[guymcgwire]

I'm struck by how often I see these types of comments these days, both on this site and others. "Not a fan of facebook, but..." or "I hate facebook, but..." It reminds me of the shift in discourse around Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 election. I'd talk to reasonable people who'd say, "Well, Clinton is certainly evil, but she's the lesser or two evils" or "I hate Hillary, but Trump isn't qualified." It was basically a case of an entire population trying to process the cognitive dissonance created by a massive disinformation campaign. Every time I see a negative article posted about fb (and it's pretty much daily now), I see in the comments some variation of this same struggle to reconcile our (probably neutral) feelings about fb against this rolling tide of propaganda. It's disheartening how quickly we've accelerated to this dystopia of mass-manipulation of public opinion through social media.

[germinalphrase]

Alternatively, people have strong feelings both ways (fb as a product vs fb as a company) causing ambivalence.

[soup10]

I don't visit facebook anymore, its just filled with low quality content from people I barely know, nothing to do with propaganda.