I don't like Facebook.
I use it because some of the active communities for gaming spaces are there, and also there are family and friends that I find easiest to reach there. The kind of folks who suggesting something like Mastodon or MeWe would get a blank look from.
Messenger has been a key way of communicating with those folks (although I use SMS/RCS/iMessage and WhatsApp much more commonly with the folks I talk to more).
Meta have just killed the desktop version of the Messenger App, meaning you need to go into Facebook to message folks or use the mobile app. Kind of frustrating.
I managed to typo my PIN for encrypted messages when I went to the web interface, so it gives you a 15 min wait before you can try to restore chat history again. And a scary '4 more tries message'.
Sarah Wynn-Williams' autobiography on her time with Facebook is quite revealing and Meta has tried to cancel her as a result. She's not allowed to promote the book due to an injunction. Publisher info on the book here. The first third of the book, I was shocked with her naivety, the rest I was feeling for her and increasingly shocked.
It doesn't make me like Facebook any better.
21 December 2025
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