i can’t believe i’m saying this, but i’m finding myself enjoying facebook more. the UI and design feels vintage early 2010s, the choice of reactions is nice vs just liking or upvoting something, you can sort the replies by chronology / recent / best instead of being forced to read blue-check morons, there’s an incredible depth of content, hobby groups, local interests, etc that simply couldn’t exist on twitter. it feels more like a forum.
it does also suck, of course, but it sucks in a slightly less grating way than reddit and twitter.
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Absolutely not. I have to use it for two communities I am part of, and every time I open it I can’t believe how much promoted content I see. I also notice that whenever I post links to off-fb content very few people engage with it, likely because FB is deprioritizing those posts.
One thing I’ve noticed is that if I hide all the junk I see, it will clear my feed out and make it suck a lot less, but only for a few hours or a day, then it goes back to being inundated with promoted content.
Fuck shorts, fuck Instagram stories, fuck fb marketplace ads.
I also have to maintain a profile for professional reasons, though I get someone else to manage our pages. I don’t even know what it is, but I get anxiety within seconds of interacting with my feed, and I am NOT an anxious person. My ex is addicted to it. Sometimes I feel I lost her to FB and it’s echo chambers if unaccountable validation.
I did a test just a few days ago, and just scrolled to see how much of my feed was from people I followed, and how much of it was stuff I didn’t. 36 posts in a row of stuff I don’t, followed by 10 posts of people I follow, followed by another 27 targeted stuff, and then 1 post from a friend, and then another 35
It’s ridiculous, and this digital landscape is dystopic; It’s cyberpunk. I can’t believe, for example, that I can enter something in a search bar on youtube, and get results that are explicitly not my search results
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Nice try Mark.
Facebook has never been like, bad. The main problem is having to use your real identity for everything, the privacy concerns over Meta’s aggressive targeted advertising based on info that’s set to “you only”, and the fact that most people ended up with their whole extended family on there.
But it’s still got the critical mass of people, and damn near everyone has Messenger and Marketplace has taken over the spot of craigslist and kijiji.
Facebook took a fatal blow for me the day they removed the .edu email requirement.
It completely died when my sex-pest cousin tried to friend me, from prison…
Privacy concerns have also kept me away. I’m a bit inconsistent in application, but Google and Microsoft has me considering FOSS alternatives, Linux, and Graphene OS.
No 👎
I completely deleted my Facebook account nearly 6 years ago now and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life. From what I’ve read online it’s only gotten worse with age, so I’d say it’s a safe bet I’m never going back to it.
I got rid of Twitter and Reddit as each site was basically destroyed by megalomaniacal money-grubbing CEOs
They’re all shit, why would I ever want to start using any of them again?
Nope.
Deleted everything anyway, couldn’t go back if I tried.
I haven’t used Facebook in almost 10 years. Have no intention of doing so.
No. Meta is a terrible company in my opinion and I refuse to give them a view or a cent. Same reason I really want to get into VR, but won’t buy their headsets.
I deleted my Facebook over 10 years ago and I haven’t regretted it for one second.
What? God, no.
I miss what Facebook used to offer in the earlier days. I miss being able to keep up friends and family and having a central place for everybody to just share things. It was nice for a while. It was also just nice having an account where I felt comfortable putting my face and name out there; I know that may seem kinda weird to most people, but there was something weirdly relieving about having one place where I could just say “This is me” without using a screen name and feel right about it. Facebook used to be that place for me.
Then once Facebook started to monetize every pixel on my screen and every post on my feed was just a link to something I couldn’t care less about or trying to sell me something or infect me with something else, it became unbearable. The last time I logged into Facebook, I scrolled for probably five whole minutes before I was able to find a single, actual post written by somebody I actually cared about. Everything else was just links, freebooted videos, or algorithmically-boosted content designed to suck my attention away from the thing I actually wanted to look for.
I’d honestly love it if there was a better Facebook-like platform on the Fediverse. Or even not on the Fediverse, just a place where I can actually keep in touch with the people I know instead of just internet strangers. Since ditching Facebook, the internet has definitely felt like a much lonelier place for me.
I’m with you in missing that brief era where we could just be truly social online and it felt like a healthy extension of real life dynamics
After I finish selling some things I’m deleting facebook permanently. They know too much, and I don’t want them to get to know me as I continue to age. The advertising, the misinformation, the hate, and the sheer weight of knowing they are profiting off all of us sickens me
Nah, I’m not 40 yet…
If the age enters in debating, I think there are a lot of lemmings over the 40s…
But there aren’t many Facebook users below 40
No, I only use Messenger now along with WhatsApp. Wish I could drop them as well, but nobody will follow me to signal. It’s the unfortunate truth.
