I miss Facebook
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I miss Facebook
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Re: I miss Facebook
#2Back when Facebook changed to the Newsfeed algorithm I knew it wasn't good and I didnt like it. In retrospect its definently when it all started going downhill for me as a user of the platform. Now, I haven't posted anything in 3 years....
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#3I assume that I'm fully outside any influential demographic now since not only am I not on Instagram but I don't know anyone on Instagram. My friends who don't do Facebook do either email or Discord (and a good portion of my friends do do Facebook).
Honest question, is the division of the world into distinct social networks an expression of increasing social stratification around the world? I know little about Instagram but it sounds a lot like a place for people aspiring to wealth.
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#4Facebook is designed to be addictive and pervasive. Missing it does not mean you need it back in your life. Stay strong.
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#5I love this article. Sums it up perfectly. Back during my school days, everyone was on Facebook. Like as if your friends were always with you. However, lack of moderation, the decrease in content quality and endless walls of meaningless excess really kills the value prop. For me, it's not necessarily privacy - it's more about trust. And I know that's one thing Facebook has lost.
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#6I feel that we need a Facebook, but without pictures, just text
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#7Facebook is designed to be addictive and pervasive. Missing it does not mean you need it back in your life. Stay strong.
After reading the article, better phrasing would be “I miss what Facebook used to be”. It may be addictive and pervasive now, but the feeling is that it no longer fills the niche it used to.
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#8Everything that he mentions he misses is now in a group chat for me. A group of 20 or so friends have a Telegram group where we spit out random thoughts, talk about news, day to day life, spontaneously throw together plans to hang out or go for dinner, post candid/embarrassing photos of stuff we’re doing, etc.
Some days only a few people are active, other days you’ll open it up to hundreds of unread messages from everyone.
It’s not public, but it doesn’t need to be. In fact we end up having more entertaining and honest chats since it’s private.
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#9I feel that we need a Facebook, but without pictures, just text
Pictures are good, as long as they are original pictures and not reposted memes & other garbage.
Facebook needs original content. Not links to outside crap, no clickbait, no memes. That alone would make the platform much better.
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#10Perhaps the writer misses their 20s now that they are 35, like almost everyone.