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Man I hate to say you're completely right, but you're completely right. I remember years back being in some social thing where someone was railing on social me

by kjs3 2y ago

Man I hate to say you're completely right, but you're completely right. I remember years back being in some social thing where someone was railing on social media and pontificated "absolutely noone wants what Facebook is", and I grudgingly had to retort "you don't want Facebook, but a half a billion people (at the time) obviously do". Read the room.

graemep 2y ago
Many of us are reluctant users. There because our friends our communities are. I would love FB to go away. I am the admin of two FB groups, both UK home education related (one about exams and qualifications, the other for single parents). I do it because I feel I should help the community (especially as the crappy commercial groups that target the same audience), which is made up of non-technically inclined, mostly middle aged women - i.e. FB's core demographic. I cannot remember the other demographic nos offhand, but its 95% women in the exams group, and 98% in the other (and both have 1% other/did not say), and the age profile reflects the fact that people have school age (or just over, in the 16 to 18 age group) children. I had actually planned to try and push the community towards forums, but with the Online Safety Act in force that is not a risk I am inclined to take. My cousin runs a family group where she shares photos and wishes people happy birthday. I would prefer her to use WhatsApp but she is the one running it. A lot of my friends post family news, important things like births and deaths and weddings on FB.
- kjs3 2y ago
  Many of us are reluctant users. I understand what you're saying, but my own observation is "many of us" == "a tiny minority". "There because our friends our communities are" is exactly it...our friends and communities don't care as long as FB and the other social media cesspools are the default. I too have tried to get various relations to not make me log into social media to be part of their life, and I get some variation of "oh, you weird little infosec guy, that's way too much work and it's good enough for all of us".

by kjs3 2y ago

graemep 2y ago

Many of us are reluctant users. There because our friends our communities are. I would love FB to go away. I am the admin of two FB groups, both UK home education related (one about exams and qualifications, the other for single parents). I do it because I feel I should help the community (especially as the crappy commercial groups that target the same audience), which is made up of non-technically inclined, mostly middle aged women - i.e. FB's core demographic. I cannot remember the other demographic nos offhand, but its 95% women in the exams group, and 98% in the other (and both have 1% other/did not say), and the age profile reflects the fact that people have school age (or just over, in the 16 to 18 age group) children. I had actually planned to try and push the community towards forums, but with the Online Safety Act in force that is not a risk I am inclined to take. My cousin runs a family group where she shares photos and wishes people happy birthday. I would prefer her to use WhatsApp but she is the one running it. A lot of my friends post family news, important things like births and deaths and weddings on FB.

kjs3 2y ago
Many of us are reluctant users. I understand what you're saying, but my own observation is "many of us" == "a tiny minority". "There because our friends our communities are" is exactly it...our friends and communities don't care as long as FB and the other social media cesspools are the default. I too have tried to get various relations to not make me log into social media to be part of their life, and I get some variation of "oh, you weird little infosec guy, that's way too much work and it's good enough for all of us".