Re:Leave Facebook
by luckylion on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:50AM
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> Are your friends' ideas just way too infectious for your free will to handle?
Good point, but I'll add: if the ideas they are spreading weren't infectious, they wouldn't be spreading them in the first place.
I've been on FB lately because my local government has decided that it will use FB to give background info and outlooks wrt Covid-19. From what I saw in the local groups, the "ideas" people spread are not original content, ever. They don't have those ideas, they just read them and say "yeah, share", so the ideas that make it to your feed have proven themselves many times to be infectious. There's a reason we call it "going viral".
Good point, but I'll add: if the ideas they are spreading weren't infectious, they wouldn't be spreading them in the first place.
I've been on FB lately because my local government has decided that it will use FB to give background info and outlooks wrt Covid-19. From what I saw in the local groups, the "ideas" people spread are not original content, ever. They don't have those ideas, they just read them and say "yeah, share", so the ideas that make it to your feed have proven themselves many times to be infectious. There's a reason we call it "going viral".