[Schroedingersat]

This is massively underselling the difficulty.

If you delete your facebook and twitter accounts you lose access to the only customer support channel in many places. If you delete faceboom you lose access to local second hand markets, you lose access to information about community events, you cannot participate in group chats, you get harangued at every social event if you try to share another contact channel.

[nanidin]

I haven’t found ostracism for using channels outside of Facebook. I have plenty of friends and acquaintances that I keep in touch with via Snapchat, email, and text.

[posguy]

I certainly feel ostracized for not having a Facebook account. Chambers of Commerce, Community Groups, and it feels like most queer people expect you to be on Facebook, and if you aren't your on the outside.

Its very similar to not being a blue bubble in some regards, but Facebook has a much broader scope than just being a messenger platform.

Excited for the EU to fix the closed messenger issue, then I can have 3rd party clients to bridge all my communications securely into one unified view, just gotta make sure that these large companies don't try and open up these platforms by hiding your end to end encryption keys on their servers :D

[autoexec]

I'm very much okay with being ostracized by people who don't care enough about me to stay in touch outside of social media. I actually prefer to be ostracized by anyone who'd judge me for bubble color.

[remarkEon]

I deleted my facebook during Lent in 2017 as part of a social media "time out" and never brought it back.

Interestingly enough, friends started calling again. Quitting social media cold turkey is great because you get to find out who is actually important in your life, and you find it out really fast.

[midoridensha]

>If you delete faceboom...

Is this a Freudian slip? I'll have to start using this term when referring to Facebook in the future.

[8f2ab37a-ed6c]

I agree. How does that apply to TikTok though?