Hi Nightfox,
In a message to Arelor you wrote:

I actually like using Facebook mainly because I like seeing what my
friends are sharing. If there wasn't a good reason, I probably
wouldn't use it.

I kept FB for this exact reason. Now I just see political BS I don't
want to see, and ads. I deleted my account about a month ago now, I
don't miss it and I had been using it daily for over 15 years.

I also took a couple weeks off BBSing. This I did miss, however it's
much faster and easier to skip messages on the topics I am not interested
in. I support anyone's decision to discuss anything they want, I just
won't read it. I will help you fight for the ability to post about it.

Shawn

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Nightfox wrote to Arelor <=-

I actually like using Facebook mainly because I like seeing what my friends are sharing. If there wasn't a good reason, I probably
wouldn't use it.

Same here. It's really the only place where I can contact family members, and have access to groups for my hobbies.


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feel is inappropriate content like adult content. However, we need to somehow educate people that these platforms are not the best way to get your news, or at least educate how to vet so called news on these platforms. I don't know ho
people thought that this is the best methods of news content.

Indeed. There are people who not only get their news mostly from Twitter/X
but that also believe that this is the best way to get it. <shrugs> If I
know that is how they feel, I very much discount any information they share with me re: current events.


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Well, TV and radio news are junk services and I think enough people knows that
already. This begs the question: if you know regular mainstream news outlets are junk, where will you get your news from?

In my area, the local TV news still isn't junk, and they do report on
national and some international stories.

Cable news networks, OTOH, have been trending into junk for years. IMHO, they are like the social media of the airwaves when it comes to questionable information and opinion pieces disguised as hard news.

Newsnation, a cable newcomer, seems to be less like junk than the rest. I
have not watched them lately, though, so I cannot confirm that this trend continued.


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Same here. It's really the only place where I can contact family members, and
have access to groups for my hobbies.

For several years, FB was the place where the family and friends shared
photos of get-togethers, etc. Now that their kids are grown, not so much.
I do still use it for hobby groups.


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The fact that these services are designed to be addictive is the rub.
How do grown people counter a service designed by behavioral scientists
- let alone children?

Indeed.


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Dumas Walker wrote to NEOSHOCK <=-

Indeed. There are people who not only get their news mostly from Twitter/X but that also believe that this is the best way to get it. <shrugs> If I know that is how they feel, I very much discount any information they share with me re: current events.

I do get a lot of news via twitter. When I say "get", that doesn't mean
liking the headline, though - it means clicking through, reading the
article, and considering the source. That's what's missing today, a good
sense of skepticism.

I don't think we can recover from social media, though - it's designed
for quick bites, quick dopamine hits, holding on to eyeballs as long as possible and is a wonderful growth media for disinformation.

Given Twitter and Facebook's alignment with Trump (either due to
economic benefit or not being threatened with jail time by the
president) I don't see anything changing.



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I don't think we can recover from social media, though - it's designed
for quick bites, quick dopamine hits, holding on to eyeballs as long as possible and is a wonderful growth media for disinformation.

Given Twitter and Facebook's alignment with Trump (either due to
economic benefit or not being threatened with jail time by the
president) I don't see anything changing.

I don't think FB is aligning with Trump so much as they are disassociating
with goverment oversight in general. I do agree that their doing so right
now is because they see writing on the wall.

I also don't think it matters which side they are aligned with. As long as they are aligned to *either* side, they are going to turn a blind eye to disinformation that benefits their side... and those on their side will eat
it up.


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Dumas Walker wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

I don't think FB is aligning with Trump so much as they are
disassociating with goverment oversight in general. I do agree that
their doing so right now is because they see writing on the wall.

I also don't think it matters which side they are aligned with. As
long as they are aligned to *either* side, they are going to turn a
blind eye to disinformation that benefits their side... and those on
their side will eat it up.

Why do I keep thinking of Zuck as Saurman?

He allied himself with the bad guys and betrayed the good guys. Then he double crossed the bad guys he was allied with.

IHMO: He should have spent more time reading Lord of the Rings. It might have taught him something.


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