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Jacob | Five Eye Tea | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah, I've tried that angle as well, but unfortunately, they either don't care or they're not interested in really doing anything about it. Unfortunate, but that's just the way people are these days, sadly.

I did just deactivate my Facebook about an hour ago. I figure that Messenger is still available if they need to get in touch but otherwise, it will keep me offline, save me some time, and hopefully send a message that I'm not really interested in keeping Facebook in the long run. Doubt it will do much of anything, but I guess we'll see.
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 i think the whole model of influencoor/fan and thousands and millions of followers is not a natural phenomenon but one which is actively cultivated in order to create idols for people to worship

and ultimately, mistaking a fetish for the real thing is classic primitive child-like thinking and if people are stuck in that mindset they are not going to listen to you when you tell them that the sun is going to come up tomorrow regardless of whether the shaman murders another virgin on the top of the pyramid
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Jacob | Five Eye Tea | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I agree entirely. I've been saying that since way back when; I was a late arrival to social media, only joining Facebook in 2011 after friends at school insisted I should get it since the private school I was attending was going to shut down after that year, and at the time, better options didn't really exist. 

I used to hang out on forums before that (and I still prefer forums to just about everything else), and even after I did get Facebook, I only friended people I knew in person. The whole "hundreds of friends" thing, which inexorably led to the influencer/follower thing, was always something I hated.