That's sick. Why do we tolerate this nonsense?

We don't, we just don't have any power to stop it, other than shrugging and moving away from FB ourselves, which a lot of people have done already.

"We don't..." I turn to look at the 50 people that don't while the billions of other FB users have no idea about it. This is why you have no power to stop it.

don’t work at facebook

"i don't work here. I just volunteer several hours of my day creating engaging content to a billion dollar company for free"

Don't shrug it off, shame and peer pressure those around you who continue to use it, like smoking or drunk driving. Network effects work in reverse too

Because Facebook has the power to help or harm reelection campaigns of politicians. Also, if they destroyed the monopolies and with it the market cap of companies like Facebook, the pension funds of many potential voters would look much more meeker.

Because when alternatives arise people choose the default path instead of change.

I get far less attention on very serious political posts with my own writing and thinking than I do posting a funny picture on FB. And my FB contacts are pretty aligned with me politically, so it's not as if they're uninterested.

I haven't been on Facebook for about 6 years, so I'm kind of out of the loop. I need more info about this. That's wicked.

Facebook is a pseudo-monopoly that does anything evil it can, whenever it can. There, now you're up to date.

Oh wait, actually it was the same 6 years ago as well.

It makes one sad to imagine the revenue lost because Linus neglected to put a business model somewhere in the replication chain of git.

What? Why?