I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

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      8 months ago

      There are a few countries where Facebook is still pretty popular. The Philippines, for example

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      One of my parent’s dozen+ facebook bots that steal their pictures/identity, because they are too dumb to know how to configure FB privacy settings. It’s disturbing how many of them just scour profiles, replicate, and impersonate to scam.

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      My ASD brother, who prefers to be contacted through it. I want to maintain what little relationship I have with him.

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      In Brazil, it is useful to contact people that you know in real life, family and friends…

      Plus, it sorta works like a Craigslist here. People sell and buy things from Facebook everyday, and people advertise their business and services here (e.g: restaurants, plumbing services, gift stores, etc)

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        I’ll be that sort of person to say that the change starts when you also start. When messengers weren’t a thing here, I started moving people I talk with to a messenger of my choice. Slowly after some time all the people I know were using it without giving any thought because turns out they just use whatever works. Several months go by and I safely use nothing but that messenger of my choice. Whenever a person asks if I use Facebook/Whatsapp, I just say “I don’t have it, do you have (that messenger of my choice) or do you prefer SMS?” - and it kind of works for me.