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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-20 at 04:53

Me shading my Gen X and Boomer friends.

I have not logged in for so damn long that #Facebook made me jump hoops to log in. I have to fish my photos from the platform tho, so I can't disconnect it yet lol

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Written by Dean F. on 2025-01-20 at 05:04

@liztai This Gen Xer quit Facebook the day after the election. And the more I hear about Zuckerberg, the gladder I am to have left.

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-20 at 05:14

@soulexpress I think I quit ... ok I'm Malaysian so the election didn't effect me, but I quit mostly because of too much info about friends lol. Unlike others, I really don't want to know about their lives that much unless you have a face to face lunch/coffee with me ;D

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-20 at 05:14

@soulexpress oh yeah and how much they love to share negative content. I couldn't deal with all of that doom

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Written by Raven667 on 2025-01-20 at 05:39

@liztai yeah, finally someone who might not think its weird. I'd rather invest time in people who invest time in me, the friend who I meet for coffee, or the one whose kids play with mine, people I actually socialize with, rather than every acquaintance with whom I might have mutual recognition.

Mastodon is different, it's more like seeing regulars at the local pub and occasionally meeting people by jumping into an overheard conversation in a public space.

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-20 at 05:46

@raven667 I love it here. It's the only calm social media I know

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Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 05:08

@liztai I've been wary about giving personal details and photos of my kids to Facebook for a while now, but there are edge relatives and in-laws and whatnot that I want to let have updates. I tried posting links to my own photo site a few times. Finally, I'm starting an email mailing list for a family newsletter. I'll email them those personal details like in the 1990s.

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-20 at 05:13

@shannonkay omg email newsletter to relatives is the BEST THING. I love the idea.

Yeah I don't like sharing personal info on FB. A lot of my friends OVERSHARE to a painful degree. I really have no energy to deal with their drama and honestly i don't want to inflict my neuroses on them either.

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Written by Shannon Kay on 2025-01-20 at 05:23

@liztai I agree. And the problem I had was that people like my mom's cousins and my husband's aunts wanted personal updates, pictures of the kids, etc. But we don't see them IRL, they're not local, etc. Those are the "Facebook people" I didn't want to abandon. Email is perfect for that crowd!

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Written by Noam writes on 2025-01-20 at 08:39

@liztai Facebook still has critical mass. Various people I'd have a hard time staying in touch with otherwise, and several groups that are hard to follow without it. So I'm staying for now.

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Written by Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 on 2025-01-20 at 09:24

@noam I only follow some groups but even then, not really lol

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