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Re:MySpace Tom beat Facebook in the long run by Y7ZCQtNo39 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @04:54PM (#16824849)
Facebook isn't solving a real-world problem. Before Messenger, I could have easily just kept in touch with those I care about via text message. Without the ad targeting, echo chambers, and anxiety that social platforms create with "keeping up with the joneses".

There's a bunch of negative externalities. I don't want to be a user anymore. I will share things I care enough to share with my friends directly, not through an abstraction of a "wall" where an opaque algorithm decides who sees what. It's incredibly impersonal. It is by no means "connecting" us. Facebook sows far more division than connection.

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