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If all you used FB for is amusement, then good for you. For some of us, its professional and/or local and/or interest networks are too important -- and apps like F.B. Purity and Social Fixer make it possible to avoid paying anything.
Suzanne, I confess I am also still on FB, though I don't spend much time there. I mainly use it to keep in touch with friends and relatives with old-fashioned kind of round-robin family news, and FB is the easiest way for us to keep track of each other. I don't know about other people my age, but when I was growing up, we'd get letters from relatives that included letters from other relatives, some of which had been passed on several times. Everybody added a note, and it eventually would make its way back to the original writer. For us, FB works that way. Long ago I figured out how to keep FB from co-opting my page for their purposes so ads are rare. I do also use it for some professional connections, useful without having to join an organization.
But why? First of all, Bluesky (so far) is more a Twitter substitute than a Facebook substitute. Valuable for sure, but not an obvious replacement. Second of all, the networks I know of and/or am part of have been built up over 12+ years. They can't be transported or re-created in a few days, or even a few years. Finally, since I use F.B. Purity, FB is FREE to me and I don't see ads. Yes, it comes with its stupidities, like "you have violated community standards" decrees, but in this it is not unique.
I'm not leaving FB till the benefit/cost ratio gets a lot worse. I get why many people have chosen to leave, but I sure hope they've done the benefit/cost ratio thing and figured out it's a smart thing for them to do.
Gosh tough one. I guess it points to how vulnerable we are to these billionaires, who aimed to get us in this position, so we have no power and they have all of it.
Unsubscribed from Washington Post and deleted my Facebook. Don’t give oligarchs more money. Support public servants who are defending our democracy by undermining Trump: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/the-resistance-is-strong-and-deep
If all you used FB for is amusement, then good for you. For some of us, its professional and/or local and/or interest networks are too important -- and apps like F.B. Purity and Social Fixer make it possible to avoid paying anything.
Suzanne, I confess I am also still on FB, though I don't spend much time there. I mainly use it to keep in touch with friends and relatives with old-fashioned kind of round-robin family news, and FB is the easiest way for us to keep track of each other. I don't know about other people my age, but when I was growing up, we'd get letters from relatives that included letters from other relatives, some of which had been passed on several times. Everybody added a note, and it eventually would make its way back to the original writer. For us, FB works that way. Long ago I figured out how to keep FB from co-opting my page for their purposes so ads are rare. I do also use it for some professional connections, useful without having to join an organization.
Try to slowly move to Bluesky then leave FB?
But why? First of all, Bluesky (so far) is more a Twitter substitute than a Facebook substitute. Valuable for sure, but not an obvious replacement. Second of all, the networks I know of and/or am part of have been built up over 12+ years. They can't be transported or re-created in a few days, or even a few years. Finally, since I use F.B. Purity, FB is FREE to me and I don't see ads. Yes, it comes with its stupidities, like "you have violated community standards" decrees, but in this it is not unique.
I'm not leaving FB till the benefit/cost ratio gets a lot worse. I get why many people have chosen to leave, but I sure hope they've done the benefit/cost ratio thing and figured out it's a smart thing for them to do.
Gosh tough one. I guess it points to how vulnerable we are to these billionaires, who aimed to get us in this position, so we have no power and they have all of it.
Same