About eight and a half months ago I quit Facebook and all social media. My reasons are given here: https://medium.com/@premckar/a-farewell-to-social-media-33db26074498 <https://medium.com/@premckar/a-farewell-to-social-media-33db26074498>
Having said that, I echo the sentiments expressed by many in response to your question: namely that Facebook is a highly flawed system, but useful in many aspects. So it must be a platform that must be viewed with a critical discernment, and not taken too seriously at times. I still miss some of the benefits people have listed in this thread, but the sum total still made me quit. So as I note at the end of my essay, if it was a farewell, it was a restless farewell. Best, Prem > On 03-Nov-2019, at 9:58 PM, Frederic Neyrat <fney...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to know if some people on this list - be they activists, > environmentalists, artists, thinkers, contributors - are (still) on Facebook > and if yes, why, being given the extreme noxiousness of this "social" (?) > network. > > This article > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/03/facebook-politics-republicans-right > > <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/03/facebook-politics-republicans-right> > is not the reason of my email, but its occasion. > > Thanks in advance for your light on this matter, > > Frederic Neyrat > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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