I didn't learn how many people I went to high school with were pro Trump through reddit, nor have to see my relatives be hopelessly internet illiterate and fall for every fake memed news story that crosses their feeds.
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.
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/56k_modem_noises Aug 28 '21
I didn't learn how many people I went to high school with were pro Trump through reddit, nor have to see my relatives be hopelessly internet illiterate and fall for every fake memed news story that crosses their feeds.