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Have you just not been paying attention the last 4 years or just being willfully ignorant. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you aren't li

Have you just not been paying attention the last 4 years or just being willfully ignorant. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you aren't living in the US and haven't logged into facebook during the recent election year.

jariel 6y ago
Are you able to step out of your campus/post-campus bubble, or just 'wilfully ignorant'? I use FB when required for family events, and for niche advertising. The vast majority of my family and peers use it, for a variety of reasons, almost none of which is toxic or insidious. Facebook is a reflection of the the internet itself: you have your ice cream blogs, videos about cats, your CNNs, Foxs and the occasional Newsmax turds, very angry social justice types, weddings, funerals, sales, new toys, new interiors, babies, graduations etc. etc. That's life. I was wary of Facebook right form the start, with Millenials foolishly handing over every little bit of their personal lives thinking 'this was the future' ... but also wary of Facebook now, largely for the same reasons, though the evolution was always a little bit obvious if you think about it. People were way too upbeat about it then and way to downbeat about it now. Realize what a narrative and try to get off of it. Facebook was always gossip, prone to bits of otherwise tawdry trash, but otherwise normal for any given era.
- diveanon 6y ago
  I have not been on campus in decades, if I am in a "post-campus bubble" then I guess I'll be stuck there the rest of my life. There is nothing normal about Facebook and the impact it has had on society. You can try to paint it as just the salt of the earth sharing baby pics and conspiracy theories if you want, but that is pretty naive, especially for this forum. Facebook has spent billions building an engagement engine that has radicalized millions of people all over the world. Talk to burmese refugees about what Facebook means to them and then tell me about my "bubble".

jariel 6y ago

Are you able to step out of your campus/post-campus bubble, or just 'wilfully ignorant'? I use FB when required for family events, and for niche advertising. The vast majority of my family and peers use it, for a variety of reasons, almost none of which is toxic or insidious. Facebook is a reflection of the the internet itself: you have your ice cream blogs, videos about cats, your CNNs, Foxs and the occasional Newsmax turds, very angry social justice types, weddings, funerals, sales, new toys, new interiors, babies, graduations etc. etc. That's life. I was wary of Facebook right form the start, with Millenials foolishly handing over every little bit of their personal lives thinking 'this was the future' ... but also wary of Facebook now, largely for the same reasons, though the evolution was always a little bit obvious if you think about it. People were way too upbeat about it then and way to downbeat about it now. Realize what a narrative and try to get off of it. Facebook was always gossip, prone to bits of otherwise tawdry trash, but otherwise normal for any given era.

diveanon 6y ago
I have not been on campus in decades, if I am in a "post-campus bubble" then I guess I'll be stuck there the rest of my life. There is nothing normal about Facebook and the impact it has had on society. You can try to paint it as just the salt of the earth sharing baby pics and conspiracy theories if you want, but that is pretty naive, especially for this forum. Facebook has spent billions building an engagement engine that has radicalized millions of people all over the world. Talk to burmese refugees about what Facebook means to them and then tell me about my "bubble".