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Simplify: Don't use Facebook.
I haven't used it in... maybe a decade. I don't even remember the last time. I never used Instagram. I never used Facebook Messenger.
People are scared about what might happen if they stop, but nothing bad ever happened. I simply stopped seeing a constant stream of depressing bullshit.
Facebook has made it pretty easy to quit by refusing to show you any of your friend's content, and instead showing you a million different groups that you didn't follow and don't like.
I remember when the algorithms started sorting by engagement rather than chronologically. I quickly came up with a workaround to keep my feed the way it was, but, eventually that workaround was removed. I still checked the website occasionally but noticed the overall tone becoming less vane, over sharing, people using it like journals and selfie bombing to more angry, rage filled, posting news articles, boomer cartoons and jpeg fuzzy memes. It took a major turn after 2016 elections in US. Instagram was my go to after that but in about a year or so the same sequence of bs started happening. Haven’t really engaged with either service since 2020 save for occasional things to check a couple times a month.
I like to use the On This Day feature to revisit stuff from back when I actually enjoyed the website, and back when people would actually discuss things instead of just hitting a like button and moving on, but otherwise I don't do anything on that site anymore. The last time I posted there was a couple years ago.