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I honestly just don't get who is really using Facebook. My parents aren't on there, kids aren't on there (my friends are teachers). I have friends (30yo) who re
by IkmoIkmo 5y ago
I honestly just don't get who is really using Facebook. My parents aren't on there, kids aren't on there (my friends are teachers). I have friends (30yo) who removed accounts. Not a single close friend whose account remains posts more than once every few months, the vast majority never post. A handful of people that aren't close friends post every now and then, but I'm so disinterested in the content that I typically unfollow them so it doesn't show up in my feed.
Just took a quick sample of my first 10 things in the feed:
- Article from a paper I subscribed to a decade ago. (just unfollowed)
- Ad about some stock related thing
- 'suggested content for you': picture of a football team (PSG) lineup for 2021 posted by Eurosport
- Sales listing for a 2nd hand yard sale group in my city that I follow
- Post by UN Water that I followed a decade ago and had zero interactions with since (unfollowed)
- A comment posted yesterday on a meme posted 5 months ago, by a person I met on exchange that I've not spoken to or seen in a decade (unfollowed)
- Ad for furniture
- Another sales listing for the 2nd hand yard sale group
- 'Suggested for you': news about a guy going crazy at the airport after baggage delays, posted by a local news channel
- A video of a building getting demolished (spam), posted in a (unmoderated?) FB group for selling bicycles that I joined years ago when I bought a bike (unfollowed)
There's literally not a single piece of useful content in here. One comment by a stranger-friend that was unfollowed. Two ads. Two wrongly suggested content I didn't ask for. One spam video. Two posts by orgs I never interacted with in a decade and unfollowed. And two listings from a 2nd hand group, that's the only thing I'll stay in (although the listings weren't interesting, the group has some good stuff).
And this is from a person who's on FB maybe 10 minutes per week, the 'good' content should've piled up. It's pretty insane how this crap can somehow be one of the most valuable companies in the world.