Facebook

[chickenfeet]

 I think I've about had it with Facebook.  I've been using "social media" since the days of Usenet and I'm pretty sure I have never seen anything near as crass as FB.  I stayed away for a long time on grounds of not wanting to play in a sandbox owned by a particularly problematic bunch of corporate crooks but recently, since virtually everyone I know seems to have migrated there, I decided to give it a decent try.  It's awful.  The standard of discourse is pre-school and half the content is partisan junk that is either years out of date or has already been debunked.  It makes the AOLers who invaded Usenet look intelligent.  Bleh!

Comments

[shezan]

You're hanging out with the wrong FB crowd (and whenever you think one of your FB friends is posting excruciatingly dull stuff, you can always mute them to not see their stuff without hurting their feelings). I am probably lucky with my FB crowd, but they keep posting amazing and wonderful things, and discussing it articulately and cleverly (and many of them share your political views not mine.) I couldn't live without it now. Give it another try?

[ironed_orchid]

Agreed.

There are people on fb who will send a friend request to everyone they ever met. You do not need to accept their requests, let alone follow those people.

A lot of the people who actually show up on my fb feed are people I met here, because they post interesting content (or links to interesting content) and know how to have and how to moderate a discussion.

[ranunculus]

I never got past my first attempt to post. The format cut me off mid thought. Ick

[loup_noir]

I've been spending a lot of time blocking all the silly meme things that people cannot resist sharing. The extra time has made my feed a lot more bearable.

FB is only as good as the people you follow.