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Comment by W-Stool | Hacker News Reader

I honestly do not understand why any sentient person would have anything to do with Facebook at this point, VR headsets or not. It is just an awful company, period.

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It is, but because the majority of people are unaware (or simply don’t care) then it can be hard to avoid. During lockdown I deleted all of my accounts on Facebook owned products, including WhatsApp, but I began to feel increasingly isolated.

Now life is more “normal”, it’s very difficult to meet someone in a bar/club and tell them you don’t have Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp without sounding dodgy. Sad reality I’ve found as a 25 year old single man in London.

Chin up, mate. In the US, I'm starting to hear a lot more "I wish I did that", and a lot less "that's weird what are you hiding?"

People are starting to come around as they and their family members start to have more acutely negative experiences with social media.

If fb didn't exist tomorrow, I wouldn't have a way to contact my family and friends. It would be panic.

I also LOVE my quest 2. FB isn't perfect but hating it is getting boring now.

Genuinely curious, how is Facebook the only way you have to contact friends and family? Do you not have their email addresses or phone numbers? Or even physical addresses? What if you get locked out of your Facebook account?

I have the phone numbers ofcourse but international calls are emergency only.

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