Man, you have no idea how old their user basis.
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MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
users are presented with a clear choice between two paths
There is a third path. Just stop being a user. Maybe that choice isn’t clear enough. Push notifications are fucking evil. I removed the app and use FB as a PWA about once every six months. I might use it more if it had content from my friends or anyone I gave a fuck about, but instead it’s all promotions and suggestions.
Without the little red number creating FOMO on my phone, I haven’t no impulse to check it. Yet I check Lemmy several times a day. I check Bluesky every couple of days. Because every time I open them, someone I want to hear from is posting something I want to see. You should try that, Zuck.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 day ago
officermike@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Probably 4-6 months ago I finally reached my breaking point. Facebook used to be centered around friends. Sure, most of them are now dormant on the platform, but for those that were still active, they were still buried amongst piles of far-right bullshit that I never asked for and that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I clicked “see less like this.” I deleted the Android app and logged in via mobile browser. I still occasionally check the happenings in my industry’s Facebook groups and my HOA, but Facebook is otherwise dead to me.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I haven’t touched a facebook product in almost 15 years and my life has been nothing but better for it.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shit yeah that’s about how long for me. Gods, I remember talking about how cool and futuristic Facebook was back in like 08, but in my defense I was a middle schooler. I rapidly saw it morph into a hub of unpleasantness and bailed.
bluGill@fedia.io 1 day ago
There are a few things facebook is better at than anything in my life - checking up on distant friends that I wouldn't call normally but I want to know the big events in their life; ensuring my parent see pictures of my kids (we don't live in the same state). However those things only need a couple minutes of my time per day, and that isn't enough to make them a big company and so they keep shoving garbage that doesn't make my life better in my face. That garbage takes up hours per day of many people's time and is worth a lot to facebook.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 minutes ago
What is mentioned as pros are cons to me haha. The idea of sharing stuff so people can just catch up on your life without even contacting you just seemed like a creepy concept to me from the beginning.
I’ve preferred people just contact me directly or I contact them instead of documenting life events for people to browse through. Then there’s facebook having all those photos and messages and personal documentation to have a very strong profile on you that adds to the additional creep factor.
ptu@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
For most of our history, we couldn’t check on how distant friends were doing. Except through gossip I guess. Today we can be connected for decades with people we never interact with irl. I wonder if it takes a toll mentally to be attached to so many people for so long.