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HowardL
06 Dec 2018

I almost never am on Facebook, and the more I hear about it the less I feel I'm missing something.

I've needed to go on FB because I've received email saying there was a message for me. For which I had to set up an account. Which brought me invitations from all kinds of people I knew at one time. My feeling about most of them was, "If I wanted to keep in touch with them I'd been been in touch a long time ago." With the very few I've replied to, I wound up engaging in the sort of small talk that bores me at cocktail parties.

More perniciously, FB hijacked my email address book. then the email lists of everyone who was in my address book. As a result I have "friends" in China and Afghanistan, people who in some way were in email contact with people on my list. The multitude of strangers who are my "friends" probably are nice people, but I chose never to accept their invitations because of a lack of time and interest.

I have only so much social energy, and I much prefer to expend it on people I see. Those are my real friends. The others are flickering images on a screen.

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Jim Clark
06 Dec 2018

I joined Facebook in 2009. I have enjoyed it and found people as far back as Little League baseball. That's 11 and 12 years old. When the drama got thick I tried Twitter and it was a breath of fresh air. It is still my #1 site I enjoy. All the controversary with FB has made me halfway think about leaving it. Or start a new account with very selective choice in FB friends.

This article came along at a good time for me as I have been seeking a new site to call my #2 social site. I place a lot of confidence in the info Bob Rankin shares. I think I may find something I'm looking for in this article. I'll let you know Bob.

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Gary
06 Dec 2018

I use Fluff Busting Purity (FBP)
https://www.fbpurity.com/ and Ublock to find and eliminate most of the things I don't want to see. They just disappear. You can add any words you like to FBP and anything having those words will not show up. For me it gets rid of all the posts about peoples cats and dogs along with other items that do not interest me. Many other things you can control with FBP.

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Chuck
06 Dec 2018

My only real problem with the mighty one is the time stealing. Of course it isn't stealing if one gives it willfully, so you can't fault them for that. I took a sabbatical for several months and it was painless although there were times when I thought, "I should post th.. oh yeah". It's a weird yet welcome feeling to NOT access Facebook all the time. I now limit it so that I can have a real life too. It's funny I've never been banned, but I have had a couple of religious rants deleted without being blocked. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough.

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Eli Marcus
06 Dec 2018

Hi Bob!
There is a relatively new social media platform that is aimed at artists, or "creators" as they label themselves, for sharing art - Ello.co

when they first launched, I thought they were trying to offer an alternative to FB, but they have since grown and developed basically into a network for artists - professional, amateur, and everything in between. It may not replace FB, but it is definitely a breath of fresh air...

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Martin Wilkinson
06 Dec 2018

https://gab.ai/?

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gene
06 Dec 2018

I use Twitter almost exclusively. My association posts its minutes on Facebook so I go in every three months and look at those and that's it. No interest in it and never really have had. Twitter is much faster, funnier and anything happening anywhere shows up there faster than anywhere else.

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Marcie
06 Dec 2018

I agree - you might try OANN's freetalk24.com. Conservative conversations would not be a problem.

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Bob Kinsler
06 Dec 2018

I wish we had something like AOL's Chat rooms again. Then again AOL had a nice social media display for those that remember it.

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FrancesMC
10 Dec 2018

I like Facebook and read it every day. I have deliberately kept my Friends list small; people from a group that migrated when MSN folded, family and a few others who share an interest. I'm a member of two closed groups, one of which is very large, and the comments on the large one do use up considerable time but they're interesting and sometimes hilarious. It's been a godsend for keeping up with family. My sister and I don't live all that far apart but, for various reasons, are unable to travel so we can exchange news and photos that keep us in touch. It's better, in many ways, than calling long distance because you pick up the little things that otherwise wouldn't get mentioned. As for my grandnieces and grandnephews, I would probably never hear about them at all without Facebook. If everybody migrated, I would happily migrate too but I can't see that happening.

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Samantha
11 Dec 2018

I find FB boring to be honest. Its just not me to want to know who is off to drink coffee etc etc - teens and families with young kids will like it more. Nice for those into it mind.
Twitter is my forte - fast moving and news on he minute.

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Jim Horn
03 Jan 2019

I love Facebook's convenience.

I hate Facebook's bigotry and biased censorship. I sometimes post things that are politically provocative (I'm a conservative) and have been placed into facebook's exile several times. I am more than annoyed and am preparing to bail.

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