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Email version of clickbait headlines. It's fucking gross, but it will never go away because it works. Fuck 'em all. How long until humans are entirely farm-abl

Email version of clickbait headlines. It's fucking gross, but it will never go away because it works. Fuck 'em all. How long until humans are entirely farm-able? Are we close enough already?

sneak 1y ago
Obvious, but worth repeating: it goes away when you delete your facebook account. Stop using gmail. You cannot control others. You _can_ control yourself. Don’t be the honey in the trap of big tech surveillance platforms. Being on these platforms legitimizes and encourages their use for your friends and family. Delete your facebook and instagram. Sell or trash your oculus. Buy a domain and email hosting and migrate off your gmail.
- sureIy 1y ago
  Unfortunately some people want to have some semblance of social life and in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool.
  - sneak 1y ago
    This doesn’t get better by ignoring the problem. This is the social equivalent of just throwing your hands up and saying “it can’t be helped”. I cannot stress this enough: it _is not_ true. Deleting your IG will not cause your friends to stop being your friends. Being on these platforms legitimizes their use. It makes the situation _worse_. It is a vote for surveillance and censorship of your most intimate personal connections.
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  - aleph_minus_one 1y ago
    > in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool Rather: dropping Instagram means improving the (average) quality of the people in your pool. :-)
    - sureIy 1y ago
      Not if you're under 25
      - aleph_minus_one 1y ago
        Even then (or even particularly then). In this age, some persons rather have very "twisted" measures of quality for other people.
  - djaychela 1y ago
    But that definitely isn't everyone and the more people who reject your normalisation of this, the less strength there will be to it. And social life certainly doesn't look like Instagram statistics monitoring to me.
  - robertlagrant 1y ago
    That's a conflicting requirement. You can't want to be free of drugs and also keep doing heroin because all your friends do it.
  - HenryBemis 1y ago
    Facebook could implement the feature that could tell you which of your friends is within walking distance, so you can grab a coffee, but nope. Also facebook = cancer, and unfortunately now we have more cancers (TikTok, etc.)
    - sureIy 1y ago
      They actually did at some point, but people hate that. https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/ https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/
aleph_minus_one 1y ago
There is a simple solution: delete your Facebook account completely. Problem solved.
- cj 1y ago
  No need to delete your account to escape facebook. Simply turn off notifications. And "pull" entertainment from it if you want, don't let it push content to you. I find myself going weeks without opening facebook. I still enjoy the occasional doom scroll, but it feels better when I know I'm doing it and not accidentally getting sucked in.
  - aleph_minus_one 1y ago
    > No need to delete your account to escape facebook. Perhaps. But deleting your Facebook account makes solving the problem of escaping Facebook so much easier.

Email version of clickbait headlines. It's fucking gross, but it will never go away because it works. Fuck 'em all. How long until humans are entirely farm-able? Are we close enough already?

sneak 1y ago

Obvious, but worth repeating: it goes away when you delete your facebook account. Stop using gmail. You cannot control others. You _can_ control yourself. Don’t be the honey in the trap of big tech surveillance platforms. Being on these platforms legitimizes and encourages their use for your friends and family. Delete your facebook and instagram. Sell or trash your oculus. Buy a domain and email hosting and migrate off your gmail.

sureIy 1y ago
Unfortunately some people want to have some semblance of social life and in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool.
- sneak 1y ago
  This doesn’t get better by ignoring the problem. This is the social equivalent of just throwing your hands up and saying “it can’t be helped”. I cannot stress this enough: it _is not_ true. Deleting your IG will not cause your friends to stop being your friends. Being on these platforms legitimizes their use. It makes the situation _worse_. It is a vote for surveillance and censorship of your most intimate personal connections.
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- aleph_minus_one 1y ago
  > in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool Rather: dropping Instagram means improving the (average) quality of the people in your pool. :-)
  - sureIy 1y ago
    Not if you're under 25
    - aleph_minus_one 1y ago
      Even then (or even particularly then). In this age, some persons rather have very "twisted" measures of quality for other people.
- djaychela 1y ago
  But that definitely isn't everyone and the more people who reject your normalisation of this, the less strength there will be to it. And social life certainly doesn't look like Instagram statistics monitoring to me.
- robertlagrant 1y ago
  That's a conflicting requirement. You can't want to be free of drugs and also keep doing heroin because all your friends do it.
- HenryBemis 1y ago
  Facebook could implement the feature that could tell you which of your friends is within walking distance, so you can grab a coffee, but nope. Also facebook = cancer, and unfortunately now we have more cancers (TikTok, etc.)
  - sureIy 1y ago
    They actually did at some point, but people hate that. https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/ https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/

aleph_minus_one 1y ago

There is a simple solution: delete your Facebook account completely. Problem solved.

cj 1y ago
No need to delete your account to escape facebook. Simply turn off notifications. And "pull" entertainment from it if you want, don't let it push content to you. I find myself going weeks without opening facebook. I still enjoy the occasional doom scroll, but it feels better when I know I'm doing it and not accidentally getting sucked in.
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago
  > No need to delete your account to escape facebook. Perhaps. But deleting your Facebook account makes solving the problem of escaping Facebook so much easier.