To think Facebook has dropped off a cliff lately?

I post a couple of times a month and enjoy seeing old memories come up each day. I had a big friend cull recently so my feed is generally just nice pics and funny stories from my mates, or info about local businesses and news. I much prefer it to Instagram.

Haven’t shared anything on mine in years, I’ll change my profile picture once a year or so if I feel like it and have a nice photo to update it with. Most people I have on there probably wouldn’t recognise me walking down the street now to be honest and I don’t feel like I need to share anything with them or impress anyone anymore like I used to in my younger years.

Not many people on my friends list post often anymore. The ones who post regularly tend to be of the older generation, people around my age are a mixed bag of posting once every few weeks/months or not posting at all.

The groups can be useful though and are still active. I’m on the ones for my local area and a few groups relating to hobbies, but even on those I tend to just read and rarely post anything. If I do I do it anonymously.

A few friends of mine post updates, one about where she goes when out out, she’s at Crufts this weekend, another posts motivational posts, posts of her children and grandchildren and another posts work photos and of his rescue dog. So they do post.

I mostly use FBk for groups I have common interests with. There are some personal posts too, which are nice.

Hardly anyone in my on my fb (im 34) posts anything other than reels/photos. It's been the same for years. I genuinely wouldn't dream of just writing a status 😂

Every 3rd post being an advertisment is not helping and shows what FB priorities are. I for one has never bought anything from a FB advertisement so what is the point? How many millions feel the same way?

I use it only for a charity craft group I make items for, and the ‘ordinary’ FB stuff, daft talking dogs, baby elephants, wildlife posts, etc. I waste far too much time looking at those.

I haven’t even logged into Facebook this year, the last time I went on was to wish my daughter’s gran a Merry Christmas and thank her for our presents, the time before that was maybe October? The app was deleted not long after new year.

Facebook has been naff for a while. It's all about Instagram and/or TikTok now.

I find it useful for groups and seeing what’s on in local community but I don’t use it for posting anymore. I find the problem is wading through all the guff on Facebook just to get to the useful groups. I can’t see a way to filter the gibberish out and just focus on groups!

I've never posted on it or used it to keep in touch with people. As others have said, it's a good source of community/local information.

I'm 35 and deleted Facebook 6 years ago. My life is much happier for it! The only bit I miss is marketplace, but my husband let's me look on his if I'm after something 😊

I need to stay due to membership of two social groups but otherwise it is like a mausoleum. Too much political culture war content for my liking.

My Instagram and fb are linked so anything i post on Instagram auto posts onto fb. I would probably get rid of it but do use some groups and my grandparents and some other older aunts/uncles are only on fb and I know they like to see updates. I find though if I ever scroll on there it just comes up with horrible news stories and is quite anxiety inducing! As in lots about child death or abduction etc with I have young children. So I only really go on it to specifically look at a group. If I’m going to scroll I use Instagram. Stayed away from tik tok as I want to reduce my screen time and Instagram is bad enough!

It’s just full of Rage baiting ‘influencers’ & advertising now- it’s become useless

They always said Facebook would be tomorrow's MySpace, I never use it now. Actually I don't post anywhere anymore, I read and be nosy!

I came off a year ago, when my daughter in law fell out with me because I didn't like enough of her post's,

I only use it for groups and events. I have become a bit of a hermit, so don't go out as much anyway and half the people I have in there wouldn't say hello if we bumped into each other.

I have a very rare form of cancer and find the two Facebook groups that I follow very helpful.

The whole things is just adverts or people o have not followed showing on my feed anyway. It's ridiculous.

The reels are awful too.
They show you, sick and deformed people. It's violating.

I left about a year ago as it had become enshittified and like you I wasn't seeing anything from my friends, just lots of random stuff. I don't miss it at all.

Instagram was going the same way, so I left that. And had left Twitter a good few years ago. So it just leaves MN and LinkedIn, which works for me.

I used to enjoy Facebook years ago- keeping in touch with widespread friends and family. Some advertising, yes. I could follow a couple of newspapers. Fine.

Now? I never post, only use it for marketplace and a number of interest groups, which are active and busy.

I absolutely hate the way the main feed is full of AI shite, political crap and dodgy ads.

Facebook isn’t what it used to be for sure.
I was called a racist white bitch by a young black American man recently. This because I commented on a news article about a black actress. Nothing nasty or to do with her colour. My response? I told him he sounded nice and would he mind if I sent him a friend request. That shut him up 🙂
I know I should have probably ignored him. This is probably why so many people can’t be doing with it anymore 🤷‍♀️

I've had to click ignore on the same suggested post on Facebook several times. Not sure why I want to read some random post about how great Dubai is from some random I don't know.

Just because I went on holiday there a few years ago doesn't mean I want to read some 'influencer's' post about how safe they feel with drones flying over. It's the same post almost word for word as several other posts I've seen.