No Facebook here!

[imanamerican63]

Trump has to be fuming now? But yet then again?????? Who cares?

[lagomorph777]

1. There should be no Fascistbook anywhere. Dismantle it.

It's too dangerous to keep around - like a bowl of powdered plutonium.

[USALiberal]

3. Really, exaggerate much? Nt

[lagomorph777]

5. No. Fascistbook and Twit were willing conduits for the propaganda that fueled the insurrection.

They have blood on their hands, and will be more than happy to do it again, if there's a buck in it.

[USALiberal]

6. that darn freedom of speech thing is terrible I agree! Nt

[cilla4progress]

8. Freedom of speech

has its limits.

Certainly you've heard you don't have the unimpeded right to yell fire in a crowded theater?

Well, same goes for torching our democracy by inciting violent insurrrctionists!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

17. Because the only postings on it

are terrible ones, right?

FB serves a very useful purpose for many of us in keeping track of family and friends. So, I'm keeping it.

[lagomorph777]

18. Because the algorithm amplifies terrible postings; your innocent ones quickly disappear.

Somebody with less of an evil mind could build a way for you to share your grandkid photos, without jeopardizing the nation.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. I simply rarely see terrible postings.

Possibly because I don't remain friends with right wing jerks, and partly because I have extremely high privacy settings. I rarely post pictures of any kind. In the past several years it's been some pictures of snow in my back yard, or of my cat. No grandchildren.

I realize a lot of people just post everything: announcing when they are going away on vacation and posting tons of photos the whole time. Or the ubiquitous granchild photos. I often want to point out that most of us aren't that interested, but I don't because that would be unpardonably rude. In short, I use facebook. Facebook doesn't use me.

[lagomorph777]

21. If you ever see ads, you are subsidizing their propaganda operation.

In other words, they are using you.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. I do see ads, but the vast majority of them

are for crappy self-published books.

I see far fewer ads than most people because I don't own a TV. I watch plenty of TV over the internet, but no commercials. I'm convinced that watching regular commercial TV is a huge problem in that one, characters on a series are often shown living far better than someone with that job really could, and two, viewers are constantly exhorted to buy, buy, buy and their life will be vastly better if they only own whatever.

[Blue Owl]

2. Let him start his own Fecebook platform

[Progressive Jones]

7. LMAO ! nt

[lagomorph777]

10. Fecebook! DUzy!

https://www.imore.com/steve-jobs-once-called-facebook-fecebook-internal-email

[malaise]

15. Oh Shit!

Love it

[JuJuChen]

4. this whole thing felt like a gimmick or something

Twitter wasn't pulling this bullshit

[abqtommy]

9. Former guy is very dangerous. It's good to know what he says/thinks. And where he is.

[bdamomma]

11. good

we don't need to hear his filthy lies, plus he has his GQP goons spewing lies for him.

[ChazII]

12. FaceBook is good for medical support

for things like brain tumors and Neurofibromatosis. Facebook has been a source of support for many because there we can finally find support that our families and friends cannot give or choose not to give. BTW- May is Brain Tumor and Neurofibromatosis month. If you don't know about Neurofibromatosis you just learned why FB is necessary for some of us.

When my son was diagnosed with the same brain tumor as Beau Biden it was FaceBook that brought the comfort and advice that I needed. He passed in March of 2020 two weeks before Covid shut down Arizona.

I won't even go into NF as people are still saying, "What that?" or when ignorant fools ask if we are contagious. At least at Facebook we have a place to go and vent, rant and get the group support that cannot be found elsewhere.

[RussBLib]

13. Sure wish there were some Facebook competitors

But Zuck the Fuck keeps buying them up.

[left-of-center2012]

16. One does not have to read the news and politics on Facebook

I use it to keep up on the activities of friends and family.
Also to read cartoon and humor sites.

Don't destroy something because some folks read the crap on it.

It's like saying "Destroy Facebook because I can't stop myself from reading the crap on it"
Folks need to regulate yourselves.
Don't like it?
Don't use it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. Thank you.

I have never bothered with Twitter or Tik Tok or any other of the many social media sites. I'm on FB and DU, with each fills a very different role in my life.

If you don't like FB for any reason, you don't have to be there.

[DavidDvorkin]

23. Exactly.