2021:PeterG wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:32 pmThe heart of a hog farm is its feeding trough.mike wrote:The heart of Facebook is still it's social media platform.PeterG wrote:We're not the customers, we're the products...
Sorry, I'm being cheeky here.
I understand and agree with what you're saying.
And you (and an increasing number of people) seem to understand this very well, but I just think it's important to articulate that most providers of "free" internet services (Facebook, Google, etc.) have an interest in their users' well-being
similar to the interest of a hog farmer in his hogs' well-being.
This isn't even a horrible thing, necessarily, but it's something to be realistic about.
WAPO / “LEAVING FACEBOOK” ..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... ernatives/
There is a paywall. i discovered i can read if i use a new device.
There is good info in the article, remembering it’s written from the lib pov.
i took screenshots of the article, for future reference.
i use FB so little, and none of their several related options, so, if it all disappeared, that would be ok.
2021:
“Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage”
Published 5 October
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58793174