Curious as to how many lemmings are still using Meta platforms such as Facebook or Instagram?
Gave it up about a month ago. The only reason I miss it is marketplace and getting local community news. Also local events are advertised there as well. I was trying to think of a way to get it back in a very anonymized way and block as much of the app as possible. I have adguard DNS, and a throw away email so I may do that.
Nope, I got rid of it when Snowden dropped his info.
My account still exists, and I will log in maybe once every 6 months when I need to for some reason. But that’s it. Sorta like LinkedIn.
Also no Threads, Instagram, etc.
Never did
This is the way.
deleted my account a year ago, wasn’t using it for years but did use messenger previously
never had instagram, because never got the point
I use WhatsApp, but I’m convincing more and more of my friends and family to switch to Signal
Stopped using back in 2017. Just recently got a text from Facebook to try to get me back and was like “lol fuck that”
I abandoned Facebook and Instagram about 8 years ago, when they had begun putting some random posts on my feed. It was nice when it was about following your friends and their content, but I couldn’t care less about their recommendations.
I quit circa 2012 after a friend posted a photo of us and fb suggested they tag me.
I’ve never used any of the others.
Deleted circa 2010. Never looked back.
No more Meta apps. FB, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads. Nothing. Painful at times but worth it.
What’s painful?
Everyone complaining that I’m not on WhatsApp mostly, family, friends, colleagues
Where I live, a lot of small businesses, solo entrepreneurs, and events can only be discovered via Facebook. So if you need some service, you will probably never find them if you aren’t on Facebook.
To download ra2 maps, other than that it’s a right wing site, you wouldn’t touch with a 10 ft pole. Also found a way to bypass their login using unlock origin
What did you do to bypass their login page?
Still have an account, but haven’t been of FB for over 2 years. Once I did some stats and found that only something like 4% of top 100 posts were updates from friends; rest was ads or suggested videos. So, I stopped checking it out and gradually forgot about it, and I found I wasn’t missing out on anything.
Fucking messenger is the only way to communicate with 90% of the population in my country.
I have some bad news for you….
I deleted my personal FB around a decade ago and Instagram few years ago but I joined back in because I needed pages for my business. I wouldn’t exactly still say that I use them. I make one or two picture posts of my work a month and then leave.
