MFP has replaced Facebook

Me too!! Trying to be brave and post more, but mainly enjoy encouragement from others going through the same thing. Definately better than FB!!

I also prefer to come here over FB... it's nice to meet others who share this journey!

I only go on FB to play a few games. I am on MFP way more!

Deleted my Facebook account in late Fall of 2012 as it became painfully clear just what a distraction and crutch it had become in my life.

Facebook really had a strange postive/negative dichotomy for me as it was letting believe that I was remaining connected to my friends/family while simultaneously it was helping/enabling to keep me an un-healthy / semi-agorophobic lifestyle where I did not acknowlege that I just didn't want any of my friends to really see just how bad I had let things slide.

Hit rock-bottom in Fall 2012 and life made it totally apparant to me just how bad things had progressed.

Made a commitment to myself at that time that I would remove myself from that world of superficial connections and make it a goal to re-establish real-world old-school connections (face to face, letters, phone, e-mail, etc...) with so many people that I had lost real connection with.

In early January, I discoverd this MFP app and website and it is proving invaluable to me with respect to helping in my education towards healthier eating and living and also with the info in the forums and in building a network of other MFP users within the community to act as a support network, inspirational base and info sources as to how others have been successful in making this change towards a healthier self.

Interesting that one of the by-products of dumping Facebook is, that by freeing myself up from that black hole of lost time on FB, that it allowed me to find this MFP network here.

There are many parrallels between Facebook and "Fatbook" (as someone mentioned that their husband had nicknamed MFP - hahaha!), but I am finding that the time and energy here on MFP is bringing much positive energy in my daily life and is helping me with my goals and progress towards transforming this 6'3'' blob of a body of mine back into a healthier/happier self as where FB ended up only pulling me further and further into a void.

That said, I do believe that there are many positive things about FB and I do expect that, in due time, I will return with a much healthier relationship towards using FB as a tool to add to my real-life connections with those who are dear to me, rather than my historical relationship to the site where I was using FB as a way to deceive myself into thinking that I was actually staying connected to my friends/family while - all the while - I was actually pulling further and further away from any real connection to my friends and world in general.

I've never been on Facebook and have no desire to. This is the only social media site I'm a member of. MFP takes up so much of my time as it is, i wouldn't have time for anything else! :bigsmile:

going to add to teh frenzy but me too.. FB creates too much drama and MFP has been a great outlet...

I use both but I'm on MFP more and it has at least kept fitness on my brain even if I'm not the most successfu. I do have to say though that I've been on my perfume social site more and find I enjoy it more at least with the forums because sometimes on MFP theres a lot of angry bullies but not everyone the people on my FL are so supportive.

Same here

I just started the first of the year so I'm still learning how to eat right. The site does wonders for motivation and I have no doubt I'll make my goal.
I love reading about all your success stories!

I joined MFP quite a while back but never really used it. I have lost weight slowly. I decided to start tracking and so I came back to MFP just this week. to do just that, track. Then I realized, I needed to get involved and be a part of the community, so here I am, Your FB heading grabbed my attention because I deleted my FB account in December. I just found it mind numbing. So I look forward to finishing my weight loss journey here with all of you.

I agree

Yeah , I agree. Since I have been putting my health first. I hardly have time for facebook anymore. Every now and then I have a few minutes to glance through it. Don' t miss it though.My MFP friends are awesome.

nearly we just need a 'like' button

good, facebook sucks.