I think you need to step outside of your bubble.
More than half the population of Earth logged into a FB product at least once last month. They don't use it out of love or pity for Zuckerberg. They use it because they fucking love to.
More than half the population of Earth logged into a FB product at least once last month. They don't use it out of love or pity for Zuckerberg. They use it because they fucking love to.
I don't use FB anymore. For more than two years now. But I still keep the account as I have exactly one use case (just anecdata):
There are some very good groups on Facebook for genealogy. Here I can get help when I get stuck again.
So if I continue again with the genealogy efforts I will certainly post there again from time to time.
There are few to no comparable places on the net where I could find the appropriate help.
As someone who has resigned themself to using at least 2 FB products because I can't convince my contacts to switch because the ones who care can't convince their contacts to switch (and so on) I can tell you that we do not fucking love these products. We tolerate them with misgivings, the same way we feel when we put petrol in our cars or eat fast food
Just that they chose to brand it as an attachment to the Facebook product. "Meta" currently operates with moral tabula rasa when it is not referred to as "FB/Meta". Facebook - in both meanings - seems to be disgraced. I was under the impression that the name change was, among other reasons, due to low reputation.
> I think you need to step outside of your bubble.
The issue with living in a bubble is a somewhat distorted reality. I am aware of this and _trying_ not to be shortsighted. I feel otherwise quite comfortable in my moral bubble. Often I have to go out of my way to achieve something, but for me life is about agreeing with self not about making everything easy.
(from parent's parent)
My repeated product/company question was not a mistake. I cannot find any source placing the number of Facebook (product/platform) users anywhere close to "half the population of Earth".
The number of Facebook and Instagram users combined (and WhatsApp even boosts this number) seems more suiting but under the assumption that there are no duplicate users logging to more platforms at least once monthly.
> They use it because they fucking love to.
Since I have already mixed user base and morality topics when pointing out brand choice, I'll allow myself to add: same with heroine users.