How to Fix Facebook Before It Fixes Us
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How to Fix Facebook Before It Fixes Us
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#2This has become a tired, stupid theme on HN, can people just stop submitting these?
Facebook is not the water supply, it is a source of entertainment. If you don't find yourself entertained, log out.
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#3I stopped reading after so many I's in just the beginning. It's an all about "me" piece.
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#4We have cancer in social media, called facebook and youtube.
Please, get rid of it by using any other provider for videos, emails and your family status updates.
They are straight line to CIA and other government spy organisations.
Please leave them asap.
This cancer isnot worth to save it.
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#5> we should consider that the time has come to revive the country’s traditional approach to monopoly. Since the Reagan era, antitrust law has operated under the principle that monopoly is not a problem so long as it doesn’t result in higher prices for consumers. Under that framework, Facebook and Google have been allowed to dominate several industries—not just search and social media but also email, video, photos, and digital ad sales, among others—increasing their monopolies by buying potential rivals like YouTube and Instagram. While superficially appealing, this approach ignores costs that don’t show up in a price tag. Addiction to Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms has a cost. Election manipulation has a cost. Reduced innovation and shrinkage of the entrepreneurial economy has a cost. All of these costs are evident today. We can quantify them well enough to appreciate that the costs to consumers of concentration on the internet are unacceptably high.
With the current deck of politicians, it is highly unlikely that anything will be done to address this
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#6"Dear diary, here is how I repeat what thousands of people have been saying about Facebook/Google/etc. for years."
I am wondering how someone seemingly oblivious to what Facebook is can be a successful investor.
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#7“Fixing yourself” automatically fixes the “Facebook problem”. Because then, Facebook will be completely irrelevant to you.
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#8“Fixing yourself” automatically fixes the “Facebook problem”. Because then, Facebook will be completely irrelevant to you.
I "fixed" myself many years ago. I have sinkholed everything-FB. I suggest to anyone that wants to use FB, do so for 10 days, locate the ones they want/need, and then continue their dialogues in a more meaningful manner away from FB and whatsapp (also FB) and keep their comm channels open, without the cancerous environment of FB, with all their tests and manipulation tactics.
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#9Search for 'tax' finds one instance:
> This allowed the platforms to centralize the internet, inserting themselves between users and content, effectively imposing a tax on both sides.
Sadly this does not contain the obvious fix: tax ads.
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#10“Fixing yourself” automatically fixes the “Facebook problem”. Because then, Facebook will be completely irrelevant to you.
It doesn't. Some of us got off Facebook years ago (or stopped using it). An individual abstaining didn't stop society from being manipulated the way this describes, FB's reach is too great.