If Facebook disappeared tomorrow... the poll (1 Viewer)

[TLEF316]

These are my thoughts. Though I wasn’t as cool as you in college apparently and didn’t get on Facebook until a girlfriend created a profile for me (so she could link the relationship - which after that time was also the real barometer for relationship status) a couple years later.
 

But I’m with you in that if somebody is posting nonsense just ignore/block/delete. Facebook is about the only way I keep in touch with friends back east and from college and law school. Not the biggest deal if I lost, but it would have some negative impact. 
 

I also think we are at the point where there are enough alternative media outlets and other social media sites that people would still consume garbage anyway. 

Trust me....I was not/am still not cool.

 

[jwb]

I moved away from my family/long-time friends, so FB has become the main way we keep in touch (especially friends who I'm not going to spend time talking with on the phone like I would my mom). Combined w/ messenger, it's really effective for this. Makes the miles seem not so far. 

I've completely gotten rid of the junk in my feed. Unfollow is a great tool for staying friends but getting rid of their noise. What is also good is blocking  political memes and forwards at the source. "Hide all from stupid political meme group" makes sure you never see stuff from that group again. It's basically whack-a-mole in the beginning because there are so many, but after blocking a bunch, you'll notice the noise decreases markedly. 

 

[nirad3]

I use it to share pictures of the kids with family. I would need a different application for this if Facebook went away.

This.  Plus I use it to waste time at several points during the day/night.  I would miss it, but not financially.  

 

[Jayrod]

I deactivated my rarely used Twitter account a few months ago and considered deleting Facebook, but didn't for two reasons.

First is the sharing and checking in with extended family that I don't normally keep up with.  Not sure how I would know what most of my aunts, uncles and cousins were up to without FB and that occasional point of contact has been valuable to me.  Second is the ability to get in touch with friends from years ago that I have no phone number or email for.  I have rarely needed it, but the couple of times I wanted to contact an old college buddy it was very helpful.

 

[Northern Voice]

Same as many people, I use it mostly to stay in touch with friends and family far away. 

I basically never post anything to Facebook but I do use Instagram and often push those photos/stories to Facebook (same company). 

And when people post irritating political stuff, I straight unfriend for the most part. 

 

[GregR]

I live in Discord these days. 

Me too. I resisted joining as I expected it to be more social media. But it being very focused on just my friends, places I go for software support and to talk to the product developers, etc, I ended up loving it.

 

[Terminalxylem]

I agree that getting rid of Facebook, and more importantly the vacuous role it fills, would be a good thing for society.  Unfortch, if Facebook didn't fill whatever need it fills, another platform would come along.

I'm a crank.  I also believe that we'd all be better off with only flip phones and no smart phones.  I can live without the convenience, and would happily do so if it were to better society.  Smart phones coupled with social media make life suck for children.  My childhood was 100x better.

Do you have a flip phone?

 

[Sleestak]

Do you have a flip phone?

I'm a sleestak.  I have crystals.  That's it.  And I had a great childhood.

 

[Terminalxylem]

I'm a sleestak.  I have crystals.  That's it.  And I had a great childhood.

I was asking because I just made the transition. If my work allowed it, I’d have kept the flip.

 

[Hawks64]

Slightly negative because I'm in a couple of clubs that use Facebook to communicate.  That's all.

Also a few local restaurants use it for daily specials. I'm sure it would move to twitter or instagram or some other social platform but it would be a slight pain to move to a different platform.

 

[steelerfan1]

Never had fb, and I’m old. Wife is on it all the time, but if it got missing I probably wouldn’t even know. I am looking into a MySpace account though…

I also just recently got rid of my flip phone but it was only trying to save money by losing our home phone which didn’t work out so now I’m stuck with this phone that I’m even slower on than my flip phone…

 

[yak651]

If it would go away probably e a good thing unless the next version is more dangerous…need a version that doesn’t allow political or religious posting 

 

[Sleestak]

I was asking because I just made the transition. If my work allowed it, I’d have kept the flip.

I have a 6 year old smart phone.  But I use it like a granny.  Talk, pics, messages, navigation, discord, and the web.  Flip phone is too primitive.  But I could deal with it to save society and The Children (tm).