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In reply to the discussion: Meta's pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a user exodus [View all]KatjeD
(3 posts)I have been on FacebookMeta now for at least a decade and a half and post pretty much daily. I do not have or maintain any other social media accounts. I use it as a scrapbook and means of daily connection to extended family members I otherwise would only hear from in an annual Christmas card and to friends across the world from many decades of my life. It is a handy tool. I do not collect "friends" or "followers".
I once was a happy member of an online community called Zaadz. When it was bought out by a corporate concern, many of us reunited on Facebook. I suppose we could "reunite" again on Bluesky, or somewhere else, but every time we do, we lose a few people who simply don't wish to, or can't make a change. While NO PLATFORM has ever been able to match the artistic capabilities we used to have on Zaadz, weaving together music, poetry, art, philosophy, and history in a kaleidoscope of entertaining interchanges, we've been able to use FB/Meta fairly successfully for our own design. Zaadz is the Dutch word for "seed." We'd like to think we are still seeding cyberspace with the intelligent, the good, the true, and the beautiful from wherever it is we are posting from. We may be throwing our pearls before swine, but they remain pearls, regardless of where they land.
I deplore Mark Zuckerberg and all he is representing these days, but as long as I have the means to block and ignore as I navigate my cyberspace on his platform, I am not making him any money by clicking on his ever-increasing volume of ads or subscribing to anything that rolls through my scroll. I'll use him and not allow him to use me for anything but a statistic, until my peeps are able to create something better. So there's my long-winded answer to your query. I guess it all depends on how/why you use social media in the first place.