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• kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not really, like, you can’t communicate with your family. In my case, i live in Germany, but my family lives in Brazil. It’s the only thing keeping me on Facebook, until now.

  Thank God my family switched to WhatsApp for all family stuff. Since there are also family members in Colombia & USA, we have to keep a fixed online place, so we can communicate quickly.

  WhatsApp is owned, by meta, just like Instagram. So it is rather when and not if we’ll start seeing ads everywhere.

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  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, really. Your family can find any number of other ways to communicate.

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know, but the problem is to convince everyone to use something different. 70, 60, 50 ,40, 30 year olds ( i think anyone up to 30 is much more open and used to deal with software ) a plenty, living in different countries.

      I really tried.

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      • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That's not Facebook's fault. You can't say that a service is holding people hostage when the actual situation is that those people aren't interested in trying other services.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not really, like, you can’t communicate with your family.

    LOL that is the fault of your family, not Meta

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• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it? You have to pay or give up all of your rights to stay in contact with your friends and family. What would you call it? Glad to see pro-facebook people here on lemmy, there’s dozens of you.

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  • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    give up all of your rights to stay in contact with your friends and family

    You’re making it sound line Zuckerberg has your family locked in a basement. If that’s the case, maybe you should go to the police, rather than complain about it on Lemmy.

    On a more serious note: if you’re one of the family members that is “only” reachable on meta, you’re part of the problem. If you want to be part of the solution, tell people where else they can reach you, then delete Facebook.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So, just excommunicate everyone who won’t go through the trouble of emigrating elsewhere. This is practical to you?

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      • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What is practical is that they don’t need to “emigrate”. They can stay on Facebook for all I care. But if they want to stay in touch, they just have to add me in 1 out of several apps.

        Like I said, you can stay on Facebook and be part of the problem, or you can leave and be part of the solution. The more people who do it, the easier it will be be for the remainders.

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  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol for the record pal, Facebook can get fucked. I haven't used it in years. Maybe don't assume someone's stance just because they said you were being hyperbolic.

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• admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m just glad they didn’t use the term Literally.

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  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    "actually" serves the same purpose in their sentence.

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    • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damnit, you’re right.

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