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debodun

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Is Facebook falling out of popularity. Doesn't seem as active as it was 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe it's just my contacts. I used to get 20 - 25 posts a day on my timeline. Now it's 3 or 4 a day.
 

I try to look at the quality of the content over the quantity and IMO the quality is not improving.

I'll stick with it to stay in touch with family and old friends.

If they move on I'll follow the herd.

“If all you do is follow the herd, you’ll just be stepping in poop all day.”— Wayne W. Dyer ;)
 
Have you seen the reports about Facebook and the Australian Government?... it's got many western countries up in arms today in support of Australia and against FB...

Facebook is facing mounting criticism after it blocked news content in Australia amid a dispute with the government over a planned law.
The law will force tech giants to pay for news content on their platforms.
Facebook says the legislation "fundamentally misunderstands" its relationship with publishers.
But politicians, publishers and rights groups in several countries have accused it of bullying, and raised concerns over access to information.
Under Facebook's new rules, Australian users are blocked from viewing and sharing local and international news, while local publishers are restricted from sharing or posting any links on their pages.
Several government health and emergency pages were also blocked, but Facebook later said this was a mistake and many of these pages are now back online.
 
There was a time when social media had the same impact as television when that media became affordable for all. My wife and I married in 1968, we went years, decades probably, without a TV. In the early years we thought that we might be good enough at ballroom dancing to turn professional. Two things about that changed our minds, the money that dancers earned, (not a lot,) and there comes a time when, no matter how many hours and however much training, you need that extra bit of talent, so we called time on professional dancing, but continued as enthusiastic amateurs. Back then, dancing consumed our lives, we travelled to shows and ballrooms a great deal and when we weren't doing that we were training, rehearsing or choreographing a new routine. There just wasn't enough hours in the day, hence the absence of a television.

When friends today ask do we Tweet, do Facebook or any of the other popular social media sites, we just ask, what's the point? If you want to get in touch, pick up the phone. Not being on popular social media is like the days when we didn't have a TV. Back then we learned to deflect the question: "Did you watch so & so, last night?" It's much the same with social media, we just deflect the questions.

Are we dinosaurs? Well we don't feel like we are missing anything. Let me give you an example, one of our friends celebrated her birthday a week ago. In the envelope with her card was a long letter, moaning about lockdown and how much we are missing her and her husband and the rest of our social group of friends. The lady called today, she was on the phone to my wife for the best part of two hours, it was wonderful and a great therapy, much better than letting the world know on social media.

This forum is, of course, a social media site. I joined it after lurking on various forums. Spats seem endemic of forums, but not here, the tolerance makes for a happy environment. My wife has her dressmaking to keep her occupied and I write letters. Posting on here is much the same as writing a letter. But one day will come, when we can cast off this plague, and I can't wait for it to happen.
 
I was on Facebook when my daughter and family were posting. My daughter is very political and left when some of her views were blocked. She kept the account but only uses messenger to post things to me.
I don't mind I didn't care much for what was being posted by others who I didn't really know.
Close family and friends get phone calls or messages and texts.
I prefer face to face but these days its out of the question.
 
Agreed! The thing that bothers me the most is those "People you might know" pictures. They have names in Hindi, Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc. My Facebook entertainment is deleting them all
Simple turn off the"People you might know"option!
 
I never belonged to facebook, or intend to join. From what I've seen of it, I have no interest. My family or friends just send an email now and then if they have some news or want to share a photo.
 
kburra said:
Agreed! The thing that bothers me the most is those "People you might know" pictures. They have names in Hindi, Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc. My Facebook entertainment is deleting them all
Simple turn off the"People you might know"option!
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How do you turn that off? It always comes back.
 
I use Facebook and find it okay as you can "unfollow" any people you want to and still have them as friends and they won't know. I have done that for a lot of people when I got tired of some of their political rantings over and over and over and over...geez give it a break already!

I don't like the tons of ads on there for things they've spied on you shopping for. I already bought that I'm thinking. You can also stop certain ads from appearing and I've done that.

I do have some friends and family on there and like to keep the relationships going so that's why I go there. I also belong to some great FB groups where they do not allow nasty comments. One of them is a Bird group and some are age-specific groups. I enjoy those a lot.
 
I do belong to a couple of Facebook groups for hobbies I enjoy so I check it occasionally. I use messenger occasionally to keep in touch with a few people. I don't post much and have had to unfollow some people who really were ranting on and on about politics.
 
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I think I use Facebook mostly to communicate with family and friends. It is not all that exciting to me and I get annoyed with people who are still going on with political views. So, I put them on unfollow. I have a few on 'block' too. ;)o_O:sneaky:
 
I only joined Facebook when my 2 grandsons joined to make sure they were safe. Since joining I have met family members (cousins) I never knew. I don't find it very interesting anymore.
 
I am on FB but hardly ever post. I keep up with a few friends that are many miles away and a couple of nieces that are far away. I used it a lot when one of the nieces was doing missionary work with her husband in Africa. It was a fast way to "speak" with her and keep up with her twins!
 
I belong to a few special interest groups.

The one group that I read but never comment on is the local FB group. Lots of local information. Also I learned of people who I have absolutely no respect for and will never ever frequent their businesses.
 
MarciKS said:
How do you turn that off? It always comes back.......When the peole you might know appears next time,above any of the pictures,click the three small dots and Choose Hide, Why you get so many as others do also is beacause your Location is ON...need to go to settings to disable this feature.
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