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by blaser-waffle 2214 days ago
Ditto. It obliterates privacy and datamines everything, while simultaneously serving as a platform for propaganda (marketing being slightly more benign economic propaganda).

In exchange for getting data-mined and marketed-to I get to see what the people I can't be bothered to email are doing.

There are other use cases, like businesses and groups announcing things over FB, but there are plenty of other platforms for this, many of whom are cheap or free.