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I call BS. Every situation you mentioned exists because people passively accept the situation. Simply demanding a method to communicate other than Facebook can

I call BS. Every situation you mentioned exists because people passively accept the situation. Simply demanding a method to communicate other than Facebook can remedy the situation. I'd love to see a list of companies that require a Facebook account. Not ask for Facebook account, require Facebook account. "You may have relatives abroad you can only talk to through Facebook or WhatsApp" They can't pick up the phone? Side note: I've never had a Facebook account.

idlewords 7y ago
So... you're opining on a service you've never used? I guess you're on the right site for that.
- SapporoChris 7y ago
  Ad hominem fallacy: attacks the characteristics or authority of the writer without addressing the substance of the argument. source: https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/personal-experience-doesnt-matter-cb060b42f99a https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/personal-experience-doesnt-m...
  - idlewords 7y ago
    Only a fool would think that was an example of the ad hominem fallacy.
- jerf 7y ago
  Who else do you expect to have the best view on the utility of not using a Facebook account other than someone who doesn't use it? I don't have one. I don't miss it, and am increasingly glad. But I do have the "spouse firewall"; my wife uses it and I get most of the news I need through that, and even by local standards I'm not really a social butterfly, so between the two things, my experience may not be 100% relevant. So there's my science-style "why this data point may not be relevant" disclosure. But it certainly isn't a "requirement for modern life" or anything. The times I faintly regret maybe not having a Facebook account are separated by many months, it's not like every day I go to do something and alas, my life is degraded because I don't have a Facebook account. It's a rare event, such that I could pretty much recite to you every one from the past 5 years. (All of them are family news, either get-togethers I wouldn't have heard about, or some family news that I ultimately would have heard anyhow and didn't have any action items on either way.) (There's enough people without a given social account that I'm still yet to encounter the site that only has Facebook authentication. I hear they exist, but they haven't naturally crossed my path yet.)

idlewords 7y ago

So... you're opining on a service you've never used? I guess you're on the right site for that.

SapporoChris 7y ago
Ad hominem fallacy: attacks the characteristics or authority of the writer without addressing the substance of the argument. source: https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/personal-experience-doesnt-matter-cb060b42f99a https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/personal-experience-doesnt-m...
- idlewords 7y ago
  Only a fool would think that was an example of the ad hominem fallacy.
jerf 7y ago
Who else do you expect to have the best view on the utility of not using a Facebook account other than someone who doesn't use it? I don't have one. I don't miss it, and am increasingly glad. But I do have the "spouse firewall"; my wife uses it and I get most of the news I need through that, and even by local standards I'm not really a social butterfly, so between the two things, my experience may not be 100% relevant. So there's my science-style "why this data point may not be relevant" disclosure. But it certainly isn't a "requirement for modern life" or anything. The times I faintly regret maybe not having a Facebook account are separated by many months, it's not like every day I go to do something and alas, my life is degraded because I don't have a Facebook account. It's a rare event, such that I could pretty much recite to you every one from the past 5 years. (All of them are family news, either get-togethers I wouldn't have heard about, or some family news that I ultimately would have heard anyhow and didn't have any action items on either way.) (There's enough people without a given social account that I'm still yet to encounter the site that only has Facebook authentication. I hear they exist, but they haven't naturally crossed my path yet.)