Nothing really...I got a new phone and forgot to install Facebook for almost 2 months. even now after installing it I rarely post. Just wish people happy birthday
My friends have certainly dropped their FB activity, but they are still there. It's a quick way to see medium / big events in their lives, like birthdays, vacations, or engagements.
Watching pictures of my friends vacations on FB is better for my mental health than reading the angry political opinions of some mentally ill anonymous on Reddit.
Of my friends, the hard left folks continue to post their angry political opinions but the right wingers are gone. Perhaps by their choice. Perhaps by the choice of the moderators.
Facebook Messenger is the most used communicator in my country (Poland). Without it I would be basically disconnected from my friends and people from university/work. I'm not really happy about how dependent we are on having a Facebook account.
The issue is there is no good equivalent to Signal that lets you use a username instead of a phone number as the primary identifier, unless you count OTR, which isn't very user friendly.
Not sure about the rest of you but I am quite comfortable only interacting with most of the extended family at Thanksgiving once a year. For immediate family I just call them once a week. I deactivated FB after most of my general family stopped posting on there and it became filled with nonsense.
There are two groups I am a part of - a web development one (free), and a workout program's private group that you gain access to as part of membership, that I access frequently. And occasionally (rarely), Marketplace.
Just on Friday I had a friend message me because his phone was run over and he lost his contacts. Also I assume there's tons of tech industry back-channel private groups - I'm in one small one and it's useful.
For me it was the Oculus Quest :) I still had a token FB account just for that. But 2 months ago they finally decoupled it so I deleted it the same week.
Facebook's usefulness for its original purpose: keeping up to date on friends, was already broken years ago when they moved from the one simple linear feed to the algorithmic timeline. I don't want suggested content.
I have a pseudonymous account with no friends at all. I use it to find family friendly activities around town, espescially free ones that are not advertised elsewhere.
My feed is bare and I like it that way. I just unfollow any friend I have so they don't appear in my feed. I also unfollow groups I'm part of, but still visit the groups on my own terms. Facebook stores your most recent search and there's a small list of people/groups that I click on when I feel like it.
Fb messenger + portal. My kids can say “hey portal, call grandpa” to call my parents who live abroad. While on the call the kids can run around in the living room and the camera just follows them. I have never found a better setup than that. Fb does keep our family connected esp during the last 2 years.
Marketplace. It's awesome for local second hand stuff. I wish it had more/better filtering and search options but I guess that intentional. Still it's better than anything else.
I have no idea. I suspended my account years ago, but re-activated when I interviewed with FB. I figured it would be difficult to acceptably explain why I wanted to work there if I didn’t use FB. I need to write a script to download all of my pictures and then delete my account.
- It's a non-professional LinkedIn. Just want to keep in touch with some people that I get to know IRL.
- Some people are not close enough to regularly call, and not far enough to drop from life. Liking posts or commenting emojis keeps the connection.
- Groups. There are some really nice groups that are on topics I am interested in, like <local language> literature, science writing in <local language>, group of local scholars.
- All local businesspeople are on Facebook. I regularly make queries on their products or shop in general through FB chat.
- I do <performing art> as a hobby. I perform. Upload it to FB showing it to a custom list of friends, ang get 30+ likes. Love doing it.
- Some people I care about are there. They post there, and I like to see them. Often close-ish people from the past.
- Eternal September literally ruined Quora. While specialized, well-moderated groups in FB are going strong. There are several intellectually satisfying groups on FB.
- Fine grained control over what I make visible to whom, and what I see. I have 800+ friends (all known IRL), but I have manually unfollowed 500+ of them.
- Network effect makes some content great. It's just statistical. If there are much more posts, there are slightly more good posts. Memes on <national culture> are great.
- Where I live, social status gives you many opportunities and advantages. FB is crucial in my local comminity for gaining that status.
Keeping track of what is happening in the lives 20ish real life friends whom I wouldn't really have contact with otherwise. It's also the only way I know how to contact several of them if I had to.
My daughters sports team uses it as their main communication channel.
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His contacts weren't synced to a cloud account? Was it a non iOS/Android phone?
Facebook's usefulness for its original purpose: keeping up to date on friends, was already broken years ago when they moved from the one simple linear feed to the algorithmic timeline. I don't want suggested content.
So groups is what keeps me on there.
Seems to automatically opt-in every time they come up with a new category of notification spam.
Other than that, think I posted a Merry Christmas picture in a dodgy sparkly Santa hat I found lying in the road around eight years ago.
Kind of like Twitter, only Twitter is also good at discovery.
Basically all the discussion be it political, social, economics - happens on FB now
- Some people are not close enough to regularly call, and not far enough to drop from life. Liking posts or commenting emojis keeps the connection.
- Groups. There are some really nice groups that are on topics I am interested in, like <local language> literature, science writing in <local language>, group of local scholars.
- All local businesspeople are on Facebook. I regularly make queries on their products or shop in general through FB chat.
- I do <performing art> as a hobby. I perform. Upload it to FB showing it to a custom list of friends, ang get 30+ likes. Love doing it.
- Some people I care about are there. They post there, and I like to see them. Often close-ish people from the past.
- Eternal September literally ruined Quora. While specialized, well-moderated groups in FB are going strong. There are several intellectually satisfying groups on FB.
- Fine grained control over what I make visible to whom, and what I see. I have 800+ friends (all known IRL), but I have manually unfollowed 500+ of them.
- Network effect makes some content great. It's just statistical. If there are much more posts, there are slightly more good posts. Memes on <national culture> are great.
- Where I live, social status gives you many opportunities and advantages. FB is crucial in my local comminity for gaining that status.
My daughters sports team uses it as their main communication channel.