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I actually like Facebook. It used to be a fantastic place to hang out online and be open from the comfort of my home, without having to drive somewhere, or be i
by jart 6y ago
I actually like Facebook. It used to be a fantastic place to hang out online and be open from the comfort of my home, without having to drive somewhere, or be in the public sphere. I'm also somewhat of an oddity because my friend list never went above dunbar's number. Then when when the tide turned against Facebook with events like Cambridge Analytica, it turned into a ghost town. Everyone I know just stopped using it, and stopped sharing, because no one trusted it anymore. So if you still think of quitting Facebook as a choice, chances are you're friends with too many people. How could people here honestly suspect their friends of being bots, unless they needed the self-esteem boost of having 5,000 "friends"? Fact is, the platform was ruined by too many people using it for the wrong reasons and that's what the app makers and the bad policies exploited. The Facebook that friend judicious people like me had had is gone and I don't think there's going to be anything to replace it.