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It's not about normies/techies. It's about recognizing that a Facebook group for a sewing Youtuber provides relatively little value compared to a million other things we can be doing to fill up our entertainment time. You don't need to be tech savvy to recognize this.

Yes. Just stop using facebook. Call your kids' teammates' parents on the phone if you're unsure when the next game is. Call your local businesses on the phone to get info. Join an in person sewing group. Start an in person sewing group if one doesn't exist. These are things "normies" have always done and still do.

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Indeed, and in the end, these groups are just a marketing platform for the youtuber. In my experience, they bring very little value other than a fake sense of community.

This. These type of things used to be good faith helpful things. They are now silo's to attach you to their creator, hord discussions/suck them away from truely collaborative spaces, and generate value for the creator.

Okay, but the group for my small regional area that assists people in navigating the system for getting your special needs kid help is valuable and only on Facebook. Normies have historical knowledge that I'm not going to find anywhere about an area that has 100K people tops and involves a dozen or so cities.

That's why I'm stuck on Facebook. It's for hyperlocal information and resources.

>That's why I'm stuck on Facebook. It's for hyperlocal information and resources.

If it's for hyperlocal information, why don't you use a hyperlocal resource, like notice boards?

People seem to think this social infrastructure didn't exist in the past but in reality we have never been so disconnected socially.

The quantity of scam calls means very small businesses can barely operate a phone. Facebook is their only asynchronous messaging. I’ve met these people: they don’t have email addresses and some don’t know what email is. Promoting “in-person” means becoming IT for them and you have my admiration for that.

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