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Just stop using Facebook. You complain about your experience of it and claim (quite correctly) that it > has single-handedly almost ruined news consumption am
by gavinpc 9y ago
Just stop using Facebook. You complain about your experience of it and claim (quite correctly) that it
> has single-handedly almost ruined news consumption among certain demographics in the US
but you just keep using it. What would it take to make you stop?
I don't mean to single you out --- I'm just reaching a breaking point here. I usually hold my tongue, to avoid sounding "holier than thou." I stopped using Facebook about six or seven years ago when I stopped liking it. I don't miss it at all. On the contrary: as a non-user, I hate it more than ever. It is an out-of-control addiction causing real problems for society, and people know they hate it but can't stop).
My sister --- who never used it in the first place --- sometimes says that she feels like Wesley in that episode of Star Trek TNG where everyone was addicted to that holographic puzzle game, and he had to pretend that he was into it in the hopes of delaying his assimilation.
I feel that way more and more, especially on a thread like this where there is so much "concern" about Facebook from its very users, even among "our HN-reading, privacy-interested, technically-competent bubble" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14177389).