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It's not the only thing that exists, but it is still one of the most reliable social media to find someone on, especially for millenial aged people and older.
The group and event functionality is still leagues better than anything else I've seen, so neighborhood groups, school groups, and some classroom groups still rely upon it. For neighborhoods especially, there's no way in hell you're going to convince the overehelming majority of the neighborhood into Discord, Slack, Telegram, or especially any sort of self hosted or federated options while also giving up functionality and convenience.
Let me be clear, Zuckerberg is the strongest argument for the lizard people conspiracy I've ever seen. I am certain thatbFacebook and the horrendous effects it has had on society will be studied for history books for a very long time. It needs to die.
That said, the issue is only so simple as "why do they keep using it, are they stupid?" if you haven't been paying attention for the last 20 years. They've worked very hard to be just barely useful enough, bring enough separate functionality under one roof, and to be psychologically addicting enough to keep people on it.
i mean if you say you can't live without facebook...go ahead and use facebook lol
and i'm not saying "why do they keep using it," i KNOW why people use it. it's just that none of those reasons come close to justifying constantly feeding the technofascist greed machine with a steady steam of personal information--not just your own, but your kids' too apparently--in order for them to a) sell to corporations; b) sell to political propaganda outfits; c) hand over to the christofascist police state government on command, d) get hacked by who tf knows who; and now e) train their AI (while compensating you $0.00 for your contribution)
congratulations, you've been gaslighted into genuinely believing you will just absolutely die without facebook. do you hear yourself? "i use facebook because neighborhood group"? bro. anyone who's requiring you to join facebook....well, that relationship is a choice also.
but again, you do you
edit: this is what makes me laugh every time i see a post pointing out how shitty facebook is--it's guaranteed that there will be a thread about "but iiiiii neeeeeeeeeeed itttt!!" LOL
That's a lot of words to willfully miss my point and respond to shit I definitively didn't say.
I don't use it and I don't need it, but pretending that people only use it because they're stupid is stupid. Doubling down with blatant lack of reading comprehension is even dumber.
lol
you literally started it with
which i definitively didn't say
and then you did it again just now
i thought that was just your love language and wanted to play along
you can criticize me and call me stupid all you want, but at the end of the day my main point is undisputed: facebook is 100% optional in life, but people choose it for reasons that don't justify the costs. it matters not one whit how much a sack of shit zuckerburg is
milleaneals still use it? i swear its gen x users.