people have been doing the research and noticing that many have just moved their cash off facebook and into their advertising on other facebook owned websites. I guess that works if you already signed a check. still though thats shitty.
in a world where there is a sizable homeless population that has cell phones I get why there is an assumption on the issue but NOT EVERYONE HAS A PHONE. the fucking arrogance of that geez.
and all this snooty shitting on people who do something out of convenience is discounting the people who are too fucking stupid (no offense meant) to set stuff up in other ways. enough articles have been written on people abandoning E-Mail for texts you are just going to have to get used to the idea that people are going to flock to a giant behemoth sitting there waiting to be used “for free”.
currently have E-Mail accounts that just get filled with notices from other sites I visit. having to wade through that to read either long form letters or quick back n forth would be annoying. I use facebook like the equivalent of texting. throw an ad blocker on it and only use messenger and you are fine.
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Take, for example, the campaign of genocide against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. I don’t know exactly how Facebook accounts for its role in inciting the violence and ethnic cleansing that forced more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee the country as refugees, but I do know that no one at Facebook was fired over its deadly failures. No one resigned. No one staged a “virtual walkout”. No one put together a hastily arranged press appearance to quell outrage from advertisers.
Heyer’s killer has been convicted and sent to prison, but how does Facebook evaluate its role in the event? Does the calculation change at all when you consider that just a few weeks before Charlottesville, I sent Facebook a spreadsheet with links to 175 neo-Nazi, white nationalist and neo-Confederate hate groups that were using its platform to recruit and organize? And that Facebook had declined to take any action against the vast majority of them until after Heyer’s murder, when it belatedly cleaned house?
The neo-Nazis and white nationalists I had written about published articles with my photograph that described me as a “racial molotov cocktail” with “the cunning of the Jew and the meticulous mathematical mind of a Chink”. They encouraged their followers to go after me too, and I received a steady stream of racist vitriol on Twitter, on Facebook and by email. I tried to ignore it as much as I could. I tried not to ruin Thanksgiving. The worst were the messages that referenced my family, or imagined my rape.
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When hate hurt people, Facebook did nothing. Now that it’s hurting Facebook, we’ll see what it really values.
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FYP 
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That’s exactly what I was just thinking. One of us needs to have the looks, the other the brains! 
(Edited 'cos I misremembered the words. Added the video.)
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“It’s not us that it the problem, it’s you! Leave FB alone!”
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