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I have a couple of reasons I still use Facebook, although I don't like it at all: My brother, who lives on the other side of the country, has ASD and the only two ways I could stay in touch with him is on Quora, where he only wants to stay on-topic, or Facebook. And I'm at least an hour's drive away from most of the people I know, so it's also one of the only ways I keep in touch with them, because they apparently don't have the problem with Facebook I do.
That said, I block every ad even though I have to do it manually, and I don't join any groups, other than a couple that I just read for the comic strips, or argue with strangers. I keep my Facebook use to a minimum, essentially.
Edit: I take that back. I didn't block the ad for the build-your-own wooden hurdy-gurdy kit. How could I?
Lol how could you?
Is he willing to use Discord? We created a channel for our family and it's perfect for communicating with a select group of people.
Discord is even worse than Facebook in terms of usability. It can't be indexed by search engines at all. F that noise
Nope. He wants what he knows and nothing else.