smithy5 wrote:FB is not the enemy, it's just evolution, it's easier and quicker to access, easier to post photo's and has more options. FB is too big to stop now, so perhaps it's better to make more use of it.
Oh how wrong you are. FB is a data mine. That makes it my enemy. Pretty sure Dave isn't profiling us so he can sell our info to advertisers. They make it 'easier' because you're the product, not the customer. FB doesn't have enough options for me. Like the option to use whateverthefuck name I want to call myself this week - or the option to sort/skin/order the feeds the way I want and block the hell out of anything I don't have an interst in. Sure you can change stuff, but it seemed like every second week they'd change the code so everything reverted to the way they want to seve it up. When 'people you may know' started appearing in the middle of my news feed and reappearing every time I blocked it I cracked the shits for the final time.
I don't have to do that with forums. If all the fora died I'd crawl back under my Luddite rock.