U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

I’m sure readers on HN are excited about the day of privacy reckoning but I stopped using Facebook because the news feed sucks. I’ll stare at a photo of someone I don’t remember trying to recall how I know them and then for the next month it’s photos and videos and requests for travel recommendations from them until I block them. It’s clear despite all the data Facebook has collected the company has no clue who I care about or what I’m interested in.

I think the news feed sucks even if it’s a picture of current contacts. It probably always has, I mean, there must be a reason Facebook wanted news, brands and whatever else there.

I just never followed things, so right now the most exciting part of my FB news feed is the commercials for board-game kickstarters.

I still use Facebook though. It’s still the best place to organise events with friends because it’s still the only platform everyone is on. I wish it wasn’t, but because the various other platforms and messaging app didn’t share an open protocol, no other platform has “everyone”.

Eventually when enough people quit FB, no platform will be good at organising events. Or maybe we will finally agree to use e-mail. :p

I only use Facebook for Messenger for the same reasons - everyone is on it. If that wasn't the case I'd happily delete my account.

The thing about Messenger is it's pretty good too. My wife and I used to use iMessage. When I switched to Android last year we decided to try Telegram. Notifications are often not send and calls are buggy at best. Messenger just works though, just like iMessage did.