public.  You can get all the info you need just have to check their pages regularly to see what's going on.  If an organization that you would like  to keep informed of and they don't have a public page maybe ask them to make it public for the non Facebookers.  
I was on Facebook when it first started blowing up.  Haven't been on it as a member for 8+ years.  Don't miss a thing.  I can check my local town page see what's going on.  

So I finally made another Facebook account with my other rarely used email. I've set it up to only see certain pages I'm interested in and no friends and as far as I know, it's pretty private. I joined some of my old groups for tack sales and swaps. I Absolutely love it! No DRAMA! I do keep getting asked to find friends, and of course the annoying people you may know thing keeps popping up, but I delete it. I think this is actually going to work. 

And if any of you that do Facebook and support Donald Trump,  theres a page just for us

Barrel Racers For Trump (check it out)

You could also change the name on your account that way if you pop up on your other friends/family members "might know" list, they won't be angry when you don't accept the request.  I think FB has a good place, like my family that's stationed overseas it's way cheaper to keep in contact that way, but best thing I ever did was log out almost 6 months ago :)

I already told them please dont expect me to do any friend requests right now. Hopefully they wont get twisted lol! I'm sure enjoying my Facebook again without all the "look at me fluff" to deal with. It's fun again. I probably should have changed my name though! I didnt even think of that! I have all my settings set to private so...

If anyone asks just tell them you still have the other account & set up the second one just specifically for the horse stuff & that you only follow those pages on this new one 

I've honestly contemplated doing this lately. I liked fb for keeping in touch with people from where I grew up and family that lives all over the world. But what is stressing me out and has me wanting to disconnect is the huge political mess our country -Canada- Is in right now and how even if I try to quit watching the news I don't follow any news fb pages my feed is still filled with people sharing the stupidity of our politicians and the stupid of idiots like Joaquin Phoenix rant.  I went through the other day and unfollowed a lot of people and pages and I'm still seeing news crap. I'll be honest I tend to be a bit of a news junky and I don't agree with burying our heads in the sand and not being aware of what is going on but I was honestly getting depressed. I love fb and hate and despise it all at once. 

I use to follow all kinds of news pages and just found myself getting completely irritated and arguing with strangers. Politics is the worst. So my mom, love her dearly,  but she posts so much political stuff and she has friends that are constantly bashing her views on her Facebook and Trump... I use to go to defend her and get into ridiculous arguments with people I do not even know. I found myself constantly rolling my eyes and then being irritated all day because of one stupid comment. Stepping away for a little bit helped but I missed the barrel racing chats and tack/horse sales, etc etc and I enjoy following feed companies and reading reviews and such, plus so many awesome recipes I've found on Facebook! . This, so far, has worked out perfectly. I do feel a tinge of guilt when I see one of my family members on the people I may know pop up and I ignore but ... hey if we want to talk and find out what's going on in each others lives, we can call or text. I'm using this Facebook page strictly to fuel my fire of what I'm into, not looking into others lives on a daily basis and shaking my head. So funny story, my pastor called me today.. I forgot I was friends with him on my original Facebook that I deactivated lol! He asked if I was mad at him lol lol lol!! I literally started laughing ... we hadn't been to church in a few weeks either. He didnt mention Facebook but after hanging up with him, it hit me. So on my new Facebook,  I followed the church and events pages to stay in the loop. 

Honestly - I believe BHW is missing a huge opportunity to start promoting their events and for sale ads again. It used to be that your event didn't exist or your horse wasn't for sale if it wasn't on BHW. With the rise of Facebook, that kind of changed. But if I were BHW, I'd be proactively pushing event registration and sale ads.  :)