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I'm considering not using Facebook and Meta, but all my friends and relatives are on it. We just got rid of Alexa as Facebook advertisements show up based on what we speak near it. For example, mention motorcycles and get bombarded with ads for motorcycles.

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Essentially all of Facebook is useless except for Messenger. If you can get people to message you on something else you could delete your whole account.

Older folks use Facebook so the answer is probably no.

Quit years ago. Humans existed for a long time without social media

"Humans existed for a long time without [...]" is an exceptionally bad argument when you consider that humans have existed for a long time without many unquestionably good modern things, too.

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