Good. I don’t know a single person who will miss it. Oh wait I actually do know one guy. He is an idiot though…
Unfortunately it will not happen.
Facebook is too big to fail and politicians rely on it too much for advertising / propaganda. (And Ireland probably has too good income from it to do so.) Nobody wants to enforce GDPR against big US tech companies (just against small European businesses).
A lot of people actually addicted to facebook, and it is used for an lot of things it really should not be used. Banning facebook (even for a short time) would cause insane amount of backlash and probably would be a political suicide. (And probably would increase euroscepticism. And it would be used by some government as a message like “Brussels wants to even forbid you to use facebook”.)
Personally, I think that we need something new in terms of social medias… they have become so repetitive to the point that before you even open the app you already know what’s going to happen and what you’ll see
I hate Facebook and I don’t use it at all. However, 2 of my sibs are self employed, and Facebook is an important part of their marketing mix. I’ve challenged them about this, and they’ve explained that Facebook is really easy for small businesses to use, especially to limit the geographic area it covers.
There’s the problem: Facebook is genuinely useful for people to find sources for local services and (importantly I think) get honest reviews.
Given that it has a real world function, how to restructure it so it’s not utterly evil?
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I wish they’d make it a global blackout.
This is good news
make it faster
Finally, inner peace.
Good. I don’t know a single person who will miss it. Oh wait I actually do know one guy. He is an idiot though…
Unfortunately it will not happen.
Facebook is too big to fail and politicians rely on it too much for advertising / propaganda. (And Ireland probably has too good income from it to do so.) Nobody wants to enforce GDPR against big US tech companies (just against small European businesses).
A lot of people actually addicted to facebook, and it is used for an lot of things it really should not be used. Banning facebook (even for a short time) would cause insane amount of backlash and probably would be a political suicide. (And probably would increase euroscepticism. And it would be used by some government as a message like “Brussels wants to even forbid you to use facebook”.)
Personally, I think that we need something new in terms of social medias… they have become so repetitive to the point that before you even open the app you already know what’s going to happen and what you’ll see
I hate Facebook and I don’t use it at all. However, 2 of my sibs are self employed, and Facebook is an important part of their marketing mix. I’ve challenged them about this, and they’ve explained that Facebook is really easy for small businesses to use, especially to limit the geographic area it covers.
There’s the problem: Facebook is genuinely useful for people to find sources for local services and (importantly I think) get honest reviews.
Given that it has a real world function, how to restructure it so it’s not utterly evil?
Please don’t give us false hope