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Wow I'm surprised so many people still use facebook. In my circles I hardly ever hear from it. People my age (40s) are worried about privacy, the younger generations all prefer insta (30s), tiktok (20s) and other stuff.
I really used to like facebook when it showed me updates of what my friends were doing on the timeline.
But then they moved to this algorithmic "feed" crap which hid some of my friends' updates and inserted random other crap. Then I hated it and the privacy invasion wasn't worth it anymore. If they'd only allowed me to keep the old timeline I probably would still be using it. It just felt like such a drag going through all the bullshit every day trying to find news from my friends.
Yes indeed. I stuck with instagram a lot longer because it didn't do this, but now in an attempt to copycat TikTok they've done the same with the home screen that keeps switching back to "For you" instead of "Following". 🤦♂️
Trust me, fb ads are way worse than it used to be. Mine is flooded with celebrities advertising scams in the ads, in my region.
"Hi, I'm [some celebrity name]. When I was young, I didn't have money, but investing on stocks changed my life! ..."
These scammers use ChatGPT to generate millions of these and fb is now chaos because admins can't do anything, I tried reporting and tuning ad preferences, but there's no solution because they are literally flooding the platform. These even aren't copy pastes because the AI generates a huuuge variety of them. The fact that the ad posts mimics actual posts (by fb's deliberate design) doesn't help.
And I hate celebrities, so seeing their face already makes my day a bad one.
Same, but then again, I probably am acquainted with like 500-1000 people, which leaves about 7.8 billion people in the world who I'm not at all acquainted with. I'm starting to think that my circles aren't representative of all circles.
30 seconds in a month counts as an active user, so it's not really surprising. A lot of small business, event and community information is still tied up in the Facebook ecosystem, forcing people to keep their accounts around for those occasional logins. We're not talking about 3 billion people using it for hours a day.