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And yet Facebook has 3 billion monthly active users: https://www.demandsage.com/facebook-statistics/

I'm now one of those people, the ones talking about how they dropped FB.

Eventually I logged on and noticed that as I was scrolling, like 2/3rds of the content wasn't from my friends at all, not even re-shared stuff, it was all ads or shorts from randos or random group pages that somehow appeared on my feed. And of course a lot of the things from my friends were, in fact, re-shares.

I felt like, if only like 20% or less of the content is original stuff from my friends, what's the point of even being here? This is terrible. So I gave up.

When I look at Facebook now, I immediately click Feeds > Friends. It's not 100% perfect, but so so much better. And I see what I "need" with so much less wasted time.

I entirely agree with you.

surely 3 billion accounts

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