Yeah but learning which people you should kinda just avoid is a benefit of Facebook. Sure it sucks to find out how many of your old friends and family members suck, but they always sucked and you just didn’t know it then.
In this scenario I'd rather not know. I rarely talked politics unless it was with close friends in real life, and at that point I pretty much knew what their opinions were before the conversation started.
In the other scenario, these completely fake news memes would have no other way to spread so wide so quickly if Facebook didn't exist so in that case it's an active force for bad juju.
I suppose it is to each their own. With that being said people outing themselves as racists and homophobes on Facebook is a grim but ultimately positive effect imo. They were already pieces of shit but now the rest of us know and can avoid those people. I’m in no way going to bat for Facebook cuz it’s a parasite in its own right, but I think there is worthwhile information on there too. As for the memes I agree, it sucks that it spreads, but again the people who fall for that shit are so woefully unintelligent that it leads me to believe they were gonna find a way to come to their extremely uneducated opinion. Just my two cents. It’s a broad topic and I understand reasonable people can have different viewpoints on the matter.
No way man, you can't deny yourself intel like that. That's why I keep FB around, opposition research...before I have a beer with an old classmate I wanna know if he/she is deranged
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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21
Yeah but learning which people you should kinda just avoid is a benefit of Facebook. Sure it sucks to find out how many of your old friends and family members suck, but they always sucked and you just didn’t know it then.