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Re:Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boy... by ogre_codes on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:42AM (#23710356)
> I've taken the rather drastic step of unfollowing everyone just to get the utter garbage that is the feed out of my life.

I just quit FB. I realized that it ceased adding value to my life some time ago. Turns out you can get a feed of what's interesting in people's lives just by texting them and sharing with them via text and email.

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Re:Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boy... by batiudrami on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:48AM (#23710637)
Events is something I can't give up, unfortunately. With the death of street press it's easily the best (and often only) way to find out about gigs and raves, and my friends organise events on facebook too.

Australia's IM is dominated by Messenger too.

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Re:Why Facebook is well placed to weather an advertising boy... by ogre_codes on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:32AM (#23712895)
This is a really good point. Events are really one of the bigger things I miss too.

A fair number of my friends use Messenger because it's essentially the only thing other than SMS most everyone has. I use SMS and iMessage for a fairly decent sized group of friends.

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