I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t

Re:I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t by tomglynch on Sunday April 29, 2018 @06:45PM (#16954331)

The issue here is facebook has critical mass and another site needs to gain critical mass to unseat facebook. It's possible but difficult, especially as facebook buys out any other social media service with large numbers of users.

Facebook knows that a competitor could pivot to replace facebook, so they purchase the others.

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Re:I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t by NetOpWibby on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:01PM (#16954391)

The beauty of FB’s dirty laundry finally making a difference (possibly, hopefully) is that the next big social network won’t sell to them. It’d be bad publicity and there would be a mass exodus.

Furthermore, I think the next popular network would bill itself as being anti-FB.

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Re:I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t by twblalock on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:47PM (#16954608)

> Furthermore, I think the next popular network would bill itself as being anti-FB.

They can try to claim that, but any business that stores people's photos, personal profiles, posts, messages, etc. would have everything it needed to become just as bad for privacy as Facebook if they wanted to. They would need to convince people that they would not do bad things with the data. But even if we trusted them, they could change their minds at any time, or hackers could steal the data.

The only way to prevent such data from being stolen is to never collect it -- but a social network without that kind of data would not be very social.

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Re:I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t by NetOpWibby on Sunday April 29, 2018 @08:00PM (#16954673)

The first part of your argument is true but it's missing a key reason why FB's data collection is so troubling — they run on advertisements and use all the user data collected to sell more of those ads.

A new social network doesn't have to be advertising-focused or based.

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Re:I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t by twblalock on Sunday April 29, 2018 @08:32PM (#16954835)

I think what really disturbed people was not the ads, which are pretty obvious, but rather the idea that Facebook shared user data with a company that influenced the outcome of an election.

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Re:I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t by tomglynch on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:08PM (#16954419)

Yeah hopefully you're right.

One of the ones I'm looking at is taking registrations while in closed beta. I think it is to generate a userbase who can all begin to access it at the same time when invites are sent - to hopefully gain a large amount of popularity quickly.

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Re:I tried leaving Facebook – I couldn’t by NetOpWibby on Sunday April 29, 2018 @07:58PM (#16954662)

That's a good approach. I have a semi-open beta for my network. What's this one that you're looking at? I'm curious to see what other new social sites are doing.

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