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@grahams my wife uses it for her job , it's a fairly.crucial tool unfortunately. Means she (we) can keep informed with parent groups and so on.
It's only even remotely usable now if you install the FB Purity add-on, and customise that slightly to remove all the cruft.
That plus Ublock Origin seem to do a pretty good job at removing most of the ads, fake ads posing as posts, plus most of the left-hand menu, everything suggested on the right-hand side,...
Now how the frick can you get it to remember the "recent posts" setting rather than the "top stories" setting that uses a properly dumb algorithm that happily drags 3 month old posts up for no apparent reason ?
Facebook has gone to the dogs
Is absolutely spot on. deleted my account a couple of years back, haven't missed it
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As a Beaver Scout Leader, we have a closed group that it handy for quickly sharing pics, meeting news, updates whilst we are out etc, but totally agree with some of the points on here.
The Dull Mens Club Group is funny though.
-<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">I think forums will see a resurgence,-</span>
I really hope so. Music is my primary interest, and I used to be on loads of great specialist music forums back in the late noughties. They all bit the dust due to facebook. I refused to jump ship too as I find facebook downright creepy and soul-destroying. And so, here I am - a refugee washed-up on a cycling forum... how did that happen?
Don't get me wrong, I do ride a bike when the weather's nice, and I love it now I'm here 🙂
Dammit! How do we quote now? Or is it just a transition-bug?
FB could be OK if I could have it not show anything that people share. I'm interested in what my friends say not what drivel they share.
It’s now utterly shite and has been for some time. Full of **** stuff people have been tagged in; people sharing shit articles that’re probably made up; virtue signalling; internet arguments; friend’s posts on shit pages I couldn’t give a shit about; I just don’t bother scrolling these days. I think forums will see a resurgence, they’re far more “social”. Only bother keeping it for the chat functionality.
Poe's law, dtf
Deleted my FB a few years ago. Got too easily jealous of friends doing stuff without me. Only joined up because they insisted it was the best way to keep in contact. Created a new account a year or so ago purely for local MTB group. I enabled all the privacy settings so I'm just in a network of one and two MTB groups, and a couple of related page likes. No one can change that by friending me or whatever. People can request to message me.
Am using Instagram however, which started purely for use with strava, but there's been a slow trickle of friends, work colleagues, and family connecting with me despite me making no effort to connect with them. Despite 95% of my posts being pictures of my bike next to a field and them not having any interest in cycling. Hope they'll get the message one day.