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Deleted mine shortly after the Cambridge Analytica snafu. Now I block Facebook and it's subsidiaries on my local network.

Deleted it in 2016, have never looked back

Have? Yes

Use? No

My Facebook account exists exclusively to check Marketplace nowadays.

I have one still but the only reason it still exists is because my fantasy football group has a messenger group that it's used for to coordinate draft times.

Nope, never have. It surprises me how many people my age use it though. Groups might technically be viable but Facebook wasn't designed to be used like reddit, so you could use it but I doubt there would be many interesting communities to browse.

I'm in half a dozen Facebook groups. I mainly use Facebook for family communication, here's pictures of the kids here's first and last day of school yada yada.

My neighborhood also has a pretty substantial group where everybody's in it and while they're a salty salty bunch of people it is the only way we can communicate effectively with each other.

I'm also in a couple of meme groups for an occasional laugh.

I think Facebook's two biggest problems are number one the lack of a nominity, I don't want to talk about politics on Facebook, i'd have a bunch of people threatening to come over to my house and shoot me, The other problem is that the value of the contributors in the Facebook side of things is much lower. The subject matter experts just aren't there, and every other bell end just wants to fight you every time they get a lucky roll in a game and try to correlate it with crap that doesn't make any sense.

I left a dreamlight valley Facebook group because an admin wanted to fight me over a misinterpretation of what some developers said in a live chat. Meanwhile this is the same admin that absolutely forbids anyone to tell anyone to Google something, so day in and day out he was just the same 10 posts of how to do the most mundane things.

Closed mine a long time ago, I think back when Edward Snowden did the whole NSA whistleblowing. Don’t miss it.

I really only use it for gigging. Businesses promote our shows and it's really the only way that is even remotely helpful for letting people know about gigs. While there certainly are other ways, FB and the musician groups i'm a part of have the best impact.

I have two. One I use for family and to buy things on marketplace, the other I use to follow my job's social media. I haven't tried Facebook groups, though from what I can tell with Insta, "Threads," and Facebook groups, Meta seems to be trying to reclaim their social media monopoly, which feels scummy.

I do, but the only thing I ever use it for is to keep up with stuff happening in the city I live in, like various local events, board game meet-ups or raves. Once in a blue moon, a friend I met in another country posts pictures of her and her baby lol

I doubt it I am in one Facebook group but that's for messaging purposes. Doesn't have the same way to interact with posts as sites like Lemmy and redit do

Nope. Never had one, and I'm old, lol.

I use mine for several different wildlife groups like spider identification, hoverflies, natural history museum. There are some good groups on there but I think it depends on how they are moderated as to how good they are.

I have one mostly for msgr, which i pretty much exclusively use to find illicit substances so... 🤷‍♂️ do with that what you will lol

No, deleted my facebook account back in 2011

I do, but it's only for keeping in contact with older family that aren't on any other platform. I log in like once every few months at the most.

LOL people still use Facebook?

I did until about 12 months ago after using it for about 10+yrs, do not miss it one bit

My wife has a fake one with a fake name just to use fb marketplace because it seems to be the most popular in our area as opposed to kijiji, craigslist etc.

Yes, I have found a lot of value in Facebook groups for niche hobbies.

yes, primarily because there are facebook groups that fit specific topics of interest. Sadly old school forums have migrated to the way of Facebook

No. Deleted almost 10 years ago.

I have a Facebook account but I do not go there. Their site greatly irritates me.

Have a dummy account to check local stuff, like market and meeting groups. That's it.

I still have one, but mainly because of family and some friends from school. I use it here and there I do. I really need to get everyone's contact info, so I can delete my account.

Yes, but I don't post anything. I use FB to "heart" family members' holiday snaps mainly. I'm also in two neighbourhood groups - one for my home town and one for the town I now live in. Both are fascinating, people yelling insults at their neighbours, people they actually know! That's interesting because I'd always thought a certain nastiness was a risk of anonymity. Seems not!