• Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    Once again like others said, drop Facebook! Lots of fake profiles, scam ads and miss information.

    • GhostTheToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      Only reason I have Facebook is Facebook marketplace. Would love for some to create a alternative. Craigslist and OfferUp are nice, but the Facebook algorithm is more like local ebay. It might not tell me the most recent stuff or make it easy to sort by category, but it’s awesome at giving me recommendations.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      I agree but fb is the only place for musicians and show/event notifications, not to mention TONs of non tech savvy small businesses use fb SOLELY for their business info and hours.

      Its never going away.

      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        If a business uses Facebook only, I boycott them.

        Facebook and Instagram won’t let me view any of it anyways, but a business should have principles.

          • Zink@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            It’s not just a matter of the company’s capabilities. Sometimes the customers demand it.

            Very recently a group of moms I know was upset because their plans were weather dependent and the water park they were heading to only posted the closure on their official website and not on facebook!

            Yeah we’re all tech gods and they are dummies har har etc. And fortunately my work lets me work at quiet offices and at home. But I feel for the people who have to serve them, because the public IS filled with dummies, but many of them are just nice people who are trying to do business with you. And of course a large subset are cunts, which makes the ignorant decent people get much worse service.

            This just reminded me about reading in an article how at some point Musk said he wanted to make X be the everything app. For many people, Facebook is already much further in that direction. That’s where they get their news, text or call their friends, do their shopping, plan their events, doom scroll, argue with strangers, etc. They might never leave it if TikTok wasn’t so deeply soaked into their neurons.

            Needles to say, these people are exactly the type of conservative or recovering conservative people who should be far away from facebook. And I’m not excusing them. But I can at least understand the position folks trying to do business with them are in.

      • Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Business info can be found anywhere through duckduckgo, google or with a phone call! I never knew that musicians use FB, I guess for promotions ? After leaving FB I used YouTube and bandcamp for new music.

      • mrlemmyhimself@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

        There was this new technology in the 80s that took over in offices. It became so ubiquitous that people bought the machines to have at home, and it found a less-than-optimal use-case as a general communication device. In the 90s, as its popularity boomed, it would be totally reasonable to make the same assessment you just made, that they would never go away. But when was the last time you used a fax machine?

        • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          41·
          2 days ago

          Im sorry, I dont feel like your comparison is relevant. Until something exists thats brain dead easy to use and has a ton of backing like fb, it will be required to have it for any community involvement in a lot of places.

          Remember, the internet is scary now and people only want spoonfed services from massive corporations. Anything else is scawwyy.