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I keep it around solely because my parents / grandparents use it and it's a means for me to stay in their lives from far away. My social circles have totally dropped it.
for what? Instagram? That's much worse imo.
Anecdotally I use Facebook to coordinate social events with friends and find that it's been a helpful tool to easily keep in touch with friends. I've reconnected with friends through it too. I try and avoid political things and post a lot of cat pictures from a local cat shelter that I volunteer at, which people seem to enjoy. I dunno, I just try and keep my feed filled with mostly positive/upbeat things so maybe tha…
> I just try and keep my feed filled with mostly positive/upbeat things You know Zuck has experimented with making people’s feeds negative to see the impact on their usage? I get Facebook works for you, but consider the company is run by a truly evil and insidious man. As an organizer consider helping people leave.
So you get a new platform, but if you only do one event every few months then there is no really no reason to check it, and then suddenly no one is doing events.
Like it or not, Facebook is the modern yellowpages and you need something everyone is on to replace it. I think that’s going to happen sooner or later.
It’s anecdotal of course, but very few people in my social circle use Facebook for anything but organising events, and you don’t need their app, messenger or even to log on more than once in a while to do that. If you couple that with the fact that everyone is tired of their bullshit, I think they seem ripe for disruption.
You don't have to quit Facebook to get the mental health benefits. All you have to do is unfollow everyone! Literally everyone. Your feed will be blank and peaceful, but you will still be able to maintain a presence on messenger and maintain your profile for people to reach you. You can also still interact with private Facebook groups and things, if you want. This is what I did, and it curbed my addiction to checking…
You don't have to quit Facebook to get the mental health benefits. All you have to do is unfollow everyone! Literally everyone. Your feed will be blank and peaceful, but you will still be able to maintain a presence on messenger and maintain your profile for people to reach you. You can also still interact with private Facebook groups and things, if you want. This is what I did, and it curbed my addiction to checking…
Even better for your mental health is stop reading news. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro... The truly toxic part of facebook and much of social media today is the amount of news and politics that have been allowed on it.
I quite liked facebook. I don't have the urge to constantly check it, nor post much on it, but it was useful for events, casually keeping up with life events of acquaintances, and keeping a rolodex of semi-friends (e.g. people I met on holiday and would like to run into again). I deleted it because the company seems thoroughly evil and doesn't respect my privacy. But if anyone comes up with a privacy-respecting alter…
I've been observing https://www.minds.com/ , which appears to be an interesting open-source competitor in the space. It's based on blockchain, which makes me nervous, but it does allow you to purchase a version of the product which removes all promotion from the product entirely.