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- Thread starter SoapyCy
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If all you see are posts from older people, you are friends with older people. If you get ads/pictures from businesses, you like those businesses. It's catered to what and who you like. In other words, it's a you problem if you don't like something that you can personalize.
I haven't logged into facebook in months. I haven't logged in regularly in years. In college it was a great way to make connections with people and stay in touch, especially when it was limited just to college email addresses. Now it's too much of a distraction for those around me. I abhor when my dad interrupts our conversation to whip out his phone to ask me if I knew that such-and-such childhood acquaintance's niece broke her arm. I sometimes think I could have a better conversation with him 1,000 miles away via facebook than I can sitting across the table from him.
Facebook knows this, hence they own instagram...
Facebook is a beautiful disaster. I'm never getting rid of it. If you think your feed is bad, imagine what someone that shares a Tomi Lahren video looks like.
Old person. Rarely post. Look at it maybe ever 2-3 days. Rarely anything I care about. But it is/was nice to check up on long lost classmates in towns far from me now.
When you get older you'll, every once in a while, think, "Hey, I wonder what ever happened to that one guy/gal." Now I sorta, kinda know. About some of them.
When you get older you'll, every once in a while, think, "Hey, I wonder what ever happened to that one guy/gal." Now I sorta, kinda know. About some of them.
FB won't die because kids in high school aren't using it.
If adults with the disposable incomes that make buying decisions start dropping off, than they'll have an issue.
my wife and i use it as sort of a cloud backup for our pictures and to keep in touch with people. no politics, very little sports, no external comments on non-facebook sites. how do instgram and snapchat make money to sustain themselves?
I've strongly debated deleting it. There are a handful of people that I'm not sure I'd be able to contact but/for Facebook. That's my only hesitation. Otherwise, it's a cesspool of memes, videos, It Works and people trying to convince you they are better parents then you.
Facebook is my line in the sand for social media. I just unfollow the people who post too much garbage. I don't want any part of Instagram or Snapchat or Twitter unless they're still around when my kids hit their teens, at which point I'll be forced to create an account to monitor whatever they're on. Now get off my lawn.
Snapchat started putting ads in their live stories. Not sure about Instagram, don't have that one.
The new sponsored ads in my newsfeed that look like shared posts are really ticking me off. If someone shares something fine...but I don't need FB advertisers sharing things more frequently than the posts shared by friends. I've kept my friend list pretty small, and a lot of them rarely post, so the ads tend to show up more often on my feed than on the feeds of those of you with several hundred "friends".
This times a million. My 70yo mother clicks share on a dozen ridiculous things every day. Add in the all political crap that is almost always wrong, it makes using FB difficult. I still use it because it's still a great way to maintain loose contact with family and some friends, but it really is drowning in garbage.
Facebook is excellent for trolling people. I get endless amounts of enjoyment from it.
It is scary how much information they are gathering on you. I watch that pretty closely and I use browser extensions to block most third-party domains, but if I go to Amazon and buy something, it's a given that later that day, I'll see a promoted post from Amazon with a similar item. I even see posts from physical stores that I've purchased from, meaning they are gleaning credit card purchase information as well.
It's not always old acquaintances, though. There are plenty of people who I was very close with growing up, and it's not like we aren't still good friends, but we don't have time to be constantly in contact anymore. One of my best friends now coaches college softball in South Carolina, and I only talk to him maybe once or twice a month. But we'd both still have each other's backs in a heartbeat if needed, and we can pick up right where we left off the last time we got to hang out.
And if something happened to him, it could take some time for me to find out without something like Facebook (he went to a different high school and I'm not close with his family at all because we became friends right before we graduated and went to college; he comes down to my parents' house for a weekend whenever he's home, partly because he enjoys drinking with me and my dad, but his parents are a little more tight-laced, so I don't go up there).
When it comes to people you don't know well, sure, I don't care about who's pregnant, etc. But those types of posts are not limited to just people you don't know well.
