Get out, now.

  • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Um, E-mail has been doing that since the dawn of the Internet.

    I always see people saying “but I have some friends across the world and Facebook is the only way we can keep in contact because they don’t have a phone 😭😭😭”

    Like… my guy. You both have email addresses and used them to create FB accounts. Cut out the middle man.

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      1 year ago

      Facebook as taught them that they can be lazy and reduce their effort to remain in contact with a like or emoji reaction.

      Ironically, I upvoted your comment.

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      1 year ago

      One big difference I see, between email and various messengers on the on side and social networks on the other side is, that emails are me pushing my information at people while a social network is supposed to be them pulling information from my feed. This allows me—when it works—to share stuff with people instead of potentially sending spam. Not all communication is a digital postcard. Social networks allowed a new form of communication. I enjoyed OG facebook until the first big privacy scandal. It was a (mostly) good thing and it was very accessible even then. I‘ve never got such a large part of my tribe on a pull service since then. Sure we all have messengers and groups and what not… but it is not the same. I dream of self-hosting something from the fediverse but we‘re not exactly young anymore and I doubt my tribe will assemble.