Another 'ditch Facebook' think piece which ignores the reality that Facebook has actively embedded itself in more than just social lives. It just isn't that simple for many people. Unless and until you understand that fact you're miles from a workable solution to Facebook's harms
'Ditch Facebook' proposes an individual response to problems far beyond individual control. The issues with Facebook arise primarily and jointly from surveillance capitalism and the monopoly power of dominant platforms. Why individualise for solutions to a systemic disease?
Instead of placing responsibility for tackling Facebook's problems with individual users by calling for them to leave - which may be difficult or impossible and in any case is missing the point - how about instead targeting the root causes through regulation and intervention
But then I suppose it's harder to write an informed think piece about effectively regulating surveillance platforms than it is to lazily regurgitate the tired old idea that people should just stop using them
