Same. Facebook Purity browser extension helps a lot with what you see, including restoring the chronological timeline and hiding garbage, but isn’t motivation to participate more.
This is it. Also when meeting new people, a lot better than trading phone #s. It reveals your social media history to someone you just met, but allows you to see theirs as well.
I tried to sign up for FB once, but never received the confirmation email and never pursued it. I don’t think I’m missing much. If I did try to sign up again, I would pay good money for the ‘only show original content’ app; the Drumpfinator for FB!
I’m not so sure that’s true anymore, although of course it depends on your business and acquaintances. When I first left Facebook, hardly anyone had. Now I know several people who have, and maybe 5x more who just use it to keep track of family members.
I missed out on knowing a “friend” was getting divorced and another “friend” had cancer. Then they said “how did you not know? I posted all about it on Facebook! How did you not see that?” I couldn’t claim I don’t go on Facebook because I post 1-2x a week. And couldn’t tell them I hid them. Awkward. Best thing to do is not have an account.
Some other sites, such as YouTube and eBay could use these also - services which purport to provide a service for the average person, which have been more or less completely subverted to being skewed to favor big companies.
I strongly disagree. The reason why FB needs all that cash is precisely because they run it as a walled garden. Most other social media platforms use the same approach, only less successfully.
The solution I think is to instead develop a robust social media protocol, which anybody can use. Not unlike html or torrent. This is why the internet took off in the first place - because it was a way out of the GEnie/Prodigy/CompuServe ghetto. The biggest phone book in the world would only get bigger if it wasn’t tied to FB and the corporate culture of the “elite” minority.
you won my internet for the day
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