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If you got rid of your facebook account, they will find another way to contact you. And then they are also more likely to leave facebook, or at least use it les

If you got rid of your facebook account, they will find another way to contact you. And then they are also more likely to leave facebook, or at least use it less. I had people complain when I dropped whatsapp and say that they wouldn't be able to get hold of me if I stopped using it. I just told them it crashed my phone too often and then they found other ways to contact me.

gooseus 8y ago
Exactly. This line of reasoning is just an excuse that people use to justify maintaining the status quo rather than doing some hard work to change it. These grandpeople had to have been using something else 10 years ago to communicate with their grandkids... and then over these 10 years then simultaneously learned how to use FB, forgot how to use that other technology they'd used their whole life, and also lost the ability to learn how to use any other communication technology? Not impossible with cognitive deterioration, but probably a lot more rare than this excuse. If my grandparents were still alive today I'd just tell them that Facebook was controlled by the Democrats and we should use X,Y, or Z instead of effectively donating to Obama's campaign. They'd have deleted the app and gone back to text messages and phone calls by the end of dinner.
- inflatableDodo 8y ago
  Interesting tactic. I have started telling people that I have joined the technological wing of the Amish and that Facebook was built by the devil. It gets very little push-back compared to listing more concrete reasons, complete with examples, of Facebook's actual documented behaviour. Doing that gets me nowhere fast, but if I use exaggerated nonsense people seem to just go along with it while nodding sagely.
0x445442 8y ago
> complain when I dropped whatsapp and say that they wouldn't be able to get hold of me This blows my mind. I mean having Whatsapp implies one has a phone which implies one can receive SMS messages or God forbid, a phone call.
- inflatableDodo 8y ago
  Yes, but in this particular case it would have been an international phone call and as everybody knows, those are clearly impossible.
eswat 8y ago
Not if they’re not well-off in a country that has Free Basics. Hard to say no to free when not just your friends and family, but pretty much your culture, uses Facebook as it’s the de facto standard.

gooseus 8y ago

Exactly. This line of reasoning is just an excuse that people use to justify maintaining the status quo rather than doing some hard work to change it. These grandpeople had to have been using something else 10 years ago to communicate with their grandkids... and then over these 10 years then simultaneously learned how to use FB, forgot how to use that other technology they'd used their whole life, and also lost the ability to learn how to use any other communication technology? Not impossible with cognitive deterioration, but probably a lot more rare than this excuse. If my grandparents were still alive today I'd just tell them that Facebook was controlled by the Democrats and we should use X,Y, or Z instead of effectively donating to Obama's campaign. They'd have deleted the app and gone back to text messages and phone calls by the end of dinner.

inflatableDodo 8y ago
Interesting tactic. I have started telling people that I have joined the technological wing of the Amish and that Facebook was built by the devil. It gets very little push-back compared to listing more concrete reasons, complete with examples, of Facebook's actual documented behaviour. Doing that gets me nowhere fast, but if I use exaggerated nonsense people seem to just go along with it while nodding sagely.

0x445442 8y ago

> complain when I dropped whatsapp and say that they wouldn't be able to get hold of me This blows my mind. I mean having Whatsapp implies one has a phone which implies one can receive SMS messages or God forbid, a phone call.

inflatableDodo 8y ago
Yes, but in this particular case it would have been an international phone call and as everybody knows, those are clearly impossible.

eswat 8y ago

Not if they’re not well-off in a country that has Free Basics. Hard to say no to free when not just your friends and family, but pretty much your culture, uses Facebook as it’s the de facto standard.