Please don’t tell me to get off of it, I have old Livejournal friends to keep in touch with and that’s why I’m there.
Saying you have to stay on Facebook to keep up with people says you aren’t able or willing to put in the energy required to keep up with people yourself.
There are hundreds of communication platforms, and a most of them aren’t run by assholes trying to ruin society for their own personal gain.
That’s a 2 way street. I will say from experience that not using social media like Facebook dramatically dwindled who will reciprocate by text or email.
Fine by me for my life, but I saw the difference as they all used it more and more and I did not.
Same, but I also recognized that the people who wouldn’t message me back were not people that I wanted to spend extra effort on communication with when they couldn’t bother to respond to a text.
The people that matter make the effort, but many of us are concerned with the quantity of friends instead of the quality of the friendships. I have fewer people to talk today than I did on Facebook, but at least I actually want to talk to them instead of just going through the motions.
People used to write letters to stay in touch. Literally basic email could fill that niche.
Just write an email
Just call them
Yeah no thanks
I’ll just scan for their name in the papers.
They don’t live near me. They’re all online friends.
And? You and I are online, right now, communicating across an unknown amount of distance, while you tell me having online friends means you need Facebook to keep in touch.
There are plenty of ways to communicate with people who aren’t in your town. I have friends on the other side of the country, and a couple over in the EU, and I can communicate with them just fine and never touch Facebook. If you don’t want to leave Facebook, just say it instead of hiding behind trivialities to excuse you staying there. I have plenty of friends who choose to give a pound of flesh to Facebook for one reason or another, but at least they admit they want to be there.
Since when do random low quality social media posts qualify as “meme”?-_-
90% of “memes” nowadays aren’t memes.
There is no reason good enough to still be on the Meta hamster wheel in 2025. Facebook, insta, whatever. Get out as fast as you can.
Facebook has had my middle name as a last name since day 1. I was never into giving them personal information.
I thought I was being original when I did this. Though I used my middle name so no one from my hometown could find me and I only use fb for marketplace. Fb needs a separate app for marketplace. When I bring this up my brother always goes “then I couldn’t check their page to see if they are a wierdo”. My guy, you were goonin over a girls account that bought your couch, you’re the creep. Like that’s exactly why it would be better. “Ebay 2.0 local buy sell trade” i don’t need to know Annie has 4 kids and golden retriever. All I need to know is the price, but I digress
Soooooo Craigslist? It’s wild to me how everyone flocked to FB.
I’m ok with a craigslist reboot. As long as we can bring back all the murders, drug dealers and hookers aka everything that made craigslist fun
Like when you see they’ve changed to a joint account, and you think “ooh, which one of you cheated on the other?”
“We’re working on our relationship”. Well yes.
It’s Angela, isn’t it?
