If I could get all my friends and family to stop using it, I would. Unfortunately they and also several communities I’m a part of choose to continue using Facebook and IG and nothing else, and if I’m not on there I only learn about events and such by word of mouth several weeks later, after they’re over. I have tried to convince them to leave or at least cross-post on other communities but they look at me like a crazy person and don’t care.
Comment on Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you’re still using Facebook in 2023 you deserve this
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Melpomene@kbin.social 11 months ago
I was in this boat too. Gave it some thought and realized that if my "friend" group was so uninterested in including me that none of then could be bothered to shoot me a text, then... they weren't really my friends in the first place.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
When your group is several thousand people, that can be tiring, and you may not have their phone numbers.
Melpomene@kbin.social 11 months ago
I've never been "friends" with thousands of people. If I had 100 people on Facebook, I maybe spent real world time with a dozen and we did have phone numbers so...
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
You are not friend with thousands of people. You are friends with a tiny subset of them, about 5 is avarage, so just get them to talk to you.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m in a similar situation. I’m also in a town where I have no friends and I can only keep in touch with the friends I have via Facebook, and then a handful by other methods. My brother is also ASD and Facebook is his preferred communications medium. I really wonder if I’ll ever hear from him again if Facebook goes down. He’s never once called me or emailed me and I don’t know his phone number or email address.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m also in a town where I have no friends
I’m in a city and have no friends. :'(
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sucky. I’ve been here almost 10 years too.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Let me explain,
You study a college, everyone has a Facebook account so it makes sense for teachers to just notify students through Facebook. If everyone has a Facebook account and you dont, its your problem. Noone is going to message you via email just for you.
A different example, You go to an Office. There is a huge notice board. Its filled with notices and there is a huge queue. The office management has not made it digital so the staff members themselves setup a Facebook page and post the pics of notices. Because they know how to use Facebook and everyone around them use Facebook. So what kind of fool would reject that convinience in looking up notices and go queue up in there?
Melpomene@kbin.social 11 months ago
If a professor is using Facebook v. the academic platform provided by the school, they're 100% in the wrong.
If I go to an office with a huge queue and they're not professional enough to have set up a website then why, exactly, would I trust them with my money? That shows a lack of business sense given that Facebook could destroy their entire model on a whim.
nooj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you missed the point and focused only on the examples provided
Melpomene@kbin.social 11 months ago
Not at all.
Facebook is only as necessary as you make it. I've not had an account since 2018 and aside from the occasional inconvenience I have been perfectly fine. This idea that we need Meta in our lives is laughably ridiculous.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Because we are poor and that is an affortable institution
Melpomene@kbin.social 11 months ago
Pay with cash or pay with data, and know that Facebook will only host you for as long as it takes to become your competitor.
BugFinder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sounds like a made up problem!
Even in your example, absolutely no one forced anyone to use it as a “social media” app. If it is a matter of convenience to access the notices, or talk to teacher, then use it like how you would use school/work apps such as canvas/blackboard/slack/teams apps. Stop using it beyond it’s purpose. Which is to say, add “friends” if you have to so that you can access notices or messages from your teacher or whatever. But doom scrolling on clickbait and keeping tabs on Exes shouldn’t be done.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Thats what I totally avoid
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.
snekerpimp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t deal with any business that uses solely facebook as means for communication. I don’t miss them, the platform does a bit less and things get less enshitified. Craigslist isn’t that bad, I still use them all the time, people are much better than the flakes I used to deal with on facebook marketplace. There will be a federated classifieds soon, I’m sure, and the people will regain that corner of the market again.
50gp@kbin.social 11 months ago
lot of dumbass small businesses using it when they should have a website
cmbabul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which is so dumb, making a website isn’t that hard with all the tools that will do it for you and are advertised on every pod that has ever been cast.
war@kbin.social 11 months ago
Junkie excuses. Do without.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Undead marketers?
JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not true.
Neato@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah huh!