Heard in my clinic:
Mother: "I saw something on Facebook about..."
14 year old daughter: " Mum, why are you even on Facebook? Nobody uses Facebook."
Discussion
I'm starting to sense that - it's like a ghost town over there.
Everyone I ask says "I really don't use facebook much but I have to be on there for my business". I find that really lame. I just tell them I don't like it so I'm not on it.
Wasn't always thus. There was a time when I felt I needed to keep my FB account because of some reason or another. Then one day you ditch it, and immediately feel better in so many ways.
I knew colleagues who were on professional forums and they all got banned for talking about vaccines and scamdemic tyranny. The forum mods themselves had to police it to stop their forums getting banned. These were groups whose specific purpose was to discuss privately how to avoid scamdemic tyranny. They may as well have invited Bill Gates to their meetings.
I had one for my business (along with an Instagram account) but then ditched them a few years back and didn't miss it for a moment. Then we made the decision to leave Victoria and return to Adelaide and start all over again. I rejoined FB thinking it might be useful to kick-start the business (my clientele are the kind of demographic who are still on there) but I'm wondering if it's actually a waste of time - it's awfully quiet and the kind of groups where I though I might pick up some clients are filled with posts with very little interaction.
Then, of course, there are my old friends who are sharing stale memes and second-hand political opinions. It's all incredibly depressing.