One year ago I stopped using Facebook in protest of their profits before people culture.
At the end of the post I wrote “If things get fixed I would maybe return.”
Have things changed?
New items like Meta Dissolves Team Assigned To Police Potential Ethical Issues Of Facebook, Instagram are of concern.
If you use Facebook, or other Meta products, what’s your recent experience?
All I see are ads and a very few posts from “friends” I hardly know. Very little news of family and what is posted is mostly junk that is forwarded to everybody. It’s just not worth the effort!
I make use of both Instagram and Facebook on a daily basis and it hasn’t gotten better but it really also hasn’t gotten any worse for me over the year except for them messing around in the UI/UX which keeps annoying me. I make use of both of those Meta products to stay in contact with family and friends, especially those in distant places. I do make use of specific bookmarks and other features to minimize the annoying extraneous suggested posts that appear in my various feeds.
I stopped Facebook a decade ago, because of such trivia that gets posted and I hear more often from friends that all it does is stir up controversy among friends. Or during municipal elections, as I have noted recently. Disinformation, misinformation is rife, I am told.
I have tried to limit my social media time. I still have a Facebook account but rarely use it. It is only used to keep in contact with a couple of friends and for my job to post information.