Curious as to how many lemmings are still using Meta platforms such as Facebook or Instagram?
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.
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.
Canceled 2 months ago and never looked back.
There’s a handful of people on there that I want to keep in touch with that I wouldn’t as easily be able to otherwise.
Yes. I run an account for our D&D blog. I keep my personal and actually post opposition to republican stuff in order to counter my friend’s stuff. I don’t care if they listen or not, the more i inundate them with it the more likely they will eventually listen or block me which then good riddance.
Nope, I got rid of it when Snowden dropped his info.
Never did
This is the way.
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.
Gave it up about a month ago. The only reason I miss it is marketplace and getting local community news. Also local events are advertised there as well. I was trying to think of a way to get it back in a very anonymized way and block as much of the app as possible. I have adguard DNS, and a throw away email so I may do that.
deleted my account a year ago, wasn’t using it for years but did use messenger previously
never had instagram, because never got the point
I use WhatsApp, but I’m convincing more and more of my friends and family to switch to Signal
I abandoned Facebook and Instagram about 8 years ago, when they had begun putting some random posts on my feed. It was nice when it was about following your friends and their content, but I couldn’t care less about their recommendations.
Stopped using back in 2017. Just recently got a text from Facebook to try to get me back and was like “lol fuck that”
I quit circa 2012 after a friend posted a photo of us and fb suggested they tag me.
I’ve never used any of the others.
No more Meta apps. FB, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads. Nothing. Painful at times but worth it.
What’s painful?
Everyone complaining that I’m not on WhatsApp mostly, family, friends, colleagues
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.
