Do you have one and do you think Facebook groups are a viable Reddit alternative? I hear they’re pretty popular.
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Deleted mine shortly after the Cambridge Analytica snafu. Now I block Facebook and it’s subsidiaries on my local network.
Deleted it in 2016, have never looked back
Have? Yes
Use? No
Any particular reason you still have one?
I tell myself it is because of extended family, but I havent got on there in so long, that is probably not a good enough excuse to keep it around lol
My Facebook account exists exclusively to check Marketplace nowadays.
Closed mine a long time ago, I think back when Edward Snowden did the whole NSA whistleblowing. Don’t miss it.
I have one still but the only reason it still exists is because my fantasy football group has a messenger group that it’s used for to coordinate draft times.
Have a dummy account to check local stuff, like market and meeting groups. That’s it.
I use mine for several different wildlife groups like spider identification, hoverflies, natural history museum. There are some good groups on there but I think it depends on how they are moderated as to how good they are.
Nope, never have. It surprises me how many people my age use it though. Groups might technically be viable but Facebook wasn’t designed to be used like reddit, so you could use it but I doubt there would be many interesting communities to browse.
And the sorting algoritmus is terrible. I’m in one local facebook group and the top post is somebody looking for a help for that evening… month ago. That post didn’t get more reactions/likes than others, just Facebook somehow decided I should see that and not an important large discussion about important topic.
I have two. One I use for family and to buy things on marketplace, the other I use to follow my job’s social media. I haven’t tried Facebook groups, though from what I can tell with Insta, “Threads,” and Facebook groups, Meta seems to be trying to reclaim their social media monopoly, which feels scummy.
I really only use it for gigging. Businesses promote our shows and it’s really the only way that is even remotely helpful for letting people know about gigs. While there certainly are other ways, FB and the musician groups i’m a part of have the best impact.
Dammit you’re making a good case for reactivating Facebook.
Or maybe I should just make a new one at this point?
I did until about 12 months ago after using it for about 10+yrs, do not miss it one bit
Yes, I have found a lot of value in Facebook groups for niche hobbies.
I doubt it I am in one Facebook group but that’s for messaging purposes. Doesn’t have the same way to interact with posts as sites like Lemmy and redit do
yes, primarily because there are facebook groups that fit specific topics of interest. Sadly old school forums have migrated to the way of Facebook
