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Please don't tell me to get off of it, I have old Livejournal friends to keep in touch with and that's why I'm there.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Like when you see they've changed to a joint account, and you think "ooh, which one of you cheated on the other?"

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

"We're working on our relationship". Well yes.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, following gossip about people you're actually connected with is still better than random accounts, pages, and posts you don't follow being forced on your feed.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It unexpectedly happened to me recently, and I didn't mean to follow the gossip so much as I was surprised, and I discovered the husband had put up a video of the wife cheating on him that he had hired a private investigator to follow. That is very much not nice, but also cheating is crappy. Last person I expected it from would be her.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am too old to understand this reference..

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Did you watch it?

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 23 points 1 week ago

Never cared for this type of stuff while I was on Facebook. It's been ages though. I don't miss it one bit.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Saying you have to stay on Facebook to keep up with people says you aren't able or willing to put in the energy required to keep up with people yourself.

There are hundreds of communication platforms, and a most of them aren't run by assholes trying to ruin society for their own personal gain.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a 2 way street. I will say from experience that not using social media like Facebook dramatically dwindled who will reciprocate by text or email.

Fine by me for my life, but I saw the difference as they all used it more and more and I did not.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Same, but I also recognized that the people who wouldn't message me back were not people that I wanted to spend extra effort on communication with when they couldn't bother to respond to a text.

The people that matter make the effort, but many of us are concerned with the quantity of friends instead of the quality of the friendships. I have fewer people to talk today than I did on Facebook, but at least I actually want to talk to them instead of just going through the motions.

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[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you serious? It's a propaganda tool basically owned by the Russian government now.

[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

-gestures wildly at facebook-

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If I had some other platform that was viable I would not be there. Some of it is beyond my control, but none of those friends use Livejournal anymore.

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I know they're not exactly the same from the few glimpses of Fandom history I've seen of LiveJournal, but you seriously didn't like anything about Pleroma, Frendica, Hubzilla, Diaspora, AND Wafrn? The first 4 are all essentially Facebook clones, although they can be seen as macro-blogging sites too. Wafrn is literally Tumblr, just decentralized.

I would highly recommend giving those a chance rather than clinging to FB, as these friends could totally manage it.

Here's the Fediverse.party site to check them all out (Wafrn link here).

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You're talking on another viable platform right now, plus Mastodon and even Bsky for that matter although given Bsky is centralized ultimately, and also ultimately corporate-ran, who knows when or if they won't go down the same dark path to ruin as Twitter or Facebook some day.

[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After that I'll change my top 8 on MySpace!

[–] peregrin5@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

imagine if everyone just went back to the social media of the 2000s. i would go back to vox.com when it was a blogging platform and not a news site.

[–] ximtor@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Since when do random low quality social media posts qualify as "meme"?-_-

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A meme is a "self-propagating" unit of culture.

OP saw this and was compelled to share it. It's culturally relevant, as it speaks (perhaps satirically, perhaps seriously) about an aspect of human (more specifically: western online) culture.

It's a meme. I don't like it any more than you do but it IS definitionally a meme.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That's why I tell people to loosen up when they complain that the format is being misused. If it works, it works. It is evolution. I don't like the look of snails any less than the rest of the general population do, but snails evolved the way they did because it works.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

90% of "memes" nowadays aren't memes.

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Get off of it

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

There is no reason good enough to still be on the Meta hamster wheel in 2025. Facebook, insta, whatever. Get out as fast as you can.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Facebook has had my middle name as a last name since day 1. I was never into giving them personal information.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

You know it’s a dumpster fire yet you remain. There was no way I was going to try and convince you.

Technically I still have an account. It’s from the before times when you could have a fake name and not need to verify anything. I’ve used it twice in 9 years, both times for selling things. Pissed it’s still the best place for that.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I thought I was being original when I did this. Though I used my middle name so no one from my hometown could find me and I only use fb for marketplace. Fb needs a separate app for marketplace. When I bring this up my brother always goes "then I couldn't check their page to see if they are a wierdo". My guy, you were goonin over a girls account that bought your couch, you're the creep. Like that's exactly why it would be better. "Ebay 2.0 local buy sell trade" i don't need to know Annie has 4 kids and golden retriever. All I need to know is the price, but I digress

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