Curious as to how many lemmings are still using Meta platforms such as Facebook or Instagram?
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
I use WhatsApp, but I’m convincing more and more of my friends and family to switch to Signal
Never did
This is the way.
I joined when it was for students only and quit sometime around 2007. There was a “quit Facebook day” once a year that was for raising awareness about how evil Facebook was even back then. I quit on one of those days. At least that’s part of the reason why I quit. Also the only Facebook friend I really interacted with abruptly got extremely fundamentalist Christian and started posting stuff that I couldn’t stand to be assaulted with.
Fucking messenger is the only way to communicate with 90% of the population in my country.
I have some bad news for you….
No more Meta apps. FB, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads. Nothing. Painful at times but worth it.
What’s painful?
Where I live, a lot of small businesses, solo entrepreneurs, and events can only be discovered via Facebook. So if you need some service, you will probably never find them if you aren’t on Facebook.
Everyone complaining that I’m not on WhatsApp mostly, family, friends, colleagues
I never did in the first place
It always seemed weird and artificial to me
I believe I technically still have an account, but I have no clue what the password is, and I’m not about to give up more personal information just to delete it. I haven’t used my FB account in years, and it was actually created for me by some friends back when Tinder still required a FB account.
There’s also an IG account out there that I did create for myself more recently, but also haven’t used in many years, and again, deleting the account feels like too much effort when I can just continue not using it.
I mostly try to avoid clicking any links to content on their platforms, but unfortunately a lot of people/businesses only exist on those platforms, plus some other volunteer work I do kinda requires it, so I do begrudgingly click them sometimes. Thankfully my closest friends have learned to send screenshots instead.
I gave it up once I realized it wasn’t for human connections anymore around 2018 or so. I remade an account with a fake name in 2020 when marketplace became undeniably big in America
Very much my feelings and timeline. Still using my original account for Marketplace though. There’s no getting away from it, for me anyway.
It was cool about 20 years ago!
I finally gave up. iiwant to keep in touch with what distant friends are doing. Finding and sharing memes is not doing something and that seems to be all I ever saw. Some people need to get a life. (unless you are confined to a hospital bed there are better things to eo with your life.) Too bad - I miss the rare contact with those distant friends.
My account still exists, and I will log in maybe once every 6 months when I need to for some reason. But that’s it. Sorta like LinkedIn.
Also no Threads, Instagram, etc.
I have it, but it’s not my real name. I removed all the photos from my profile about 10 years ago. I don’t have the app on my phone, so I only check it when I’m on my PC. I don’t post to it, rarely comment on other people’s posts, and only occasionally “like” or “love” the comments.
The only reason I keep the account is because if I deleted it, I would lose track of everyone I’ve ever known in my life since high-school onwards (I’m 45, to put that in perspective) that I don’t really communicate with at all anymore, but I still like seeing what they’re up to in life. I don’t know how else/where else I’d be able to do that.
Never used it, never even intentionally been on the website.
Deleted circa 2010. Never looked back.
