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Why Facebook will never be a part of my life. (Original Post)
634-5789
Oct 2021
OP
Used it briefly..and I mean a trial of a week and ended my account. Our country and our world
PortTack
Oct 2021
#4
SYFROYH
(34,169 posts)1. Unfortunately that's how most people live their lives.
To one degree or another.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,449 posts)2. Never really cared to be a user.
I have enough internet time wasters w/o FB. I bet there are a lot of people freaking out that they can't connect, though. Is FB an addiction? For many, I think it is.
634-5789
(4,175 posts)5. It's def an addiction.
People have been freaking out all day.I have better things to do!
PortTack
(32,754 posts)4. Used it briefly..and I mean a trial of a week and ended my account. Our country and our world
Would be better and a whole lot safer without it
Orrex
(63,200 posts)6. I refuse to use it because doing so satisfies my need to feel smugly self-righteous
It also lets me pretend that I occupy some moral high ground entitling me to look down on all the thoughtless drones who use the platform.
brooklynite
(94,499 posts)7. Facebook is what its users make it to be....
...you can complain about the adds that Facebook sells. The rest lays on the shoulders of the users.
Doc Sportello
(7,510 posts)9. That kind of "logic" also let's cigarette companies off the hook
But I know some love that corporate greed.
Blue Owl
(50,348 posts)8. Personally I was glad to hear of the outage
Take Zuckkkerberg out of the picture. Permanently.