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by RodgerTheGreat 3236 days ago
Facebook wants you to believe that it "enables" communication with friends and family, but in practice they work hard to maintain a stranglehold upon that vector, excluding or absorbing alternative tools to ensure that they can gather personal information and insert advertising.

Communication isn't a problem, but communication mediated by a predatory middleman and augmented with addictive mechanics absolutely is.