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.
Yep
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Re: Leave Facebook
#32The hyperbole of this is almost incomprehensible. The absurdity of this latest "controversy" - Zuck not wrapping some form of token and meaningless censorship around a single Trump tweet - is proof that this isn't about Trump. Hell, all this did was give Trump more exposure. No, it's clear that this is about breaking Zuck for political purposes, and taking control of Facebook for a single "side." Not one person genuinely cares about this dumb Trump tweet, this is just trying to tip over Zuck once and for all and get him to be full-on Dorsey.
I left Facebook five years ago but it certainly wasn't about Zuck or Facebook. I hate to break it to you guys but at the end of the day, Facebook is just people. Get upset all you want but you're really just getting upset at other people for whatever reason. Facebook isn't the problem, human nature is.
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#33Why? Why not Google, Apple, Amazon?
Personally, I find social media to be very problematic. I strongly dislike facebook, twitter, etc. for how they are affecting the way so many people think. It's not because of their business models, it's because I think their product is fundamentally bad for people. That line of reasoning doesn't lead to any opinion of google, apple, amazon (except youtube, which has some of the problems of social media).
An alternative to mainstream media, at least?
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#34A baby step you can take if you want to leave Facebook is to disable (I forget if that's the exact term, it might be deactivate) your account. This removes your access to the site, and hides your profile - while leaving the Messenger half of your account untouched: messages, contacts, etc. I've done it before for mental health reasons, and found it really refreshing.
Removing notifications and moving the icon to a folder on the 4th page of your home screen is pretty helpful as a first step too
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#35Absolutely not. Facebook is the last major social network where people are able to speak their minds. And since I can select who I want to listen to, I like it. As it so happens, everyone who I follow on Facebook speaks their minds by posting pictures of their babies. This is perfectly fine by me.
I am sceptical that the paternalists will let me be when they're done dealing with Trump et al.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Query your friends for alternative contact information (email, phone #, etc.). Select your next platform(s). Leave contact information on FB. In 1-6 months, return to FB and remove your account.
You forget that Facebook is not for friends only. Millions of groups of common interest exist as well as communities formed around pages and personalities.
That's fine if you only want to talk about topics nobody will disagree with, like how much we all love some particular piece of media, but I think it's a waste of time to look for sincere deep conversations under the enforced banality of FB's one-size-fits-globally Community Standards.
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#37The hyperbole of this is almost incomprehensible. The absurdity of this latest "controversy" - Zuck not wrapping some form of token and meaningless censorship around a single Trump tweet - is proof that this isn't about Trump. Hell, all this did was give Trump more exposure. No, it's clear that this is about breaking Zuck for political purposes, and taking control of Facebook for a single "side." Not one person genui…
> Facebook isn't the problem, human nature is.
This is almost exactly the line of thinking that the story The Weapon by Fredric Brown warns against.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Query your friends for alternative contact information (email, phone #, etc.). Select your next platform(s). Leave contact information on FB. In 1-6 months, return to FB and remove your account.
You forget that Facebook is not for friends only. Millions of groups of common interest exist as well as communities formed around pages and personalities.
You can get contact information and maintain ties with communities in other ways as well. Leaving FB can make discovering communities harder, but it doesn't mean remaining part of communities is lost.
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#39Is there a significant amount of Facebook employees that are actually planning on leaving?
From my experience money talks. Many people will use the logic of "if not me it will be someone else" for their cognitive dissonance to work at morally degenerate organizations. I'd be interested if there was a survey of current employees who would be willing to leave if another entity paid an analogous salary.
Re: Leave Facebook
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I find social media to be very problematic. I strongly dislike facebook, twitter, etc. for how they are affecting the way so many people think. It's not because of their business models, it's because I think their product is fundamentally bad for people. That line of reasoning doesn't lead to any opinion of google, apple, amazon (except youtube, which has some of the problems of social media).
An alternative to mainstream media, at least?
As if Facebook media were any better...