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I use it for marketplace that's all. Fake name, no friends.

I have a bare bones FB profile for neighborhood info (were those gunshots?), school stuff, local businesses, etc.

Facebook is for boomers resistant to change. Or the tech-illiterate.

In comparison to things like Twitter and Reddit, Facebook has actually been the most difficult to completely abandon because of Messenger. All my friends use it, and an attempt at switching everyone to Signal didn't manage to stick. I would delete my Facebook account right now if it were possible to separate the two services.

Yeah, it's always surprised me a little bit just how strong they still are. While the often-online do tend to shy away from it, it's actually still a preferred platform for the less-online, due to how easy it makes coordinating real life events. Also not the sort of segment that usually cares much about data privacy.

That’s how I’m connecting with friends and family for the most part.

I have old friends from Livejournal and that's how we stay in touch. I use a lot of the fediverse platforms, Lemmy, Catodon, Pixelfed, and I also use Bluesky and Maven.

Still waiting for good alternatives.

network effect

I don't integrate it with anything else, but facebook remains my best option for getting current contact info for anybody from my past. Even after the enshittification, it remains an effective Rolodex. Rolodex...I am old.

Haven’t used Facebook in probably a decade, but as a photographer Instagram is still the most active platform I’ve tried. Vero is weird. PixelFed is pretty empty, mostly people’s snapshots. Others either cost money or aren’t really good on mobile.

Also reddit - why still keep using reddit

Well craigslist in my area is kinda dead so Facebook market place is the only place to do local buying and selling. It also acts as a lowest common denominator, I find someone on facebook send a few messages until we agree on some other social media to continue communicating on. Then My family uses What's app and has done since before they were acquired by meta. Getting them to switch is something I push for, but I'm not holding my breath.

Never used any bar Reddit, then binned that for Lemmy.

I don't use Facebook or Instagram or Reddit or twitter/X if

If you want to connect come find me where I am, if I want to connect with you it'll be over WhatsApp or signal.

Only for marketplace. Haven't posted anything in years, and before that never anything meaningful.

Well, using FB since something like 2008, but for years now it's only for groups, like retro toys group, spotted group, neighbour group, camping group, moped group, etc.

I don't have friends anymore who post stuff like their dishes or things like this, nor do I post. The feed is basically ads and far-right conspiracy nowadays,

I'm using Marketplace a lot too, this is the shit here, everyone is using it.

The largesr draw about a social media is who's on it. I can't tell you how many invites to things I miss for not being on social media. Anyone outside of my immediate friend group simply makes plans on Facebook and goes through their friends list to invite people and wont remember some one they maybe see every other month especially among the dozens of names they already looked through to invite. Some peopel are fine sacrificing social life for some small protest that has no effect on Facebook's MAUs and profit, and other's would rather not isolate for a fight they can't win.

in my defense, there's like 3 businesses and a few charities that I can only reach through facebook

Last I checked Facebook had the most active users it ever had. I don't like Facebook either, but it's also sad so many people here live in such a bubble that they think they're part of some big movement of people ditching Facebook.

I've spent nearly 2 decades connecting with friends, family, coworkers, and associates through Facebook. I hate Facebook, and actually use F.B. Purity to remove 90% of the content, ads, promotional junk, games, marketplace, etc. from it. But as the main way I've stayed in touch with people I've known over the course of my life, I just can't dump it.

Besides that, I have Lemmy (of course); LinkedIn, which I'm not really using anymore since I retired young; Imgur, which I mostly just use for browsing memes; and Discord, which I only use to communicate with a few close friends whom I game with weekly.

I created accounts for Instagram and Whatsapp, but I've never used them. They were too self-promoting for my taste. When they first became a thing, they were all about taking selfies and sharing your face with your friends. I wanted discussion and interesting content, not to see selfies. They created the generation of "social media influencers" who think they're entitled to things in life because X number of people follow them on social media.

I also avoid TikTok like the plague. I was in the US military (working as an IT guy) when TikTok became popular, and we discovered it embedded itself in your phone so deeply, you couldn't fully remove it even when uninstalling. Plus, it gave itself full admin rights to your phone, then started trickling your data to Chinese servers. Which is why the president made such a big deal about TikTok being a national security threat. It's not because we didn't get along with a Chinese company; it's because a foreign government was collecting personal data and building profiles on American citizens. I will never touch that program as long as I live.

I'm 40 years old, by the way. A lot of people say Facebook is only used by old people, and yes, I just turned 40 and am finally becoming an "old person." But I'm still relatively young compared to people's expectations of Facebook users. And I have a lot of Facebook friends who are much younger than I am.

Being edgy just isn't a concern for most people