i can’t believe i’m saying this, but i’m finding myself enjoying facebook more. the UI and design feels vintage early 2010s, the choice of reactions is nice vs just liking or upvoting something, you can sort the replies by chronology / recent / best instead of being forced to read blue-check morons, there’s an incredible depth of content, hobby groups, local interests, etc that simply couldn’t exist on twitter. it feels more like a forum.

it does also suck, of course, but it sucks in a slightly less grating way than reddit and twitter.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    10 months ago

    Absolutely not. I have to use it for two communities I am part of, and every time I open it I can’t believe how much promoted content I see. I also notice that whenever I post links to off-fb content very few people engage with it, likely because FB is deprioritizing those posts.

    One thing I’ve noticed is that if I hide all the junk I see, it will clear my feed out and make it suck a lot less, but only for a few hours or a day, then it goes back to being inundated with promoted content.

    Fuck shorts, fuck Instagram stories, fuck fb marketplace ads.

    • Taniwha420@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      I also have to maintain a profile for professional reasons, though I get someone else to manage our pages. I don’t even know what it is, but I get anxiety within seconds of interacting with my feed, and I am NOT an anxious person. My ex is addicted to it. Sometimes I feel I lost her to FB and it’s echo chambers if unaccountable validation.

    • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
      4·
      10 months ago

      I did a test just a few days ago, and just scrolled to see how much of my feed was from people I followed, and how much of it was stuff I didn’t. 36 posts in a row of stuff I don’t, followed by 10 posts of people I follow, followed by another 27 targeted stuff, and then 1 post from a friend, and then another 35

      It’s ridiculous, and this digital landscape is dystopic; It’s cyberpunk. I can’t believe, for example, that I can enter something in a search bar on youtube, and get results that are explicitly not my search results

  • Marighost@lemm.ee
    4·
    10 months ago

    No. I actually just deleted the app from my phone. Not only was Facebook my personal doomscrolling hell, but any time I touched my phone, I would muscle memory my way to Facebook and burn 10 more minutes. I’m realizing how much I would do it after deleting the app: reaching for it with my thumb only to find it’s not there.

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 months ago

    I completely deleted my Facebook account nearly 6 years ago now and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life. From what I’ve read online it’s only gotten worse with age, so I’d say it’s a safe bet I’m never going back to it.

    I got rid of Twitter and Reddit as each site was basically destroyed by megalomaniacal money-grubbing CEOs

    They’re all shit, why would I ever want to start using any of them again?

  • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    I have, but only because my reddit ban left me with a void–a void I should fill with something more productive, tbh, but it’s still not taking nearly as much of my time. I’ve always used it, never left, but at this point just use it for some private chats I have with people. Since reddit, I’ve scrolled a bit and been slightly more active

  • HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 months ago

    Unfortunately, I do have to get on there to find information on people. When I do, I immediately forget why I did and end up scrolling for several minutes until I catch myself. I really hate it. It’s like a drug.

  • SuperSynthia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    After I finish selling some things I’m deleting facebook permanently. They know too much, and I don’t want them to get to know me as I continue to age. The advertising, the misinformation, the hate, and the sheer weight of knowing they are profiting off all of us sickens me

  • Gigan@lemmy.world
    21·
    10 months ago

    I deleted my Facebook over 10 years ago and I haven’t regretted it for one second.

  • Nyssa Sylvatica@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I very much miss the Facebook groups of 2018, but there’s so much recommended content, I barely even see my wanted content. When I do see something, it’s only once before it’s buried, even if there’s an evolving discussion in the thread which there rarely is anymore due to the glut of sponsered content.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    there’s an incredible depth of content, hobby groups, local interests, etc

    You’re right. I’ve tried to go back a few times, but I find that the ads and the posts that Fb throws into my feed drown out the good stuff. I enjoy seeing posts from a couple of community groups around town, and the few people I know who still post, but there is so much crap interspersed with it that I get turned off.