Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications

Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by liendolucas on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:03PM (#34141855)

> I'll never forget the open contempt Meta has shown for me as a user of their products.

You can always return the contempt by extracting all our data out (provided that's important to you) and permanently shutting down you account. I believe that's the most efficient thing you can do to tell FB to go to hell.

Edit: I honestly believe that any FB user this is the most harmful thing you can do to them.

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by Raed667 on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:07PM (#34141892)

I'm hostage to Meta, my grandmother uses only Messenger to call and would/can not learn any other interface. The rest of the family only chat through Whatsapp.

Quitting Meta means not getting to be in those circles anymore.

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by liendolucas on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:18PM (#34141990)

Yes, many people suffer from this problem as well. I guess I can say what I said because I cancelled my account many many years ago (if not mistaken more than a decade ago).

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by jamiek88 on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:50PM (#34142803)

I quit fb but WhatsApp is impossible to quit. I tried and I became socially isolated.

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by Raed667 on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:55PM (#34142844)

I can relate. But it seems Facebook becomes more necessary if your kid's football team only shares schedules in a group, or after-school clubs, etc..

Basically you're subject to the lowest common denominator.

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by matheusmoreira on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:23PM (#34143438)

WhatsApp is infinitely better than Facebook though. I've never received a notification I wasn't interested in. Also, it has end-to-end encryption.

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by nrclark on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:14AM (#34149928)

Don’t count on that encryption. It’s a great marketing point that has no real way to verify or audit. And even assuming Whatsapp's end-to-end encryption works as advertised: that doesn’t mean that the app is free from backdoors.

Message contents also aren't the only kind of data that Whatapp knows about. Facebook doesn't need message contents to monetize your communications. They almost certainly harvest Whatapp's metadata and tie it to everything else they know about you.

If you like the service, that's great. Use it and enjoy. But don't assume that your communications are secure.

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by matheusmoreira on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @09:13PM (#34156724)

Whether I like it or not, I have to use it because it's what everyone here uses. There is no point in having a perfect fully audited free software messenger if nobody uses it. I'm just glad that everyone is using something this secure by default. At this point I'm just counting my blessings.

WhatsApp encryption is strong enough to defeat criminal investigations in my country. That has to count for something. They got so angry about it they blocked WhatsApp services for days and jailed Facebook people.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailtracy/2016/05/02/whatsap...

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Re:Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewe... by Euphorbium on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:55PM (#34142328)

I have actually tried extracting my data from google and facebook, and neither methods worked. I tried multiple times, and the process breaks inevitably at some point.

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