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Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
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Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
#22My hometown is there. So are my friends from college. Facebook forces nothing on me, it’s a simple place to stay connected.
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#23The emails no matter how many times I click the unsubscribe link.
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.
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#24Watching 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.
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#25Marketplace. 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.
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#26Facebook 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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Imple...
Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
#27Just 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.
> Just on Friday I had a friend message me because his phone was run over and he lost his contacts
His contacts weren't synced to a cloud account? Was it a non iOS/Android phone?
Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
#28I 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.
Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hopefully the EU is going to put an end to this soon.
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Imple...
I'm sure a good app will emerge when the network effect is no longer a concern.
Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?
#30Summarily, after 2h of posters: hearing what is up from other people they care about is why.
Kind of like Twitter, only Twitter is also good at discovery.