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In reply to the discussion: This is a clarifying moment. It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is. [View all]Celerity
(51,696 posts)43. yep, and almost all of my truly internet active life (I was 7 when FB launched) has been with
it as monster force. I joined in 2009, when I turned 13, but deleted my account in fall 2011, as I had privacy issues and concerns, and I just was over the whole thing. I am the fairly rare Zennial (cusp of Millenial and Gen Z) who hates most social media. I detest FB, I think Twitter is a sewer full of thug trolls for hire, but I do use it for news gathering.
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This is a clarifying moment. It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is. [View all]
Celerity
May 2020
OP
And still, people support ALL of this by using Facebook. If you use Facebook, you are
Squinch
May 2020
#9
And yet the Republicans like to say that social media is biased against them.
totodeinhere
May 2020
#15
If you saw that movie about him and the creation of Facebook you knew already he was a
kimbutgar
May 2020
#19
billions of dollars in extra profits, and ever closer to systemic political power centres
Celerity
May 2020
#40
yep, and almost all of my truly internet active life (I was 7 when FB launched) has been with
Celerity
May 2020
#43
I know a lot of people use FB to stay in touch with family and friends, but....
Fla Dem
May 2020
#37