FB will just attract more right-wingers as they play the "hands off" role, both as users and employees. Every person who leaves because of this will be replaced by someone who considers FB to be the "fair and balanced" tech company.
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Re: Leave Facebook
#12People want to leave but stay for the network. How can we leave and take the network with us?' Edit: I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of. Also, organizing and protests...
I say forget "the network". If your so-called friends don't have your email address, they aren't your friends.
I would agree with this for phone numbers, but not email.
Re: Leave Facebook
#13Related reading, regarding my own process of Auditing Facebook.
https://londondailypost.com/zeaun-zarrieff-writes-to-faceboo...
https://businessnewsledger.com/zeaun-zarrieff-from-amerihub-...
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#14People want to leave but stay for the network. How can we leave and take the network with us?' Edit: I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of. Also, organizing and protests...
I say forget "the network". If your so-called friends don't have your email address, they aren't your friends.
Especially in the case of Instagram, it's a de facto RSS reader for a lot of really good content, if you curate it right.
I'm happy to say that the network I have built through Instagram has taken my photography to new levels and facilitated social interactions I'd never have had otherwise.
It is very fair to want to take the good (network/community) and leave the bad (walled-garden and tracking).
Re: Leave Facebook
#15Why? Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?
Or, while we are at it, why not Twitter.
I've seen an amusingly large number of tweets lately calling for deletion of Facebook.
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#16Why isn't there a social network that actually cares about society? I swear if one existed it would be gaining a million users a day right now. I'm dying to abandon Facebook, but --I hate to say-- it's the best way for me to stay in touch with international friends and family at the moment. Can't someone please create a simple facebook-style app that's not driven by profit? Please please please.
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#17I think Facebook is merely the conduit of human behavior that happens when lack of regulation / social norms or the incentives of profit create a new space much faster than we're used to before. So leaving Facebook and going to some other platform will not fundamentally solve the problem.
As long as:
1) people want to socialize freely (as well as privately) with each other in an online rapid medium,
2) the online forum is incentivized to make money, and
3) that same forum / business doesn't want the burden of regulating people's speech and behavior
then some Facebook analogue will take its place no matter where people go.
Right now it seems we can only choose to have 2 out of the 3.
Re: Leave Facebook
#18As the article says, leave Instagram too!
It's surprising how many of my friends say they don't use Facebook for political reasons but don't see Instagram as the same company.
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#19People want to leave but stay for the network. How can we leave and take the network with us?' Edit: I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of. Also, organizing and protests...
Last post: "Here's where you can find me in the future. I'm not on Facebook anymore." (And optionally: "Here's why.")
If people want to get in touch with you, they'll do so. If people want to broadcast information only to those following them on one service, then you'll stop getting that information. That's fine. Other information will take its place.
Re: Leave Facebook
#20I deleted my Facebook almost 8 years ago and never looked back. Was hard at first but great for my mental health. I encourage you to try disabling it for a while and keeping up with your network with alternatives