Also anecdotally I have found Facebook quite positive since I installed a feed blocker. Now I just get event invites, notifications from groups I’m interested (which are much easier to curate than a feed), a low-overhead messaging service, and the ability to maintain shallow but genuinely friendly relationships and occasionally crowdsource from a peer group in more helpful ways than Google.
Overall I’d say it’s comfortably though not dramatically net positive like this—though given that it involves deliberate hacking out of one of the core components of the service I wouldn’t take it as much of a counterpoint to ‘Facebook is generally bad’.
Also anecdotally I have found Facebook quite positive since I installed a feed blocker. Now I just get event invites, notifications from groups I’m interested (which are much easier to curate than a feed), a low-overhead messaging service, and the ability to maintain shallow but genuinely friendly relationships and occasionally crowdsource from a peer group in more helpful ways than Google.
Overall I’d say it’s comfortably though not dramatically net positive like this—though given that it involves deliberate hacking out of one of the core components of the service I wouldn’t take it as much of a counterpoint to ‘Facebook is generally bad’.