same addictive service which is proven to cause depression, waste time
The only reason Facebook manipulates you to stay on its platform and tracks your every move is to sell targeted ads to their customers. Each users data provides around $150 a year in revenue so an ad and tracking free version would cost a user about $12 a month. The irony of the situation is that it doesn’t really work. Users that can’t afford to pay for the service don’t support the advertisers (Facebook’s customers) and when an alternate solution becomes available all the customers who would support the advertisers will leave. It’s a house of cards that will fall.
@alex-esc I see what you’re saying about quitting Facebook being against free speech- because that avenue of communication would be lost.
As far as a solution in quitting Facebook… I think some people simply don’t want to “participate” in anything that sustains in some thing they don’t “believe” in. Opting to not contribute by disappearing- because the problem is simply too big to manage. It’s the only element of control out there- even though it’s not fixed this way.
It’s a big gray problem without linear answers. The answer lies at the end of our journey as a whole. We will not see an answer today or even dream of an answer. The miracle of life’s solutions to our biggest problems happens when we chip away at life one step at a time- and fir some chipping away is not contributing to something they are against or doesn’t feel right.
This is why discussion forums are so good- everybody of right in some way.
Social media feeding frenzy is only part of the big picture and the hoarding and spying of data is only going to get exponentially worse as more data is created.
Lol imo to make tech humane we humans need an ethics upgrade across all human beings.
This chart was made in the year 2011, might have gotten steeper last decade only going up:
