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Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what should we call them?

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"User Engagement Networks" Sounds perfectly fine to me. At least there would be an idea of what these apps are trying to accomplish at the expense of the user.

"User Engagement and Data Collection Networks"

"Spy networks"

Re: Social networks neither ‘social’ nor ‘networks’ – what should we call them?

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I don't want Facebook to show me anything that isn't posted by one of my friends... are there any settings that allows that? Sure it's kind of interesting to look at a bear being washed by a human, but who cares.

https://socialfixer.com/ has a lot of helpful settings to that effect.

I tried it and it kept bugging me about unread messages that I already read so I removed it, but thanks
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