Facebook is a social-networking platform that, as of 2021-October-28, is part of a company named Meta Platforms, Inc. (also known as Meta). For a lot of reasons, I’ve never had a Facebook account and I discourage people from using it.
Recently I’ve been helping (for free) a few friends with their computers and I’ve started thinking that maybe I should create a small business and do this for pay. Everyone I mention this to thinks it’s a great idea until I say: “But I won’t help anyone who uses Facebook.” One friend replied “Well that’ll make it hard to get any business.” And then a few weeks after that conversation, she texted me this:
“I just permanently deleted Facebook! Happy day:grin:”
This made me think: “Maybe I can play a part in moving the world away from Facebook‽” So my new goals are to…
learn how to help people permanently close their Facebook[1] accounts,
learn
techniques for
blocking
Facebook[1]
(via a hosts file or whatever),
figure out good alternative messaging systems (blogs, email, Matrix, and/or some other systems that are non-proprietary and standards based),
and then teach about and advocate for these things.
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