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Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

My entire family lives thousands of miles away and Facebook is all I have to feel connected with them.

Why feel compelled to defend yourself? Use it and accept that you support it - or don’t. No need to apologize to us, you’re not going to convince us that your use case is special or that phone calls and texting don’t exist.

I have never (and will never) use Threads. … Deceptive, garbage marketing practices from a deceptive garbage tech company.

Unfortunately, you use Facebook, which means you do support these practices. How much or how little you use Facebook doesn’t factor into it. Tangentially, it also means you use Threads, because using Facebook means you use anything Zuck wants you use. That’s literally how it works.

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Contentedness@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Why feel compelled to defend yourself?

[Begins attacking]

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- misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Lmfao
  
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thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can’t use phone calls or texting when your family lives in the other side of the globe. Many parents are not tech savvy for them to be able to use something else if you aren’t there to set it up. Lot’s of them got into Facebook, and their friends are there, and we need to be there for them to reach us. It’s the network effect.

Also for many parents, internet = Facebook. They don’t even use emails, or any other services for that matter, maybe news websites that are bookmarked in their browser years ago by their children.

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- Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Everybody who refuses to use Facebook has to make the same sacrifices that people who do not refuse to use it do not make. No amount of exposition will make us feel better about the fact Facebook continues to exist and contribute to the ruin of society in part because you are not willing to inconvenience yourselves like we already have.
  
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