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| seadog:
There is a lot of unwanted advertising that you can reduce, but it's pretty time consuming to do it. FB have made it as difficult as they can to unsubscribe. You also have to watch out for the sneaky updates that can reset some previously ticked settings. There are generally notifications from other users that will make you aware though. As already said, only friend people you really want to have anything to do with. Having said that, I've reconnected with two people I hadn't seen since the 1970s. One in the UK and the other in San Jose. The latter I met up with a couple of weeks ago when him and his wife were over for a wedding. |
| John Rudd:
--- Quote from: edward on September 07, 2017, 06:07:57 AM ---I like FB. I keep in touch with friends around the globe that I would never do by other means and its lovely to be able to see and share pictures and experiences. The trick is to only become FB friends with people you actually know and want to hear from. --- End quote --- Isnt that what email is for? But without all the spam crap that kids post? Tbh, I just dont have the patience.......I subscribe to a small number of forums that have my interest and email for correspondance, thats enough for me without letting social media take over my life.... Sorry for the rant.... |
| mattinker:
Andrew, There a lot of pre-conceived ideas about Facebook. facebook is what you make it. I got into it to get the photos of my grand-kids. I have very few "friends" which means it's controllable! If you have "friends" who post rubbish, you will get rubbish .I use Firefox and use Adbloc to keep the adds down. I used it to get in touch with friends of yesteryear Regards, Matthew |
| Brass_Machine:
Won't touch it.... FB, as left default, is a huge privacy risk. Zuckaberg isn't one of the richest men in the world because of a "free" social platform. Eric |
| edward:
--- Quote from: John Rudd on September 07, 2017, 07:23:10 AM --- --- Quote from: edward on September 07, 2017, 06:07:57 AM ---I like FB. I keep in touch with friends around the globe that I would never do by other means and its lovely to be able to see and share pictures and experiences. The trick is to only become FB friends with people you actually know and want to hear from. --- End quote --- Isnt that what email is for? But without all the spam crap that kids post? Tbh, I just dont have the patience.......I subscribe to a small number of forums that have my interest and email for correspondance, thats enough for me without letting social media take over my life.... Sorry for the rant.... --- End quote --- I'd never e-mail a selection of holiday snaps to my friend in Oregon, any more than he'd email me when something we did together 20 years ago springs to his mind, but we both might do that via FB. Because of FB, I have remained in contact with lots of people worldwide that I just wouldn't have any other way. its nice to see their kids grow up, for example. I also belong to a number of FB groups for other hobbies - our wreck diving/research group communicates this way and its really useful, and I belong to a cycling group who use it to organise rides and discuss which cake shop we are going to visit this week :) I just scroll past the obvious spam rather like I scroll past posts on here that I don't want to read, and I am 44 years old so I'm not really friends with any kids, its mostly adults :) It isn't for everyone, I would agree, but for me the pros outweigh the cons. I'd say try it, you might like it and if you don't, it does have an off button. Like a lot of these things it is what you make it. |
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