My wife is another Buy Nothing wizardess. It's actually a neat little community. She considers it a lone bright spot in Facebook. She's organizing a big Buy Nothing event with the local church now.
Facebook is just Craigslist now
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Re: Facebook is just Craigslist now
#12All I ever hear about Facebook any more is just its marketplace. It's gotten to the point where I might make an account just so I can easily sell stuff locally.
I made an account to sell a cheap guitar. I listed it for $100 and used all my own original pictures.
They said my listing was suspicious and needed to verify my identity, which meant sending them a picture of me holding my drivers license next to my face.
I had a lot of other stuff to sell, so I obliged.
They said that wasn’t enough and they required another photo, this time holding my passport by my head.
I thought this was pretty crazy, but also, I had a lot of stuff to sell, and privacy is pretty much already dead so why not?
They said they could not verify my identity.
The end.
Re: Facebook is just Craigslist now
#13In the US - sure. The rest of the world -lol, no
Are you surprised that an American publication with a mostly American audience would focus mostly on the experience of Americans?
Re: Facebook is just Craigslist now
#14In the US - sure. The rest of the world -lol, no
Yeah, at least anecdotally that's true from my observation. I grew up in the US but spent time living abroad, so have networks in multiple places.
American friends ditched the site en masse starting around 2012. By now, none of my original American circle is using the site and my timeline/feed is entirely dead except for frequent posts by foreigner friends.
Re: Facebook is just Craigslist now
#15Facebook was awesome when it was the only social network; now we have Instagram for social image sharing, WhatsApp for messaging, Snapchat for ephemeral messaging, YouTube for social video and TikTok for social short video plus Discord and Twitch for social gaming. Even Facebook's social casual gaming moved to mobile gaming.
Facebook wanted to be the everything social network just like Amazon is the everything store but it doesn't work because we began to see specialization for every segment of Facebook. I honestly don't see appeal why anyone would use Facebook when you literally have better alternatives that are specialized for the particular niche you might be interested in e.g. images, videos, gaming etc.
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#16All I ever hear about Facebook any more is just its marketplace. It's gotten to the point where I might make an account just so I can easily sell stuff locally.
And groups, really. Almost all local level group activity exclusively gets managed on Facebook in the cities I lived in.
Facebook groups are the ultimate data source for LLMs. They have so much information. They are forums for specific subjects but without the friction of signing up.
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#17My wife is another Buy Nothing wizardess. It's actually a neat little community. She considers it a lone bright spot in Facebook. She's organizing a big Buy Nothing event with the local church now.
My only use of FB is as a glorified forum for community groups that haven't moved to Slack/Discord/whatever else. Visiting the actual FB UI feels like another planet, it's all weird spam content.
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#18All I ever hear about Facebook any more is just its marketplace. It's gotten to the point where I might make an account just so I can easily sell stuff locally.
I made an account to sell a cheap guitar. I listed it for $100 and used all my own original pictures. They said my listing was suspicious and needed to verify my identity, which meant sending them a picture of me holding my drivers license next to my face. I had a lot of other stuff to sell, so I obliged. They said that wasn’t enough and they required another photo, this time holding my passport by my head. I thought…
"thanks for the training data, goodbye"
Re: Facebook is just Craigslist now
#19Facebook was awesome when it was the only social network; now we have Instagram for social image sharing, WhatsApp for messaging, Snapchat for ephemeral messaging, YouTube for social video and TikTok for social short video plus Discord and Twitch for social gaming. Even Facebook's social casual gaming moved to mobile gaming. Facebook wanted to be the everything social network just like Amazon is the everything store…
> I honestly don't see appeal why anyone would use Facebook when you literally have better alternatives that are specialized for the particular niche you might be interested in e.g. images, videos, gaming etc.
The particular niche I am into is staying connected to friends and people I like or have an interest in. And reading their posts.
I like to mainly read posts, not watch short videos or see images without too much explanation.
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#20In the US - sure. The rest of the world -lol, no
Are you surprised that an American publication with a mostly American audience would focus mostly on the experience of Americans?
Not at all. But Facebook is not used only by Usians. So the article might seem a bit misleading for people from different parts of the world.