Can't leave facebook/insta permanently? Make yourself less valuable!
Can't leave facebook/insta permanently? Make yourself less valuable!
Meta is one of the highest performing American stocks and 98% of their revenue is advertising. Make it harder and strike a blow for Canada!
The guide is easy enough that parents, grandparents and other non tech types should be fine with it.
fun fact: you can delete your facebook account. you can delete your instagram account. there are other ways to “keep in contact” with randos you have in your orbit, such as the “contacts” app built into your phone.
I left a few months ago. I don’t miss the updates from people I drifted away from. I do enjoy the conversations I must now initiate to maintain worthwhile relationships. Hearing about somebody’s week face to face is worth a lot more than a few dozen “happy birthday hope it was a good one” replies once a year.
Can't leave facebook/insta permanently?
...why not?
…why not?
Anecdotally, some orgs refuse to use other platforms and gate their content behind a facebook group. It's maddening to say the least, but a fake account can come in handy sometimes (behind an iron shield of ad and tracker blockers!).
Marketplace, occasional info behind the pay wall. Unfortunately can't just leave Facebook, but I try to not make myself a profitable target by aggressively limiting my data.
Personally, I've got good friends from decades ago there, so I will on occasion use it to message folks.
Other groups: charities run a lot of stuff through there.
I know my mom's church organizes through their facebook after requests from parishioners.
But more importantly, the key to winning this and most mass efforts is meeting people where they are instead of demanding they be 100% pure in all their choices.
I have friends from decades ago, some of which I would message and months or in some cases years later I would get a message saying I do not really use Facebook anymore so we chat and I get new contact info.
Talk to the charities inform them that they are giving money away to the book of faces, and that money was used to elect Trump. Encourage them to move to something like mastodon. This goes for your mommy’s church as well, if they want to pay the Zak to get trump into office then they should continue to use the book of faces, if they do not want to support a guy who could not even put his hand on the bible when being sworn in to office.
I understand the meeting people where they are but remember your mental health is more important than other peoples, if that means stay on facebook so be it but just remember facebooks goal is to make you depressed so that they can give you the occasional dopamine hit so that you come back.
I personally still have an account, I read somewhere when I was thinking of deleting my current account that keeping your account active cost the Zak and Meta money via ad stuff rather than closing it completely. No idea if that is true or if it is anything noticeable but I have all Meta things; ad trackers, ads, and the book of faces proper blocked via my pihole setup.
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Yep, that's the domain.