I see that The Silver Key (blogger-scholar and author or Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery) is also off Facebook, and has a few observations…

passive scrolling, and ‘likes’, which is what Facebook / Instagram / TikTok, etc. encourages, eats up your time in an insidious fashion, far more than you know.

He’s now powering into LinkedIn though, which I guess is kind of Facebook for the business crowd. I’m not on LinkedIn either. Or Instagram or Twitter. In my case, my departure from Facebook (abruptly blocked for the cryptic reason of having the “potential to reach too many people”) has seen me continue to post all the useful localist information that I used to fillet-and-post. But instead of on my Facebook Groups, all that’s now at a WordPress-powered hyperlocal called The Potteries Post.