I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy the internet

Re:I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy t... by artemist on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:08PM (#13039840)

The problem with telling people to stop using Facebook is that they want some way to communicate with extended family and former friends.Before you can tell people to simply stop, you need a replacement. I have not yet seen a solution which would be able to replace Facebook for that purpose. Email is much clunkier and does not work to communicate with many people. IM and other messaging, including Signal, are quite different and can't be used to communicate with many people. There have been a few attempts, such as dispora, to federate Facebook but they have not caught on and may cause some problems with e.g. searchability.

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Re:I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy t... by roryisok on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:16PM (#13039891)

When our first child was born we set up a telegram group to share photos and news. It encouraged both sides of our family to sign up. Now we all use telegram to communicate with each other rather than Facebook

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Re:I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy t... by maglavaitss on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:12PM (#13039864)

How were people communicating before FB? When you have that answer, you realize how futile is to depend your whole life & friends' + family's on FB.

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Re:I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy t... by kazinator on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:15PM (#13039887)

Let's read parent comment again it says: "communicate with extended family and former friends"

Before Facebook and its ilk, part of the definition of "former friends" and "extended family" was that they are categorized as people you rarely communicate with, or not at all.

Before Facebook, you didn't need Facebook to ignore your former friend or to rarely talk to your second cousin on the other side of the continent. Today, you still don't need Facebook for this.

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Re:I can’t just stand by and watch Mark Zuckerberg destroy t... by SerLava on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:06PM (#13041105)

Call me out if I'm reaching here, but I think if people just used Facebook to figure out what the hell their 3rd cousin's phone number is, Facebook would totally collapse. I don't think that use case has to go away in order to kill what Facebook has become or what it threatens to become.

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