The problem is that for a lot of people it has become a substitute that has filled the void left by the slow destruction of other social organizations and institutions. It’d be easy to say that social media sites like Facebook killed them, but I think they were already throughly hollowed out and made inaccessible by the economic pressure on people to be ever more productive workers and ever more economy driving consumers.
To ask people to dispense with whatsapp, instagram or facebook is to ask them to abandon their ability to be part of communities that matter to them. It’s sort of an intractable problem as it requires whole communities to abandon ship together, which is difficult to do. The solution to the problem is to easy that process and decrease barriers to doing so.
It’s funny how people get all up in arms abotut this and then immediately go back to scrolling facebook. They are always concerned until you tell them that the solution is to stop mindlessly consuming social media. Then you become the bad guy for suggesting it.
It’s worth remembering that critical thinking in education was gutted starting in the '80s. I’m 46, and by high school, interpreting literature was reduced to regurgitating that specific teacher’s analysis of a work. We were already being indoctrinated to accept what an authority figure said without question.
Resulting in all sorts of bullshit that brings us to today. I’ll be the first to admit that Facebook was useful for reconnecting with old friends when it first launched (I was out of college but retained a .edu email – my fiancee was in college, so I found out it existed through her), but that was a novelty with a short fuse.
If an individual did what Meta does on a daily basis across its platforms to another individual just once, you’d have and open-and-shut stalking case on your hands.
Block everything Meta too. Just because you don’t have an account doesn’t mean they’re not tracking you across various third party properties whether they’re apps or websites.
They make all their profit from consuming data about people so whether or not you have an account and visit their apps or websites is meaningless.
In fact while this article doesn’t have any assets from Meta it has 38 third-party trackers and 48 third-party cookies on it according to Blacklight including from big companies like Alphabet (Google), Amazon, LinkedIn, etc.
Those companies same companies have their assets included in apps and websites all over and everyone acts like it’s a mystery that Amazon will show you ads for pet products immediately after reading an article about dog shampoo. Alphabet even has tracking scripts on IRS websites with full access to the DOM — it doesn’t matter if you stopped using Google or Google products.
Delete everything Meta. Jesus Christ. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. The general public truly are lazy consumer idiots, aren’t they?
Us lazy consumer idiots need privacy all the same too. This shouldn’t be a fault of those not fully in the know
At the current stage, ignorance (and laziness) is not bliss, it is not innocence, it is a social hazard.
The problem is that for a lot of people it has become a substitute that has filled the void left by the slow destruction of other social organizations and institutions. It’d be easy to say that social media sites like Facebook killed them, but I think they were already throughly hollowed out and made inaccessible by the economic pressure on people to be ever more productive workers and ever more economy driving consumers.
To ask people to dispense with whatsapp, instagram or facebook is to ask them to abandon their ability to be part of communities that matter to them. It’s sort of an intractable problem as it requires whole communities to abandon ship together, which is difficult to do. The solution to the problem is to easy that process and decrease barriers to doing so.
It’s funny how people get all up in arms abotut this and then immediately go back to scrolling facebook. They are always concerned until you tell them that the solution is to stop mindlessly consuming social media. Then you become the bad guy for suggesting it.
Yes, of course they are!
It’s worth remembering that critical thinking in education was gutted starting in the '80s. I’m 46, and by high school, interpreting literature was reduced to regurgitating that specific teacher’s analysis of a work. We were already being indoctrinated to accept what an authority figure said without question.
Resulting in all sorts of bullshit that brings us to today. I’ll be the first to admit that Facebook was useful for reconnecting with old friends when it first launched (I was out of college but retained a .edu email – my fiancee was in college, so I found out it existed through her), but that was a novelty with a short fuse.
If an individual did what Meta does on a daily basis across its platforms to another individual just once, you’d have and open-and-shut stalking case on your hands.
Block everything Meta too. Just because you don’t have an account doesn’t mean they’re not tracking you across various third party properties whether they’re apps or websites.
They make all their profit from consuming data about people so whether or not you have an account and visit their apps or websites is meaningless.
In fact while this article doesn’t have any assets from Meta it has 38 third-party trackers and 48 third-party cookies on it according to Blacklight including from big companies like Alphabet (Google), Amazon, LinkedIn, etc.
Those companies same companies have their assets included in apps and websites all over and everyone acts like it’s a mystery that Amazon will show you ads for pet products immediately after reading an article about dog shampoo. Alphabet even has tracking scripts on IRS websites with full access to the DOM — it doesn’t matter if you stopped using Google or Google products.