07-18-2019, 11:07 AM | #21 |
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Surprised so many of your friends still post in there regularly. Most people seem to think that FB is kinda "dead" these days.
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07-18-2019, 12:53 PM | #22 |
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It's gotten angrier and politicized but I definitely wouldn't say "kinda dead." Dead in the sense that people used to share lots of funny anecdotes and creative stuff and now it's just people playing the "who can show the most anger/outrage" game.
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07-19-2019, 08:17 AM | #23 |
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I feel like Twitter is where most of the political stuff happens, though.
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07-19-2019, 10:10 AM | #24 |
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Maybe. I hear about a lot of people getting banned from it from getting too ragey.
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07-19-2019, 10:34 AM | #25 | |
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Ofc FB has political crap as well, but it's mostly memes and jokes nowadays. Of course this could depend on people's friend/social circles. I'm only talking from experience. And by Fb being "kinda dead" I mean in the sense that it's not as active as it was in 2010-2012 where everyone was playing games and updating their status and uploading photos on their profile nearly every day. Nowadays I mostly see the same 4-5 people posting regularly. The rest haven't updated their status or posted any photo in ages. |
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07-19-2019, 11:06 AM | #26 | |
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Yeah, I remember all the FB games. People would innundate me with invitations to play this or that, Farmville, etc.. I think the decline in that has less to do with people leaving FB and more to do with the rise in cell phone games.
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07-19-2019, 11:11 AM | #27 | |
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The last time someone sent me game invites on FB was like 4 years ago or so. I got like 5 requests from 5 different people on the same day. Someone else did as well and posted as their status "the next person to send me an invite to that stupid game will be defriended, and that's final". Sometime ago I checked a few profiles of people from my friends list to see if they had updated anything lately and their profiles looked dead as hell. Like, their last status or profile picture update had been in 2015 already. |
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07-19-2019, 09:14 PM | #28 |
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Use it every day. I use the messenger for texting those that you trust enough to message out of work but not enough to give out your actual phone number to.
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07-20-2019, 05:08 AM | #30 |
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07-20-2019, 08:59 AM | #31 |
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I actually use it more lately, mostly to keep in touch with my daughter and her adopted fam, a few friends and former coworkers, and as a forum to keep informed on a few issues I am passionate about. (Mostly environmental groups, women's health issue advocates, and the like.)
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07-20-2019, 10:58 AM | #33 |
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Never heard of Answerbag until now.
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07-20-2019, 11:47 AM | #34 |
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07-24-2019, 02:15 PM | #37 |
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I use facebook when my associates insist on using it for communication and to log into other things when I forgot the password, other than that it's a practically worthless thing to have. Literally the only reason I got it ten years ago was because a friend wouldn't stop bugging me about it.
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07-24-2019, 02:17 PM | #38 | |
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When I first read "ten years ago" I was like "what"... but then I thought about it and realised that it has indeed been about 10 years since FB became available for everyone worldwide. Time flies. Yes, it's kinda useless for the most part but it's the only way I have to keep in touch with a few people I no longer see on a daily basis. So I mostly keep it for that and also due to out of habit. |
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07-24-2019, 03:38 PM | #39 |
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It's still the best place to keep in touch with a large chunk of family (especially older or less tech-savvy ones) and former schoolmates. The groups feature is also great if you utilize it properly and get into some well-moderated groups for specific interests.
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I've deactivated my account, but not really ready to make the final step in deleting my account. I really only keep it just to maintain connections from old classmates and previous workplaces, but time passes and the relationships don't get maintained, so communication is very rare. Anyone who I want to frequently communicate with, is now on my cellphone.
It's funny when I first started out on Facebook most of my friends and family members were constantly urging me to register onto it. Now most of those that did, hardly ever do use it, or have deactivated/deleted their accounts. What was most annoying was when classmates or friends (or who I thought were friends at the time), would merely send invites, but would never send any comments (from the few invites I started to accept) or personal messages to me. I quickly learned it was more of their intention to know what I was doing rather than any genuine interest about me or how I was doing. From then on, I still have a lot of invites that I have never even responded to from over 10 years now. As time passed, I saw Facebook became more of a popularity contest than anything else, and my interest rapidly waned. It was feeling like high school all over again. I hardly put any accurate personal information (except an email address if someone actually did want to personally connect with me), and all my pictures were only very small collections of my family and I. I knew then that Facebook's "privacy" standards were anything but a sure thing, which is why I put such bland content on there. So if anybody did hack into it, the most they would see are generic family pictures and ceremonies (weddings and graduations), but all those photos I have already deleted just to not have it on there anymore. Quote:
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For me, it kinda died down after the 2016 election at least in my social circle. Then again, I maybe only visit my Facebook page once every 4-6 months whenever I momentarily reactivate it. Last edited by Refractive Reflections; 08-01-2019 at 02:24 AM. |
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