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> There are plenty of other places to accomplish the things that can be accomplished on Facebook. Except when there aren't. For example, my local cat shelter s
by csixty4 11y ago
> There are plenty of other places to accomplish the things that can be accomplished on Facebook.
Except when there aren't. For example, my local cat shelter set up a Facebook group to coordinate volunteers. There's also a closed group for a particular program's volunteers.
Sure, they could have set up the groups somewhere else. A shelter I used to be involved with still has a Yahoo group. But the fact is they didn't, and the decision was made way above my level. So if I lost access to Facebook, I'd lose access to a lot more than Candy Crush.
- bigbugbag 11y agoThis is vendor lock-in and this is how facebook retains users. If facebook was not locked down but open, many people would have left already if they had come in the first place. Now when the volunteers stop using facebook, it's the shelter that will lose their volunteers. The obvious solution is for the shelter to self host its own group.