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by invalidname 1521 days ago
I uninstalled it. Even my spouse uninstalled it. I still have the account since it's tied to pages etc. My spouse still uses it a bit for work, but overall a lot less.

Some of that moved to Instagram but not for us. No Facebook makes me much happier.

I think we're still outliers but I do think this is becoming more common. Smarter people understand what's underlying these networks and try to avoid them.

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I don't think you're an outlier. If anything, you're the majority. Most people I know use Facebook and Instagram sparingly and communicate with friends directly using Snapchat, iMessage, Messenger, or Whatsapp. It's not a complete shunning of Facebook/Meta (that feels like an outlier to me) but it's also not using Facebook the way Meta wants you to. They can't show ads in messages (yet).
The people I know use it a lot less after the design update, most of them just can't be botheres to learn a whole new UI.
I cannot even start to imagine how horrible it'll be for society to have ads in messages, the spread of misinformation will be 100x worse.