[antibland]

I’m curious about the pool of Facebook users who seldom use the product, retaining it solely for groups and to keep in touch with family. Will this event loosen that final brick and drive these users to delete their accounts?

[jrnichols]

in my case, no, because I still need to occasionally keep in touch with those people.

I use Facebook a LOT less nowadays though. Here's what I do:

- removed all of the apps from my mobile devices. - only check it on VPN, with Firefox, using Facebook Containers. - log out each time and do not use the "save this browser" feature. - unlock origin & pihole are active on the VPN too.

I have managed to completely ruin its targeted ads for me. It's been an amusing experiment.

I still use it less because it is a HUGE memory & resource hog and eventually makes my browser window slow to a crawl.

[flas9sd]

"keep in touch with family" can be subsumed by chat apps. But for discussion groups and special interests, facebook is still the most accessible site to run (small) groups in, or am I mistaken?

[nonameiguess]

If you have some need to know the people, maybe, but if not, hobbyist subreddits are better for discussion groups and special interests. The only thing I can't see leaving Facebook is some group that requires real-world interaction like a buy nothing group, but there are neighborhood specific platforms popping up that would enable applications like that without having to use Facebook.