We are moving to MeWe

I've mentioned several times the problems that we've had with Facebook. I got into detail about it in a blog post titled Facebook has some big problems, and I've mentioned a couple of updates recently about our ongoing issues with them.

What Facebook now offers is not the same as the Facebook we signed up for ten years ago. At that time, what you saw in your newsfeed was what you wanted to see. If I "followed" a page or a group, it's because I was interested in it. Now, Facebooks algorithms only show me what it thinks I should see. Along with hundreds of advertisements.

Now, advertisements are a necessary evil if you want to keep a site free. After all, you see them here. I would gladly get rid of them if I thought there were enough people who would pay on a regular basis to read what we write.

Facebook doesn't treat its members like customers. It's the advertisers who pay them, so they treat the advertisers like customers. They have forgotten that without members, there are no advertisers.

But the main issue we have with Facebook is how they want to control your use of the site. And for that reason, we are done with it.

I used to think there weren't any alternatives. After all, we enjoyed Facebook as an easy way to keep in touch with family and friends, and to follow groups with comments and interaction with people who have the same interests that you do.

I can't believe we had never heard of MeWe!

Once you get used to a slightly different format, it's almost exactly the same as Facebook... with a few very noticeable differences. The most major difference? There is no advertising. Zero. Once you get to the point where you have a few friends and you like a few pages and groups you notice another big difference. You are in control of what you see.

MeWe is free, but they have some paid options. For example, we have to pay a very small fee ($1.99 per month) to keep our MeWe page at https://mewe.com/p/travelwithkevinandruth You do not pay anything to access it though.

They also have some pay options for users who wish to have some extras like voice and video calling, and cloud storage. They have a MeWe premium service for $5.99 per month that includes everything. You can try it out with a free 30 day subscription. Remember, there is no advertising, so this is what supports them. They say they only need 3% of all members to pay the Premium fee for them to do fine financially.

MeWe is growing in leaps and bounds. They expect to have 40 million members by the end of this year, and they say that 30,000 people per day are signing up. We think there are millions of people who feel the same way about Facebook as we do.

And so, we are going to wean ourselves off Facebook. For now, we will continue to post daily to our Travel with Kevin and Ruth Facebook page until most of you have made the migration to MeWe. And for those who don't, if you're interested in us, you'll find a way to make sure you still read our daily posts anyhow.

Today is a travel day! We are headed about 200 kms (124 miles) west to the coastal town of Güzelçamlı, located south of the cruise ship port of Kuşadası, and right beside a huge national park.

We're surprised at how much we enjoyed our stay here in the big city. There's a lot more to see and do in the area, so we've saved some of it for when we might return in a motorhome. We never made it up the teleferik (cable car) that goes up the mountain behind Denizli, and we never made it to the caves at Kaklik, or the beautiful waters of Salda Lake!

Next post coming from the coast!

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