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SeptemberRoundabout · 2025-09-09T17:08:27+00:00

This. Facebook isn’t held in the same sort of ‘important’ regard as it was in 2009/10 is it? it’s also gone much more boring imo

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 01:36

autienotnaughty · 10/09/2025 06:31

Yes I agree. Everyone would write down what they were thinking and start a chat. And there were loads of pics too. Now it’s mostly ads.
I’ve cut mine down to extended family and a few friends. I share a few photos and I’m on a few groups but that’s about it.

yes people used it as a mini blog

“just been to Pugh’s garden Centre” or whatever

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ImAPreMadonna · 12/09/2025 01:41

Poking people, chucking sheep, speaking in pirate and updating your colleagues status when they left their screen unlocked - good old days.

Wading through shite adverts, random group suggestions and posts by the local racists on the community group, moanimg about flags and town planning - bad and boring present day.

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 01:49

eurochick · 10/09/2025 06:33

I agree. Old Facebook was great. Like a lot of people, after school and uni my friends scattered to the four winds. I and others moved abroad for a while. It was great to see what people were up to. Now it’s all dull reels and adverts. None of my friends post anymore. But it is useful for community groups so I still look at it.

I actually find that SOME people actually I do post prolifically

I’ve got one person I knew from school who travels extensively abroad and uk and goes to loads of gigs so posts all the time and has really interesting content - she’s got very extensive interests

another guy from uni doesn’t go to gigs/ travel as much but his posts I find really interesting in a different sort of way

one person from uni does post quite immature/ attention seeking posts which set me off in the “she’s off again” eye roll mode

the rest downy post much at all just occasional family photos etc

one of my old school friends and another friend in her 70s posts are very similar to their 2010 - posts of matches attended and nights out /holidays etc

most of the rest have cut down massively it’s the odd pic here and there

some still post but it’s more impersonal things like posting local businesses

one still posts very prolifically

some post nothing and therefore may have me on restricted or post very infrequently

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 01:50

Gerardormikey · 10/09/2025 06:42

I found it all quite toxic. I had 300 “friends” at one point. Old work colleagues, old school friends, local people I knew.

One day I figured out that the majorly were only there to be nosy. None of them would have pissed on me if I was in fire.

I now have 10 Facebook friends. These are people I genuinely want to stay in touch with.

Yes that’s the other thing - people seem to have far fewer friends now and se more reluctant to accept friend requests

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Tourmalines · 12/09/2025 01:53

Yes it’s gone to shit . I don’t post any more and never do most of my friends. Something seemed to change with everyone’s mental health since Covid. I noticed it then, and it has never been the same . I guess you could say the novelty has worn off.

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 01:53

ImAPreMadonna · 12/09/2025 01:41

Poking people, chucking sheep, speaking in pirate and updating your colleagues status when they left their screen unlocked - good old days.

Wading through shite adverts, random group suggestions and posts by the local racists on the community group, moanimg about flags and town planning - bad and boring present day.

FarmVille !!! I had a Treasure Island one !!

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 01:56

Tourmalines · 12/09/2025 01:53

Yes it’s gone to shit . I don’t post any more and never do most of my friends. Something seemed to change with everyone’s mental health since Covid. I noticed it then, and it has never been the same . I guess you could say the novelty has worn off.

Yes the novelty’s definitely with off and people are more reluctant to accept friend requests etc

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 01:59

ComfortFoodCafe · 10/09/2025 06:50

Agreed. I deactivated my account as rarely saw my friends feeds unless I specifically searched for them!
So many crappy ads, reels & random group posts fb thinks i want to see. I miss the days it actually used to be decent.

I’ve still got an account but I admit mainly to keep in touch with the one person on there that is a genuine friend

i fully admit rightly or wrongly - the others are just there to flesh it out

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 02:08

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 10/09/2025 06:54

The concept of Facebook is really good. Facebook of 2007 when I joined was great, you actually chatted to friends (we came over from MySpace), I read back some of my memories and it feels like a different time. It was all very much quite light hearted, I was in a group called "i always sleep on the cold side of the pillow" or something like that.

I hate Facebook now, too many adverts, too many groups pedalling their racist views. I do think Covid changed it, too many people started lecturing others, telling people what they should do, posting photos of people 'flouting lockdown rules'. I said something negative about Bravissimo on their group a couple of years ago and was basically run off their page by one of their more obsessive fans.

It feels like we're no longer connected like we used to be. It got too big and people have got more vile.

I must admit I didn’t join at all in 2007 and was very late to the party. But when I look at friends photos etc the earliest date from 2007 so that’s when I think in the UK anyway it first started to be used in the widespread sense.

heck I didn’t even have MySpace in 2007!

I only had MySpace in 2009 when it was still going strong. I opened up a Facebook account in the autumn of 2009 - but that was a bare skeleton account with only 4 friends. I only started using Facebook ‘properly’ and expanded my account to over 100 in March 2010. By March/Aoril 2010 MySpace was basically defunct

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 02:13

NuovaPilbeam · 10/09/2025 08:18

Its unbelievably shit now, its full of ads and influencer create content that I'm not interested in.

What was great about it was the things posted by people you actually know. Like keeping in touch with old school and uni mates, former colleagues. Sharing photos from parties and celebrations. Now no one posts anything or if they do its stories and reels designed to track "engagement" to try and make money for someone somewhere.

That’s the thing I NEVER bother with the stories - I never look at anyone’s or bother creating them myself

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 02:18

Thissickbeat · 10/09/2025 07:35

Yanbu. It was great when it was in chronological order. Now it's a mess. I think I've posted twice in the last year.

I only rely on it for council, Spotted "insert town here" shenanigans and parkrun updates.

That’s the thing !! I also much preferred it in chronological order it’s all over the place now

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 02:21

MidnightPatrol · 10/09/2025 07:59

Same here - ads, promoted content which is AI generated clickbait type stuff. No one I know seems to actually be sharing any content.

The latest trick to try and get people to engage, is something saying, “X highlighted a post for you to look at” - always something from years ago. I know about this as an old friend asked why I’d highlighted something for them, which of course… I hadnt. A bit duplicitous really.

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Yes very duplicitous and so annoying
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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 02:23

Codyrhodesisaheel · 10/09/2025 07:36

This is what I don’t understand about Meta.

they’ve ruined FB and Insta by prioritising other people’s stuff rather than the people I’m connected with. My feed on both is literally packed full of people I don’t follow/don’t know. Yet the people I’ve chosen to follow and want to see gets hidden.

why?

if they want to sell adverts they need to keep us on their as long as possible. But prioritising irrelevant shite is the first way to get people to go away

Yes exactly!! Meta wasn’t a thing back in 2009/2010

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 02:28

The other thing that I dislike about the new Facebook compared to 2009/2010 is that around 2010 you could message people within the Facebook app itself now you have to use the separate messenger app which is more fiddly and annoying

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 02:29

I also don’t like the Timeline layout where you’ve got the header photo and profile pic. In 2009/2010 it was just the profile pic - looked less messy

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beadystar · 12/09/2025 02:31

I totally agree. It was a great way to connect with people you wouldn’t otherwise see in real life and stay in touch over the years. I keep it for messenger and as a kind of archive but it’s become impossible to use with all the ads and AI drivel.

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 06:41

beadystar · 12/09/2025 02:31

I totally agree. It was a great way to connect with people you wouldn’t otherwise see in real life and stay in touch over the years. I keep it for messenger and as a kind of archive but it’s become impossible to use with all the ads and AI drivel.

Yeah that’s the thing - a lot of people keep it to stay in touch with people they wouldn’t see otherwise

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SeptemberRoundabout · 12/09/2025 09:48

I opened a Facebook account in October of 2009 but only had 4 friends on it initially as didn’t think any other people would want to know me 😭 low self esteem, much ?? 😭

then a friend of a friend added me at Xmas time who I didn’t know in real life - but we were the same age and she seemed a regular, nice person.

I had MySpace since the end of 2009 and in the last week of February 2010 a woman I’d been communicating with on MySpace said to my “add me on Facebook if you like, my profile pic is this”

so I added her - even though I didn’t know her in real life - she seemed decent, straightforward - and this opened up the floodgates to me for adding other people so in a relatively short period of time I had over 100 friends. I suddenly developed the confidence to add Facebook friends and was less afraid of rejection

this might also explain why MySpace died a death shortly afterwards - if people from your MySpace friends list were encouraging you to add them on Facebook

I think people then were more receptive to adding people they didn’t know in real life than they are now

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NotEnoughKnittingTime · 13/09/2025 09:10

I agree!