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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by zzbzq on Monday November 08, 2021 @10:58AM (#29150592)
If you use Facebook the old fashioned way (an actual network of friends) it's probably very pleasant. If you start joining "Groups" which are similar to subreddits, it's the most toxic thing I've seen. I never really was a real Facebook user with a network in the first place, but one day on a whim I went to the FB site where I still had my account and decided to join some random suggested groups. That's where it becomes toxic. Everything becomes incendiary things about the US president and usually further devolves into trolls saying openly racist things, there's no moderation and it's a real cesspool. And I'm talking about groups dedicated to hobbies and cartoons.
Re:The benefits of staying off social media by nomdep on Monday November 08, 2021 @11:30AM (#29150981)
You are clearly have not accepted invitations from high school ex classmates… and you shouldn’t. At least in my case, some of them are the worst kind of strangers: people you would think would grew to be smart, reasonable and/or well intentioned… but they became just the opposite
Re:The benefits of staying off social media by buildsjets on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @09:05PM (#29170282)
What nomdep said, but also the friends-of-friends problem. I cut a lot of people out of my life based on who else they associated with.