Please use the comment area of this post to talk about your experiences with Facebook (if you have any), and how it...
Please use the comment area of this post to talk about your experiences with Facebook (if you have any), and how it feels to use it in comparison with G+.
I'm not looking for features or politics here.
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I'm not looking for features or politics here.
Thanks!
#GooglePlusAlternativeReviews.
Friendica UI and capabilities is a mixture of G+ and FB features.
ReplyDeleteShelenn Ayres I'll have a separate post for Friendica later. Any thoughts to share about Facebook?
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci FB like G+ and others are single authority social networks who can sell your behavior, your data, your content, and you. I have no interest in single authority social networks after the sunset of G+.
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci I would suggest adding groups to facebook in your post, because it's fair to expect that most users here wouldn't prefer using the rest of network. And most users of Communities, will find value in groups, when it comes to replacing G+ Communities features.
ReplyDeleteI'm an owner of Google Home/Assistant facebook group since 13 months have 2500+ users on it, have seen steady uptick in new users throughout this period. Has more or less all features present in G+ Communities, and one feature I really like, is scheduling posts. It is probably only Community service, that gives post scheduling option right from site itself. Buffer can also schedule & post to Fb groups. Let's face it, when it comes to longevity and stability of service, it is also the only service among all options discussed on this community, which will remain for long time compared to WeMe, or others. And, If you can keep your hate for fb on a side, just focus on groups you might as well benefit a lot, just like I've been doing it.
Deepak Ravlani I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. any aspect of Facebook can be discussed in the comments on this post. Or, really, anything at all can be discussed. I just hope that people will confine their comments in this thread to their experiences with Facebook.
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci I know any aspect can be discussed, but as you can make out from other comments, most are going to focus only on fb in general, which most G+ users don't like. At the least, by clarifying fb groups users who have experience of it will share that side of it, and Community mods interested in starting new groups will find that info.valuable.
ReplyDeleteDeepak Ravlani you want to discuss groups on Facebook as opposed to the total experience on Facebook? That's fine.I haven't done much with groups on Facebook, though, so I'm not really qualified to talk about it.
ReplyDeletePersonally I never liked facebook, but it might be another alternative. I appreciate other's thoughts and suggestions on this.
ReplyDeleteI have avoided Facebook for quite a while now. Their privacy, censorship, and data-mining policies trouble me greatly. I feel that they have too much power, and they have been anything but responsible or accountable to the people.
ReplyDeleteBut the thing I find most troubling is the increasingly arbitrary and draconian way that they are suspending people and putting them in Facebook "jail".
I have an old friend who posts a lot on Facebook. He has limited mobility, and posting there is a big part of his life. It is also how I stay in touch with him, which is the only reason I haven't deleted my Facebook account.
Two weeks ago he was banned from Facebook for a month for posting a picture of the Sex Pistols. There was no nudity or obscenity in that photo, nor in his posts. He had no way to appeal. He is creative, funny, and brilliant. And some faceless Facebook bureaucrat silenced him for a month.
Private digital forums have taken the place of the public square, in many ways. Free speech has been privatized and monetized. As it stands, we either play by the authoritarian rules of Facebook and other large corporations or else we can "speak" only in obscure forums where almost nobody will hear us.
That's not right.
Facebook takes up too much real estate on their pages.
ReplyDeletePeter Maranci That's precisely the unappealing choice we're now facing. Do we go where most of our friends already are, where authoritarianism rules and privacy is not an option but where we will be heard? Or do we continue to live in obscurity, where most of our friends roll their eyes and sigh and say "now I have to create another account on another platform just to keep up with you, why can't you just join Facebook?"
ReplyDeleteYes, actually some time back I discovered a few quite good FB groups. Generally i dislike most aspects of facebook because of it's owner's lack of decency. However, i found that several of their cognitive science and bitcoin groups were much better than any groups i could find here on g+. Not sure why but i haven't found many interesting/good groups on g+. But I like my g+ stream a lot and dislike the FB stream (ooh shudder at the thought). If people only knew what FB's executive team does, no wait, many people do know and just don't care. But i'm not here to bash FB, but you asked for our experiences. On FB i felt that we were all observed, manipulated, and compromised because of specific things they have done. Technically the FB stream is more sophisticated than g+, but it's ruined because of business operating policy. Is this the sort of experiences you were asking about?
ReplyDeleteBill Brayman Sure, thanks!
ReplyDeleteI use FB friends lists, page feeds, groups, events, chat every day.
ReplyDeleteI almost never use the big stream. My main entry point is a bookmark of a carefully curated "close friends" list.
I use adblock, some DNS control and Stylus to hide the bits I don't like. So I never see any ads.
This is all through the desktop web interface.
It works for me.
Facebook is where my local friends and my relatives hang out. Subjectively, it feels a lot like my physical neighborhood - complete with the occasional cranky old fart, neighborhood crazy lady and streetcorner preacher. And ads. Lots and lots of ads. Still, it's useful for spreading the word about local arts and theatre events and the like. Some "closed" FB groups function very much like the more vibrant G+ Communities, and a few daily/weekly photo themes that originated here are now mirrored there and work much the same, with many of the same participants.
ReplyDeleteI use social media almost exclusively via my desktop computer, so I can't speak to mobile.
Pat Kight If it's on a desktop, do you use Adblock (with Chrome)?
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