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usonian

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3. Depends on why you use Facebook.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:48 PM
Aug 28
Is it just to keep in touch with family and selected friends?
Anything else?

Please share.


I am completely unaware of what value Facebook has, because I avoid all "social media". I do so because they all bury quality in the name of quantity, that is: clicks, endless, brain-wasting clicks.

These sites have reached the "enshittification event horizon" (1)

Some genius suggested numerous easy to set up (falling off a log easy) social sites dedicated to ONLY your family, your sports group, your discussion groups and so on.

Connecting them? Well, do you really want to do that? But I have always liked this idea and there are free forum sites limited to 20 or so users, which is PERFECT for keeping things intimate. and YOU (the admin) control who stays and who gets booted.

TRY THAT WITH TWITTER OR FACEBOOK.

But this is not real yet. Give me a few weeks.




(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

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