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Actually, it's built on users supplied to advertisers. --- Facebook's utility for me is now near zero, possibly negative. I'm only there because mom is there.
by vkou 4y ago
Actually, it's built on users supplied to advertisers.
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Facebook's utility for me is now near zero, possibly negative. I'm only there because mom is there. Mom's only there because her friends are there.
Moving out of that morass - at least, until mom stops using computers is impossible.
At least with Amazon, Google, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, etc, I (currently) have meaningful alternatives.
Network effects suck.
- JohnFen 4y ago> I'm only there because mom is there. Why should that keep you there, though? She's your mother. Surely, you can talk with her directly even if she is on Facebook.
- scrum-treats 4y agoI'm only there because FB requires a current photo of me alongside a picture of my government issued ID in order to "regain access" to my account in order to deactivate it. How this is legal is astonishing.
- kingTug 4y agoCan't speak for OP but I haven't deactivated my FB to keep tabs on my elderly father. It's an enormously toxic force in his life and it gives me some sense of control when I know what's influencing him. Especially in the throes of the pandemic. He would have engaged in a lot more risky behavior had I not been able to steer him away from some of it.