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Ex-Facebook Users, What Do You Use Now?

I joined Facebook years ago not long after it took off from its college roots. I also quit it years ago when my feed became full of junk.

The one thing I miss is contact with my friends, family, and ex-cowokers. Most of them weren’t technically inclined so that was the only platform they were on. Some of them did move to Instagram, which I did as well until Facebook bought it.

I then tried wt.social shortly after it started up. It seemed like a great alternative, but its growth is very slow, It has 450,000 users according to wikipedia. Now there’s a version 2, Trust Cafe. The same article also mentioned that they’re looking into connecting to ActivityPub.

What do you use in place of Facebook to stay in contact with friends and family? Mainly, I just use text messaging apps. I use Lemmy and Mastodon for news and information.

symfonystation ,
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@curt Friendica

peter ,
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The only thing Facebook has is people, and to get the people elsewhere you need to have more than what Facebook has. So I think there is no alternative.

alcyoneous ,

Nothing I’ve found is a true replacement to the good, original Facebook. Even Instagram is filled with ads and random BS nowadays. I made it a point to add all the birthday information I could to my calendars, and then keep up a bit with people on Instagram, but that’s about it.

Tubulous ,

I also added birthdays to the contacts on my phone. I found an Android app called Birday that reminds me when someone’s birthday is based on the dates in my contacts. Birday and the clock are the only two widgets on my homescreen. People seem to like that I reach out with a text or phone call to talk to them on their birthday over the FB “click to send happy birthday” thing (which is still better than forgetting, to be fair).

housepanther ,
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I am ex-Facebook user since November of 2017. So far nothing but I recently learned about Friendica. I am curious about it.

Evergreen5970 ,

contact with my friends, family, and ex-cowokers

Whenever I wanted to keep in touch with someone growing up, I’d ask to exchange phone numbers. I still do. This habit meant I didn’t really need to use social media to honestly keep in touch with most people. At most the social media would hand me a quick life update (e.g. vacation picture lets me know to ask you how your vacation was) that I could use to start a conversation. I think this worked because most people my age had cell phones that they accessed the social media from.

bbbhltz ,
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I’ve had FB since 2004 or 2005. I never deleted it. I visit once a week. It is a wasteland for me. The only person who ever posts regularly is my brother.

When I stopped using it regularly I switched to… Nothing. While I do have Mastodon most of my chatting takes place through Signal. I have 2 contacts on WhatsApp. I am awful at keeping in contact but people know how to find me if they need me. I send out birthday emails to close friends.

Fortychops ,

Quit FB back in 2015, but still use messenger to keep in contact with friend and family.

Andy ,
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Nothing that’s the same, but Telegram chats/channels and BeReal.

itmightbethew ,
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Nothing until the start of the pandemic when we all fled to Discord. I have pretty much everybody important in various Discord servers. Being free of acquaintances, coworkers and family members is nothing but positive for me but I realize that’s probably not true for everyone.

What this made me realize though is how smaller interconnected communities are better for those communities and their members. Or it feels that way to me. That’s why I came here after Reddit set its own dumpster fire (and is now apparently gleefully throwing gasoline and tires on it)

don ,

Text messages.

Holodeck_Moriarty ,

For friends and family? Texting, discord, etc.

The only social media I use outside of that has been reddit since like 2011.

photonic_sorcerer ,
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Exactly. Why do I need to see where cousin Jerry has been for his latest fishing trip? I couldn’t give less of a fuck.

curt OP ,

I have cousins like that.

snowbell ,
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Nothing like Facebook. Signal, Discord, Email, SMS otherwise.

mnrockclimber ,

Family group chat and shared albums in iOS. Solve 90% of the needs.

borlax ,
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Mastodon has been a fun replacement for twitter, but I don’t really use it to keep in touch with real life friends, I use it to meet new internet friends and keep up on niche topics/hobbies. I have no interest in a Facebook replacement tho. The format of Facebook is lost on me at this point and anyone who I want to keep in touch with since leaving Facebook has my phone number. As for family, I see them for holidays and it’s more than enough for me.

Frederic ,

Mainly, like you, opened a FB in 2008 or whatever. Now for friends/family it’s Messenger only. I only use FB for Marketplace and some groups. I don’t read my feed/wall nor do I post. Nobody does this anymore, right?

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