Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
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Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
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Re: Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
#2Another hit piece by NYTimes against Facebook. Personally, sharing good news across Facebook/Instagram and receiving acknowledgements has been a very satisfying experience for me.
More than that, as a consumer of Facebook, I also really appreciate when my friends post their achievements/milestones as it lets me stay up to date with what is going on in their lives.
Facebook allows you to scale the sharing of your happiness. And it allows you to keep updates on what is going on with the lives of others. You can still share the special joy in person with your close friends and family while using Facebook - it doesn't have to be an either/or condition.
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#3Facebook isn't stealing anything. This is an excuse for one's own weaknesses, just like most things in life. It is perfectly possible to share things with family and friends without using Facebook. If Facebook is sucking out the joy from your life, stop using Facebook.
There are millions of people on the planet who find FB useful though. I personally don't, so I don't use it. If you hate Facebook so much, stop using it. Similarly, if you don't like drugs, don't take them. I should still have the right to shoot fentanyl up my eyeballs if that is a choice I as an individual want to make.
Re: Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
#4Another hit piece by NYTimes against Facebook. Personally, sharing good news across Facebook/Instagram and receiving acknowledgements has been a very satisfying experience for me. More than that, as a consumer of Facebook, I also really appreciate when my friends post their achievements/milestones as it lets me stay up to date with what is going on in their lives. Facebook allows you to scale the sharing of your happ…
I agree with this perspective. Personally, I've had to get off of Facebook. However, it is like any other technology. It can be used for good or for ill. Everything has its growing pains, and Facebooks' have been relatively benign compared to some other technologies we've invented.
Re: Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
#5Facebook isn't stealing anything. This is an excuse for one's own weaknesses, just like most things in life. It is perfectly possible to share things with family and friends without using Facebook. If Facebook is sucking out the joy from your life, stop using Facebook. There are millions of people on the planet who find FB useful though. I personally don't, so I don't use it. If you hate Facebook so much, stop using…
This gets said so much. Don't people get tired of hearing "even if I don't actively use fb it still has a cost against my liberty"? They know who you are without you giving them permission.
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Re: Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
#7Facebook isn't stealing anything. This is an excuse for one's own weaknesses, just like most things in life. It is perfectly possible to share things with family and friends without using Facebook. If Facebook is sucking out the joy from your life, stop using Facebook. There are millions of people on the planet who find FB useful though. I personally don't, so I don't use it. If you hate Facebook so much, stop using…
If Facebook is sucking out the joy from your life, stop using Facebook.
But that's exactly what the article is saying. Have an honest look at whether facebook is bringing you joy (so trendy) and if it isn't, get rid of it.
There are millions of people on the planet who find FB useful though. I personally don't, so I don't use it. If you hate Facebook so much, stop using it. Similarly, if you don't like drugs, don't take them. I should still have the right to shoot fentanyl up my eyeballs if that is a choice I as an individual want to make.
Did the article say facebook should be banned like fentanyl? I don't get the analogy here.
Re: Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
#8Facebook isn't stealing anything. This is an excuse for one's own weaknesses, just like most things in life. It is perfectly possible to share things with family and friends without using Facebook. If Facebook is sucking out the joy from your life, stop using Facebook. There are millions of people on the planet who find FB useful though. I personally don't, so I don't use it. If you hate Facebook so much, stop using…
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Re: Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
#9Another hit piece by NYTimes against Facebook. Personally, sharing good news across Facebook/Instagram and receiving acknowledgements has been a very satisfying experience for me. More than that, as a consumer of Facebook, I also really appreciate when my friends post their achievements/milestones as it lets me stay up to date with what is going on in their lives. Facebook allows you to scale the sharing of your happ…
Just curious, when did you join Facebook/social media?
For myself and many other young people, social media began as online chatting through programs like AIM, MSN, YAHOO, or even in games like RuneScape, where we could meet new people or more commonly, talk and show off to our friends from school. Myspace felt like an absolute leap in online expression for us, and the idea of "Top Friends" had a real impact on our daily life at school. Facebook was a better application and provided a more sophisticated platform for communicating, however lacked the customizability of your profile. No longer were you operating a personal profile, rather with Facebook, you simply give them your data and they stick it in their template.
And then parents started joining.
Re: Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s Joy
#10Another hit piece by NYTimes against Facebook. Personally, sharing good news across Facebook/Instagram and receiving acknowledgements has been a very satisfying experience for me. More than that, as a consumer of Facebook, I also really appreciate when my friends post their achievements/milestones as it lets me stay up to date with what is going on in their lives. Facebook allows you to scale the sharing of your happ…
The Times new "Privacy Project" is nothing more than a thin veil for their agenda against Facebook. Read their article on "How The Times Thinks About Privacy"[0] and notice they don't actually take responsibility for the abundance of information they collect on their readers every single day and try and normalize it by saying "Everyone else does it, too!" They conveniently decline to disclose any information on how they use reader data, but make no mistake they're selling it off just like the very companies they're repeatedly targeting with their reporting.
Their mission for the "Privacy Project" sounds great:
"Over the coming months, The Privacy Project will feature reporters investigating how digital privacy is being compromised, Op-Ed editors bringing in outside voices to help foster debate and contextualize trade-offs, and Opinion writers calling for solutions."
But then you realize that the best "pro" technology viewpoints they've managed to foster thus far are pieces like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/iphone-privacy.ht...
I get that HN doesn't like FB, but there is no "debate", and I wish the users of this site would be more critical of NYT pushing their agenda under the guise of "protecting privacy."
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...