Google and Facebook both have privacy issues, but Facebook seems to have some negative impacts that google doesn’t. It’s addictive; it encourages shallow social

Google and Facebook both have privacy issues, but Facebook seems to have some negative impacts that google doesn’t. It’s addictive; it encourages shallow social engagement; it contributes to political polarization and the spread of disinformation, and so on. Sure, all true, but perhaps that's because Facebook has to 'get engagement'? I'm no notifications addict like many of my friends. However, I'm using a Google phone, rely on Google Maps, Mail, single sign on, and a lot more. There's no FacebookMail, FacebookMaps, and so forth that's glued to operating systems like a FacedroidOS. Google has the best of all worlds, because it's in the infrastructure. It's free to spy in plain sight while Facebook is the canary (even if a very real, and totally predictable one.)