To ask if your usage of Facebook has changed over the decade?

[Holidayaddict]

Memories have just come up on my Facebook from 8/9/10 years ago and include monologues about a car with a flat battery and a toy clear out plus a rant about a computer problem - I'm cringing as I often do when old memories come up! I would never dream of posting such stuff now. These days I rarely post and only if I've done something or gone somewhere fairly interesting (last post was over a week ago).

Back then I had young primary aged children, now I have teens. Many of my fb friends are in a similar position and also don't post much anymore either (many were equally guilty of boring posts in the past!). Yes, I still have a handful of people who regularly post crap and a few that actually post interesting stuff but the majority of my 100+ friends hardly post at all. As a result my feed is mostly adverts and posts from pages & groups I follow.

Just curious if this is due to the people I have on my friends list or has Facebook usage generally changed over the years?

I see exactly the pattern you say OP. Hardly any of my friends post pics of their kids and lives any more, it's all ads and companies, and politics.
Personally I think it's sad, I loved seeing pics of people's kids etc, especially the ones who live far away so I don't see them or know what they're up to.
I still post pics of my kids, days out, celebrations etc but maybe a bit less than before. I do it mainly for my mum and as a photo back up for myself. I love to see the memories pics from years ago when the kids were little.

Since the misinformation and data harvesting scandals, I've stopped posting on FB. If I knew how, I'd download all the pics I've posted, there will be some great memories posted, and remove them completely from FB. I really only look at it now to keep up with certain friends now.

I pretty much only use it to tag my friends in funny videos. I wouldn't be too upset if it got deleted tomorrow, although I do have a lot of photos on there that I'd miss!

I was also one of those people that posted absolutely pointless statuses. Just checked, 4 years ago I posted to let everyone know it was snowing. Useful!

Do you remember when it used to ask you to fill in 'PooWillyBumBum is....'? I'd use the prompt to tell people when I was feeling bored/down/whatever. Or with what I was doing/thinking at that moment. Criiiinge.

Like you I rarely post unless to share an article or maybe recommend a local restaurant.

Yep. I haven't posted anything on my own feed for at least 5 years. I only keep the account open as I am in several groups that only exist on FB - living in the EU, it's a great way to be in touch with other people going through the same post-Brexit hassles like applying for nationality and getting a new driving licence etc.

My husband deactivated his account and changed my banner line on FB to the phrase ‘remember you are the product’ FB is selling you to advertisers. I post way less because I’m mindful of that now. Only ever bland nice stuff like ‘back to school’ pics. I still keep up with people and comment and like a lot of their stuff.

Was going to add this all started when I was pregnant and FB knew before I’d even told my mum! I found that a bit scary

No it hasn't changed really, 10 years ago I was in my teens. I didn't post much back then, maybe a status twice a week.
I now have children and post a status once a month 😂 you probably wouldn't even know I had children if you were looking at my Facebook!

Yes, apparently ten years ago I took the phrase 'what's on your mind?' quite literally and shared every banal thought I've ever had on fb.

I don't think I've posted a status in years. Few of my friends post statuses either - some share pictures or videos.

I stay on it for the groups, mainly, whereas originally I did use it to interact with friends more.

definitely

i now and have been for a fair few years use facebook for competitions
support groups for various disabilities
home education groups

didnt do this years ago

Yes, 10 years ago I shared much more than I do now about my life. These days I rarely post, I use it mostly for booking various baby/toddler activities and looking at local groups/selling sites. I don't put names or pictures of DC on there.

I used to post a lot, just stuff like what I was doing or something, at the cinema watching xyz or whatever. Lots of photos of nights out or whatever. Then I started using it more to just post articles. Now I literally unfollowed everyone (why are people who are perfectly lovely irl so insufferable on fb?), never post, and just use it for groups or to find information about restaurants and stuff like that. I find it's the easiest way to get information quickly cos a lot of company websites are shit. I live abroad and it's an easy way to find information in English about certain things: if it wasn't for that, I would just deactivate, because I barely speak to any of the people who are my friends on there anyway.

I miss the personal touch from friends, and I'm not a phone up and chat person. I like just being able to put out there something I've done that made me smile (or one of my slapstick moments) and whoever happens to see it responds. There's very little in life that is actually worth targeting a specific person for and telling them about it.

Posting peaked when my DCs were little and co-incided with smart-phones/ easy photo uploading. I naturally post less about them as they get older.

Upto 10 years ago, my statuses were fairl random, fed by the prompt on the screen.

There's not been much that's really cringeworthy and my student days were back in the fledgling days of Friends Reunited I was already getting as dull and sensible as I'll ever be by the time I signed up.

Me too, I find it tedious these days. I stay on it to stay in touch with a couple If groups. Sometimes I find myself mindlessly scrolling and have to have s word with myself. It's the same old crap from tge same people on there, some of them don't seem to be able to move on. I find it quite sad tbh.

Most of my memories are me complaining about having to go to work, complaining about my hangover, talking about going out to get drunk, announcing I'm never drinking again, "hilarious" statuses when I'm drunk that actually aren't even funny .

Now I'm 28, rarely drink and all I post is the odd photo of my children or share a competition