I've always been a reluctant FB user and never really got into adding people I happened to meet down the pub or worked with or whatever. My aversion is to the amount of info you are putting out there, wittingly or otherwise, and the fact that you have a mix of people all lumped together - one thing which might be funny to my close mates and I might well be offensive to my sister say.
I unfriended one or two people here at some stage in the past because of that - though I hadn't friended many anyway.
Also the amount of stuff you are unwittingly sending them is unbelievable. I know we've discussed it before. I think I've pretty much locked it down as best I can but it still surprises me sometimes.
However I did become somewhat active on it during Lockdown1 when invited to an Old Boys group set up by a school friend, but "official". That was really good for a couple of months with folks from all eras swapping stories and posting pics. Unfortunately the group had a very intense and disruptive period when BLM inspired ex-pupils to arrive with tales of racism at the school. The group took an immense and very disruptive hit, from which it has never really recovered (and I suppose the fun stuff had a finite life anyway).
I like the idea of FB, just not the way it has worked out. I remain very close to leaving it but I would lose some of the looser connections with old school friends and distant pals from motor racing which are easy to maintain on FB than in real life. I'll have a look at the extension mentioned above too.
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