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Obvious, but worth repeating: it goes away when you delete your facebook account. Stop using gmail.

You cannot control others. You _can_ control yourself.

Don’t be the honey in the trap of big tech surveillance platforms. Being on these platforms legitimizes and encourages their use for your friends and family.

Delete your facebook and instagram. Sell or trash your oculus. Buy a domain and email hosting and migrate off your gmail.

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Unfortunately some people want to have some semblance of social life and in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool.

> in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool

Rather: dropping Instagram means improving the (average) quality of the people in your pool. :-)

Not if you're under 25

Even then (or even particularly then). In this age, some persons rather have very "twisted" measures of quality for other people.

But that definitely isn't everyone and the more people who reject your normalisation of this, the less strength there will be to it. And social life certainly doesn't look like Instagram statistics monitoring to me.

That's a conflicting requirement. You can't want to be free of drugs and also keep doing heroin because all your friends do it.

This doesn’t get better by ignoring the problem.

This is the social equivalent of just throwing your hands up and saying “it can’t be helped”.

I cannot stress this enough: it _is not_ true. Deleting your IG will not cause your friends to stop being your friends.

Being on these platforms legitimizes their use. It makes the situation _worse_. It is a vote for surveillance and censorship of your most intimate personal connections.

Facebook could implement the feature that could tell you which of your friends is within walking distance, so you can grab a coffee, but nope. Also facebook = cancer, and unfortunately now we have more cancers (TikTok, etc.)

They actually did at some point, but people hate that. https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/

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