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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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Facebook is and has been trash for the better part of a decade.
One of the best things I've ever done is delete my Facebook account.
It sounds like now it can no longer even be used as an excuse to "follow old friends." Which was always bullshit to begin with, as most people don't connect with their friends lists after adding. Fuck Facebook. Time to wake up and delete that shit.
I only have people I know in real life in my friends list. I managed to connect with people I hadn't seen in ten years when Facebook came out. We all spent a lot of time connecting with each other, but like you said, that was a long time ago. The site engagement dropped off dramatically in 2016, I think because people realized how it was being used to manipulate them, and then dropped off further in 2021 after covid. This forced content crap finally killed what was left of it. There are definitely still people in my friends list who regularly post, but I would never know it without going directly to their pages since the posts don't show up in the feed.
Imagine willfully putting identifiable information out to the world to see in 2023.
Delete it.