Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?

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Post by ninesnines » Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 9:30 PM UTC

Fb messenger (really just for my mom!) - it is the main way we communicate because I am abroad and we have different phone setups (iPhone vs android).

also apartment housing -- I've found every apartment on FB!

otherwise I try to never use FB

Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?

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Post by bradknowles » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 12:10 AM UTC

Nothing. I gave up on FB years ago. I was a fan of Mafia Wars at the time, so I gave my account to some friends who ran the MW clan I was a member of, and so far as I know they have continued to run the account for the benefit of the clan ever since.

I've never looked back.

My wife keeps her FB account to socialize with her family and some friends, and I occasionally get updates from her. That's as close as I get.

Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?

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Post by Havoc » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 1:45 AM UTC

Messenger. Never use the actual core fb website functionality anymore. Nor do many of my peers by the looks of it

Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?

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Post by datsudo » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 5:04 AM UTC

FB Messenger is my country's main social media site. I can't communicate with almost all of my loved ones if I don't have one.

Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?

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Post by yygghjkmh » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 1:17 PM UTC

ramoz wrote: post #22

My 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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Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?

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Post by yygghjkmh » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 1:30 PM UTC

Giorgi wrote: post #31

Pretty much all local news are on FB, starting from conventional TV channels and news media, as well as local fb pages who push city-wide local news. Basically all the discussion be it political, social, economics - happens on FB now

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Re: Ask HN: What Keeps You on FB?

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Post by yygghjkmh » Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 1:31 PM UTC

H1Supreme wrote: post #27

hotpotamus wrote: post #13

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.

> 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?

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