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Re:Facebook Is Getting Rid of “Secret” or “Closed” Groups by dfeojm-zlib on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:34PM (#20698549)
I tried FB in early ~2000's because I had a @stanford email, but after a coworker's wife started tagging people and editorializing randomly, it was clearly more of a liability than value. I had emptied details and most content but kept for some old photos, but finally migrated and purged it this year because it's basically a vehicle of surprise privacy monetization to make Wall St. happy. If a social media service instead were instead subscriber- and donation-supported, it wouldn't develop such perverse incentives to sell-out its users to stay afloat.
Re:Facebook Is Getting Rid of “Secret” or “Closed” Groups by cstejerean on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:37PM (#20698577)
Good for you. What does it have to do with the story?
Re:Facebook Is Getting Rid of “Secret” or “Closed” Groups by dfeojm-zlib on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:39PM (#20698608)
Facebook's accumulation of a pattern of making major, surprise changes that are mostly about benefiting money-making, directly or indirectly. Super popular but seemingly more and more terrible as time goes on.