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Deleted mine shortly after the Cambridge Analytica snafu. Now I block Facebook and it's subsidiaries on my local network.

Deleted it in 2016, have never looked back

Have? Yes

Use? No

My Facebook account exists exclusively to check Marketplace nowadays.

Closed mine a long time ago, I think back when Edward Snowden did the whole NSA whistleblowing. Don’t miss it.

I have one still but the only reason it still exists is because my fantasy football group has a messenger group that it's used for to coordinate draft times.

I use mine for several different wildlife groups like spider identification, hoverflies, natural history museum. There are some good groups on there but I think it depends on how they are moderated as to how good they are.

I have two. One I use for family and to buy things on marketplace, the other I use to follow my job's social media. I haven't tried Facebook groups, though from what I can tell with Insta, "Threads," and Facebook groups, Meta seems to be trying to reclaim their social media monopoly, which feels scummy.

Nope, never have. It surprises me how many people my age use it though. Groups might technically be viable but Facebook wasn't designed to be used like reddit, so you could use it but I doubt there would be many interesting communities to browse.

I still have one, but mainly because of family and some friends from school. I use it here and there I do. I really need to get everyone's contact info, so I can delete my account.

LOL people still use Facebook?

I really only use it for gigging. Businesses promote our shows and it's really the only way that is even remotely helpful for letting people know about gigs. While there certainly are other ways, FB and the musician groups i'm a part of have the best impact.

I did until about 12 months ago after using it for about 10+yrs, do not miss it one bit

My wife has a fake one with a fake name just to use fb marketplace because it seems to be the most popular in our area as opposed to kijiji, craigslist etc.

Yes, I have found a lot of value in Facebook groups for niche hobbies.

yes, primarily because there are facebook groups that fit specific topics of interest. Sadly old school forums have migrated to the way of Facebook

Nope. Never had one, and I'm old, lol.

I doubt it I am in one Facebook group but that's for messaging purposes. Doesn't have the same way to interact with posts as sites like Lemmy and redit do

I have one mostly for msgr, which i pretty much exclusively use to find illicit substances so... 🤷‍♂️ do with that what you will lol

I do, but it's only for keeping in contact with older family that aren't on any other platform. I log in like once every few months at the most.

I have a Facebook account but I do not go there. Their site greatly irritates me.

Yes, but I don't post anything. I use FB to "heart" family members' holiday snaps mainly. I'm also in two neighbourhood groups - one for my home town and one for the town I now live in. Both are fascinating, people yelling insults at their neighbours, people they actually know! That's interesting because I'd always thought a certain nastiness was a risk of anonymity. Seems not!

Have a dummy account to check local stuff, like market and meeting groups. That's it.