I’m not a boomer — but the best move I made for my mental health and stability, over the last few years, has been mostly tuning out Facebook and Instagram.
https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1331280973460238336
FB's platforms are built by design to manipulate human psychology — to foster engagement and to keep people on the site.
Insta has pretty pictures — and both sites give me easy access to old friends. But the only way to win, when engaging on either, is not to play.
Insta has pretty pictures — and both sites give me easy access to old friends. But the only way to win, when engaging on either, is not to play.
“Facebook knowingly pushes polarizing misinformation, particularly to conservatives, because it’s addictive and despite knowing exactly what they’re doing and why it’s wrong and making the world worse.”
Exactly. daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11…
Exactly. daringfireball.net/linked/2020/11…
“Since 2018, Facebook had maintained a ‘political whitelist’ of about 112,000 accounts belonging to government officials and candidates whose posts couldn’t be fact checked.”
Ah, okay. That’s rather on brand.
Ah, okay. That’s rather on brand.
https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1331323388770455552
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