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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.

Pantoffel ,
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I once had a facebook profile. But I seldomly used facebook to stay in touch with anyone.

In the end I met people again at irl gatherings of mutual friends and acquaintances, or I did not.

My life was none the worse for not meeting the ones I didn’t, far as I can tell.

I deleted my account because I did not want to have one anymore, and I do not have need of a replacement anywhere else.

Hexorg ,

8 years ago I posted on facebook that whoever is interested in keeping in touch should text me and I deleted my account a week later. 4 people texted - all 4 were my high school friend. I’m very good friends with them still. We have a tiny discord server for communication. Since then I had maybe 4 more people who I thought “huh, I wonder what are they up to now” over the years, but my curiosity wasn’t big enough to start facebook again. For the rest I didn’t really care.

DJDarren ,

I walk the streets holding up memes from last week on TikTok, asking people to like them. I mutter vaguely racist epithets too, and all the pink coloured men with Union Jack tattoos all agree with 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?

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.

mnrockclimber ,

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

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

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.

don ,

Text messages.

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)

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

Fortychops ,

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

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.

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.

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.

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