Word has it that face scanning will soon be necessary to do anything at all on FB and IG (including deleting your account) so I’m in the process of taking care of that business now and trying to encourage the few friends I’m still in touch with to do the same.
Unfortunately, without an account you can’t access content, and there are still numerous local businesses and organizations posting at FB and IG and I can’t really expect that to change anytime soon. But it would definitely help sell the idea of giving them up if I can offer another way of seeing posts on those sites.
With IG, there is https://imginn.com/ which I’ve been using for a time, it seems to work well enough to show an account’s IG posts.
What I really need is something like that for FB. I don’t really need to see posts from individual accounts as I don’t even think my friends post on FB anymore; I really just want to be able to see “Liked Pages” as those are often regional businesses and communities. Being able to see groups would also be helpful but those often require special permission even when you do have an FB account so I don’t expect much there.
Thanx
OP isn’t asking about how to keep viewing shorts or memes from friends.
Many businesses forgo websites and put their contacts, opening hours, menus, and updates on a dedicated Facebook page. Is that small business open on Sundays? Google says yes, but Facebook has a post from the owner about their dog dying so the store is closed for the week.
I am part of several social groups that communicate entirely through Facebook. There is no way to get updates out to all members outside of the dedicated group pages. A venue change a few months back caused chaos because some people didn’t check the Facebook group in the week leading up to the event.
I too want to leave Facebook, and have stripped my use down to these minor use cases. But getting rid of it completely at this point cuts me off from some of my only positive mental health activities.
If a business stops using a website but uses Facebook (or similar platforms) instead, they will miss me as a customer. If their customer service is only on social media, they will miss me as a customer. Fuck them, I don’t want to be forced onto certain platforms to be able to contact a company or see what’s up. I’ll go to the competition, preferably a small company, which still uses a website and has a phone number with a human answering it.
This is so true. I fucking LOATHE FB but our city has a fb group on it and it’s dummy useful. I’ve tried to move them over to a hosted forum but only one person came. It’s like people are just stuck hard on FB and won’t ditch it come hell or high water.