That's quite emotional response to something quite unrelated to your life.
You don't like a company X, you don't use its products, that's it.
Hate is destructive.
You don't like a company X, you don't use its products, that's it.
Hate is destructive.
They seem to have only gotten worse since then in many ways. And I was an adult when I started using it. I can’t imagine what some of these intrusive social media products are doing to kids.
So I dislike and no longer use Facebook. And also, I do hate it.
I’m usually a pretty positive person and would rarely use the word “hate” in respect of another person. I reserve that word for very few scenarios. But I have to say that in this case it’s perfectly fitting.
Obese? Hate Coca-Cola. Lung cancer? Hate Philip Morris. Broke a leg in car crash? Hate BMW. Depressed? Hate Facebook.
Facebook is just a tool. How you use it, it is your responsibility.
I think you are also being too simplistic and neglecting the complex interactions between personal responsibility and the dependency on the environment we as a culture inhabit and create.
The impact of large corporations optimising consumer behavior is not zero, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money on it. So those corporations also share partial accountability to the problems they helped create.
The product "facebook" being a tool does not preclude the company "facebook" from accountability.
Yes. Because I like to think I'm living among grown ups, not among children where nanny state is needed.
> Obese? just a lazy fatso.
Not everyone of course (sometimes it is disease), but most obese people are.
It is not necessarily bad. Maybe someone decided they are happy being obese, lazy and enjoy sugar in food, that's their choice and their responsibility.
> The impact of large corporations optimising consumer behavior is not zero, otherwise they wouldn't spend so much money on it.
And grownup adults are responsible to recognize these tricks and don't use it when it harms them.
Same as with Coca-cola, which also does millions of these tricks affecting consumer behavior. I drink Coke occasionally, and partly because of their ads everywhere, otherwise maybe I'd drink more water. But I know when to stop.
I hate to say it, but if your relationship is ruined, it's not Facebook to blame.
It is a core life skill, and based (admittedly entirely) on your posting history here, you lack it completely.
This is not an emotional support forum. If you don’t want to have your relationship discussed, don’t bring it here, that’s it.
The pot calling the kettle black it would seem.
> This is not an emotional support forum.
We are all humans here, and humans have emotions. And we bring those emotions to everything we do. To deny this is extremely naive.
There is nothing to be gained from being disrespectful or cruel to each other. Quite the opposite in fact.
There is. I pointed to a flaw in the argument.
> from being disrespectful or cruel to each other.
I'd say it is disrespectful to bring your own grief as an argument in a rational discussion. Keep your personal life out of discussing technical or political discussions.
> And we bring those emotions to everything we do.
No we don't. At least those of us who have grown up.
Neither a prejudice against “emotions”
Sorry that went over your head, I didn't mean to trigger a lecture.
Sorry to hear that. I'd prefer to live in society where there's rule of law and basic freedoms, including freedom to conduct business even if I or someone else disagrees with how that business operates.
I wouldn't want to destroy any legal business.
But destroy it? That'd be too much.
Meta could do a bit of that, too.