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That's correct, I am dismissing all use cases for Facebook. I too personally believe that the negatives (the constant drip of distraction fragments your time and ruins your attention span, you and all of the social capital you invest in the platforms are tiny cogs in M. Zuckerburg's machine, and it displaces the richer interactions we should experience) outweigh the positives.

The underlying cases are important, in fact very important. It's literally building your social life. But I personally think FB is a horrible tool to use for that.

I'm not saying it's easy. You might not get to meet the same people, or many at all. I think it's very different over in the US, as it seems your community groups are deeply entrenched in FB. But - if we think that's bad, someone has to make a start, by doing things another way.

You can disagree, and do your life as you see fit. And just hope you don't get banned from the platform that you have built your life on, but have absolutely no control over nor ability to plead your case.

Edit: A useful analogy might be - imagine a group who have changed their diet to consist almost entirely of candy samples from grocery shops. The response to those shops no longer giving away free candy should not be "but how will these people continue to get their nutrition from free candy?".

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well, I suppose it's easy to say "go without X" if one wrongly think it's easy to do so,

and to come up with bad analogies that don't fit the situation to justify a bad take that doesn't fit the situation

I don't think I'll be able to convince you to stop ignoring the problems described in the article

so, have a good one!

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You're flagger. That's not a very interesting way to continue the discussion.