People will only invite you to events on Facebook. Restaurants will only post updates to Facebook. Businesses have support forums in Facebook groups. Etc.
You do miss out on a portion of the internet by not being on Facebook. But I think that's because people rely too much on it.
I'm not confident that is true in any meaningful sense as it seems to align too nicely with what Facebook would like people to think.
It may sound like a dumb reason, but I have seen the pattern of some eponymous innocent suffering because lazy HR didn't verify waaaaaaay too many times to not take the threat seriously.
That's right - in 2021, Facebook doesn't make you immediately verify your email when you sign up! They eventually close the account if you don't verify but by that point whoever signed up with your name and email already has access to parts of your shadow profile Facebook leaks (ex through 'suggested friends').
To the point of I have folders, digital and physical full of sworn statements I've had to make, and official court documents from six different states attesting "no the John Doe before you applying for this job is not the one who came up in your background check database for grand larceny, no he's not the one who came up for involuntary manslaughter either." and I'm always ready for that conversation later in the interview when I get an email from the recruiter/HR "hey, we have a question about something that came up in your background check"
Even at a small town library there was another patron with my name.
Direct link to the material--I can see it, if I'm trying to find additional material, nope.
The negative patterns are too bold.
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At least that's how it was until I stopped logging in about a year ago. But I can still access linked content. On mobile, I just have to paste the url into the browser address bar and it works.
Yeah but it feels like navigating around gets weird if you're not logged, because any link from the direct-linked content (original tweet for RTs, comments, etc...) will navigate then immediately hide the information behind a big popup, and if you close that popup... it sends you back where you came from.
Well, they work as long as the company is powerful. And push people away as soon as the power reduces.
It's one of those policies that provide metastability, but increase the rate of change once the stability is lost. Powerful people normally like them, as they care much less about rate of change than about conserving power.
Facebook says that Oculus won't require a Facebook sign in anymore.
When they bought Oculus they made a definitive statement saying that Oculus devices will never need an FB account to use.
To me they lost all credibility. Not just because of this instance but many other instances of lying and deceit.
I just read and reread the Boz words and don’t see how any of it translates into “no Meta (Facebook) account needed”?
(Would've bought an Oculus by now if it wasn't for that requirement.)
We are not contributing to the metaverse, why would they? The value of selling a handful of games for approximately $100 of revenue is peanuts compared to their metaverse idea.
Given that FB probably loses money on each quest sold, I think it's likely they are happy every time one of us grumpy loners declines to purchase their device
This isn't even mentioning the rampant misinformation and divisive bullshit permeating the platforms (yes both of them)
The more socially competent you are, the less useful this probably is. Many people probably have some useful network of friends they built in college. I have little to draw on aside from a handful of people I worked with which I had professional rapport with which I never developed a personal connection. So thus, I am stuck on LinkedIn on the off chance I need a new job and a reference.
People also have large group chats, which is a trend across all networks and general interaction.
Easy to miss that this trend is happening if you aren't part of any.
Its publicly accessible content on social networks like this which are going by the way side. The engagement is much less visible.
Me neither. The "dumb fucks trusted me" vibe rubbed me the wrong way right out of the gate.
Wish someone had stopped them grabbing Whatsapp, etc., deleted my account there too.
That said, I'm keeping their creepy apps off my phone...
Fast forward to today, and we now know that Facebook and other social media are encouraging narcissistic behavior, because narcissists are easy to manipulate: They are highly likely to have multiple addictions, they are easy to emotionally provoke, have nearly no ability to moderate there own behavior, and they take any attack on there beliefs as a persona attack, and will hate there attacker forever, becoming flying monkeys.
I highly encourage everyone to watch the documovie: The Social Dilemma.
If you are only using the FB account on your Oculus, its an Oculus account that calls itself an FB account. You need an account for most game devices these days and for Steam. I am not saying its perfect, I am saying that not using an Oculus because you are off FB doesn't make that much sense to me. I do exactly that.
Facebook pretends this is the case, but they use some dirty tricks to require personal information without explicitly requiring it.
In particular, if you create an account without a phone number, you'll find that within a day or two your account will inevitably be flagged for "suspicious" behavior, and you'll be required to enable two-factor-authentication with a valid phone number. (I assume the "suspicious" behavior here is your account existing without a phone number.)
I've seen this pattern and the excuses people make for it too (anti spam prevention, as if there are no other anti spam prevention methods)
How would I remain as anonymous as I am on Steam for the community and still work within Facebook's terms of service?
Use Firefox, it automatically puts Facebook in its own Firefox Container so no FB cookies tracking you everywhere. And don't use their app it's basically spyware.
TT's addictive nature is more insidious because it's more internal: Humans are pattern-matching machines and TikTok will show you a LOT of very niche content to the point where your brain thinks it's important and true (think TV/movie product placement; they wouldn't do it if it didn't work). Because of TT's form, it's harder for the average person (non-creator) to be drawn into a social group, but it's easier for them to be firehosed into accepting false narratives through sheer repetition. TT distorts a person's idea of HOW PEOPLE LIVE; imagine if your main idea of how Americans live was USSR propaganda. TT makes people apathetic and prone to hug-boxes.
They're both taking advantage of the fight-or-flight mechanism, FB just wants you to fight and TT wants you to 'flee' (into its loving escapist arms, of course).
There are healthy use cases for both FB and TT (and even Twitter), but they're directly at odds with the incentives of the platforms themselves + we have a society full of unhealthy and traumatized people, so instead you get these evil clone versions.
I'd also say that both the US and China are authoritarian countries. China more so, but the mental health/addictive problems with TT are inherent to its design and medium decisions, not which nationality made it.
I never got into instagram, but Facebook is always trying to lure me in with suggestive “interviews” of college girls and weird mom videos on the Facebook feed, which is otherwise very curated.
'Reels' is a lot worse. It shows you generic stuff that's slightly personalized by things you "liked" over a decade ago. No reason to use it.
TikTok is a maximizer of wasted attention.