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There is already good tools to stay connected to friends and family, why do people stay in this toxic website ? Does Facebook deserve our time ? I deleted my

There is already good tools to stay connected to friends and family, why do people stay in this toxic website ? Does Facebook deserve our time ? I deleted my account while ago, also explained my family members how Facebook pays habit experts to steal people's time, runs research on how to manipulate emotions for "science". My mom and dad also happily deleted their accounts, too. Make a favor to yourself, delete your account. Also help your family delete their accounts, too. You can actually delete your Facebook permanently through their help pages: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account --- P.S: Upvote this submission so we can help more people delete their FB accounts; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443354

varrock 9y ago
Look, I'm not a huge Facebook user myself, but why don't you list those tools to connect to your family? Also, if you use Facebook delightedly, it can be a great tool. The trick is to spread awareness of its danger and tell people to use it at caution. At one point or another I think people are going to have to accept that it is a primary form of communication this day and age. Simply telling people to delete the application without better alternatives and citing it's worst flaws are not going to get you very far.
- granitosaurus 9y ago
  * Phone messangers (e.g. Signal, Viber etc.) * Discord, Slack - irc-like messangers * Mastodon, Diaspora, Minds - free and federated social networks. Honestly, facebook has nothing special about it other than "people are on it". > people are going to have to accept that it is a primary form of communication this day and age What a ridiculous statement.