Wikipedia founder calls for social media strike

>On the Hacker News list that shares tech headlines one commenter said: "I feel that even if everybody who cared went on strike, the difference in daily visitors would probably be in the error margin."

>They added: "I think most people who really care have already left the centralised social media or scaled it down to the point that a non-strike day is an exception."

BBC quoted Hacker News!

Definition of preaching to the choir.

Social media is like the movie ‘The Matrix’ where most people don’t want to wake up and don’t care about what is ‘real’

Already discussed on HN (as per the quote in this article)...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316140

I don't see anything wrong of taking off Facebook/Twitter some days (especially, because I don't use it) but personally, I see there is a problem with taking a break of social media service called GitHub. I know many companies and organizations that use GitHub service as their git repository hosting, so 48h break would actually mean a two days off work for their employees [0].

[0]: ... as long they won't switch to other git hosting or implement some proxy, but it does not count.

The network effects are too strong. Even if you leave, it is likely some useful communication is still using these channels. For example, the summer camp my kids are attending are using social media this year to share photos from camp; where as prior years they had actually used their own site. I am sure direct costs played into some of the decisions. So I am more likely to use social media site this week than the rest of the year combined.

I definitely agree that things need to change but I have a hard time seeing this really effect anything.

He should call for a weeklong sick-out by ops engs at all these socmed companies. Can you imagine all the red status and trust pages...

I didn't like Facebook so I sat down and made my own social network. It really isn't that difficult; Larry could have probably done the same thing himself in less time than it took him to create this campaign.