Do you have one and do you think Facebook groups are a viable Reddit alternative? I hear they’re pretty popular.
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Deleted it in 2016, have never looked back
Deleted mine shortly after the Cambridge Analytica snafu. Now I block Facebook and it’s subsidiaries on my local network.
Have? Yes
Use? No
Any particular reason you still have one?
I tell myself it is because of extended family, but I havent got on there in so long, that is probably not a good enough excuse to keep it around lol
Closed mine a long time ago, I think back when Edward Snowden did the whole NSA whistleblowing. Don’t miss it.
Nope, never have. It surprises me how many people my age use it though. Groups might technically be viable but Facebook wasn’t designed to be used like reddit, so you could use it but I doubt there would be many interesting communities to browse.
And the sorting algoritmus is terrible. I’m in one local facebook group and the top post is somebody looking for a help for that evening… month ago. That post didn’t get more reactions/likes than others, just Facebook somehow decided I should see that and not an important large discussion about important topic.
I have two. One I use for family and to buy things on marketplace, the other I use to follow my job’s social media. I haven’t tried Facebook groups, though from what I can tell with Insta, “Threads,” and Facebook groups, Meta seems to be trying to reclaim their social media monopoly, which feels scummy.
Have a dummy account to check local stuff, like market and meeting groups. That’s it.
My Facebook account exists exclusively to check Marketplace nowadays.
I have one still but the only reason it still exists is because my fantasy football group has a messenger group that it’s used for to coordinate draft times.
I use mine for several different wildlife groups like spider identification, hoverflies, natural history museum. There are some good groups on there but I think it depends on how they are moderated as to how good they are.
yes, primarily because there are facebook groups that fit specific topics of interest. Sadly old school forums have migrated to the way of Facebook
I have one mostly for msgr, which i pretty much exclusively use to find illicit substances so… 🤷♂️ do with that what you will lol
You dont need Facebook for Messenger. I deactivated mine so that I dont lose the contacts
True…
But then I wouldn’t be able to randomly fb stalk someone I used to work with like 10 years ago who randomly popped in my head and then get kinda bitter cuz it looks like shit’s going significantly better for them than me…
Not that I’d do that or anything…
I doubt it I am in one Facebook group but that’s for messaging purposes. Doesn’t have the same way to interact with posts as sites like Lemmy and redit do
Nope. Never had one, and I’m old, lol.
I do, but it’s only for keeping in contact with older family that aren’t on any other platform. I log in like once every few months at the most.
