[hoopd]

"Everybody else is doing it" isn't doing it for me right now. Facebook has ~1.4 billion monthly active users and, somehow, no real competitors at the moment.

Facebook's COO, Sheryl Sandberg, has tried in the past to change how society functions by limiting vocabulary[0].

Facebook's product is their userbase, they make money by monetizing their userbase.

Ideally there would be enough competing chat/message services that you could always switch when you're unhappy. That's not the case here. Facebook has an enormous amount of power over how the world communicates and I think the intentional and unintentional effects of any bias they introduce should be discussed.

[0]-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Bossy