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FOMO?

I would post the Cool Starry Bra picture but it's just too much like hard work. You'll just have to imagine it instead.

U ok hun?

Not quite there yet but close.  It's all posts from friends businesses now and viral shit.  Yes you can spend forever clicking on see less like this but it has lost its way

Anyone want some ‘life changer’ order going in soon?

@scotroutes Jealousy is the worst human emotion  🙂

nah just thought I'd give it a go, what´s not to like?  oh the ironying

I realised how bored of it I was and how many times a day I had the habit of checking it so I deleted the app, I can’t deactivate my account as our company account is connected to it.

For me at least it’s time has passed, and I think FB are feeling that too, they’re pushing the format as a messenger and password management service. As some above said these days it seems it’s only baby pics and holiday pics between a million ads from companies you befriended because they used to put our interesting content but now it’s just ads.

Deleted my App 1 Jan 17 and now barely look at it. I can guess what a plate for food looks like, how a baby looks and what exotic holiday destinations look like as well.

Yep stop posting on thier last year.   On the odd view only based visit back, you quickly reaslise how full of shit it is.   If your this way inclined you also realise no one needs to be concerned about your business, and your not really interested in thiers. Suddenly theres loads of extra space to manage the more important things in your life.

You do know Facebook has many more uses than just following crap your "friends" post?

I'd miss a lot of stuff if I didn't use Facebook now and again. Like local riding spots to take my kid, just one example.

I had already purged loads of 'friends' and unfollowed Mesut Özil ,  my only concern is that a lot of groups are quite useful, like we are organising an enduro here , all the arrangements are done through that...  feels like lots of small events and stuff update their facebook feed over their website.  However that is what our facebook overlords want you to think innit

Still as I say I'm sure it'll be fine!

I will continue to use FB, there’s 2 small surfing groups I’m on and it’s the only way to keep in touch with location conditions (eyeballs) so it’s fine.

I’ve never posted an update on it, but have posted on these small private groups, I can’t see any reason not to continue using it.

Thankfully the people I know who eat food or have babies aren’t on FB.

unfollowed Mesut Özil

You beast! how could you?

we dun

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #eeeeee;">I have just deactivated my facebook account</span>

You shouldn't blame Facebook for your inability to control your own FB page...

Edit: Hmm.  I see the "quote" button doesn't work yet.

Fear of multiple oblongs?

You do know Facebook has many more uses than just following crap your “friends” post?

like looking at lisa (that you used to work with 8 years ago but she left) in her bikini?

TBH you picked the wrong week to become totally reliant on this site.

@mrwoppit, who said I was blaming facebook. I was blaming myself, I couldn't control myself and I was uncomfortable with that. If you can that's grand and I'm jealous.    However there is no doubt facebook is designed to make it addictive, I don't like that urge to check, hence deactivation.

@martinhutch  I still read pinkbike and the Grauniad, and my love for 'jazz' sites will continue. I need to do something about that too...

FWIW Facebook are changing their algorithms and you are going to see a lot less from businesses, including publishers.

@aracer the vast majority of the stuff I saw on facebook was interesting (apart from the Özil stuff) , I just looked at it too often, and felt I had too. entirely my fault

That's fair enough, I can understand where you're coming from, and my comment wasn't aimed at you - you do always seem to get the same old trope about everything on FB being rubbish from some people though.

martinhutch -

TBH you picked the wrong week to become totally reliant on this site.

😆 (I laughed, if that emoji thing is too bloody small for anyone to see)

"FOMO?":

Fear of missing out

It's useful for following bands and messaging peoole

surely this is only how old people feel

@shermer75 there are websites for following bands and whats app for messaging people Shirley?

@mickmcD  its only old people that use facebook I think... what's your snapchat?

[i] there are websites for following bands[/i]

Yeah, but there are many small bands who only use Facebook. Gig cancellations are usually only put on FB. (I got a personal message on there from a band last year 🙂 )

dunno social media ****s me off no end ...recently I turned off my Instagram and don't bother with facebook that often now other than to giggle at some idiots in certain groups

I remember when it genuinely was social and you could see your mates on nights out/doing fun stuff and maybe a girl you knew from school with an outfit not compatible with her level of drunkenness. Not that I would ever be interested in that.

These days the feed is rubbish, but the groups are useful I've bought bikes and parts from it, and the club I ride with uses it a lot. If I didn't use the groups, I'd probably leave it too.

tru dat dezb. my days of living in hackney and following tiny bands and their gigs are behind me however...

gonna see how it goes with the cycling groups. hopefully people will text me or whatever if there is something on!  ... guys... guys....?

Mine's still like that.

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #eeeeee;">Do young people use Facebook? </span>

no they now frequent WhatsApp where they form special little groups and can decide who they wish to slag off and who gets to be in

Facebook has gone to the dogs. It doesn't matter if your friends consist of the Avengers, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and every Nobel prize winner alive, the layout and the feed has gone to shit. It's the mixture of text, pictures, gifs, videos, autoplay videos, animated gifs as videos, external links, videos in links....in short it's a cluster****. Trying to be all things to all people and failing miserably. The groups can be useful occasionally if you need to buy a second hand car and miss the old days when Gumtree was like the wild west.

On top of that there's the obvious intrusion into your privacy, the very dubious marketing tactics, completely unregulated political spamming and god knows what else they are gathering on you. I keep an account open as a means to communicate with people should I need to do so but beyond that I try to avoid it as much as possible.

>Trying to be all things to all people and failing miserably.

I really like it, my news feed works great for me.

<span style="color: #444444;">its only old people that use facebook I think</span>

I thought that was what this place is for

<span style="color: #444444;">and whats app for messaging people Shirley?</span>

I have a serious physiological barrier to get over in order to even consider using  Whats App - the ****ing stupid name

To many sneks?

<p>Well this was made more amusing by the company adblocker inserting the word "advertisement" along the bottom of DezB and Footflaps' posts.</p>

It's now utterly shite and has been for some time. Full of **** stuff people have been tagged in; people sharing shit articles that're probably made up; virtue signalling; internet arguments; friend's posts on shit pages I couldn't give a shit about; I just don't bother scrolling these days. I think forums will see a resurgence, they're far more "social". Only bother keeping it for the chat functionality.

Only real benefit is you can block trolls easier there

Just opened fb to take a look. First 5 posts were all ads or ads trying to look like posts 🙁

Run a fair chunk of our life through Facebook groups and pages, including parent groups for both our kids school years, Cubs, dance, kayak club, coding club, Sustrans, cycling, local What's On and local buy/sell. So wouldn't be without it.

Main feed content still seems okay to me, but I'm pretty selective with what I follow and I block ads too.

I haven't used FB in about 18 months. Deleted the app from my phone, but have retained it on my mac - there's a bunch of old schoolmates that I don't actually see but wouldn't want to lose contact entirely. I don't miss it at all.

So, yeah, I'll take STW and CiF as my main online social media, happily.

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I've quit using it but occasionally check on one FB group which has people on it I can only contact via that.

Hateful </span> thing.

@grahams my wife uses it for her job , it's a fairly.crucial tool unfortunately.  Means she (we) can keep informed with parent groups and so on.

It's only even remotely usable now if you install the FB Purity add-on, and customise that slightly to remove all the cruft.

That plus Ublock Origin seem to do a pretty good job at removing most of the ads, fake ads posing as posts, plus most of the left-hand menu, everything suggested on the right-hand side,...

Now how the frick can you get it to remember the "recent posts" setting rather than the "top stories" setting that uses a properly dumb algorithm that happily drags 3 month old posts up for no apparent reason ?

Facebook has gone to the dogs

Is absolutely spot on. deleted my account a couple of years back, haven't missed it

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As a Beaver Scout Leader, we have a closed group that it handy for quickly sharing pics, meeting news, updates whilst we are out etc, but totally agree with some of the points on here.

The Dull Mens Club Group is funny though.

-<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">I think forums will see a resurgence,-</span>

I really hope so.  Music is my primary interest, and I used to be on loads of great specialist music forums back in the late noughties. They all bit the dust due to facebook. I refused to jump ship too as I find facebook downright creepy and soul-destroying. And so, here I am - a refugee washed-up on a cycling forum... how did that happen?

Don't get me wrong, I do ride a bike when the weather's nice, and I love it now I'm here 🙂

Dammit! How do we quote now? Or is it just a transition-bug?

FB could be OK if I could have it not show anything that people share. I'm interested in what my friends say not what drivel they share.

It’s now utterly shite and has been for some time. Full of **** stuff people have been tagged in; people sharing shit articles that’re probably made up; virtue signalling; internet arguments; friend’s posts on shit pages I couldn’t give a shit about; I just don’t bother scrolling these days. I think forums will see a resurgence, they’re far more “social”. Only bother keeping it for the chat functionality.

Poe's law, dtf

Deleted my FB a few years ago. Got too easily jealous of friends doing stuff without me. Only joined up because they insisted it was the best way to keep in contact. Created a new account a year or so ago purely for local MTB group. I enabled all the privacy settings so I'm just in a network of one and two MTB groups, and a couple of related page likes. No one can change that by friending me or whatever. People can request to message me.

Am using Instagram however, which started purely for use with strava, but there's been a slow trickle of friends, work colleagues, and family connecting with me despite me making no effort to connect with them. Despite 95% of my posts being  pictures of my bike next to a field and them not having any interest in cycling. Hope they'll get the message one day.