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Sara Barry's avatar

It's interesting to see why people are staying or leaving. I think I'm mostly there my ow memories and for a few groups, including two local ones that have info about what's happening in town, but honestly, 90, maybe 95% at this point of my feed is ads and random stuff picked for me, and often not well. I do like and sometimes comment on friends posts, but they are hard to find. Also, I find that a lot of friends are not that active and haven't been, so it's less interesting to be there. I realized one of the reasons I've stayed is because of the people I've connected with already who I got to know through FB (usually groups). I'm not having as much of that happen now.

This is a great opportunity to make sure you know how to connect — outside of any of these platforms — with the people you want to be connected with. I have a friend who just quit FB, she moved our chats from Messenger to text and spent the better part of a day tracking down email addresses and phone numbers. She had a date she wanted to be off, but if you are thinking about leaving, you could spread out that activity.

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Amanda Rouse's avatar

Thank you for this, Jennifer. I don't want to abandon FB completely--yet I do see the value of making an impact to disappear for one day or several as a collective action. Practice of a "strike" can show us our power when we move as a large body of individuals. Thank you for your presence and care.

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