Deleted mine shortly after the Cambridge Analytica snafu. Now I block Facebook and it's subsidiaries on my local network.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Deleted it in 2016, have never looked back
Have? Yes
Use? No
Any particular reason you still have one?
I tell myself it is because of extended family, but I havent got on there in so long, that is probably not a good enough excuse to keep it around lol
I have one still but the only reason it still exists is because my fantasy football group has a messenger group that it's used for to coordinate draft times.
Closed mine a long time ago, I think back when Edward Snowden did the whole NSA whistleblowing. Don’t miss it.
My Facebook account exists exclusively to check Marketplace nowadays.
Yes, I have found a lot of value in Facebook groups for niche hobbies.
I did until about 12 months ago after using it for about 10+yrs, do not miss it one bit
My wife has a fake one with a fake name just to use fb marketplace because it seems to be the most popular in our area as opposed to kijiji, craigslist etc.
Nope, never have. It surprises me how many people my age use it though. Groups might technically be viable but Facebook wasn't designed to be used like reddit, so you could use it but I doubt there would be many interesting communities to browse.
And the sorting algoritmus is terrible. I'm in one local facebook group and the top post is somebody looking for a help for that evening... month ago. That post didn't get more reactions/likes than others, just Facebook somehow decided I should see that and not an important large discussion about important topic.
I use mine for several different wildlife groups like spider identification, hoverflies, natural history museum. There are some good groups on there but I think it depends on how they are moderated as to how good they are.
I have two. One I use for family and to buy things on marketplace, the other I use to follow my job's social media. I haven't tried Facebook groups, though from what I can tell with Insta, "Threads," and Facebook groups, Meta seems to be trying to reclaim their social media monopoly, which feels scummy.
Have a dummy account to check local stuff, like market and meeting groups. That's it.
I have one mostly for msgr, which i pretty much exclusively use to find illicit substances so... 🤷♂️ do with that what you will lol
You dont need Facebook for Messenger. I deactivated mine so that I dont lose the contacts
True...
But then I wouldn't be able to randomly fb stalk someone I used to work with like 10 years ago who randomly popped in my head and then get kinda bitter cuz it looks like shit's going significantly better for them than me...
Not that I'd do that or anything...
I doubt it I am in one Facebook group but that's for messaging purposes. Doesn't have the same way to interact with posts as sites like Lemmy and redit do
Yes, but I don't post anything. I use FB to "heart" family members' holiday snaps mainly. I'm also in two neighbourhood groups - one for my home town and one for the town I now live in. Both are fascinating, people yelling insults at their neighbours, people they actually know! That's interesting because I'd always thought a certain nastiness was a risk of anonymity. Seems not!
I'm in half a dozen Facebook groups. I mainly use Facebook for family communication, here's pictures of the kids here's first and last day of school yada yada.
My neighborhood also has a pretty substantial group where everybody's in it and while they're a salty salty bunch of people it is the only way we can communicate effectively with each other.
I'm also in a couple of meme groups for an occasional laugh.
I think Facebook's two biggest problems are number one the lack of a nominity, I don't want to talk about politics on Facebook, i'd have a bunch of people threatening to come over to my house and shoot me, The other problem is that the value of the contributors in the Facebook side of things is much lower. The subject matter experts just aren't there, and every other bell end just wants to fight you every time they get a lucky roll in a game and try to correlate it with crap that doesn't make any sense.
I left a dreamlight valley Facebook group because an admin wanted to fight me over a misinterpretation of what some developers said in a live chat. Meanwhile this is the same admin that absolutely forbids anyone to tell anyone to Google something, so day in and day out he was just the same 10 posts of how to do the most mundane things.
Nope. Never had one, and I'm old, lol.
I really only use it for gigging. Businesses promote our shows and it's really the only way that is even remotely helpful for letting people know about gigs. While there certainly are other ways, FB and the musician groups i'm a part of have the best impact.
Dammit you're making a good case for reactivating Facebook.
Or maybe I should just make a new one at this point?
yes, primarily because there are facebook groups that fit specific topics of interest. Sadly old school forums have migrated to the way of Facebook
I still have one, but mainly because of family and some friends from school. I use it here and there I do. I really need to get everyone's contact info, so I can delete my account.
I have a Facebook account but I do not go there. Their site greatly irritates me.
LOL people still use Facebook?
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