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[quote=Anonymous]Facebook is the worst one. If you are going to quit one, that’s the one. Everything about it is engineered to make you feel just bad enough, and to then provide you with a hit of dopamine to make you feel a tiny bit better. It makes everything bad about society worse, and it takes everything good about society and flattens it out to make it all the same and therefore worse.

It’s actively killing journalism. Facebook policies have led directly to thousands of journalists being laid off as news sources rearranged their business to serve Facebook’s distribution model. Only for Facebook to change it again without warning, AND to reveal that they had not been totally honest about how people were viewing content on the platform in the past.

And yes— it leads directly to the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories. It’s making the old people in your life dumber and more paranoid. It facilitates cyber bullying. It serves the interests of oppressive political needs, not democracy. And the people who run it know exactly how powerful they are and make choices designed to preserve that power and their money.

Also, it’s tracking everything you do, and not just on Facebook. Your Facebook cookies tracked you to this site, for instance. They know more about your real interests (not your stated interests), your family dysfunction, your health, and your spending habits then anyone else in your life. And they will use that info to mine you for parts.

Quit Facebook.[/quote]

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