I stay in touch with friends and family. I'm anti-trump but the posts are repetitive. If I share something I always get it back. I have recently added to my 156 friends from people I have bonded with on other sites.

This site is far better than Facebook. I haven't seen a picture of someone's dinner yet. Or their cats.

I check it once a week or so to see what a couple of friends and family are doing but generally I don't care in the least for it.

I read somewhere that the founder of FaceBook, Mark Zuckerberg had a visit from several Saudi government people who asked him to block all sites on FB started up by Muslims who had left the religion. The Sites are generally called "Ex Muslims" and such. Zuckerberg apparent bowed to their demands and now FB blocks such sites as soon as they notice them. They even have the affront to classify them as 'hate speech' sites. Has anyone else here heard of this ?

Facebook is ok, but I've always preferred message board formats such as this one. It allows for a less cluttered environment. Facebook is like being in a room with 20,000 different conversations pertaining to 20,000 different topics going on at the same time.

Thanks for your comments! I also have a personal profile as well as a business profile on FB, but I think I'll be using both profiles less. I will be using Facebook more for marketing in the future, and less for gratuitous socializing.

I have two accounts.

My private account, I’m at very few friends as well. Half my list is family. I’m very strict with my privacy on FB. Because of the intimacy of my circle, I’m very open on me and my life. I use it to keep in touch with the outside world. I don’t get out much.

My public account has 600 ‘friends’. It’s funny, I haven’t sent a friend request on that account. I’ve denied most requests, but I did an experiment and accepted every request for a week. Where I got most of these ‘friends’. I’ve blocked (I don’t unfriend, I block) about 50 of those. I do t use this account much.

I purposefully don’t read comments on fb public stuff. They usually piss me off. Or make me very sad.

I'm also sick of my 67 friends on there, all ignoring me. I make posts basically for myself now. Barely a like or comment. Especially my close friends. I use messenger more.

For me it's nothing but political adds

Fb sucks indeed

never been a facebook fan, do have a page- mainly if I need or want to check someone/thing out. but spend little time on it. Oh, forgot I have about a dozen pages!! Was playing a game years ago and needed a team!

It's boring and repetitive. The same people killing the same subject day in and day out. I'm all for LGBTQ. I'm bi. But the trans people take it too far with every post about being trans or misgendered. I understand their frustration. But not in every post! I quit reading the feed. It's either trans or political.

Actually no, I'm not. Though I recognize it was designed to be addictive, and make an effort to take vacations from it now and then.

I'm in touch with people from all different parts of my past and present. people that mean something to me, and that I might not be in touch with anymore if it wasn't for FB. And there are ways of scrolling by, or eliminating items one doesn't wish to see. No biggie.

So - like anything else, it can be overdone, or not.