I joined all the MANY apps that became available after the censorship but, sadly, could not get all my friends and family to leave Facebook or Twitter (now X) - and I really really tried! So, X is still my go to for news (which is fine now that Elon is running free speech!) and Facebook is still my only connection with family and friends…
I joined all the MANY apps that became available after the censorship but, sadly, could not get all my friends and family to leave Facebook or Twitter (now X) - and I really really tried! So, X is still my go to for news (which is fine now that Elon is running free speech!) and Facebook is still my only connection with family and friends. I wish someone could come up with a near-carbon copy of Facebook that would entice people to change. But...Facebook doesn't make it easy to know how to download all your photos and videos of the past which is another drawback for people changing apps. (I'm sure this is intentional). I don't want to log into a dozen different apps to see what's going on everywhere, which I think is how most people feel. So, we are stuck at this point.
Facebook gobbles up their competition usually before they get big. They don't like competition - go figure. They have become a monopoly and should be limited from buying competition through antitrust laws. Competition is good .
Facebook owns the photos, videos, and personal information users upload to their website and they bundle that data to sell to aggregators who buy personal data from other collectors to build an accurate profile of users including their likes, dislikes, opinions, politics, driving habits, food choices, family members, employment, medical, etc., etc., etc. for sale. "If it is free, you are the product".
Once you upload the data it's captured, and it never goes away even if you or others can't "see" it.
Imagine a 15-year old posting personal information online (Facebook) and does so for decades only to become famous in middle-age and find that Facebook owns everything they have ever said or done online for the past 30-years, mistakes and all. And it's available for sale.
I joined all the MANY apps that became available after the censorship but, sadly, could not get all my friends and family to leave Facebook or Twitter (now X) - and I really really tried! So, X is still my go to for news (which is fine now that Elon is running free speech!) and Facebook is still my only connection with family and friends. I wish someone could come up with a near-carbon copy of Facebook that would entice people to change. But...Facebook doesn't make it easy to know how to download all your photos and videos of the past which is another drawback for people changing apps. (I'm sure this is intentional). I don't want to log into a dozen different apps to see what's going on everywhere, which I think is how most people feel. So, we are stuck at this point.
Facebook gobbles up their competition usually before they get big. They don't like competition - go figure. They have become a monopoly and should be limited from buying competition through antitrust laws. Competition is good .
Facebook owns the photos, videos, and personal information users upload to their website and they bundle that data to sell to aggregators who buy personal data from other collectors to build an accurate profile of users including their likes, dislikes, opinions, politics, driving habits, food choices, family members, employment, medical, etc., etc., etc. for sale. "If it is free, you are the product".
Once you upload the data it's captured, and it never goes away even if you or others can't "see" it.
Imagine a 15-year old posting personal information online (Facebook) and does so for decades only to become famous in middle-age and find that Facebook owns everything they have ever said or done online for the past 30-years, mistakes and all. And it's available for sale.
So true. And so sad. There was Parler, MeWe, Telegram, and others that Facebook didn't gobble up... they just never could compete. 😔