Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter

I've had the exact opposite experience. I never use Facebook and a lot of the reason for that is that I am bombarded with stuff from people I don't know and don't care to know every time I click on a link in an email that says a family member posted something or tagged me in something. I don't even see the post that FB claims they made and all I get are random stuff out of chronological order from people responding to people I don't even know. It's a compete mess in which I have no control over what I see or the order I see it in.

Twitter on the other hand, while it is filled with crap in some place, I can choose to only see posts from the specific people I follow outside of the ads and I can choose to see things in chronological order. I can mostly choose the experience I have on Twitter and I unfollow people who post about things that annoy me or that I don't care about. Or, if I choose to I can use the for you function to see what crap is out there beyond those I choose to follow.

Of course, the big difference is that FB is supposed to let you connect with "friends." I don't think it does that, but that is it's purpose where as Twitter isn't designed to be a place to share with friends it's designed as a clearing house for information and comments on topics. Or at least that's what it was before Elon turned it into a bot farm.

Yeah, I find FB mostly worthless these days. It's fun to post a joke or meme, or a picture of your family - and see your friends doing the same, but these days it's so full of adds, posts from groups I don't belong to, and various promotions of reels and whatnot that it just (perhaps ironically) feels empty and no longer a "connecting" place..

Whereas platforms like Twitter and Threads offer a completely different experience on interacting with the world at large as opposed to your friends or community. Despite joining Twitter in 2009 and being a big fan of it, I deleted my account after Musk's management revealed some very serious flaws (features?) that were completely obvious to me by the time the Hamas attack and Israeli response occurred. I have been on Threads for months now and essentially have most of what I used to get from Twitter - but in either application, I'm far more interested in that than anything Facebook has to offer.