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Re:Ask HN: Is quitting social media (Instagram, snap) sign o... by gradschool on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:30AM (#29758526)
I have a feeling that the conversation about quitting social media has shifted lately among normal people. If you think you should quit because spending time on social media is an unproductive activity in a hostile environment, they might think they have a responsibility to correct misinformation, to raise the profile of marginalized groups, and to prove to the trolls that they won't be intimidated. Instead of asking how to get rid of facebook, they want to know how to give legal effect to facebook's moderation policies, especially the one against anonymous accounts. I don't know whether this mentality is coming from somewhere or if it's spontaneous, but I've seen it reflected in BBC documentaries, and there was an interesting discussion a while back on HN about a blog post by someone claiming to have received a boilerplate reply from a recruiter featuring apologetics to this effect after declining to interview with facebook.

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