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I know it's not really your point, but I'm fine with people continuously reminding everyone that facebook is a terrible company. They shouldn't get free goodwil

I know it's not really your point, but I'm fine with people continuously reminding everyone that facebook is a terrible company. They shouldn't get free goodwill from ostensibly neutral articles.

s1artibartfast 4y ago
that fine and well but there are a lot of people that find the constant reminding and outrage both boring and exhausting. I don't wasn't to live my life in a constant state of outrage, negativity, and hate. Sometimes I want to be open minded, curious, and enjoy learning.
- sshine 4y ago
  I’ve deleted my Facebook account many years ago, and I don’t need to criticise them at every opportunity. When asked why I’m not on (happens extremely rarely), I say it is against my moral conviction to be a member, and they don’t ask what I mean, because they know. Thus, I can live a positive life without evangelising my own choices.
- autoexec 4y ago
  > that fine and well but there are a lot of people that find the constant reminding and outrage both boring and exhausting. If a company is doing something genuinely terrible, isn't it better to continue to call them out on it even when doing that might be "boring and exhausting" to some people? If some number of people are reading those comments and learning from them, and others are gladly reminded of something they'd forgotten, is it worth having some number of other people who now have to scroll past a comment that bored them? I think that a lot of those types of comments are so visible because many people are finding them useful and/or important and so they are getting upvoted. I do see a lot more dead conspiracy theory posts. Personally, I feel that there are very few means to hold a company meaningfully accountable, and the few we do have are very rarely used or used successfully. Companies spend billions on efforts to manipulate how they are perceived by the public. We operate under a system that heavily favors the corporation and leaves us disadvantaged. One of the few tools we have at our disposal is our ability to inform each other about what companies are doing and how it might impact us. I'm grateful to those posters who do what they can. Even if it's something I've read 100 times before, if the problem is real I hope people don't stop talking about it, and I hope at least a few people grow sick enough of talking about it or hearing about it that something gets done to fix it. With luck there will be no more reason to talk about it and everyone can move on to talking too much about the next thing that needs fixing.

I know it's not really your point, but I'm fine with people continuously reminding everyone that facebook is a terrible company. They shouldn't get free goodwill from ostensibly neutral articles.

s1artibartfast 4y ago

that fine and well but there are a lot of people that find the constant reminding and outrage both boring and exhausting. I don't wasn't to live my life in a constant state of outrage, negativity, and hate. Sometimes I want to be open minded, curious, and enjoy learning.

sshine 4y ago
I’ve deleted my Facebook account many years ago, and I don’t need to criticise them at every opportunity. When asked why I’m not on (happens extremely rarely), I say it is against my moral conviction to be a member, and they don’t ask what I mean, because they know. Thus, I can live a positive life without evangelising my own choices.
autoexec 4y ago
> that fine and well but there are a lot of people that find the constant reminding and outrage both boring and exhausting. If a company is doing something genuinely terrible, isn't it better to continue to call them out on it even when doing that might be "boring and exhausting" to some people? If some number of people are reading those comments and learning from them, and others are gladly reminded of something they'd forgotten, is it worth having some number of other people who now have to scroll past a comment that bored them? I think that a lot of those types of comments are so visible because many people are finding them useful and/or important and so they are getting upvoted. I do see a lot more dead conspiracy theory posts. Personally, I feel that there are very few means to hold a company meaningfully accountable, and the few we do have are very rarely used or used successfully. Companies spend billions on efforts to manipulate how they are perceived by the public. We operate under a system that heavily favors the corporation and leaves us disadvantaged. One of the few tools we have at our disposal is our ability to inform each other about what companies are doing and how it might impact us. I'm grateful to those posters who do what they can. Even if it's something I've read 100 times before, if the problem is real I hope people don't stop talking about it, and I hope at least a few people grow sick enough of talking about it or hearing about it that something gets done to fix it. With luck there will be no more reason to talk about it and everyone can move on to talking too much about the next thing that needs fixing.