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Don’t Delete Facebook. Do Something About It (nytimes.com)
3 points by vinni2 on March 25, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Deleting your account is doing something. It's not our job to "fix" Facebook. It's not our responsibility to save FB from itself. FB is not a public service and it's purpose was never for the public benefit. It's a corporation who's sole purpose is to generate revenue and our personal data is source of that revenue. FB will never stop exploiting us. We only know about this recent scandal because of a whistle blower and it would have continued to happen unabated if it hadn't been exposed. And it will continue to happen so long as it's profitable for FB and it will continue to be profitable for FB so long as we keep giving them our personal data. This wasn't a mistake or by accident. This is what FB does and has been doing all along. They just finally got caught. Facebook does not care about you, don't care about it. Quit rewarding bad behavior. Quit expecting corporations to have morals. Money is their morality. Every time the Facebooks and Ubers or the world get away with this crap, it just encourages them to do it more. "Social Media" is not magic. It's just some software. Let's make something new. Fuck Facebook.


Definitely quit Facebook. It will give you peace again.




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