4 ms·

I would be happy if those spy organisations like Google and Facebook would leave my country.

• magduf 7y ago
  Google provides some genuinely useful services, like Maps. Facebook, on the other hand, isn't something that anyone really needs. What value does Facebook actually provide anyway, besides giving people a forum to post boring family photos for grandma to look at? I guess Facebook Marketplace can be sorta useful for selling your old junk, but that's the only thing that comes to mind. Remember also that there's only two players in the smartphone market: Apple and Google (which makes the software and app store behind Android). If you loose Google and Android, that means everyone's going to be sorta forced into buying an iPhone unless they want to go back to flip-phones. Do you really want an Apple monopoly in your country?
  • buboard 7y ago
    Facebook provides the great service of keeping them all over there. Imagine if all that crowd descended on HN.
    • magduf 7y ago
      Don't be silly. Even if FB disappeared tomorrow, "that crowd" isn't going to come to HN, just like they're not going to suddenly develop an interest in, say, electronics and start hanging out on message forums where people talk about how to design PCBs, or an interest in, say, astrophysics, and start hanging out on message forums where people talk about gravity wave detection. No matter what happens to FB, you're safe here.