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Interesting and scary post. But raises a more important question: If you are reading this and don't like it - why do you still have a FB account?
by misiti3780 7y ago
Interesting and scary post.
But raises a more important question: If you are reading this and don't like it - why do you still have a FB account?
- edent 7y agoBecause humans are a social species. Abstinence is unrealistic for most people https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/02/abstinence-isnt-safe-why-quitting-social-media-isnt-the-solution/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/02/abstinence-isnt-safe-why-qu...
- ablation 7y agoThat’s a bit of a flawed argument. Facebook isn’t the only place online or offline where humans can socialise. Making the argument that staying with Facebook just for one potential (and flawed) avenue for socialising is to ignore myriad other ways to socialise.
- dhosek 7y agoExcept that it's where the people that I would choose to socialize are. My twitter social graph is has nearly no overlap with my FB graph. For me twitter is mostly writers/literary types, FB is mostly people I know in real life (although most of my interaction on FB has been with interest-based communities for which no analogue exists outside of FB). That said, I'm doing a social media fast for Lent. It's entirely possible that when Easter comes I might not go back to either Twitter or Facebook.
- banads 7y agoComparing not using FB to complete social and sexual abstinence is quite absurd indeed; like an alcoholic who knows its bad for them but doesn't want to stop going to bars and clubs because they think that's the only way they can socialize and find sexual partners.
- beatgammit 7y agoI deleted my Facebook account some years ago. Even when I had one, most of my friends used it as a micro blog, image host, or free ad platform (e.g. "network marketing"), and the amount of meaningful socializing was slim to none. Most of my socializing has been and continues to be done in person, over text, or over email. I do miss out on updates from distant family and friends, but the interaction on Facebook was always shallow anyway, so I don't feel like I'm missing much.
- jacobush 7y agoAllegedly they have shadow profiles, anyway.
- misiti3780 7y agoi dont think it alleged, they do, unfortunately
- djsumdog 7y agoI have friends around the world I still IM. Maybe I could get some of them onto Signal or do international texts (Which get expensive) but many of them I can only communicate with via Messenger.
- misiti3780 7y agoat this point, if you are only using IM, everyone could just use a free slack account.
- djsumdog 7y agoWhat? Each slack workspace is entirely different. You can't just add someone on Slack! "Hey friend, I'm getting off Facebook, What's a Slack workspace you're in? I'll send you messages that way .." ...you delete your facebook and never talk to this friend ever again. It's not that there aren't alternatives. It's that people don't use them. It's not like back when everyone had AIM, Yahoo and MSN and you could add people on all three and group them together in Audium/Pidgin/Trillian. Facebook has literally bought most of the competitors (Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.)
- JohnFen 7y ago> It's not that there aren't alternatives. It's that people don't use them. They do if they value the relationship. I left Facebook almost 10 years ago, and the people on Facebook that I had actual, valuable relationships with had no problem continuing to communicate with me though alternate means.
- jonhohle 7y agoI don’t have an account, not have i ever had one, but assume they are tracking me in various ways. It would be very nice to see what that is without having to provide more PII.
- JohnFen 7y agoI don't. But that in no way means this doesn't impact me too.