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If I were FB I’d be more worried about this: Spending time on FB is deeply unpleasant. I finally deleted my account because I realized I hated spending time on

If I were FB I’d be more worried about this: Spending time on FB is deeply unpleasant. I finally deleted my account because I realized I hated spending time on it, and that outweighed any potential to communicate with long lost friends.

dingaling 6y ago
Just de-follow all your Friends and use it as a Rolodex for messaging. No unpleasantness yet still provides social-graph value.
toofy 6y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of the people who don’t think the ad boycott will be impactful are not taking into account how fb is just plain unpleasant to use now. This boycott is also causing a conversation to occur where people are considering other options that are comparatively just a more pleasant experience. In family alone, in the last month I’ve had a few different older family members who were looking for alternatives. Two of them (a couple of grandparents) surprisingly, were incredibly interested in setting up a family Discord server, so a couple weeks ago I helped them create one. In just a couple weeks it’s already up to like 25 family members, and it’s wildly active. We started out with just a couple different channels–a holiday events channel so people can post holiday/birthday type party information and the general–but already some of the younger (like 14-15yo) have their own channels set up for themselves and real world friends. Considering it’s only a couple weeks old and seeing the activity it has is pretty wild to see. One of the most striking things I’ve noticed is, the conversation is entirely different from something you would see on FB, it feels more natural somehow. fb has just become an unpleasant experience, and not only because it makes people not like each other and the distrust it seems to cause, but it’s just not at all a pleasant experience when compared to some of the alternatives.

dingaling 6y ago

Just de-follow all your Friends and use it as a Rolodex for messaging. No unpleasantness yet still provides social-graph value.

toofy 6y ago

Yeah, I think a lot of the people who don’t think the ad boycott will be impactful are not taking into account how fb is just plain unpleasant to use now. This boycott is also causing a conversation to occur where people are considering other options that are comparatively just a more pleasant experience. In family alone, in the last month I’ve had a few different older family members who were looking for alternatives. Two of them (a couple of grandparents) surprisingly, were incredibly interested in setting up a family Discord server, so a couple weeks ago I helped them create one. In just a couple weeks it’s already up to like 25 family members, and it’s wildly active. We started out with just a couple different channels–a holiday events channel so people can post holiday/birthday type party information and the general–but already some of the younger (like 14-15yo) have their own channels set up for themselves and real world friends. Considering it’s only a couple weeks old and seeing the activity it has is pretty wild to see. One of the most striking things I’ve noticed is, the conversation is entirely different from something you would see on FB, it feels more natural somehow. fb has just become an unpleasant experience, and not only because it makes people not like each other and the distrust it seems to cause, but it’s just not at all a pleasant experience when compared to some of the alternatives.