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Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by saargrin » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

im 42 and i use it to talk to people who i would probably never have met otherwise , but ran into on different facebook groups and such

in addition there are many hobbies groups on FB that have no alternative venue other than old-style forums which suck

and finally FB marketplace has been very useful to me ,especially with this corona situation causing store closings and delays in shipping

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by krowfromthewall » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 12:46 PM UTC

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

I am 28 and none of my peers is using FB anymore. I have some older friends that do their yearly christmas party invite on FB and some people who chat with me on FB messenger. There primarily are ads, spam, people posting commercial content and people congratulating each other for their birthdays. Is facebook this dead for anyone else?

yes for me it is. By 2012-14 Fb was pretty popular among my peers but after that hardly anyone has updated their profiles or posted anything except for birthday wishes and life events. A few have even deleted their accounts and only use apps like Whatsapp to maintain contact with friends and family

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by pmarreck » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:03 PM UTC

tootie wrote: post #221

pmarreck wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One is that people shouldn't own pets. Least of all sapient creatures like dogs. I'd wager that will become a common point of view a century or two after I'm gone. Considering that cats 1) have been human companions since the ancient Egyptian days, when the penalty of killing a cat was death, 2) ONLY became human companions of their own volition after their utility in eradicating mice and rats was recognized (note…

Slavery was normal in egypt too. We're only like 150 years past that being normal. Dogs were useful in ancient times as well. They warned of predators and could protect cattle. Not really relevant anymore. Most modern pets are genetically engineered for centuries to be cute and docile and completely dependent on humans.

Well, that's also where you're simply wrong, at least as far as cats are concerned:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/cats-are-an-extreme-....

10,000 years of interactions with cats, and they're just as wild, genetically, as their wild counterparts. Interesting?

Re: Deleting Facebook permanently

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Post by zigzaggy » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

I've been off of Facebook for 6+ years now, and my life has barely been affected. Occasionally one of the kids will be part of a school group only communicates on FB (WHY THO?) and I'll have to request things be mailed to me.

The juice just isn't worth the squeeze to me. (Turns out I was the one being squeezed anyway.)