The recent surprise announcement that Meta will soon be shutting down its Facebook Groups API is throwing some businesses and social media marketers into
This is mostly an issue for businesses that were using groups, not individuals.
But beyond that, Facebook is particularly difficult to separate from depending on what you use it for. If you don’t care about anyone else on it, sure, you can leave the platform. But if you need to communicate with certain people and they won’t leave it, especially regional groups, you’re stuck.
My neighbourhood facebook group is pretty useful. I have discover a running group on facebook to run with people, it’s cool and improve my mwntal health. All critisizm about facebook is valid but as long as it’s useful to me, i’ll stay on it.
This is me, I occasionally post something we’re doing, but by far most of my feed and interaction is with groups. I created a neighborhood FB group as an easy way to pass along info/communicate
With pihole, ublock origin, Firefox (FB container) and social fixer browser extension, Facebook isn’t all that bad… Haha
Add in 2016 allowed me to prune/unfollow a number of crazy people.
Worse is when any level of gov’t uses it… “Join our community consultation meeting about city planning live on facebook.”
Fuck that. I can choose to do business or not with most companies. But i cant choose to opt out of civic participation (no, i’m not going to live off grid as a sovereign citizen)
It’s used as a source of income for a lot of people. It’s easy to group everyone and say they deserve all that happens but take a minute and consider those who are struggling and it’s their only way to find work and others are just trying to stay afloat in the sinking economy
if you get fucked because you’re still on a Meta platform, why should I feel bad for you?
after all these years, you’ve all had plenty of warning. you should very well know better by now. whatever bad happens is totally on you.
This is mostly an issue for businesses that were using groups, not individuals.
But beyond that, Facebook is particularly difficult to separate from depending on what you use it for. If you don’t care about anyone else on it, sure, you can leave the platform. But if you need to communicate with certain people and they won’t leave it, especially regional groups, you’re stuck.
My neighbourhood facebook group is pretty useful. I have discover a running group on facebook to run with people, it’s cool and improve my mwntal health. All critisizm about facebook is valid but as long as it’s useful to me, i’ll stay on it.
This is me, I occasionally post something we’re doing, but by far most of my feed and interaction is with groups. I created a neighborhood FB group as an easy way to pass along info/communicate
With pihole, ublock origin, Firefox (FB container) and social fixer browser extension, Facebook isn’t all that bad… Haha
Add in 2016 allowed me to prune/unfollow a number of crazy people.
Nothing I hate more than a company’s website being a Facebook page
And when people send me FB links that only display the login wall.
A lot of companies hate it too
Worse is when any level of gov’t uses it… “Join our community consultation meeting about city planning live on facebook.”
Fuck that. I can choose to do business or not with most companies. But i cant choose to opt out of civic participation (no, i’m not going to live off grid as a sovereign citizen)
It’s used as a source of income for a lot of people. It’s easy to group everyone and say they deserve all that happens but take a minute and consider those who are struggling and it’s their only way to find work and others are just trying to stay afloat in the sinking economy