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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by mise_en_place on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:41PM (#29071939)
That I very much doubt. The average outrage timer is 48 hours, then everybody forgets and jumps to a new controversy. As for Facebook, many of my relatives still use it, either indirectly through WhatsApp or Instagram, or directly. Maybe my technically minded friends would care if I worked for Facebook, but even then those are far and few between. I barely remember my coworkers from 10 years ago.
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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by genewitch on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:54PM (#29072120)
A few counterpoints. The average outrage may be 48 hours, but I am sure the median is much higher. I'll boycott nestle and Samsung products forever, for instance, and have for nearly a decade and a half with nestle.

Some of my closest friends started as work colleagues, and since I retired 8 years ago I still talk to a half dozen or so, with a couple talked with daily.

You (nor I) are not everyone, and extrapolation from our own viewpoints is very nearly always invalid.

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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by dfadsadsf on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:14PM (#29072411)
What’s wrong about Nestle? Also Samsung is strange company to boycott.

Overall boycotting both of these companies is easy because replacement products for everything they do is plentiful, widely available and the same price. Not much sacrifice here.

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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by ChuckNorris89 on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:31PM (#29073410)
>What’s wrong about Nestle?

Nestle is the dietary equivalent of Facebook & Cambridge Analitica. [1][2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6JOKrL_vg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKLovtnbGY

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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by philk10 on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:43PM (#29072818)
Nestle - baby milk formula, bottled water ( paying $200 to Michigan whilst Flint residents had unusable water)
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Re:As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds,... by povik on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:30PM (#29073393)
Technical nit: if average is 48 hours, median cannot possibly be higher than 96 hours.
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