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The guide is easy enough that parents, grandparents and other non tech types should be fine with it.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I personally still have an account, I read somewhere when I was thinking of deleting my current account that keeping your account active cost the Zak and Meta money via ad stuff rather than closing it completely. No idea if that is true or if it is anything noticeable but I have all Meta things; ad trackers, ads, and the book of faces proper blocked via my pihole setup.

  • puppinstuff@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    I left a few months ago. I don’t miss the updates from people I drifted away from. I do enjoy the conversations I must now initiate to maintain worthwhile relationships. Hearing about somebody’s week face to face is worth a lot more than a few dozen “happy birthday hope it was a good one” replies once a year.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
    10·
    11 hours ago

    Select “No, don’t make my ads more relevant by using this information.”

    I tried this with my wife once… She cracked and voluntarily turned that setting back on after she started getting a ton of alt-right advertisements. :(

      • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Yeah, and that works on her laptop’s browser, but her primary computing device is her mobile phone. So ads on YouTube app, ads on Facebook app, ads on Instagram app, also ads on TV YouTube app.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
      6·
      10 hours ago

      …why not?

      Anecdotally, some orgs refuse to use other platforms and gate their content behind a facebook group. It’s maddening to say the least, but a fake account can come in handy sometimes (behind an iron shield of ad and tracker blockers!).

      • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        You should really talk to them about moving away from the book of faces, tell them all they do is sell your data without getting any of the benefits. The book of Faces and the Zak used that data to pay for Trumps election.

    • Addv4@lemmy.world
      41·
      10 hours ago

      Marketplace, occasional info behind the pay wall. Unfortunately can’t just leave Facebook, but I try to not make myself a profitable target by aggressively limiting my data.

      • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        That is one thing I have not found a replacement for but is it worth having a Facebook account you continue to use just for that? Maybe you keep your facebook account but stop using it for anything but market place.

    • Lauchs@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Personally, I’ve got good friends from decades ago there, so I will on occasion use it to message folks.

      Other groups: charities run a lot of stuff through there.

      I know my mom’s church organizes through their facebook after requests from parishioners.

      But more importantly, the key to winning this and most mass efforts is meeting people where they are instead of demanding they be 100% pure in all their choices.

      • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        3 hours ago

        I have friends from decades ago, some of which I would message and months or in some cases years later I would get a message saying I do not really use Facebook anymore so we chat and I get new contact info.

        Talk to the charities inform them that they are giving money away to the book of faces, and that money was used to elect Trump. Encourage them to move to something like mastodon. This goes for your mommy’s church as well, if they want to pay the Zak to get trump into office then they should continue to use the book of faces, if they do not want to support a guy who could not even put his hand on the bible when being sworn in to office.

        I understand the meeting people where they are but remember your mental health is more important than other peoples, if that means stay on facebook so be it but just remember facebooks goal is to make you depressed so that they can give you the occasional dopamine hit so that you come back.