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I'm cutting FB and IG entirely, is there a way to see content there without an account?
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OP isn’t asking about how to keep viewing shorts or memes from friends.
Many businesses forgo websites and put their contacts, opening hours, menus, and updates on a dedicated Facebook page. Is that small business open on Sundays? Google says yes, but Facebook has a post from the owner about their dog dying so the store is closed for the week.
I am part of several social groups that communicate entirely through Facebook. There is no way to get updates out to all members outside of the dedicated group pages. A venue change a few months back caused chaos because some people didn’t check the Facebook group in the week leading up to the event.
I too want to leave Facebook, and have stripped my use down to these minor use cases. But getting rid of it completely at this point cuts me off from some of my only positive mental health activities.
If a business stops using a website but uses Facebook (or similar platforms) instead, they will miss me as a customer. If their customer service is only on social media, they will miss me as a customer. Fuck them, I don't want to be forced onto certain platforms to be able to contact a company or see what's up. I'll go to the competition, preferably a small company, which still uses a website and has a phone number with a human answering it.
Huh? Small businesses are the ones that predominantly use FB to replace traditional websites. If you want to support local business, chances are they are using a free Facebook page rather than paying for web hosting.
Gladys’s Artisanal Buttplugs is owned by a 60 year old who doesn’t know the first thing about running a website, but she has used Facebook to send spam to her grandkids for years. If I want to avoid giving my money to Big Plug^tm^, FB may be my only way to contact local creators.
I get the disdain for FB, I really do, but pretending that there aren’t people being held hostage by the system is a bit silly. This thread was about someone trying to untangle themselves from FB, and you’ve turned it into a moral argument, as if they don’t agree with your assessment of social media anyway.
The only way to contact my previous energy provider was through social media. They are one of the biggest providers in my country. So I changed to a different one.
There are many web hosting options, with auto website building tools etc and it costs barily anything.
When your company is only on Facebook, I'll go to the competition.
There are also other small butt plug companies who aren't only on Facebook. It's not like there are only 2 companies: a small one with Facebook and a large one with their own website.
I'd rather have a company with just a shop and a phone number.
We aren't pretending it isn't happening. We are making a mindful sacrifice.
This is so true. I fucking LOATHE FB but our city has a fb group on it and it's dummy useful. I've tried to move them over to a hosted forum but only one person came. It's like people are just stuck hard on FB and won't ditch it come hell or high water.
Leaving Facebook is more than just not using a website. Facebook is more than a website and leaving it is leaving the entire culture it has captured, so that our energies are spent building the culture that remains uncaptured instead of contributing to the captured culture. It's a big fucking deal that affects every aspect of your life in modern society.
Lmao no it isn't. I deleted my Facebook and blocked all their CDNs at the dns level more or less on a whim and it's had literally no impact on my life since (aside from the obvious boon of not being subjected to that garbage platform.)
You're just projecting your own dependency onto others, when in reality it really is as simple as just not going there anymore.