On Friday 23. March 2018 11.12.14 psutton wrote: > > try and leave facebook and it nags you and you're made to feel guilty > you have left.
Yes, one "farewell page" I have seen tries to make you feel like you're betraying your friends by abandoning them. To be fair, you really would be doing them a favour taking them with you. Really, this kind of thing is part and parcel of the despicable psychological manipulation that Facebook and their kind employ. Despite former employees of Facebook and other companies publicly expressing their regret and disgust at their former employers and even at their own roles during their employment, many people still seem to find it hard to believe that they are being exploited and manipulated themselves. But again, these are precisely the traits that those indulging in predatory behaviour rely upon to continue their activities: people don't want to be told that they have been tricked or are addicted to something. I am sure someone who has a background in this field can list hundreds of studies and papers on such topics. Individuals might be "on Facebook" out of convenience, perhaps due to peer pressure. We should help them find alternatives, and that will have to be the subject of another message. Organisations have more responsibility, however. Most of them are only using Facebook to promote themselves, FSFE included, and this merely enables the perpetrators of these misdeeds and crimes because it draws people in thinking that they can (and should) do all their online business via such sites, and that if the likes of FSFE use Facebook "then it can't be as bad as people say". Quite why Mozilla didn't "take a break" from Facebook when the Snowden revelations surfaced is another matter, but it is easy to get conditioned to accept whatever the "new normal" happens to be, I suppose. Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
