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Things I pragmatically need Facebook (including Messenger) for: - My martial arts classes post updates there - So does the community garden I help out at - K
by JulianMorrison 7y ago
Things I pragmatically need Facebook (including Messenger) for:
- My martial arts classes post updates there
- So does the community garden I help out at
- Keeping up with family news, and directly talking to family
- Keeping up with what's happening to my friends in the USA or other far flung places
- Access to topical news that matches my political beliefs rather than being heavily centrist-biased and ignoring all the important stuff
- Monitoring political campaigns and issue campaigns
And honestly, good luck finding all that anywhere else.
- ChrisRR 7y agoCreate bookmarks directly to those pages and ignore the news feed.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoMissing the bit where I want the news feed.
- dangerface 7y agoEmail does all that.
- root_axis 7y agoThat reads to me like "I like the Facebook service and so I use it". Of course if you want to use Facebook then quitting Facebook isn't practical.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoI'd like it better with less evil.
- root_axis 7y agoThat's a universal platitude that could be applied to any profit-seeking company. At the end of the day you either regard Facebook as so abhorrent that you will refuse to use their services or not, but you definitely don't need to use them.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoAnd that's lazy deference to an inevitability that isn't inevitable. It's a cultural choice, to tolerate evil of that sort.
- root_axis 7y agoI have made no defense. IMO, bargaining on the axis of moral flexibility to maintain the convenience of using a service you regard as evil is explicit "toleration" of said evil.