If you're still using Facebook in 2023 you deserve this
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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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.
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.
lot of dumbass small businesses using it when they should have a website
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.
That’s true, but on the otther hand, nobody GenZ or onwards checks for websites anymore. Most people will look up a business on instagram first, so I don’t blame them, especially small businesses, when they operate on social media primarily.
What? Myself and most of my friends are Gen Z and nobody I know does this. Google Maps is always the first place I look, and 70% of the time I click through to the business's actual site.
Hell, most of us barely use IG at all anymore
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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.
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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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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There's a way to opt out... I did it six years ago. No regrets at all.
I don't see any ads for threads, because I haven't used Facebook for like 5 years now lol
and there’s no way to opt out
Allow me to show you a way to opt out
there's no way to opt out
Yes there is a way to opt out. Just opt out of Facebook and Meta products all together.
If not everyone using messenger, I would. I'm not using Facebook tho, but it doesn't help much
Everyone has an excuse but you've gotta start somewhere. There are probably hundreds of ways to message people and we would all survive if Meta and it's products vanished.
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I feel like if you’re still willing to use anything Meta has touched, you have no excuse to be surprised by this kind of thing.
I’m just surprised that people are surprised that meta will promote platform A (that they own) on platform B (that they own).
No way to opt out. How about leave
Just fucking leave! Do it! Delete FB and hit the gym!
Hit the lawyer, deleted gym, Facebook up....
I stopped it by using this simple trick.
DELETED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN THE APP
Does that matter? Facebook, Insta and Threads are all owned by the same company.
Why shouldn't they merge them all together? Gmail sends appointments, flights, etc to Google Calendar. Should I be outraged by that too?
If you're still oversharing on Facebook at this point, you know what you're getting into. Even those that post that nonsense "I do NOT give Facebook permission" spam that highlights everyone vulnerable to other scams.
I opted out almost 8 years ago be deleting my Facebook account. I would highly recommend.
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They do it on Instagram too. I barely use Instagram as it is, but I have noticed that it's suddenly loaded with "recommended threads" or something dumb
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Arent threads suposed to support federation is rhis meta just trying to take over and kill the only credible threat they face?
It's all one app.
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Well... Of course they are.
Is that because no one is using Threads?
Threads was already dead when porn was banned, that's why it's so hard for people to move from twitter.
I don't understand why people use Twitter or Reddit for porn. There are dedicated sites for that stuff.
I think people use things like Reddit for anything because Reddit has a built in system of human curation. It's not just SEO engineered garbage fake websites like basically every search engine will yield now, or sites' internal searches pushing you to their top players instead of what you're actually searching for.
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Be the change most of us want to see and the world needs. Stop using their products and making excuses for why you need them.
The company that everyone warned would ruin the threads platform is ruining the threads platform? Oh no. Anyway,
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No need to opt out if you never opted in.
They're also doing the same on Instagram.
Imagine still using fucking Facebook in the year of the Christians lord 2023
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Threads still exists? People still use Threads?
I have Instagram because in my country it's the only way to contact some businesses. And they are mingling threads posts in between the IG posts.
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There is a way to opt out. Stop using FB.
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