I use it when I have to: to communicate with my son (as I don't have a smart phone and he likes to text), to play Humans Vs. Zombies Tag (which is all organized via Facebook), to get art and photos from friends. But I don't like it. I would not choose to have my family chat intermixed with politics and ads. I hate the fact that if I mention certain things while texting it slips an ad in. And it is a poor medium for discussion of any kind beyond "where are we meeting tonight?" If it went away tomorrow I wouldn't cry.
Thoughts about facebook?
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May 22, 2017
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I use facebook. I mostly like facebook. Though I have to resist the "someone on the internet is WRONG!"* trap.
In balance I'd say it was a positive thing. There are several old friends and relatives I'd pretty much never interact with if it wasn't for facebook. Not like we interact a lot on FB but I get small updates on what is going on in their lives.
* see: https://xkcd.com/386/
Some people stay off Facebook because of politics. Basically every time we add to it, we're enriching Zuckerberg and adding to his library of ad-enabled content. And it gives the company political power too. It's the same kind of thing as Google scanning our gmail emails to target ads to us, and also Google used to have the best search engine but now it seems the search results are warped towards commercial interests instead of information-finding - meanwhile duckduckgo gets more usable, so I use that as much as possible (Chrome browser on Android doesn't have an option to use duckduckgo as the search engine).
But I still use Facebook every day.
Reddit is no longer free of commercial influence in what it shows on the front page but it might work fine for a special interest.
Do you use facebook?
Do you like facebook?
I use facebook (fb) every day. I don't post a lot. I actualy use it as a photo sharing site. I do nature photography and have a group of friends (maybe 40 or so) who do nature photograpy. We all share photos and information about local nature photography on facebook.
I see and hear where lots of people do stupid things on facebook. Seems like some people just don't realize how much damage can be done when personal thoughts are written down where not only the whole world can see them, but they can be kept forever.
Your thought about fb?