Brookings, Oregon
About 9 years ago, at the begging of friends, I joined Facebook. I deactivated
my account in just two weeks, annoyed by incessant emails notifying me that my
""friends"" had posted to the platform, and further annoyed by the mundane
things they were posting. ""Mary Beth just finished the cookie."" ""Sean is
still stuck in traffic.""
I answered my friends' entreaties to re-join with one line: ""Facebook is
evil.""... Show more
Brookings, Oregon
About 9 years ago, at the begging of friends, I joined Facebook. I deactivated
my account in just two weeks, annoyed by incessant emails notifying me that my
""friends"" had posted to the platform, and further annoyed by the mundane
things they were posting. ""Mary Beth just finished the cookie."" ""Sean is
still stuck in traffic.""
I answered my friends' entreaties to re-join with one line: ""Facebook is
evil."" At the time, I thought the evil was threefold:
\- letting everyone feel like a celebrity without having to develop talent or
generate actual accomplishments
\- not telling users where their data was going, or how it was used.
\- if the data Facebook collected and sold made its founders and officers
billionaires, shouldn't the platform's users share in the profits?
Also, before the appropriate outrage, Facebook briefly claimed a policy of
owning the copyright on everything users posted -- videos, photos, music,
writing. What ethical business would try to get away with that?
Every individual, company and not-for-profit with a Facebook presence is a
willing, uncompensated business associate of people who generate insane
amounts of wealth for themselves selling something intangible, but valuable
nonetheless. Why would anyone participate in a relationship like that?
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