Facebook: Your Reasons For Use?

I used to but I haven't been on in quite awhile.

I stopped using it some years ago, Twitter the same. There are alternatives that don't track and sell your user history. I try to avoid Google also.

I was on FB to keep in touch with friends and family until COVID hit.

I had been noticing that no one was paying any attention to me on there at all. And dad started calling me a MAGAt so I said the hell with it and dumped it. I went back and got an alias so I can post freely and look at pages I like that's about it.

I do think you get out of FB what you put in...

Its a bit like forums, if you post and if you engage then people will engage with you unless you are allowing the wrong people access to your page.

I have my brother on mute, unfriended but I dont see his stupid football posts.
I regularly weed out those with an agenda.

Joining intrest groups is a good way to interact without having those people as ' friends' ..
Im in an instant pot group and a dementia support group but they dont see my personal stuff..

The dogs are much more open and chatty than me ...they talk to anyone!

There are some interest groups which seem better than elsewhere. I have found that things can mushroom out pretty quickly and it takes time to keep things in check. It is a way of keeping in contact with some people though. With covid though I have cut down quite a bit as not only are there ad's all over the place but additionally government covid ad's and constant fighting between vaxers and anti-vaxers. That is where some of the well regulated interest groups are good as the are better moderated.

Oh, I forgot to mention.. yes I am in a lot of FB groups, but I just read the posts.. I don't interact much. Some are related to work, and some are related to health issues. That's about it!

You're right, alsr: we're on the same page. Pinterest is one of the best websites, I reckon. You can't get bored with it!

I have unfriended my sister on Facebook: she was complaining about me exposing her to other Facebook users [she is very private about her Facebook use: which is fair enough] and that my posts look "childish". I don't see how a picture of a scene in Spain is childish. It's not as if I'm posting pictures of Barbie or My Little Pony, is it?

I'm sorry to rant, but my sister's comments bug me: they're wrong and unfair. Facebook is designed for posting: that is why it's so popular. My sister just does not get it.

Now she's unfriended, she can't use the argument she's exposed anymore.

I used to post pics of Barbie. LOL

I unfollow lots of people.. mainly in my SO's family. They post very obviously fake stuff all the time... like giant snake pictures that are photoshopped, but they think it's real... sigh lol

Yeah thats the ' unfollow' mode you dont defriend them but you dont see all the stupid posts they make.

FB has three stages of ignoing someone.. unfollow' ... defriend and blocking. Unfollow' I use for daft people like my brother .... unfriend for people who just lurk and never respond to anything and block for the ones who annoy me or trot out racist or homophobic crap.

Facebook isn't for everyone. So fairs fair.

Hello cassie.

As with anything, if it's used right, there is no harm and can benefit others. Facebook is a site I love: I don't abuse it. I don't use political statements or abusive posts or pornography. I don't post pictures of My Little Pony or Barbie, either*. Plus, I think Barbie must have a boyfriend by now: other than Ken. Barbie is a bit of a tart.

OK, OK: that is a private joke. Anyhow, Facebook makes people happy and the people who abuse it will abuse anything. That isn't the fault of Facebook. If treated with respect, there're few issues with the site. Also, my friend, Vicky, stopped using Facebook because she friended a man who then showed her a video of him Jacking himself off. She hasn't used Facebook since then. I have never had a man send me such a video on Facebook. I think Vicky - although not her fault - misused Facebook. If she'd kept on the main channels, the man wouldn't've sent her such a video. Vicky did not know how to use the site properly: and was so abused by a man.

*A reference to what my sister said about my posts on Facebook.

I spoke to my mum on Skype today she was telling me to every day she gets requests for friendships and normally because she doesn't know the people or they appear to be foreign she denies their request.
Last week she says she must have been rather tired and somehow or other she accepted someone..when she turned on her Facebook that morning she got the shock of her life... this person had posted a video of her and her partner having sex..
Mum was disgusted, she said, good lord I haven't even had my cornflakes yet ..it's put me right off my breakfast...
With the help of her volunteer carer they reported the post and were told ,*this does not go against our community standards* ....

You have to wonder just how low the standards are if you can post sex videos to complete strangers and not break the rules.