Curious as to how many lemmings are still using Meta platforms such as Facebook or Instagram?
Used them professionally for failed business ventures. Never personally. Never saw the appeal.
Haven’t used Facebook since maybe 2016/7. Got off Instagram maybe around 2020ish. See zero purpose for either. I do miss having a way to easily contact those friends but I have most of their numbers. They just won’t randomly message unless I pop up on their feed
No, I had it for awhile, but dropped it around 2017 when the Cambridge Analytica shit dropped and it became apparent why my feed was flooded with crazy polarizing political propaganda that was making people from totally unrelated areas of my life fight each other online. Nothing like seeing a former coworker arguing with your 15 year old cousin over some QAnon conspiracy theory on some post.
Sometimes I use it for few minutes when I have nothing better to do, E.g. on a bus, but given the amount of stupid shit I see on it recently it discourages me from using it.
My sister has passed away a couple of years ago. She still has an in memoriam account on Facebook. I am afraid to request to remove it as I am not sure whether someone is still looking at it sometimes for comfort. I do want to keep an eye on it in case someone posts something on her wall, so I still have an account myself to check it. That is the only reason. I never do anything else with it and I ditched Instagram.
From about 2007 to 2010 or so
Hell no i deleted that shit of hatred and ads like 5 years ago.
Facebook can be very useful for organizing events, it has some occasionally useful groups (e.g. when looking for roommates) and marketplace is one of the few places where people still sell things for way below their value (probably correlated to which people still use Facebook). But as a social media platform it is pretty much dead as far as I’m concerned.
There’s a boardgame I would like to get the occasionally shows up on marketplace. Once I get it, it’s account deletion time.
Yes, to keep in contact with 6 people.
Same thing, and I only use Messenger now because Facebook broke Pidgin when they dropped using the standard XMPP protocol. The 3rd party plugin worked for a while, but as far as I know it still has lots of ongoing issues, which is exactly what FB wants. Pidgin was so much better as an app too.
I never did in the first place
It always seemed weird and artificial to me
I got on FB when it was still only for students. I quit something like 5 years ago. I never had insta. I quit twitter partially pre-corona and fully deleted it a couple years ago. I mostly just read things, especially during Corona when local governments posted a lot there (until recently, twitter was king in Japan. I think Insta has since dethroned it somewhat).
I’m not sure when I deleted my facebook about, but I moved into my current house 12 years ago and it was before that. Never had accounts on the other Meta services.
I still have an account but haven’t actively used it since 2016/2017. I log in once or twice a year to see what distant contacts have reached out so I can redirect them to channels I actively monitor.
Havent used Facebook since like 2015. Used Instagram till about November last year. It really felt like a huge waste of time just scrolling on it.
