I left Facebook years ago but I still.have to use its marketplace because up where I live, it is the only way to buy and sell used stuff. I fucking hate that.
Yeah same, I live in a small town and in addition to marketplace, I need to check it every couple months to keep up with local events. My town has a website with a calendar but they never add anything besides “weight training at the senior center”, no matter what else is going on
Looks like the number of bots has increased. No same person would ever create an account on there, not since at least the 2010s.
I left for the final time in 2014, after the job market required me to rejoin just to get an interview. You shouldn’t have to sell data to a company to get a job. That we have normalized this is worrisome.
Interesting how far higher YouTube’s trustworthiness is compared to the rest.
I think because it is clearly the platform with the most useful content hosted on there. People complain about YouTube, but I think it and Wikipedia stand as the most valuable websites on the net for me.
The irony of gen X believing in X.
You mean bots? Cuz it’s all bots.
To be honest, this always happens. So what? Most people want their corporate social media. My parents will never stop using Facebook no matter how bad it gets. I think focusing on metrics like what most people are doing is just a race to the bottom. If we keep building what we want to exist in the world and stop focusing on which platform does the best numbers, I think we will find its quality that counts, not quantity.
Numbers may rebound, but users having kicked the tires on other options means they’re less tightly bound than they were before. It’s up to us to create a welcoming and interesting environment in the spaces that they’ve looked at to get them to shift their usage.
I logged out on the 12th I think. I did log back in briefly to update my business’ auto reply to give out my linktree.
“The majority secretly agrees with me, only a minority of idiots disagree” is a bad assumption no matter which “side” of an issue you’re on. I’m always glad to see options become available but we shouldn’t expect everyone to want them.
My family’s continued existence on meta is 100% related to the Facebook Portal TV. While it works, we’re there. When it doesn’t, we’re gone.
What the duck is Facebook portal tv
