[6AA4FD]

A lot of the people I know who still have an account, and are aware of Facebook's track record, use it for maintaining contact with friends and status updates, I don't think there is a whole lot that will get those people to drop, they would rather try to further close off the flow of information into Facebook, and they are already not trusting the service or what it does with the information it gets.

[still_grokking]

But they're still feeding the machine…

The presented line of reasoning makes no sense. But people aren't rational, that's no news.

[whatsapps2020]

You are saying that comfortable communication with friends is rationally less important than long-term ideological battle that you don’t really influence?

[xenophonf]

"People aren't rational" is just a dishonest way of saying you disagree with someone's very logical reasoning due to different values.

I know Facebook is scum, but I have no other way to stay in touch with some of my IRL friends. So really I have competing agendas here, social connectivity vs. personal privacy, and I'm sacrificing some privacy to gain connectivity because I value one over the other. I, personally, mitigate the privacy loss by only sharing stuff I'd consider publishing publicly anyway, only liking stuff that's similar, avoiding groups and pages, periodically deleting all old content from my account, using adblockers and private browsing all the time, and customizing the FB web app via local scripts (thank you, FB Purity).

You can disagree with my values and the resulting choices (maybe you value personal privacy over social connectivity), but those choices are completely rational even for people who don't necessarily think about them in painful detail like I do.

So get over yourself and quit thinking that other people are somehow beneath you because they make different choices than you.

[codetrotter]

I have Facebook messenger app installed for the sake of a couple of people, and I check the Facebook main page once in a blue moon to respond to event invites from a friend.

Other than this I don't use Facebook at all any more and have used it very very little for the past several years.

I use a browser that tries to protect me from trackers and ads.

To me, this is what makes sense to do.

But they still get a significant amount of my attention because I use Instagram though.

[selfhoster11]

How is this not rational? Not feeding Facebook anything beyond the minimum (minimising anything extracted from the user) but keeping it open as a communications channel (maximising how much value the user is extracting) is exactly the rational strategy to adopt when network effect keeps Facebook as the #1 place people (re)connect.

[YeBanKo]

I use facebook as an address book. When i need to get touch with someone I haven’t been talking recently, I open fb messenger and reach out. Then we can move it to a better form of communication. But it works. I don’t think I feed much info into it. Also fb market place has decent items.

[walkedaway]

If only there was a way to keep in touch with people if you didn't have a Facebook account. I wonder what people did before Facebook?