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Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
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#12There 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.
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#13Just 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.
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#14For 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.
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#15Watching 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.
Interesting— it’s always been easier for me to get not worked up over Reddit _because_ they are anonymous strangers, and not people I am close with
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#16Facebook 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.
Hopefully the EU is going to put an end to this soon.
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#17I 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.
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#18My 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.
So groups is what keeps me on there.
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#19my non-techie family
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.
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#20Fb 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.