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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    1 year ago

    Deleted mine shortly after the Cambridge Analytica snafu. Now I block Facebook and it’s subsidiaries on my local network.

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        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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    Closed mine a long time ago, I think back when Edward Snowden did the whole NSA whistleblowing. Don’t miss it.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I really only use it for gigging. Businesses promote our shows and it’s really the only way that is even remotely helpful for letting people know about gigs. While there certainly are other ways, FB and the musician groups i’m a part of have the best impact.

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      1 year ago

      Dammit you’re making a good case for reactivating Facebook.

      Or maybe I should just make a new one at this point?

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    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.

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      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.

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    1 year ago

    I still have one, but mainly because of family and some friends from school. I use it here and there I do. I really need to get everyone’s contact info, so I can delete my account.

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    Yes, but I don’t post anything. I use FB to “heart” family members’ holiday snaps mainly. I’m also in two neighbourhood groups - one for my home town and one for the town I now live in. Both are fascinating, people yelling insults at their neighbours, people they actually know! That’s interesting because I’d always thought a certain nastiness was a risk of anonymity. Seems not!

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    1 year ago

    I have one mostly for msgr, which i pretty much exclusively use to find illicit substances so… 🤷‍♂️ do with that what you will lol

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      1 year ago

      You dont need Facebook for Messenger. I deactivated mine so that I dont lose the contacts

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        1 year ago

        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…