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TommyT139

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52. Using facebook is worse than buying from Amazon

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:28 PM

Apr 1

...and other places, as bad as they are.

Using Facebook means you hand over your data, snippets of your life. And what's worse, you help them suck up the data of your friends and family even when we are not on facebook or minimize participation. It's all good for the data brokers.

Like the saying goes, if it's "free," you're the product.

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Facebook Removing Posts by Heather Cox Richardson... [View all] Joinfortmill Apr 1 OP

Zuck can't handle reality? rurallib Apr 1 #1

He'd much rather.... SergeStorms Apr 1 #28

Facebook: a real free speech advocate. sinkingfeeling Apr 1 #2

Here, you dropped this... :/ NotHardly Apr 1 #11

At this point, I question anyone still using Twitter and Facebook and Amazon at all. Moostache Apr 1 #3

Well said. Scrivener7 Apr 1 #4

question away, cause I'm on Facebook and twitter NT Tickle Apr 1 #8

I still use Amazon. Perhaps I should rethink that. SSJVegeta Apr 1 #16

do you drive a car, fly on airplanes, go on cruises, shop at any national chain stores? Magoo48 Apr 1 #24

So your solution is??? OutNow Apr 1 #31

My solution is: do the best your circumstances allow. Magoo48 Apr 1 #44

I have completely eliminated 2 of 3. johnnyfins Apr 1 #45

WHat are alternatives to Facebook? MadameButterfly Apr 1 #49

i'm not sure. i'm on fb. some friends went on instagram several yrs ago orleans Apr 1 #53

I get involved in online training of various sorts and inevitably am referred to a facebook group MadameButterfly Apr 2 #55

Using facebook is worse than buying from Amazon TommyT139 Apr 1 #52

Nobody on the left should still be on billionaire-right-book. milestogo Apr 1 #5

As soon as an alternative to facebook ia created and available for anti-fascosts maggots I'm all in. msfiddlestix Apr 1 #46

Just checked. There are posts by Richardson including her post saying posts have been taken down. And that post Silent Type Apr 1 #6

Reminds me Mountainguy Apr 1 #7

the wheels of justice have turned NT Tickle Apr 1 #9

You're comparing Heather Cox Richardson to "every tom dick and Harry on the right"? Pinback Apr 2 #56

Not exactly my experience today. It was weird. RandomNumbers Apr 1 #42

Right at the top of my feed, like usual. maxsolomon Apr 1 #10

Heres the problem Hieronymus Phact Apr 1 #12

Got banned from Facebook bmichaelh Apr 1 #13

I have never used a photo of myself on FB TNNurse Apr 1 #20

have never posted a picture of ANY kind on FB. stopdiggin Apr 2 #58

My photo oberle Apr 1 #35

I was too WyLoochka Apr 1 #48

I never miss a post, I'm on her email list. Everyone should be. SunSeeker Apr 1 #14

Me too. soldierant Apr 1 #30

I posted that on Facebook LittleGirl Apr 1 #15

I just checked - and the most recent post is from March 26th; everything LeftinOH Apr 1 #17

Same here. h2ebits Apr 1 #33

I started getting posts from MAGA politicians and celebrities on FB. C Moon Apr 1 #18

Apparently a shift in algorithms vapor2 Apr 1 #39

Al Gore I wouldn't have blocked. C Moon Apr 1 #50

Fuck Zuck!! aeromanKC Apr 1 #19

Activist pal on FB generally posts a pretty sunset or horse photo with 'Comment below' so as not to trigger MAGA alerts Attilatheblond Apr 1 #21

I don't even know who she is. Can someone fill me in...? CTyankee Apr 1 #22

She and Andy Borowitz are in my email every morning Lulu KC Apr 1 #26

History Professor at Boston College. maxsolomon Apr 1 #29

Zuckerberg can't handle the truth. Nt BootinUp Apr 1 #23

Wow Lulu KC Apr 1 #25

His shit-caked FB platform has turned into a pro-Musk/pro-Tesla cesspool of free advertising Blue Owl Apr 1 #27

I stopped visiting when it got taken over by AI Diraven Apr 1 #32

Fercryinoutloud lonely bird Apr 1 #34

I subscribe to Heather's daily email Martin Eden Apr 1 #36

K&R spanone Apr 1 #37

She's transitioning to youtube as well. barbtries Apr 1 #38

We get her emails every morning. TNNurse Apr 1 #40

And it is gone again. TNNurse Apr 1 #47

Re-post? MaraMc Apr 1 #41

Good idea. Welcome to DU radical noodle Apr 1 #43

Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2 #59

Kick SheltieLover Apr 1 #51

cancel culture, censureship AllaN01Bear Apr 2 #54

I'd like to think that Karma will visit anyone who wears a $900,000 watch. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2 #57

'Twas just a matter of time SorellaLaBefana Apr 2 #60