Who thought otherwise?
I mean imagine if tobacco companies controlled our main source of media (which they probably did in the past).
Just stop using FB, instagram, X and all those apps.
You won’t get everyone to stop, obviously, just like there are a lot of people who still smoke. But there are much fewer people who smoke now than in the sixties and even than in 2000.
And you have to keep trying to help people to stop, because – using the smoking analogy again – now we have vaping as a gateway drug to smoking, and quitting rates are much lower in third-world countries.
Anyways, I did quit FB, instagram and never had a twitter/X account. Phasing out reddit as well. Not trying to be harsh, but the fact that you didn’t make it doesn’t mean no one else can.
Photonic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Who thought otherwise? I mean imagine if tobacco companies controlled our main source of media (which they probably did in the past). Just stop using FB, instagram, X and all those apps.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Its… far, far too late to just tell people to stop.
Photonic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You won’t get everyone to stop, obviously, just like there are a lot of people who still smoke. But there are much fewer people who smoke now than in the sixties and even than in 2000.
And you have to keep trying to help people to stop, because – using the smoking analogy again – now we have vaping as a gateway drug to smoking, and quitting rates are much lower in third-world countries.
Anyways, I did quit FB, instagram and never had a twitter/X account. Phasing out reddit as well. Not trying to be harsh, but the fact that you didn’t make it doesn’t mean no one else can.