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MacDoc

MacDoc

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I avoided FaceBook for years until I needed to find a school friend. Then got hooked on FB Market Place recently flipping bikes to good profit.

Hated Twitter and X but just looked in on BlueSky Bluesky where the X refugees are migrating enmasse. Just visiting for the moment. 🍿

I still prefer forums but many of them are dying ....the Cairns Region Riders all migrated from ADV to FB much to my disgust. I still find FB awkward,

Any thoughts?
 
MacDoc said:
I avoided FaceBook for years until I needed to find a school friend. Then got hooked on FB Market Place recently flipping bikes to good profit.

Hated Twitter and X but just looked in on BlueSky Bluesky where the X refugees are migrating enmasse. Just visiting for the moment. 🍿

I still prefer forums but many of them are dying ....the Cairns Region Riders all migrated from ADV to FB much to my disgust. I still find FB awkward,

Any thoughts?
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Mostly evil imo. Monetizing connections. That being said, there are some upsides. Interesting to see what acquaintances are up to. Like every other tech company, tons of smoke, mirrors and fake/scam accounts to keep the membership/engagement numbers improving every month. Really had to tell how much legitimate substance/value exists behind the curtain. I won't invest in any of them.
 
Even the forums which grew up in the early days of the internet have been heavily monitized and not to the benefit of the users. This one a case in point. At least Brave browser keeps the worst of the ad clutter completely at bay.
I find it ironic one has to pay to elimate ads ala Prime and others.
 
I'm on FB. Over the years it's become almost an essential thing to stay in touch with some friends and associates as unfortunately, reality is, it's the "front page of the internet" for a lot of people anymore and anything else isn't even an option anymore it seems. I do actually enjoy it for some stuff as well honestly, and I run a number of groups with a few hundred thousand members, so there's that. I short, I'm not leaving anytime soon.

I think the key with FB is just doing as much as you can for your privacy. I mean, it's still a privacy nightmare, but there are some things you can at least do to try to minimize the damage - I have location services turned off, bluetooth turned off for the app (both used for tracking purposes), I have all the possible "don't share or link my info or online status etc etc etc for advertising purposes" features disabled, and the iPhone has some nifty built in privacy features that I use as well with all social media, especially FB. I use a VPN quite often as well which I move around geographically specifically to muck with advertisers and data siphons. Between all of this I know that I'm doing a decent job of messing with the algorithms and blocking trackers on FB at least as the advertising I get is off the wall sometimes lol.

I don't do much other social media. I have a Twitter account but don't use it anymore since Space Karen took over. Was never really into it much anyways, same for Instagram and all the other stuff, it's never really appealed to me much. I do have a Bluesky account and should probably just close my X account and be done with it.
 
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