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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.

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Melpomene@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  When your group is several thousand people, that can be tiring, and you may not have their phone numbers.
  
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  - Melpomene@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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...
    
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    helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Okay well, I am and I do. Not trying to speak for anyone else.
    
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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    helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes. I am.
    
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  I’m also in a town where I have no friends
  
  I’m in a city and have no friends. :'(
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sucky. I’ve been here almost 10 years too.
    
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