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If you're still using Facebook in 2020, you're complicit. You've had the better part of a decade, knowing that Facebook is a problem, to do something about it,
by throwanem 7y ago
If you're still using Facebook in 2020, you're complicit. You've had the better part of a decade, knowing that Facebook is a problem, to do something about it, or at least about your complicity in it. If you still haven't, that's on you. No more excuses.
- martin8412 7y agoWhat exactly do you expect people to do? Sure, I know that Facebook is a horrible company. But at the same time I don't really have much choice if I want to use it or not. I use it to keep touch with friends and it's used to plan gatherings. I'm not about to try and be some advocate for people to use a better service, because I know that's a hopeless endeavour when I'm the only person doing it.
- samatman 7y agoI've been a part of talking more than one group into moving event planning off Facebook. It can be done.
- Brain_Thief 7y agoI see this sentiment expressed a lot and, frankly, I just don't buy it. I dropped my FaceBook account years ago and have never had any trouble staying in touch with people or being invited to things. Are your friends / family so insistent on using FaceBook for all communications that they would cease including you in events or talking to you if you needed to be contacted via, e.g., text message or email? If that's the case then I suggest you seriously consider the kind of relationships you have with these people and whether or not they are worth maintaining.
- bluntfang 7y agoFacebook is investing billions of dollars in the psychology of engagement (aka addiction). It's not an individuals fault.
- standardUser 7y agoSay that again, but this time replace some social media website with the cabal of multinationals profiting off of gradually decimating the planet.
- vkou 7y agoIf you're using gasoline, electricity, plastics, metals, wood, or food grown by people using any of the above, you're complicit in a lot of human suffering and environmental destruction (Which will cause even more human suffering in the future). I empathize with the moderators, here, I appreciate articles like these which call out bad practices, and I appreciate legislature, and efforts to create legislatures, to curtail these practices. But if I were to stackrank which parts of the global supply chain that I personally use, make me the most complicit in evil, Facebook would not make the top 10. Or the top 25.
- anigbrowl 7y agoThe solution to bad working conditions at FB is not to stop using FB and assume FB will correctly interpret the resulting market signal.
- tjpnz 7y agoYou're not going to get very far blaming the addict. People who choose to work at Facebook are another story.