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My order was : 1. FB (because it doesn't serve any really important meaningful purpose... I much prefer reddit), 2. Apple: Because I hate apple products and t

My order was : 1. FB (because it doesn't serve any really important meaningful purpose... I much prefer reddit), 2. Apple: Because I hate apple products and their closed walled gardens when it comes to building apps and things (I'm android/linux desktop user). 3. MS: DOn't much use any of their products anymore, but did for a long time, and if I were to leave linux I'd probably go back to windows, since I like custom built computers. 4. Amazon: Love amazon, great deals - only place I shop, but if they didn't exist I'd probably find somewhere else using google. 5. Alphabet: Self-driving cars, android, youtube, gmail, search (I've tried bing, etc... but no other search provider gives the quality of results -- esp for coding questions), and they're even my isp: Google FIBER... so yeah this one would be a hard one to sever for me.

Antrikshy 9y ago
I feel like this is the exact order most people will drop them in.
ge96 9y ago
I kind of don't understand why people would drop these, who else would take over? I realize you don't want monopolies, want competition to bring out innovation. But at the same what else do you have left from the internet unless your life isn't already heavily integrated with these services. edit: I don't have an Apple product myself. Though the build quality is nice, it's expensive (and I am poor) also never used/could be confusing to use iOS/Mac OS. Use Gmail... but you can use hotmail (microsoft), Yahoo (yikes). Chrome browser (google) ... Youtube (google) ahh you can use Vimeo... Don't use Facebook (don't have friends) though their marketing/advertising for a business is great. Just my useless opinion
BigJono 9y ago
I'm interested how reddit of all things acts as a replacement for Facebook. What do you use for IMing, group chats, organising events and sharing jokes (memes?) between friends? I'd imagine those are the main use cases of FB for most people. Nobody I know cares in the slightest about the news feed, it's just private groups and messenger.
- gremlinsinc 9y ago
  Iming --I use hangouts, mostly I only chat w/ wife.. Group chats--Slack, and only my dev team. Events: EventBright, or Meetup.com.. I only read the newsfeed on FB, don't use it for much else...I did just recently start using FB Messenger as my sms, and switch to that for some IM'ing but there's a million different IM apps so not like they couldn't be replaced easily enough.
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Antrikshy 9y ago

I feel like this is the exact order most people will drop them in.

ge96 9y ago

I kind of don't understand why people would drop these, who else would take over? I realize you don't want monopolies, want competition to bring out innovation. But at the same what else do you have left from the internet unless your life isn't already heavily integrated with these services. edit: I don't have an Apple product myself. Though the build quality is nice, it's expensive (and I am poor) also never used/could be confusing to use iOS/Mac OS. Use Gmail... but you can use hotmail (microsoft), Yahoo (yikes). Chrome browser (google) ... Youtube (google) ahh you can use Vimeo... Don't use Facebook (don't have friends) though their marketing/advertising for a business is great. Just my useless opinion

BigJono 9y ago

I'm interested how reddit of all things acts as a replacement for Facebook. What do you use for IMing, group chats, organising events and sharing jokes (memes?) between friends? I'd imagine those are the main use cases of FB for most people. Nobody I know cares in the slightest about the news feed, it's just private groups and messenger.

gremlinsinc 9y ago
Iming --I use hangouts, mostly I only chat w/ wife.. Group chats--Slack, and only my dev team. Events: EventBright, or Meetup.com.. I only read the newsfeed on FB, don't use it for much else...I did just recently start using FB Messenger as my sms, and switch to that for some IM'ing but there's a million different IM apps so not like they couldn't be replaced easily enough.
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