Curious as to how many lemmings are still using Meta platforms such as Facebook or Instagram?
I’m not sure when I deleted my facebook account, but I moved into my current house 12 years ago and it was before that. Never had accounts on the other Meta services.
Haven’t used Facebook since maybe 2016/7. Got off Instagram maybe around 2020ish. See zero purpose for either. I do miss having a way to easily contact those friends but I have most of their numbers. They just won’t randomly message unless I pop up on their feed
I use WhatsApp, but I’m convincing more and more of my friends and family to switch to Signal
Never did
This is the way.
I joined when it was for students only and quit sometime around 2007. There was a “quit Facebook day” once a year that was for raising awareness about how evil Facebook was even back then. I quit on one of those days. At least that’s part of the reason why I quit. Also the only Facebook friend I really interacted with abruptly got extremely fundamentalist Christian and started posting stuff that I couldn’t stand to be assaulted with.
I never did in the first place
It always seemed weird and artificial to me
Fucking messenger is the only way to communicate with 90% of the population in my country.
I have some bad news for you….
I finally gave up. iiwant to keep in touch with what distant friends are doing. Finding and sharing memes is not doing something and that seems to be all I ever saw. Some people need to get a life. (unless you are confined to a hospital bed there are better things to eo with your life.) Too bad - I miss the rare contact with those distant friends.
My account still exists, and I will log in maybe once every 6 months when I need to for some reason. But that’s it. Sorta like LinkedIn.
Also no Threads, Instagram, etc.
No more Meta apps. FB, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads. Nothing. Painful at times but worth it.
What’s painful?
Where I live, a lot of small businesses, solo entrepreneurs, and events can only be discovered via Facebook. So if you need some service, you will probably never find them if you aren’t on Facebook.
Everyone complaining that I’m not on WhatsApp mostly, family, friends, colleagues
Never used it, never even intentionally been on the website.
deleted my account a year ago, wasn’t using it for years but did use messenger previously
never had instagram, because never got the point
I abandoned Facebook and Instagram about 8 years ago, when they had begun putting some random posts on my feed. It was nice when it was about following your friends and their content, but I couldn’t care less about their recommendations.
Deleted circa 2010. Never looked back.
Havent used Facebook since like 2015. Used Instagram till about November last year. It really felt like a huge waste of time just scrolling on it.
