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True, for the most part. But your family and friends will remember, and not kindly, if you worked for FB.

That I very much doubt. The average outrage timer is 48 hours, then everybody forgets and jumps to a new controversy. As for Facebook, many of my relatives still use it, either indirectly through WhatsApp or Instagram, or directly. Maybe my technically minded friends would care if I worked for Facebook, but even then those are far and few between. I barely remember my coworkers from 10 years ago.

A few counterpoints. The average outrage may be 48 hours, but I am sure the median is much higher. I'll boycott nestle and Samsung products forever, for instance, and have for nearly a decade and a half with nestle.

Some of my closest friends started as work colleagues, and since I retired 8 years ago I still talk to a half dozen or so, with a couple talked with daily.

You (nor I) are not everyone, and extrapolation from our own viewpoints is very nearly always invalid.

What’s wrong about Nestle? Also Samsung is strange company to boycott.

Overall boycotting both of these companies is easy because replacement products for everything they do is plentiful, widely available and the same price. Not much sacrifice here.

>What’s wrong about Nestle?

Nestle is the dietary equivalent of Facebook & Cambridge Analitica. [1][2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6JOKrL_vg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKLovtnbGY

Nestle - baby milk formula, bottled water ( paying $200 to Michigan whilst Flint residents had unusable water)

Technical nit: if average is 48 hours, median cannot possibly be higher than 96 hours.

If I told my friends and family that I work for Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram, they’d think I’m fucking cool.

Having worked for WhatsApp, mostly my friends and family said, "What's That?" ... and I sighed. Of course, when I worked for Yahoo Travel, mostly they said "That's still around?", so no love wherever I work. :)

Nah. They'll remember that you paid their way through college, could afford to make their childhoods and path to "the good life" easy in general, and left them a pile of cash when you died.

> But your family and friends will remember, and not kindly, if you worked for FB.

If this was even remotely true Facebook would have had a massive impact on its usage since its consumer based. It would seem weird that the Facebook brand is so tarnished to the point that the population would still be users but at the same time tar and feather loved ones who maintain it.

The "media" outrage is not indicative of what people think or the world.

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