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Why are you interested in casually hanging out with your friends and family under surveillance from an advertising company that will subject your private and personal communications to their censorship systems?

Doesn’t that make you somewhat of a bad friend?

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You might be simultaneously right and also totally missing the point and rude.

I agree with the gp. The quest 2 has helped me connect with friends in different states that felt way closer to inviting them over to hang out at the house than just video chatting or whatever.

There is real value in that. Even my wife who is not techy at all enjoyed it after first laughing in my face at the idea.

For better or worse, meta seems to be the only company currently trying to push this forward. So meta it is for now.

How can wanting to chill with friends possibly make them a bad friend? You brought up a good point but then kind of ruined it with such a wild accusation.

You're skipping the part about the advertising surveillance. If you were my friend and asked me to hang out, that's cool. If you were my friend but asked me to hang out where everything we did was knowingly by you subject to likely to have some company's algo running and attempting to influence what we did while hanging out, then yes, I'd say you were an asshole for a friend.

I didn't skip that. I said "You brought up a good point". I agree it was a good point. But they ruined the argument a bit by being overly dramatic. It would have been better to skip the judgmental snide remark at the end so we could have focussed on the good point.

Doesn't asking such a loaded question make you a bad community member?

>Doesn’t that make you somewhat of a bad friend?

Why are you chewing OP out as though you know for a fact that OP is the sole reason that that group of people uses Meta products? You have absolutely no insight into the decisions of that group of people, and instead of asking questions in an effort to learn more, you have suggested that OP is a bad friend.

I’m not chewing anyone out; I didn’t assert that it makes them a bad friend.

It was a sincere question, not rhetoric.

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