I have an FB account to let me stay in contact with friends/family overseas, or at least, a way to contact them if I need to.
I haven’t posted any update to my wall in months, just can’t be bothered. As soon as they got rid of the chronological timeline and started hiding updates I started to lose interest, and it just got worse.
I don’t want to get sucked into their walled garden communications, so I’ve never installed Messenger and never will, which means that I don’t send messages any more, it’s too much effort to log in to their website to do it.
Most of the time if I do look at FB, all I do is block all the viral/meme stuff, tell FB I don’t want to see anything that was merely ‘liked’ by someone I know - which really means I’m blocking all friends of friends stuff from my wall. I’m also blocking all the Republican political stuff that comes from my in-laws and a few colleagues. I refuse to like anything or follow any brands/websites, I block those when they show up on my timeline too.
I have no interest in using FB as a news source, I’d have to go back and curate all the same stuff I follow on twitter, and I’d want to keep that separate from my friends/family stuff anyway.
So it’s really just another address book now.
