DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
For the life of me I can&#x27;t remember where I originally read this quote, but it forever changed my perspective of FB. Paraphrased: &quot;Facebook is 3 things: the wall, the messaging, and an automatically updating rolodex.&quot; Many apps fill 1 and&#x2F;or 2, but nothing satisfies #3. There is no alternative.<p>For better or for worse: I want to stay in touch with people I&#x27;ve met in the oddest places. In the middle of bumsquash Uruguay, people who had barely ever heard of Europe, but they had Facebook. All of them. The only place on earth where this wasn&#x27;t true was China, in my experience.<p>So, no, I won&#x27;t #deletefacebook. I&#x27;ve stopped using it meaningfully a long time ago, but until something becomes a reliable, multi-decade spanning auto-updating rolodex, I&#x27;ll have to stay here.<p>Mastodon will never, ever, not in a billion years fill that gap. And I don&#x27;t need more alternatives for #1 and #2, so there dies that dream for me.