@Badgardener I understand that. Although a web site is not that difficult to put together (even with a little help) - and maybe redirecting people who visit you Meta posts towards it will hep?

@Wen

I *love* it when techy people tell me how easy it is! 😂

My kids look at me like I'm a baboon with a stick when I'm on the tablet: I have four things on it, and no idea how the rest of the internet works. But in truth, a website wouldn't really help me get to my core clientele - they tend to put out distress calls on the village Facebook page, and I go help them. We used to have a paper-form village newsletter, but unfortunately that folded.

@Wen

Don’t get me wrong, I hugely admire the techno-wizziness, and I’m aware that terms like ‘dinosaur’ are circling over me. But I still operate in a fundamentally local environment, which when it uses the internet, does so at the most basic level - and you don’t get any more basic than Facebook. I suspect I’d have more problems getting my client base to my website than I’d have building the thing.

But I’m pretty certain I’ll be off Facebook completely by the end of the year, as my work circumstances change. This is really the point I was making, that there’ll be an attrition in the next few months, where new users aren’t flocking in and established users are drifting away - not in an immediate flounce, but because they’re either finding better options or realising they don’t actually need FB in their lives. Partly because of the latest shenanigans, but partly because it’s a bad product which can’t really be improved because of its inherent limitations.

Zuckerberg is failing.